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-'five years ago. That difference amounted to ten millions, which:•l
the country had paid to maintain establishments now acknow-
-4edged to have been useless.
Lord BEXLEY briefly maintained that the excess of income
over the expenditure really amounted to live millions. He. re.'
joked to find the present measure generally .approved of, and,
that the objections advanced were less 4,,ltnet it, than against
others which the House would have different opportunities to
discuss.
The Bill then went through the Committee.—Adjourned.

HOUSE 'OF COMMONS.
COAL DUTIES.
Mr. HOLME SUMNER presented a petition from Wal.
that, against the Duty on Coals..--:Laid on the table.
Mr. TULK presented'a petition from the Inhabitants of Sud-
bury, against the Coal Dutlea.—Ordered to be printed.
HAWKERS AND PEDLERS.
Sir F. BLAKE presebtel a petition from the Tradesmen and
Shopkeepers of the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, aeainst.
Hawkers and Pedlers being allowed to go about without
licenses.—Laid on the table.
AGRICU Li TURA 14 DISTRESS.
Sir C. COLE presented a petition from the Owners and Oc- .
copiers of Land, in the County of Glamorgan, complaining of
Agricultural Distress, and praying relief. The lion. Member-
expressed a hope that Sir T. Lethbridge would in the course of
the Session renew his motion upon the subject of Agricultural
Dittress..
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE entreated the House to give its se-
rious attention to the prayers of the people for relief from the
burthens by which the landed interest"was °pressed ; lie called
particalarly upon the landed interest in that House to unite in
demanding that to which they were most undoubtedly entitled ;
he meant tome specific remedy for the distresses under which
they at presentiahoured. Had his motion not dropped for want
of a sufficient attendance of Members on Thursday, he would
-have gone fully into the subject. That notice he meant now to
.fix for the first open day. He therefore gave notice that he
would bring it forward on the .15th of May.
The SPEAKER reminded the Hon. Baronet, that he could
not give a notice until the petition was disposed of.
The petition was read, and ordered to be printed.
JESUITS IN IRELAND.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, that in the absence of an
Hon. Friend of his, he wished to correct a mis-statement which
had been made in that house relative to the establishment of
Jesuits in Ireland. It was said on that occasion, that a large
sum of money had been sent from Rome for the purpose of the
establishment of Jesuits in Ireland, which statement he was
prepared to shew was unfounded. The Hon. Baronet here read ,
a letter in disproof of the statement, but Isis voice was so low as
to be inaudible in the Gallery.
CAPE BRETON.
Mr. HUME gave notice that he.would to-morrow (this day)
present a petition from the Inhabitants of Cape Breton.
COAL DUTIES.
Mr. B. COOPER. presented a Petition from the Owners and'
Occupiers of Collieries in the Forest of Dean, complaining of
the undue pressure.iipon them of the Coal Duties, from. which
other parts of their neighbourhood were exempt.
Mr. Rtemtpo said, that this was one of the many cases
in which the industry of the country was restrained and badly
directed by improper legislative enactments : the petitioners
were prevented from going to market with the article in which
they dealt on the same terms as their neighbours. This was
one of innumerable instances of the impolicy and unfairness of
these commercial restrictions: he hoped that, when the Mini-
sters removed them as far as they affected coals, they would
take the same opportunity of looking to other articles, and give
fairer play to the industry and capital of the country.
Mr. HUME said, that the case of the petitioners was one of
great hardship; the inhabitants of the forest of Dean were liable
to the sea-coal duties, while the port of Chepstow, only 8 miles
lower down the river, was exempt altogether front them, on
the ground that their coals were river-borne. Chepstow thus
could supply the Bristol market on far better terms than the
mlleries of the forest, which were 8 miles higher up. Unless
the Government abolished the coal.duties complained of, he
kneiv it was the intention of the local members to bring this
case in a distinct shape before Parliament.
After 4 few words from Lord OitAwvELLE SOMERSET, the
petition was laid on the table.
INSOLT ENT DEBTORS' ACT.

Mr. .T !IVO It-T)eationfronitfie Shopkeepers
and 'finders or Portsmouth' complaining of various losses in
conaequerce of the form of the present law respecting Debtors
and Creditor.--Maid on the Table,
Sir it. WILSON brought in the Southwark Market Bill,
which was read a first time. The Honourable Member also
+merited a Petition front the Inhabitants of Southwark,
against the Insolvent Debtors' Act, and praying that a dis-
tinction might be made between the unfortunate and the guilty
Debtor.
Mr. IiOIiiIOUSI , in supporting the prayer of the Petition,
•. wished to call the attention of the House to the expence at pre.
sent incurred by the Insolvent Court. In two years of 111 r.
• Serjeant itunnington's tittle (the years 1817 and 1818), the ex-
pence of the officers of that Court amounted to 9,9411., where-
as the amount of the Salaries of the present Court, in one year
and a half, amounted to 20,0001. The money paid into Court
in one year in Mr. Serjeant itunnington's time, amounted to
0,0001..; the money paid into the present Court in a year and a
half, rinteuuted to 6,300/., so that the present Court cost the
country near three times es much as the former, while the be-
nefit derived to the public was one-third less than before. There
.noeduci not, one word more to chew the necessity of a total revi-
sion of the Insolvent Court.--The petition was ordered to lie on
.-the table.