The Sun.
London, England, 1815-06-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

General TuaruvroN e•ace notice, that on !klionday next he
would 11,9VC fa!-an acconnt of the money paid to the General
Post Othee for the early delivery of the litters.
Mr. F. LEWIS gave notice, that on Monday next he would
move tnr leave to hring- in a bill to repeal the laws respect-
ing the assize of to-eati.

The Ordomice Lands Bill was committed, and ordered to
be report,:i Nlonday.
Th, ;.taster of the Rolls Bill passed through a Com-
mittee; report on Manday.
The Irish Customs TIM was also committed, and ordered to
be reported on Monday.

The Si4r,nal Station Bill was brought in by Mr. CROKER,
and re..fd a firct hale.

The Embezilement of Naval Stores Prevention Bill was
read a first liwe, and ordered to be read a secotul that; on
I.lloladay.

CHAPEL EXEMPTION BILL.

Tire CHANCELLOR .of the EXCHEQUER moved
the third reading of the Chapel Exemption Bill. .
Sir W. SCOTT opposed the measure strongly.
He saw no ground 'f-or it either. in popular appli-
cation, or in real expediency. His Right Hon.
Friend had "observed an entire silence as to the
new occasions, or new religious principles, that
required such an innovation : he coaceived that
no argument had I:cen adduced to justify his Right
Hon. -Friend in sallying forth as a diplomatic
agent to negociate a peace between discordant re-
ligious sects, or to exempt them front the bur-
thens incident to property in general. He there-
fore moved that the Bill be read a third time this
day three months.

The CHANCELLOR of the .EXCHECLUER defended
the Bill, and was happy to see the objections to 'it
reduced into a substantial form. The present
measure, whilst it threw no new burthen on eccle-
siastical dues, established no interference with the
British system of religious toleration.
Mr. BANKEs was astonished at 'the rashness of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in so uselessly
attempting to alter; the established law, for the
sake of removing a trivial grievance.
Mr. BuTTERwoRTH supported the. Bill as of-the
greatest importance, and as onlyrelieving persons
who paid tithes and other parochial taxes from
suffering- an additional burthen, in resorting to
chapels of ease or other places of worship.
Sir W. SCOTT explained.
'Sir J. Nicol, was of opinion, that the present
Bill had arisen in a misapprehension Of the
ex-
isting law. In successive decisions in the Court
of King's Beneh the law hail been held to he,
that places of worship applied to no profitable
use, and places appropriated to the education of
the poor, were nut rattalble, but became so, if

ernployq4 prodltetie propertv: presert
Bill wept o e:Xenipt place.pf, religjou§ woro';i),
When jyroductiye p6rpose., flaunt he
payineitt or •rates ; and tbe.necessit of such
measure ought Id be ticarly Proveti before the•
House g.ave its assent ' . . • -
.11:1r7 IVFTHErtent. said, that if an e%effiption
we !ir;nted front poOr fates, it ought to extend
burthens, Mt the exeniption
fact, • Icc -the:benefit of carpenters, +lumbers, aqd
ernploired 11l those '111;
Bill tlid not prrnnote toleration, and.he telt it hi:::
duty to oppose it, _ . .
surprited at the opposition"
the Bill had-enconntered iu its ia%t-stage.
former occa:don a gallant General oppo§ite,
(Thornton), had been left to fight the
,hattle
pro-
pris niarte. The LIOn. Gentlean continued tb
argue in favour of the gill. . .
Mr. Serjea»t BEST 'vas willing to Conciliate the
Dissenters, but not at the
.expense of the Pro-
testants.• By the Bill before the Ilouse"tbe bite-
,. rests of the Church Were -neglected, in order to
favour the Dissenters. It was a measure, of per-7
se-cation to the ?Atli-chin favour Ot ali Dissei,ters ;
but the great reason why he shOuld vote against,
the Bill was, that it left the Church Of, England
assessed to all Parish Rates, while it exempted
from those rates Dissenting Chapels and Meeting=
houses.
The CHANCELLOR of the txcuEdifEtt and M.
Bni'rcawourn explained. •
MrOY, S.IOTH slid that the Bill was ceilainly
caleolate.d to benefit those who built Proprietory
Chapels upon speculations of protit. , fie com-.
1)1.6.064 of the manner in which the debate had
been began, and regretted
.that any Avaraitli had
been manifested on the subject. , . _• •
Mr. A. BARING thought the Bill ,uSefhl as .it
would be likely to prevent unnecessary animosity
and litigatiln, and Alit an end to those petty dis 7
ptitcS which disttirbed many parishes in the cciun
try.-=-The House divided—

