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the Ru«nen cloth could have been nsamillictured
with the coarse foreign wool had the tux not pre.
vented its importation; so that the contract might
have been executed, the masinfactUref
employed, and a foreign trade iiiiraird."—(iit,ar./
. Mr. STUART WORTLEY confirmed this fact,
and said, the low price of the coarse foreign .4001
would have enabled the manufacturer to realize a
good profit from the work.
The Petition was then laid on tire table and or-
dried to be printed.

PETITION FROM HUNTINGDON.
Mr. BROUGHAM Nod he had received a Petition
from Huntingdon (we understood), that stated a
case of certain abn•es in the Corporetion of that
town, which. if proved. would lay a foundation fur
N motion in the Court of King's Bench: lie there-
fore ',egged leave to decline presenting the Petition
to thit Muse. Ile took this course from sin di'.
rerpect to the Petitioners, nor disbelief of the
prayer of the Petition, for in fact be had formed
no opinion whatever on the merits of the case.
Thought the House had en unquestionable right to
intrirr.., yet ualess there was an extraordinary
case made out, lie thought it better that matters of
this kind should be left to the ordinary tribunal..
Tie did not like to are that House called upon to
act i., ill.. first instance, utiless peculiar grounds
were laid to call fur ilioir interference.—(dear.,/

NEW POST.OFFICE.
ilr. GORDON said, that iii the Accounts he was
about 1., fume Inr,'reopecting the New Pust.Office,
he merely wipliril to know if there was any truth
in the rumour, that the City of London had raised
an additional sum on the Orphans' Fund to com-
plete the building Whatever objections he hail to
the mode of arranging the building of the New
Post-Office, he had still more to ail. mode of bur-
dening the Orphans' Fund. The Him. Member
concluded by snowing fur a return, sheering the
progress' made ill building the New Post-Office,
and what steps hail been taken to secure a compe-
tntinu for a plats among erchitects, as well as esti-
mates of the exprittes.—A greed to.
CIVIL LIST.—HEIZEDITARY REVENUE.
S•r HENRY PARNELL rose, in pursuance of the
not►er he hu'l guru. to move fur accounts skewing
►he expenses of the Civil Guyer .it of the United
Kowtow. and the amount of the Hereditary Re-
teque. The House would perceive that three ac-
e-mint* were 1101 like the ordinary annual act-outdo,
or votes, which periodically came under their rs-
-000000 atoun. bus, on the contrary, the moment the
bargbiu was swede foe the new Civil List the arrange-
Went was Baal, snit all opportunity of effect-
ing any alteration was pawed. lle thought that
before this great question was rule into, it would
Lave been deemed advisable to have reprinted the
Report of the Committee of 1815 on the Civil List ;
a. the regulations at that time made formed the
basis of the New plats, it was but reasonable that the
grosissils on which they were made should be fully
under.tood by the House. With a view to the in.
fortuitous' he was desirous to obtain, lie would first
ask thin the House should be put in possession
if the whole nature of the settlement of the Civil
1.54 its 1816, founded on the Report of 1815.
Ile !should then inquire what additions had been
made to the Civil List during the late reign, and
al at charges had been transferred from it to other
luinls, and what was the expense incurred by such
trait-fetch During the same period it was also de-
sira/de to distinguish what had been the produce of
the hereditary revenues from the other sources to
which lie had alluded. He wanted in fact to know,
what lied been the total expense of the civil govern-
ment of there countries, for those acquainted with
the sestiect knew that the whole was slot paid out
of what was callwd the Civil List. That fetid, in
fart, bore but a small proportion to the total ex-
pense, which instead of being a few hundred thou-
sands, would prove on inquiry to be little short of
4,000,0001. This large ainoutet was provided in a
variety of ways—it came out of the civil contingen-
cies, the fee fund, and several inhere. If the
entire funds for the support of the civil este-
blishenei,t of the Gaversisnent could be brought
under their view, he felt convinced that many use-
ful retrenchments could be made in branches of the
expenditure.—(Hear.)—The House, for instance,
ought to be made sequinned with the funds of the
officers employed in collecting the hereditary reve-
nues. and if this were done, lie thought many re-
trenchments might he made. bideed the Report
of 1815 strongly alluded to these reirenclunesitr.
He should move for returus from the Alienation
Office, the Fee Farm Rents Office, the Crown
Lands Office. the Woods and Forest, and Lund
Revenue Offices. The expense which is defrayed
by the public ought, he thought, in all its details,
to be kuown to the public ; the hereditary reve-
nue* should in all their branches he kilo's°, and
the suns arising from the Duchy of Lancaster
mid the other counties palatinate. He repeated that
lie wished to see the recommrodationa of the Report
of 1815 carried now effect in the best manlier poi.
tilde fur the public economy of the country. The
Hon. Baronet concluded by moving. 'that there
be laid before the House an Accaunt of the several
advances made to the Civil List during the reign
of his late Majesty, and the trninifees made there-
from to ally other fund, together with the charges
sttendsng the same, and the provision made out of
the attuned parliamentary grants.
On the motion being put (ruin the Chair--
Tile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he
menet oppose the How Gentleman's motion, as the
gieateat part of the information sought to be ob-
tained by the prodactinu papers we. already
before the House, in the I{r!•ort of the C,an flee
appointed in the Session of 1815. The official
eetabh►hments alluded to by the lion. Gentleman,
formed no part of the Civil Lien, and as the accounts
relative thereto, are annually laid before Parlia-
ment, there could be no security for their being
now produced. With regard to the Report of the
year 1815, he believed there might be sufficient
copies remaining fur the use of the Members who'
might be inclined to wade through such a subject ;
or if not, there could he no objection to. have it re-
printed. He concluded by mowing the previous
question.
Mr. TIERNEY was persuaded that his Honour-
able Friend would nut preys his motion if the in-
formation he wished fur could be obtained from the
snuices which the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had pointed out.
biI•CALCILEFT said, that with the uuderstauding