The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-22 00:00:00

I

1 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY)

DEAL, ~
and sailed the Drytno,
"Aecil 2 FROM LLOYD'S.
I. Wind E.S.E.—Arrived from the River
New York.
t Pdotersmourit Upton, and Boston, Wheatland, for
, ALtacti 21.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Re_
arikpacket, from Plymouth.
PA' ~,°UTII, %licit 20. Wind E.—Sailed his Majesty's ship
!!.ezeh, for Malta.
th:alker
ANT,v'M°VTR, MARCH 20. Wind E., strong breezes.—Arrived.
BNautilus from ' Tennant from Oporto; and his Majesty's ship
„a:,
fProottuir, NiAticit 20.—Arrived off' port the Tiley, Ed-
Memel.
MILPOa
LiverpoolD, MARCH 20.—Arrived the Virtue, Rouel, from
hound to }jaw,
tiBsfrc;''.:_' M4eCll2o.—Arrived the Leslie Alexander, Mor_
London.
m •
Wesiev ' ~ Aectl 15.—Part of the cargo of the Confidence,
Tyree li: nom the Clyde to Hayti, wrecked on the island of
shore "a!,_ been saved, and a part has since been washed on
on Lae island of Coe.
The ch,,,
Widera_ 'IQ; Bohn, from Messina to Copenhagen, is lost at
The 5 on the coast of Sweden —crew saved.
wret3/4 Brothers,
0,., Baker, from Sunderland to Stettin, was totally
ell
the coast of Jutland the 10th instant—crew saved.
koy
41' SWEDISH --"
OR N
AND WEGIA-
""---
GENERAL
CONSULATE.
~,h341,*--1 , i 17, Great St. Helens, March 21, 1834.
ll
-° it be 'eave to acquaint you, for the information of a
holm, h 2.1 concern, that the Royal Board of Trade of Stockd-
diretti,,:* ender date of the 17th ultimo and 3d instant, issue.
dared
117 that the following places, shall in Sweden be consi-
Nut the tree from the Cholera Morbus, and that vessels. arriving
clean bills shall not be subjected, on being provided with
to quaraln7f health, issued by Swedish and Norwegian Consuls,
tt°ttegal iltne. viz. : all ports in England, Scotland, Ireland,h
r•°vitiee;:.eighlea, Hamburg, or the Elbe, in the Spanish
arid that ~ Granada and Andalusia, and Holland, all Norway,,
'hail, in eons communication between Sweden and Norway,
'hail'
restr„,!„644enoe, by land or by water, be exonerated from•
Jotir utobto-bed'", asehtto quarantine.— I remain respectfully, Sir,
I servant,
14/411,_
CHARLES TOTTIX.
.'ubl" Es Ll d"
' q., Secretary, oy J.
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CRESTER RACES.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY NIGHT.
Cartel. i3TTING AT MANCHESTER.
to 2 Ask 14 CUP, I
to agst. erseverance (offered), 1
Btoi Poonlator (offered), 2 Pl3to 2 agst. Independence (off., 3
1,
Flo Controller (taken), to 1 agst. Birdcatcher, S t
Pride7tak to 1 agst. The Cardinal, 12 to 1 agst. bona's
lievera_ (taken) to 1 agst.Les Grace (taken), sto agst. Per-
..ce and Independence (taken).

11 tO 1 TYE DERBY.
10 to
:at aas, Bentley (offered), 6 to I agst. Bubastes (taken),
Sbilelah (offered), 13 to 1 agst. Olympic, 18 to 1
25
to F.
aggm.
st vnita2.wr (taken2_B to 1 a st• Comet, 22 to 1 agst. Delirium,
)!

BtO 1 agst , TUE DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
13 to 1 .. Warlaby Baylock (offered), 10 to 1 agst. Bubastes,
kr. p_art. Bentley (taken), 15 to 1 agst. Cotillon, 20 to 1 agst.
to 1 4 .
e7t's colt (taken), 20 to 1 agst. Valparaiso (taken), 28
Queen Bess (offered), 25 to 1 ags t. Bran (taken).
110„,.. -._______ ,uange in the Oaks and Liverpool Cup.

HUNTING APPOINTMET
sue King's Stag Hounds meet on Monday at S. Iver Heath;
—4,4rsday, at Winkfield Row—at 11.
e Sandbeck Hounds meet on Wednesday at Elroton ; artSa-
it, at Aughton Bar—at half past 10.
gar Osbaldeston's Hounds meet on Monday Toll
past at Badby
1 i Wednesday, at Sibbertoft ; Saturday, at Fox Hall at half
o.
LaTwhe Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet on Monday at Great
Satan'
~. 'Yardley Chace; Wednesday, at Stowe Nine Churches;
aY. at Stowe Park—at half past 10.
wkr. Berkeley's Hounds meet on Monday at Knotting Fox ;
air Pas'dt 1
h edne
at the Kennel; Saturday, at Kimbolton Castle at
aY
0:
~_ kr, br.,_ ,
-Uarm `Le 6 Hounds meet on Tuesday at Rye street Kennel;
half ""s'a3r, at Islip Town End; Saturday, at Dorton Spa—at
kDalt 1 0.
r. I), „
The "'lora Hounds meet on Thursday at Lamb Houßse,ratot.l.l
TuudaHolderness Hounds meet on Monday at Cherry
day 3',.. at Thearne ; Thursday, at Lowthorpe Village; uSatur:
~:. atistlrto Agnes—at 11.
waod";Essex and Suffolk Hounds meet on Monday at Stour
kr.v.TphursdaY. at Assington Hall—at 8.
Ceuta .1' 'eu°lB's Harriers meet on Monday at Swaffham Race
III:
I(Wednesday, at East Winch—at 11.
Church , naPten Harriers meet on Tuesday at Aldborough
Saturday, at Sadls er' Mill, Paston—at 11.
..............-

