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less than half the servitude more than double the remuneration

given to most distinguished (.:fficers. 110 had called tho
attention of Government to this subject year after year,
and all he complained of was, that it bad heed without effect..
Before he sat down, he would take the liberty of correcting
amisFepresentation that had been made of what he had

said a "few nights since, in the Spectator newspaper, with
reference to " head money." That paper had put these words
into his mouth 7" How dared the Noble Lord utter such a

falsehood." He had never said ore word of the sort..-._( Flear.
fie believed no such words were imputed to him in any
other newspaper, and it was rather gratuitous in n pAptr
which had an opportunity of seeing all the others to publish
so gross a misrepresentation.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would not,
have risen, had it not been fur the statement made by the Hon.
and Gallant Officer opposite. He appealed to the Right Hoe.
Gentleman the Member for Cambridge University,whether it was
possible for any individual to place the issue of the vote more
distinctly upon all interference with the prerogative of the
Crown than he (the Chancellor of the Excheque,) had done.
He had stated on that occasion that it would establish a most
fatal precedent of a direct interference with the prerogative or
the Crown in Military and Naval affairs. He had asked Vito
House, would they not ascertain first what had been done. be-
for:, they proceeded to vote upon the question; and it was in
that sense only that he had moved his amendmen•,:. Tho
whole of the arguments of the Right Hon. (ientleman
opposite also were founded on the principle of rot undue in-
terference with the prerogative of the Crown. If they
brought themselves in contact with naval and military affairs
by undertaking their administration, thio time would come
when the House of Commons would have to act upon tl,e de-
fensive respecting any improper administration of those 'Hairs.
The Gallant Captain was perfectly aware, that the majority
was caused by a large majority of his own friends.
Captain Woon and Mr. GotimteaN severally explained
and the subject dropped.

APPOIfsfTMENT OF MR. SHEIL.
Colotiul SIBTHORP, before the House went into Com-
mittee, wished to call its *attention to some of the recent ap .
pointments which had ',wen made by a Government which came
in on the profes.l-4.ona of retrenchment and economy, more
especially to P:i)pointments which had been given to Members
of that P.ouse. He was not about to enter into detail as to
these appointments, as that would be interfering unnecessarily
"v;ith the business of the House ; but when he looked to,

India, to Ireland, to Canada, and, as was relevant to
his motion, when he looked at the recent appoint-
ment of a Member of that Honourable House to a
Cornmissionership of Greenwich Hospital, he thought it
would be well for the Government to inform the House, if the
gentlemen so appointed were likely to attend their duty.
When be looked at all these things, he wished that
the prerogative was not so cramped,—first by that House, and.
then again by baneful advice out of it.---(llear, hear.)
It was his duty to state conscientiously, that tno motive but
one, that of the discharge of his duty as a Member ef that
House, had induced him to notice the recent appointment
of the Honourable and Learned Member for Tipperary
to the Commis3ionership of Greenwich Hospital.—( Hear. )
He believed be did so in consonance with the feelings of the
greater part of that profession which had every right to com-
plain of the neglect shown to them. He might, per-
haps, he told that by an Act of Parliament of the 10th of
Geo. IV., chap. 25, it was expressly declared that the appoint-
ment of the five Commissioners, three of them paid
Commissioners, should be at the pleasure of the Executive
Government, and that in that very Act of Parliament there
was an exception, although he know not why, that the Com-
missioners, and the Clerk of the Works, should not neces-
sarily be professional men. Or he might be told
there were cases in which appointments had been made
of men not in her Majesty's service.—( Hear, hear, hear.)
He had no doubt that the Commissioners performed
their duty with great ability and integrity ; but when he
looked to the appointment of the Hon. and Learned Member
for Tipperary, whose transcendent eloquence in that House
he had always admired, he could not but feel that it was
an act of great injustice to the officers of her Majesty's navy.
There were many Admirals and Captains (the relatives of
men to whom the country were eternally indebted) who
were capable of doing the duty of those Commissioners although
it was said, that naval officers were not men of business, and.
were incompetent to manage the estates of the hospital, which he
admitted were very large, he believed of the value of 3,000,0001.
It was not of an individual, but of the Government that ho