. .
For the t bird reading 22
Against it • 41
Majority against the Bill
When strangers were re-adMitted, Lord CmyrvuktF.,ott
-geared
at the Bar with'a Message from the Prince Regtint re-
lative to the calling ont of the Militia.—(Fur which see the
Lords.) _
Lad CA?iTLEREApti moved an Address to the Pd.nce.
Regent, thanking hint for his ntostgracibus Message; and
expressing satisfaction at the information which it conveyed.
Sir.). NEWPORT objected td an AdkilesS expressing sa',is-
ficl ion at th-e measures about to be reiorted to by the Crown,
on the same dav,on which the Message was brought down.
Lord GASTI.EREA6II stated the course- proposed to be
perfectly consistent with the established Parliamentary prac-
tice. -
The. SPEAKER said, the course to he taken •on such an oc-
casion depended entirely on the circumstances of the. case.
After a few further observation. from Sir J. Newport and
Mr. Bathurst, the former said be 'would offer no further re-
sistence to the motion, which waslhim agreed to.
Sir .101-1 N NEWPORT moved, that there be laid before
ttie Howse, in the first week of the- ensuing Session, al* ac-
count of the nurn')er of persons confined for debt inireland,
dislinzuished them lato etasses.—OrOcrcd.
PALMERSTON moved the third 'reading of the Mu-
tiny Bill. After a short explanation, relative to Ensign Cow-
ell, between Mr. Manners `,.nt to:1; Mr. W. Smith, Sir E.
Bridges, and Mr. Davis Giddy, the Bill was read a third time
Ind passed,'

Sir 1-I-. PARNELL brciaght in the Vaccintition Bill,' which
was read tfirst, and ordered to be read a 3cconii time on Mon,
. .

day next.

IRISH BUDGET.

yhe House_having resolved itself into a Corti-
mitte.e of Ways and Means,
Mr. VESSY FITZGERALD (the Chancellor of the
Irish Exchequer), rose and spoke to the following
effect :—" It is to-night, Sir, -myduty to submit
to this Committee the amount of the Supply;
which Ireland is required to provide for the ser-
vice of this year, and thelVays and Means by
which I propose to make the f;'roviSion whioh is
necessary.; and I cannot lament; that on more
than one occasion in this House, and in another
place, where an inquiry into the state of the fi-
nances of Ireland was gone. into, the attention of
Gentlemen has been turned to the Revenue'of
that country and the state'of its resources ; since
so much of. 'what else it would baye•been toy duty
to oiler to the consideration of the Committee has
been anticipated by .those - discussions. In the
statement which I have to bring before you, it
will be seen that however the pressure of the
present moment may be felt by-England—how-
rver rest and unAampled the demands on her
may be, as represented by my Right Hon. Friend
(the Chancelhw of the Eixelfequer of England)•,
an' a former evening, I have, standing here on
the part of Ireland, a duty comparatiVely more
arduous to discharge. Ireland IRIS heen called
upon in the last two SesSions of Parliament, to
iargc
furnishr
than have ever been made before. Taxes
have been laid on to an extent which that coun-
try, 1 fear, was little prepared to expect ; and we
have now to provide still greater supplies, and by
imposts exceeding those of the preceding year,
:Treat as-were the exigencies of those times. How
the presenrchargehad been aggravated, my Right
Hon. Friend (Mr. Vansittart), has sufficiently, cx-•.
planted. The 'liquidation of the arrears of the
late war, has indeed swelled that charge very con-
siderably beyond the expenditure of and' single
year. it remains for me, however, to perforin
rny duty. I trust that Ireland will not be found
unequal to difficiilties of her situation, and if
in the extent and magnitude of her contribution
to the general expenditure Of tae Empire, the sa-
crifices she has been called upon to Make. are
great ; it most he remembered that there are heavy
burthens which have hitherto not been imposed
on her, though every other part of the Unii`.ed
Kingdom cheerfully endures them. Let us not
forget, too, that great as the sacrifices may be
for which we are called On now, or which may
be required hereafter, they are the price that 'lre-
laud pays for her peace and for her strength, for .
her security and for
het glory.—(Hear, hear V—
ille Right Hon. Gent:entail proceeded to state,
-that he should submit to the Committee as dis-
tinctly as he could the amount of the Supplies, and
the Ways and Means which he proposed to meet
it, as well as the provision for the interest of
that Loan, which, conjointly with the British
Loan, had been contracted for in this colnitry,
and of which the terms had already received all
the sanction which, up to ,this time, they could
have received. He should fist stare the estimated
quota of contribution of the year 1815, at
10,574,2151. The interest and sinking fund on
the present debt, 6,098-,.1491. making, the total
supplies 16,672,3641. The state of the Consoli-
dated Fund was, balance in the Exchogner on the

