The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-08 00:00:00

HOME SECRETARY OF STATE S OFFICE.

Mr. It sNKES, seeinz as Hon. Member in his plaee eitnnectul
with the Home Department, wished to ascertain whether the
repairs of the front of the office of the Houle Secretary ofState,
opposite Whitehall. were purstrutt to orders from the Treasury.
The s,affolding hail Ist on up for sonic time, little pro;:ress was
matte, and what had hero done was in very bad taste, for upon
old stone, yellow bricks v.-eic placed.
Mr. H A IMINGTON replied, alatmigh it was his ofEer, that
he was U 6 match surprised as Ids Hon. Friend could be when
he saw the %roe-Milian: raised, for it was not pursuant to any
orders from the office, nor from the 'Vri usury, so far as !.c was.
aware. ( H.-ar.) He sent one of the Clerks to thi.: Board of
Works, to learn wife had given the orders, when it was in effect
au•wert d, Ciat some of the stotie• and from being in danger of
falling, it was deemed right to commence a sort of " practical
reform." (Hear.)
Mr. FKEEMAIITLE said, such worksscottlil not be carried on,
accoreing to the Act, if the expenve were ;lively to be above
10001. without an order from the Treasury. After what had
passed he trusted the works would he ininit.diale iy puts stop to.
Mr. BIOME' stated, after what hail fallen from those Nleni-
f.t.rs holding office, he should tivit:n it right to move for papers
rat intbrinatiou on this extra9rtiloary subject, on some future
slay. (Mar.)
TRANSPORT kTIC.)N ACT.

On the motion that the Transportation Bill be read a second
time.
Mr. Brazier rose, not for the purpose of objecting to the
motion, but to oesiirt‘s the hop s.that the Act would only be re-
quired far two instead of five years. He much questioned
whether the establishment at Botany Bay was so organized as
to merit support. It was very expensive, but produced no
reformation ; and if the Act were for two years a Committee
niki lit he hail epon the suli.ject to obtain information. The ex-
pellee was so . 110.P101IS as to decide that that it ought not to be
continued, except it could be proved that the government and
moral impro ...went of the convicts were better titan formerly.
According to the return of 1810, the animal expence was
100,0001 and of ISI2, it was 175.0001. and yet the number of
convicts forwarded was oneLthirt less. Each convict cost Go-
vernment ont: sending out. Another ground of complaint
was the mode of corporal piwtiAltinent there ' • and the injudi-
cious mixture of old and young, unditirdened and tinhacknied
offenders, we very repreueusible. A report ought to be
as the house win!' without information suite into.
'the Bill was read a seconitiine, acid ordered-to be conniit-
ted on Monday.

'Fill'. ARMY EsTrwlTEq..
Lord PA t.wettsTom then moved that the House should go
iota a C itter of Supply; and that the Army Estimates
slionid be referred to the Corostitte.
On the question liar the Si. ,aker's leaving the Chair,
31r. Warm tepid, he h;a nobservationto wake-to one item
in the Estimates.; that nal-the Foreign Stall; mill that it.m, it
airrtiet, Wasl•econceived. It 4 would induce the House to
pause, before they referred the Estimates to a Committee at
all. in 1792, the charge tbr the Foreign Stair was ito more
than 001 In 1;102, the s.aine head of service was increased
itt,Sool. Inn in the present year, the House would be sur-
prised to find, that, after allowil4j 13,00.11. for the Officer::
seta tog in Frarece, there still remained a charge of uo less a
rain than i 4.0301.. Ile was aware that our tbreign possessions
were ereat..y increased since that period; and be would even
allow that they were doubled ; but he could not consider this
as aay plea for an increase of six times the aliment of 1502.
The tloa. oAttivinali then toak a review of our foseign posses-
sians as they were in 1802,, anti allowed an increase upon
each, and also an establishment fur our recent acquisitions, and
said hecotilei in au- view of the subject discover 11. at a greater
slain than .t LOOOl. cold(' he retinae ed, and therefore. here was an
excess of charge of 75.6`102. lie nowt also observe, on the
item of charge for the Nurse Guards is the present year. In
fall this ;read of charge. was 17,9291.—1 it the present year it
was tin.tv7l.
Lai iI.PA t.METtSTON spoke in repin and after a long conver-
hi.Oun the I Inte.e went into tin. Committee.
to a explained, that with respect to the
gon Train, the. !)ithe of-Weilinalon would not go into the fie.al
MAoolt ii large train, and it w is neeJsb-av to pact:bus a large
menner of horses. The Nobk Lord also ...arced info. some es-
Walla:ions ow the subject of lialf-pay,.whon it was eleeimel ex-
pe.l,mteto iner...ese tt,teratiolm 1802. With respect toiler Staff,
the Inane ...Pia wankl consist of :hr Genet al ea Nut II
liritain,,ailtich laid hee.r-the ease since the rebellion. down Sa.