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(Col. S.) complained. There was the office of Clerk
to the Ordnance—one, ho believed, of great im-
portance—which had not to this hour been filled. It
seemed to be going begging about. The Government
it seemed, had been unable to find a Member of that House
to accept it, " though indeed" (Continued the Gallant Col.)
" they have not offered it to me."—( Laughter.) Probably
the Noble Lord (J. Russell) would be able to afford some
explanation of the affair ; "but (observed the Gallant Officer).
seeing that his Lordship was in deep reflection—the Noble
Lord is apparently unable just now to explain anything, for ha
seems to be dreaming, I hope of his speedy resignation.—
(Laughter.) The Gallant Colonel then read the following
notices :
" On going into Committee of Supply, to call the atten-
tion of this House to the Appointments on the part of her
Majesty's Government in various departments ; more parti-
cularly, to the recent appointment to the situation of Com-
missioner of Greenwich Hospital.
" On going into Committee of Supply, to move, That the
number of Commissioners appointed in conformity to the Act
10th Geo. IV., cap. 25, intituled, ' An Act to provide for
the better management of Greenwich Hospital,' be forthwith
reduced to four in the government of the affairs of the said
Hospital ; and that the said Commissioners shall be limited
to the aforesaid number of four, and shall, together with the
Clerk of the Works, and all officers of the said Hospital, be
selected from persons who have or may hereafter have served
in his or her Majesty's Navy.
" On going into Committee of Supply, to move, To repeal
Clause 7 of the Act 10th Geo. IV., cap. 25, intituled, An
Act to provide for the better management of Greenwich Hes;
pital,' And be it further enacted, that all officers who shall
be hereafter appointed to any employment in the said Iles;
pital (exeept the future Commissioners of said Hospital, and
the Clerk of the \Yorks), shall be selected, as far as may bes
froth persons who shall have served in his or her MajestY'S.
Navy,' and to substitute the following words, viz., that all
such officers as shall be hereafter appointed to any employ-
ment in said Hospital, shall be selected from those persons
who have already, or may hereafter have served in his or her
Majesty's Ntteq.' "
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that the Noble and Gal-
lant Member should move his resolution as an amendment
upon the House going into a Committee of Supply on the
Navy Estimates. He would therefore move that the Order
of the Day be now read for the Howe going into a Com-
mitters of Supply.
The Order of the Day having been read,
Colonel SIBTHORP rose to propose his resolution,
when
Tt o CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER suggested
that the proper time for the Gallant Officer to propose
his resolution was on the Speaker leaving the Chair on the
question of the Navy Estimates being referred to a Committee.
The words having been thus formally put by the Speaker
—" That I do leave the Chair,"
Colonel SIBTHORP proposed his amendment relative to
the appointment, &c., to Greenwich Hospital.
Mr. C. WOOD said that previous to 1829 there were 22
Directors of the Hospital, of whom 17 were naval officers, but
the real management was exercised by the Treasurer, Au-
ditor, and Secretary. With respect to the present Commis-
sioners, it was never intended that they should be s deeted from
the navy. He did not know that there was any particular dif-
ficu!ty with respect to naval men having the management of a
civil department ; but if it was to be maintained that naval men
mustelecessarily be appointed to situations in Greenwich Hos-
pital the argument would be just as good that the clerks in
every public office should be selected from the navy. It was
always intended that the Commissioners should be civilians.
Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON supported the motion
of the Hon. and Gallant Member.—( Hear, hear.) He con-
sidered naval officers to be peculiarly fitted for situations of
this description. He did not at the same time, intend to insi-
nuate that the 1-lon. Member for Tipperary was unfit for the
situation.
Captain PEC II ELI could not on this occasion follow in the
wake of the Gallant Admiral who had just sat down,
nor of the Gallant Officer who had moved the amend-
ineut—( Hear, hear)—although at the same time he
would
assert his conviction that naval men were fit to fill any situa-
tion, even that of Lord High Chancellor of England,—
(Laughter.) He had the authority of an Illustrious Indivi-
dual for saying that a naval man might some day or other fill
the chair of the Chancellor of England.—( Great laughter.)
Under the Government of Lord Grey the Admiralty Board
was composed of naval men, with one single exception. lie
considered the Hon. and Gallant Member should have
brought forward this subject long before the present time.
Though he agreed with\he principle of the amendment lie
was opposed to singling out this individual case.—( Hear.)
Sir R. PEEL suggested that if certain situations were only
tube filled by naval men, it would be better that some regu-
lation upon the subject should be made, and then, if that regu-
lation should in any instance be departed from, it would be
the time for Parliament to interfere.—(Hear, hear.) He
hoped his Hon. Friend would withdraw his amendment.--
( Clear.)
Colonel SIBTIIORP would withdraw his amendment,
with the consciousness of having done his duty, and in the
hope of bringing it forward at some future period.
In reply to a question from Sir R. PEEL,
Lord PALMERSTON said that the Dutch Government
had some time ago issued a now tariff with respect to mer-
chandise imported into the island of Java. He had obtained a
copy of the document, which was in some respects satisfactory,
and in others net so. It did not so much relate to the nation-
ality of the seerchandise as of the ships importing it. A sac
of defies for the future had been arranged.
In reply to a further remark of the Right Hon. Gentleman,
The Noble LORD stated that the papers should hereafter
be laid upon the table of the House.
l‘lr. FORBES begged to ask the Noble Lord whether any
efforts had been made to obtain payment from the Spanish
Goveenment for stores supplied to it from this country
) Lord PA Is E RSTON replied tkat an arrangement was
made between the British and S3panish Governments in 1835
during the tint ;Lot the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel)
was iTIORke, that the Spanish Government should not be
oalled upon to pay until it wits able to do so. Time present
hadGo so mach
had flee thought that the circumstances of Spain
nmeh changed for the better—( A laugh)—as to war-
thaM M pressing for the payment of what was due for
these. stores.__( Hear, )
LORD BROUGHAM AND THE NAVY.
Qaptain PECH ELL said that the press had stated much
fiat was not said in that liotnio on a former evenin6,, and left