Cith „Tarivary 1815, 1,689.,2521.. ItTnaini.og of the
irish, Loan of j61•:1-- the
11.“:)arii rz:ised .in 11;:,:land.,iti 1814, ;3,862383!.,
nakini;" .a.;tw,al of 5;864,1651 ;: erat Iron) tlOs.he
hail to deduct, first', he. Arrcarss. of. Contributio4
-for 6l:ly 1,i91 for
eNz(osiveof e'Nere of A rhir Ex,
traordinaries akiAlcab!e to 1314, anet itit!,:plied this
year there Were Liso tti oe,neuticted.the prinei7
ctrl of Oimf.ta!olini; Treasury Bills •anil Lottery
.I)vizes 232,'•:401., and for Votes of Parliament:
remained undiNchili-gt!d,-appro:)ri,th:d to In—
!anl.M-ivig-ation and Puhlic
wakiuk the whole artear due by th
Ctiniplidatt..d Fund; 5.175,3551., leaving a net
serpl.ns of the Consolidated Fund of Ott
_the:ith January last, .of 688,8071. Having thus
stated the Supply, he t•hould priceed to state the
Ways and Means ; he should first tuke the :•iiktplit.3
of ihe COsisolichted Fund, as made out above,
Produccof the Revenue be sLould estimate at 6, lotificka
The Profits. Lotteries, one half of Avliat had
been couipate4 for -Great Britain. lle .
p,ywent of Sufn9 advanced by Ireland for
Nat-di and Military Services
l,s of Old NaVl:l:',teves, 15.-1 7t hs bay ing.been
' taken cre:Jit. for by Enghitid • . .
Loan ,raised .in England for the Service of Ire-
land, .0,000,0001.

