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IMPIIBIAL PA ICLIANI:NT.

MdVSE OF COMMON*, Tatelgthy, s'*T 11.
A gnat ver;rly of business of priehltesaiure area hem.
acted.
331. AND OF ANTIGUA.
Mr. Alderman ►l'uuo pndurirted a WISONO fres ea indiri•
dual of thr flans., a 1\'1114411 settedeat he Antigua,
mating that employnseat tumid .4.1 be fumed fur all the
slaves within Wel ...land, and orayirof Are kaM la remove
them —Read guilt Ia Id MI I lel' fable.
AGRICUI.TURAL DINTS'S&
Mr .T presenied • Pettit.* tame fbe Oeenpiers
of land in the curing, of Cornwall, eumplaitairsg of the great
distress to 'Oriels the agrienharal interrat one reduced, nod
praying measures amber.
Mr. l pre .Ird tee Prlitiose le the same effect,
fruia the Agrrraheri•la of bur aetsliire.

Mr. 11.1tmoot.o wowed • Peidm, In the users purport,
Gore the Oervpieto ur Lind in the county of Wwewirt.
Sir B. KNATCNIBUIJ. prF. U,lPdn.iwilor Palettes front the
Oeswpirro of L• 114 is ihr uriihbourlowniN Frwarehat.
'Two oimilar Prillielle were presented fiiihrthe CU* OM

of Land in the neisiiiimirlosinicif Ashford.
Mr. HUNVWDOD resented one with doe snmseobjeet
from the Owners of Land in th ly of Kent.
They were all ►ead, laid on Hos table, and ordered to be
printed.

NEW POST OFFICE.
Sir W. Cuivets brought
up the Report of the
Committee appunited to exa eee ie ie into the matter
of the Petition presented trim the Lord Nayo►,
Aldermen, rod Corporation of the City of London.
for an ardrl 111 l oral grant of money to complete the
Intruded new I'u►t•Office—sad to impure how far
the ordars of the House had been complied with,
in relation to the said building, by the l'etitirnwrs--
and moved that it be teferred to r Committee of
the whole Iltause.
31r. H. krusi•Eit said that it seemed that voles a
auto that, two hundred and forty thousand pounds
hod been expended in merely clearing the site of the
new building, and the City of Loudon now came
forward to the Mitre with a new application for a
*um of our hundred thousand puuuds, thirty-three
of which was io be charged on the Orphans Vaud.
It should never he forgotten that that Ruud was
principally supported by a tax on coals imported
into the City of London. It amounted to thirwen
shillings god four-pence • chaldroo, and Gained a
guest addit I preioure, not merely on the iuhat►i-
tauts of the n►etropulu, but those of all the surustud-
ing couroirs who were supplied with tlw article from
thence. He could nut lolls looking on the thing
as a job, and lie thought the House would do tuu
much if, after having grn►ted 140,000/. for a spe-
cific purpose, un ra• l 11l Hies laid before them, and
alleged to be accurately made (but which lir.
Mr. H. Sumner, had reprobated at the time), it
should now, v.itharut the strictest scrutiny, consent
to enlarge the grant to an extetit of no less than 40
per cent. He said that the Hou,e world not do ►ts
duty if it merely referred this Repot' to a Coot.
aritteeof the whole House, instead of causing an
account of the mode in which the sums already
expended had been ■pplied to be land before
a Select Committee. He should therefore muse
as an amendment to the moron of the Hon. Baro-
net, that accounts of the application of the sums
already cxpendrd should be laid before the Homo.,
and that the. Report should be referred to a Com-
mittee up stairs, where the particulars of the trans-
action might he properly investigated. Ou recon-
sideration, the Hain. Member said, 'het it was ma-
necessary to move fur the production of the ac-
counts, as a woman to that effect had been before
made by another Member, and moved as ass sineard-
mein. " That the Report be refereed to a Select
Committee, to whom it .hould he referred to exa-
mine into the raccoon's of the sums already ex-
pended, rod the estimates on which it was ptopo►rd
to make additional grams, and to report their obser-
vations thereon to the House."

Sir W. CuuTie said, that in submitting the mo-
tion which lie haul, he had only followed the rules
and orders of the Hume. He believed the floe.
Member who made the amendment was pet fectly
well informed how the money had been expended.
Unfortunately, us in most cos• a of that knid, the
SUM originally wanted had taut gone far errougli—
( Laughterj—to winch a variety of corcurnatances
had contributed. Prospective arrangements had
been made, but unfortunately no money was left
to carry them tutu effect.
The Howie was then about to divide on the
amendment, but •
Alderman WooD rose. To the motion of the
Him. Member fur Surrey he had not the least ob-
jection. As bur the tea tttttt ahem of the accounts,
that had been gone into in the fullest extent pre-
viou.ly. Accounts of the applicat of 900,0001.
of the money had been boil before the House last
Session. The Hot,. itletnuer had often laid its
complaints before the House of the tax to winch lie
had adverted, but never succeeded in making any
impression.*—(//ear.)—He talked of jobs, but he
wondered were there no jobs in the county of Sur-
rey ? The burden imposed on the Honourable. Gen-
tleman's constituents would be one shilling on
each. and to be paid when ? at the end sal thirty
years. So that tins was all the increase. of tax
they would have to pry fur the Po.t.u(fice mod
the opening of a whole new street to the mirth;
fur it was hot-oiled to open a new ot.ert for the
purpose of bringing inter view one of the finest
buildings its Loudon, SI. Paul's Calltedinl. The
duty in question annually coat the City of Loudon
12.0001. end they were the only sufferer, by it. Iti
tact, the additional sum required was not near YU
much as was supposed, for it was computed that
27,000/. would arise by the sale of property when
for new edifice should be completed, winch was
to be deducted from the 100,0001. The causes of
the expenditure having gone beyond that eats-
mated, might easily be replanted. Our of these
was, that a vast port of the grumid necessary to be
purchased having been church 'property, the tenants
thought iliernstiver, on that account, entitled to •
' swath larger compensation than tit cases of tither
toupees, and tits juries had allowed darns 13,000/.
or 14,0001. above the calculations in the estimate's.
and by the IllifTertlea. • But so little was be appre.