out much that ought to have been inserted, with regard to the
honour and character of naval men. The Hon. Memhe rt' e
alluded to what was said the other night relative to officers of
the navy taking head-money for captured slaves, &c., and said
that, so far from officers in that service refraining from taking
slave-ships before they should have got their cargo of slaves
on board, he himself had frequently knows the contrary to be
the ease, and had been witness of the contrary during the
American war. He might mention among many others the
!Ames of the gallant Sir Hyde Parker and Captain Brooke
or the Shannon, who, in keeping up the blockade of Boston,
lost a great amount of money by burning and sinking ships
which they might have allowed to have sailed, and attseked
When their cargoes were on board.—( Bear, hear.) It wss
not, then, fair that these charges about head-money and blood-
money should be allowed to go before the public uncontra-
dieted. He knew that officers appointed to this particular
service exerted themselves to the utmost. The Gallant
Member then said that the slave-ships were so fitted up that
they could not be boarded, or the case would he very different.
lie did think that the honour of our naval officers ought to
protected.—( Hear, hear.) Those officers had not and they
never would, deviate from the course they had pursued up to
the present time, and he hoped it would now go forth to the
public that in doing what they had done they had strictly per-
formed their duty.—( Cheers. )
Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE said, it would not by any
means become naval officers having seats in that House to al-
low statements such as had been made against their characters
to go forth to the public without contradiction—( Hear, hear,
hear)—and be would say that the charges made against
them were most unjustifiable. —( Hear, hear, hear.) The
speech of a certain Noble and Learned Lord he then held in
his hand, published in the shape of a pamphlet, and, there-
fore, he should not be out of order in alluding to it. The
British Navy wanted no defenders either in that Ilouse or
elsewhere. At the same time, it might be supposed that if
they remained silent when these charges were made, they acs
quiesced in what had been said. He, for cne, did not ac-
quiesce in any such thing, as the officers cf the Navy had
done their duty in the most trying circumstances, as the re-
turns which had been moved fcr would show. He rejoiced
that those papers had been called for, as they would show not
only that Naval Officers had done their duty, but that they had
suffered very great expenses in doing that duty. With respect
to any remarks which he had on aformer occasion made on
this subject, he had made them more in sorrow than in anger,
and for the purpose of affording the Noble and Learned Lord
who had made those charges (Lord Brougham), the opportu-
nity of making a further disclaimer of them, and which dis-
claimer he regretted that Noble and Learned Lord bad not
made.—( Hear, bear. )
THE BISHOP OF EXETER.
Mr. MAUNSELL begged to ask the Noble Lord the Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department whether it was his
intention to bring forward the motion of which he had given
notice in reference to a Right Reverend Prelate, the Bishop
of Exeter ?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL had given that notice rather
rather to show the inconvenience of entering on the discus-
sion of the question relative to the Hon. and Learned Mem-
ber for Dublin than for any other purpose. He would now
add. that when that question was brought forward it was
totally unexpected by him ; but although he had thought it
the moment expedient to give the notice to which the lion.
Member referred it was not his intention to call on the House
to enter upon any such discussion.—(Hear, hear.) A state-
ment to this effect had already been made.
Mr. MAUNSELL was not in the House when the state-
ment adverted to by the Noble Lord was made ; but still,
from the manner and animus in which the notice was given,
he thought it only right that the fact of the withdrawal of it
should go forth to the public.—( Hear, hear.)
NAVY ESTIMATES.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the
Navy Estimates.
Mr. WOOD said that it would not be necessary for him
to trespass at any length on the attention of the House in
Moving the Navy Estimates for the present year. In the
number of men and the amount of wages there was no
material difference in the present as compared with the last
estimates. An increase had, however, been found necessary
in the charge for victuals, owing to the rise of prices in West
India produce, salt meat, and other necessary articles of con-
sumption. In the department of the Admiralty, too, there
was an increase, the salary of one of the Lords of the
Admiralty having been placed on the same footing as that
of the Lords of the Treasury. This was occasioned by the
necessity on the part of the Government of providing a House
for r him, the apartments in Somerset House applicable to
this purpose being occupied by the Poor-law Commis-
Sinners. There was another item to which he must refer, and
that was an increase made in the salaries of the first and se-
cond class of clerks. Instead of 101. as hitherto, their salaries
were to be augmented, as regarded the second class, 151. ;
and the first 201. a year. An increase in the number of clerks
in the office for registering merchant seamen had also taken
Place. That measure had been highly successful, and the re-
sult of enforcing the provisions of :he Act of Parliament was
that the number of apprentices registered had, down to the Ist
of February, increased from 5,400 to 19,400. In the scientific
department, there was a diminution of 5,0001., while the nau-
tical almanac was completed for the next three years. This
would be a great advantage to the merchant service, as ships
leaving on long voyages would be enabled to return to port
without difficulty. There was no great difference in the esti-