1.,:5;ooa

ibo,oo

9a,r,oi

9,750,000

.
Making...a total of Ways and Means A....L.16,854,11e
He had stated the: whole of the above in Irish.
Currency, and the Comniittye wont:: observe that
there waS an excess of Ways and Means above the
SopplY of 17F,0001. He came now_to the charge
for the: Loan J it was unnecessary for him to.
.trouble tl.e, Connittee with any explanations of
the terms upon Which the contract bad been made,
is they had already been stated so atis.actoril}"r
by his Right Hon. Vriend (Mr. Vansittart), and
had received the. sanction of the House. The
Charge for Interest and Sinking Fund combined
was at the rate of 71. 9s. 2d. per cent for money,
being (s total
nannual
nchaige of 727,3501. The
charge for the finking Fund being bitt one per
cent. instead of the charge stated by' the Chaucel,
lot of the Exchequer,of Ehgland for the English.
Loan, as tinder the Operation of that Act,. which
applied the stock in the hands of the Conin;is.4
skners of the Sinking Fund as a provision for the
year, be (fr.-Vansittart) was obliged-to attach
sinking fund equal to, one-half of the interest at
which he had horrowyd. The annual Charge cre:-
ated he had stated at 727,3501. He had now to
derail to the Committee the duties and taxes which
Would, lie hoped, be more than sufficient to cover
the sum required; and it. Was satisfaeto.ry to think,
that; in the measures Which Parliament had al.;-
ready annroi•ed, and in those'-which were in pro-
gress through the House, a goat deal had already
.been or wOuld be p:-ovided. He should Jake short
review bf, those measuree Of taxation which the
House had already aceeded to, and state; -as fairly
as he could; the estiMate produced of each. -He
should he happy, in case he did not convey him-
self distinctly, to offer every txTlanation in his
power to any Gentleman who might do hint the -
honour to attend to him ; and it was some
faction to him to reflect, that in recapitulating to
the House the measures which' he had-in this Ses
sion proposed, he had not to refer to one which
bad eithiT Within or without door's nin,..t with all.
opinisition. It was some consolation that in the
disc4targe of such a duty his- country had, lived
him the credit of doing his best. One extensive
branch of the internal dutiein Ireland had beech
thiS year augmented considerably; he meant the
AsseSsed 'faxes-; a great increase had taken place
in time y/itr 1813 ; on an average 25 per Ceithittl
on-the assessment at that lime, and the produce
had been more than equivalent to the estimate
then made. Parliament had already, in the pre-
sent Session, given its sanction to an Act by which_
all our ex;sting Assessed Taxes w.ere equalized
with those of Great Britain. lie mentioned our
existitit taxes, as it would be borne in mind that
We had :Ott in Ireland the inhabited house duty,
as in this part of the (jolted Kingdom. Gentle,.
Men might observe in the financial accounts the
produce of a honse duty ; it was, however, a dd.-
ferent impost; affecting houses of a class inferior to
aboSe which were assessed to the window anti
hearth tax, ilnd the apparent dinlinution of its pro-
duce in the last year, was owing to an exemp
tiTin which he had recommended to Parliaineut
in favour of 'persons who paid a less tent than.
101. per ann. on whom the duty had heavily and
unequally pressed. That thoe however who Were

riot locally acquainted with Ireland, might not
go n'Ata y with a wrong impression, he took leave
to state_that we-had in Ireland the Hearth-money
Tax, to.‘rhicJi this part of the Empire was not:
subjected.., This was a part of.the ancient•here-
ditary revenue of the Crown in Ireland. In the

year 1812 the Assessed Taxes had yielded three
hantired and tirii•ty-four thansand-pounds; in the
last year the produce was. 539,00 W. ; and front
'the equalizatioir which he 'had sr-ated, he expect-
ed an increased produce of ISO,OOOI. The next
branch of Revenue to which he would advert-,
was that of Stamps. lie had introduced into that
House Bills both of duty and of regulation, and
he confessed that he looked with sanguine anti-
cipation to the, result of 'both. One measure he
thought it right to remind the Committee would
alter the apparent statement,ol the Stamp Re-
venue: Ile alluded to-tbe trasfer which had,heett
made in the present Session of all Excise Licences
which had been •issued under the Stamp Depart-
ment, and were now placed
_under the exclusive

marmgetnent of the Commissioners of Excise.
The great object of that -arrangement was not
only to confine the responsibility to one Depart-
ment, but to trust the collectio•i of those. Duties
(he alluded to licences) to the Excise, in whose
of the controul could be more effectually
vested, the apparent result would be a diininutioa

of the. Stamp Receipts, and an increase in the

same proportion (he hoped indeed in a greater
proportion) of the,Exeise to- which they were
transferre.d: The Comtnittee were aware, that

. ,
under some heads the existing, rate of our Stain!)
Duty acre the same as the British, and-though

lie- had not attem:Aell to ruse them all to OTe

scale of .lie last selludide which had been broi!ght
forward by his night Lion. Friend (Nlr. Va:rsit:

tart), yet, the augmentation, under 'various cum.
prehensive heads, bad been very considerable in-

;fe6l. He believed that without Loking tt) the
result of regulation wider new Acts, he might
fairly take the increioe froth additional eludes;