mates of the two years for the general service at home and
,bread • but instead of being diminished, the estimate under
estihead of steam-packets was increased considerably. The
from for navy stores had also been increased ; but this arose
'n
the stores on hand having been used up to prevent them
from
spoiling. It had been the intention of the Government
to throw the timber contracts open to public competition ; but
c
.ireunnstancos had arisen to prevent them from carrying this
intention into effect for the next two years. The increase of
host-office packets occasioned this ; but then the existing con-
tract was highly favourable to the public. The despatch of
Ine mails from Falmouth to Gibraltar had given rise to another
Increase ; but, considering the state of the revenue, it was in-
tended to postpone all new works that were not •pressing for
8t least a year. It would, however, be necessary to complete
the formatioe of a building at Woolwich for the manufacturing
of the machinery required by steam-boats, and an engine con-
structed by Lord Dundonald was also intended to be tried.
11 this engine„ succeeded, much good and saving would result
to the public by it. It was also necessary to widen the en-
trance to one of the docks at Liverpool for the admission of
the largest class of steam-vessels requiring repair. The in-
7eased expense of carrying the mails was somewhere about
•°OO/., hut there was no novelty in the estimates connected
With the half-pay and superannuation allowances. There was
_
increase in the estimates of this year over the last, under
._the head of removal of troops, but there was a diminution in
that relating- to the transport of convicts, though, he was sorry
tt say, not in the number. This diminution, however, arose
from the circumstances of the Irish Government having taken
the charge of providing for the transport of their own con-
vlets into their own hands.
Mr. HUME—Then it is a transfer from the English to the
Irish estimates.
Mr. C. WOOD—Exactly- so, and therefore the difference
is Only apparent.
_Mr. G 0 ULB URN—Why has this course been adopted?
Mr. C. WOOD replied that it was not for him to explain
the motives which induced the Irish Government to take the
Matter under their own control. He, however, disapproved of
!t, and thought they were wrong. The lion. Gentleman
In concluson, moved that 34,165 men be granted to her
Meaiesty as the complement for the sea service for the ensuing
Year, including Marines and boys.
Mr. IIUME could see no reason why the number of men
voted this year should exceed those voted in the last estimates.
_At Lisbon they were treated as interlopers who had no busi-
ness there, and he thought it would be much better for the
"overnment if they intermeddled less with the affairs of other
Countries. In 1819 the whole number of seamen, marines,
boys did not exceed 20,000; but, although the Whigs
had come into office as the advocates of economy, the naval
ablishment, which in 1527 was only 27,000 men, had since
tevi 0, under their auspices, swollen up, last year to 33,000,
c•'
roi this year 34,100. He thought, also, that great reduction
tai;tdit have been made in the Admirals' establishments.
, Mr. C. WOOD did not consider that it would be for the
notiour or the interests of this country that other nations
should have fleets at sea, and that we should be without a
il2et—he would not say equal to those—but at nil events 'such
fleet as it became this country to have. With respect to
the alleged increase in the number of Admirals, that mistake
'uld arisen from the circumstance that, in the printed state-
ment, a larger number was given than would be permanently
Employed, and the apparent increase arose from the fact of
Admirals who were relieved on foreign stations and were
now on their way home having been included. Upon the
rinole lie saw nothing to call for a diminution in our naval
s'a-
,ishrnent ; on the contrary, there were circumstances that
seem to justife art increase of it; such, for instance, as
" transport of troops to Canada.
Sir E. CO DRINGTON said that, whilst every country in
•'lltulse was strengthening its navy, we seemed to be neglect.
Ing ours, The Hon. Member proceeded to mention several
easess in which distinguished naval effacers who had long been,
'v'th great credit to themselves and advantage totho country,
eer4l°Yed in the naval service, had in the end not received that
4nsideration which their services
in straitened
claimed. for, them, and some
them had found themselves and their families
reerns,
‘ances*
After a few words from Mr. C H A PMAN,
Sir J. DUKE called the attention of the Committee t 0 the
r
-ent,
eevery erroneous node of paying
petty officers who
aid
acooforrzint,h e
tmast. o
At s were
aid the rate of present
ship, these
pettytlou e 1 officersl it a.s well
tkiwn that a petty officer on board a small going ship might
tarei much more daty to perform than a petty officer on board
that the
,suet ttle ship. He thought
"t quired attention.
evayta.'si PE C HE L L believed that the officers of
the naval
-all
eri Zeal were less employed than the naval service of t
"try require,. lie alluded particularly to the class of
es,dand midshipmen ; of these a great number were unem-
Aiy• They were very poorly paid, and many of them
fie" a long service were totally unprovided for. lie wished
° Cull
the'attentionof the Honourable Gentleman below him
h case .of
an
hoard officer named Dennis, who whilst employed
a revenue cruizer had the misfortune to fracture his
lie was retuined to his ship with a wooden leg, and was
oiy
.unpr.ovided for. lie thought the. ease was. entitled to
ttention
M. C. WOOD did not think it was a honvenient. course
veer -
ine a single case forward on au occasion of this kind,
respectio a great deal of what had been said by the
Gallant Officers who had addressed the House,. it would form
'`the subject for the inquiry of the Commissions, t 4 whose
Appointment his Right Honourable Frisassel would not he a
arty, if
fie did not believe :bat their duty wowld be to in_
quire into the whole condition tel th,o service, Yjcw to

improving that condition, as well as promoting its future ad-
vantage and efficiency.
Mr. 11. JOHNSTONE rose for the purpose of calling at-
tention to the case of a distinguished naval officer, Captain
C. Napier. Afire his return from Portugal he had been re-
stored to his rank in this country, but not (as he understood)
to his pension. The ground of complaint was that, in the
statement made by the Admiralty of his (Captain Napier's)
services, some of his most important services to this country,
had not been included. A comparison of both statements
would show this to be the case. The lion. Member pro-
ceeded to read a statement of the various services of Captain
Napier at Porto Rico and elsewhere.
Sir T. TROUBRIDGE felt that he was speaking the
sentiments of his colleagues as well as his own in admitting
to ths! fullest extent the gallant service of his personal friend
Captain Napier.—( Hear.) He ( Sir T. Troubridge) had a
strong personal feeling for Captain Napier, and had once been
reprimanded by his late Sovereign for attending a City meet-
ing at which a piece of plate was voted to his friend, and he
took this opportunity of thanking the Right lion. Baronet the
Member for Pembroke for the very polite manner in which
that reprimand was administered. (Laughter.) lie mentioned
this fact merely to show that he could have no motive in sup-
pressing the services of Captain Napier.
After a few words from Captain Gordon, Captain Dundas,
and Sir J. Duke,

Admiral ADAM said that the only reason he could give for
the omission of any mention of the great services of Captain
Napier in the statement was, that the Admiralty considered it
a work of supererogation to enumerate those services to the
House of Commons.—( Hear.)

Captain WE YSS bore testimony to the many important
services, both naval and political, of Captain Napier.
Sir E. CODRINGTON thought it was due to Captain
Napier that his services (by which he merited the pension)
t.h,:uld he mentioned in the statement ; that was all Captain
Napier demanded, and he (Sir E. Codrington) thought the
demand a just one.
Mr. GILLO N felt pleased that meritorious services should
be rewarded, but thought that the discussion had been too
much protracted on this particular vote.
After a few words from the Hon. C. Langdale, Mr. Hume,
Captain Jones, Mr. C. Wood, and Captain Gordon, the vote
was agreed to.
1,072,4971. was voted to defray the wages of the seamen and
marines in her Majesty's service.
520,7471. was voted to defray the expenses of the seamen
and marines in the Ordinary and Yard Department.
On the vote of 112,6371., to defray the salaries of the office
and the contingent expenses of the Admiralty,
Mr. T. ATTWO OD wished to know from the Right Hon.
Secretary to the Admiralty whether we were in a position to
defend ourselves-against the Russians, who had 26 ships in
the Baltic and 16 in the Black Sea, in case of aggression.
Mr. C. WOOD said that if those vessels should present
themselves in a hostile manner we were perfectly prepared
t ) meet either the fore( in the Baltic or those in the Black Sea.
The vote was then agreed to.
2,495/. was voted for the office of Merchant Seamen.
26,2301. was then voted for the scientific department of the
Navy.
121,793/. for the salary of the officers of her Majesty's Naval
Establishment at home.
420,0931. for paying the wages of artificers at home.
24,8501. for artificers abroad.
354,3831. for naval stores, and the re-building and repairs
of ships.
A conversation ensued on the item 1,6001., granted to Com-
manders-in-Chiefs on naval stations.
Mr. HUNIE wished to know'whether it was compatible with
the rules of the service, that a Commander-in-Chief on actual
employment could also hold another office at Court ? For in-
stance, he would ask how it was that the Commander-in-Chief
at the Nore station ( Admiral Otway) could hold a distin-
guished appointment in connection with the personal service
of the Sovereign ?
Captain PECHELL said that every officer in the service,
especially every officer of rank, was entitled to a certain term
for leave of absence every year—say a month ; and that pe-
riod was sufficient for the performance of the duties alluded to
by the Hon. Member; while the public had a saving of the
officer's table money during the time he was off duty.
Mr. HUME then observed that, when so many distin-
guished officers were out of employment, one who was in the
enjoyment of that advantage, should leave such situations as
the one in question to them.
The vote was then agreed to, as were likewise the follow-
ing votes :
For New Works, 89,786/.
For Medicines and Medical Stores, 17,847/.
For Miscellaneous Services, 73.681/.
783,6821. for half-pay to officers of the Navy and Royal
Marines.

525,856/. for military pensions and allowances.
200,6331. for civil pensions and allowances.
Mr. HU NIE objected to the distribution of this fund, and
contended that the Marines were unfairly dealt with, as they
had only received 3001. out of the entire.
Mr. C. WOOD explained that the greater part of this sum
had been set aside by a previous arrangement as sinecure pen-
sions for the exclusive benefit of ❑aval officers deserving such
aid. It was a singular fact that, among the Marine claimants,
only four appeared. The fact was that all the rest were at-
tached and on full-pay, so that nono but those four really could
claim anything according to the rules of this pension fund.
The sum actually coming to the share of the Marines was 72./.,
being one-fifteenth ; whereas they received 300/. in ten pen-
sions, being one-sixth of the entire. So that half the
claimants were satisfied by a much greater grant than the
whole class were entitled to.
Lord G. LE NNO X hoped that the Commission to which
he understood this investigation was to be committed would
not interfere with the good effects which the country looked
for as the result of his previous motion.
Mr. C. WOOD assured the Hon. Member that the inves-
tigation was intended to be a bona fide one, and not to defeat
the motion alluded to.

Agreed to.
200,633/. for civil pensions and allowances was then agreed to.
66,330/. for the transport of convicts to New South Wales
was also agreed to.
The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be
brought in to-morrow.
CHANCERY JURISDICTION (IRELAND).

Mr, LITTON brought in his Bill to restore the anqient
jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, enabling Masters of
that Court, upon petition to execute renetvals of leases for
lives containing covenants for renewal in the names of persons
bound by such covenant to execute the same, and being out of
the jurisdiction of the Court, and to extend such power to
cases of terms fir years, or lives dependent upon years.
Thu House then adjourned, at Midnight.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1838.