---______,..,_
THE FUNDs_(rins DAY.)
cl7"1" TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The easterly•
winds have prevented us from receiving any ar-
:lva's, with the exception of the French mail and the express
4.0111 Paris this morning. If we can lace credit in the infor-
natation of the private letters from ParispresPecting
!.,34111, we roust presume that the civil war is raging there
the situation
tletn Juore fury than ever, as it appears that a general
iiigoos.
state athsts had been place; and the accounts from B b
~- . that town ofull of troops, which were driven in by the
,arltt chief, Zahla. General Quesada published. a
tpraotc
tioh on
in.... the 9th inst., in which he tells the Navanse
toh
s'ii, hays:
los_ialled in the attempt to induce the disaffected
the
sword.tnni
Was ,
kretle,,_, resolved to enforce order by tire and
the dismassal
IN, `l4 Llatider was about to deman
frouft Nl* the Ministry, and the statel ofniMapd
state
o,l?tt tranquil.
but of late we have
This is certainly a g oncr ti du
rbewe
eoa fns t hfsler
nitiehd that distracted country;.
sioistereeeived by letters and information purposely adopted for give er..iews and stock-jobbing measures, that we can scarcely
Up
edt..it to anything but official information.
146, ••• the present hour we have no further
iairrlvtnalisngfrom
--Iti but may be expected every hour by the . g
THE FUNS. forelils°lB
Acco
ce pened at the pri they heft off yesterday, 911 1,
Danish ge unt' with little or nothing doing.
.... 30; to 31 ; Portuuese, 6,11•
l'he Frenchcomelowerg from Paris, 78f. 55c. ;
also Funds
~
VI Spanish
HALF-PAST ONE.
Wish great change has taken place since yesterday in, the
,S,peray-
heavannri^
tdePt rd ua
is
Securities. Yesterday they
is atC;ib;"
the sPeculators are eager to purcha''see
on
on
. dto its being a great Bear account, hopingandftoth
Lisbon.
~"2.44Y we shall have some important arrivals
r'e which
that
ai"'yin.itUese has been done al 65; ; Spanish also improved to
Little 01. „
Consols
e been "Ming is doing in the Consol Market.
Aeentrnt. '4'414 the whole of the morning, at 91 14 { for the

Consols for the Account, 9 I THREEi O'CLOCK
Th ------'-------'
the Isle of
Nvi
kne. present Vicar of Brading, in
years,
IS %aid to have held that living upwards of seventy
DCl4l3Eit OP ST. MICFIAEL AND ST. GEORGE.
""ii--y a recent rg 1 • approved by his Majesty, the
'lights Grand eCuroaesi: of this new Order are, in the
order of their nomination, Vice-Admiral Sir G. Aliwe,
Ad0,i,..41
Sir 11. Neale, Vice-Admirals, Sir P. Malcoliii,t.
Whom E. Codrington, and Rear-Admiral Briggs, all
haveo
1,1„-41; With the exception of the
.1 anedterrnizettefd,inthe
iressively filled the post of
_c ~.elliternineari. The Hon.. Caporntaimn...Smir...Anteaeitl.anit, son
" Lord Lauderdale, and Sir H. Nu]
,1 , h d bee
the
utt4 with the insignia of Knights mrnan ers o th
-.vit.
vaillWe understand that a sort of influenza pre-
Irnongst horses in a part of thersEesAsbteßlimiiigiinneg,
to
onethe
Prelent p,rind. No less than
tltleroa,
owAith this complaint,
, were seriously afffiecvtaeihl
hat,s%-./. A irt of the present week. tanner at Ripling.
diqu;lit l'
er, in.
4 p.n4ted, has lost several of his horses by the same
.."44°1/ Packet.
E---,"lON,,—Yesterday
b the execution
knee of tee lay/ was carried into effect,
y the la-t assizes
the dreadful sen-
°ff
ti'e;inelbdialY, Thomas Gee, convicted at
tv of Mr. Sharp
° sett.ng ore to a wheat stack, the proper,
sad
;ther, at Guildsborough. The other prisoanlseor,
pAausssetdin,
Ok•n% upon whom sentence of death
4 received a revite in consequence of cwonassiderable inte-
resenta-
r!it having been made in his behalf, from the
!I_Teatthat he had subsequently to the offence rmePanifested
..e contrition, and has generally borne a good character.
.. eunduelperit proceeded towards the drop, trihrea.
escorted by
Sheriff and his attendants.
tryinguk they offered up a prayer, and the pTrilseonßerreva..t,At_hi,ries.
g moment shook violently. All being prepaed
o%,n_
sadden ascended the scoff ,Id, but, in consequence 'it's
o_s i
vti.
. "4 torn of the bead, the rope was removed
yelled
ribpd •
from
tators
the rope hhootedo ?nudti,,:vhen the drop fell,
most frightful inant!erth;ethqeekcnot of
mitted he 44114 shiftid completely under
.his chin and ad-
wer e dretitiftiellp:es:
supposed,
6,900 perm
ror by violenn:Y protracted. There were, it is h
t :"mpaintyation, by which
.his sufferings
rhino
after th d Qelittl'es and enafewlahmoarntiotenast.ifi'ldmtmeediate.lye
Woodtvoarkr,nwPif,l.htte wretched culprit's knees climgtotnot
time, ' were not removed for a short space .
multitude below
Wall tbasnoriludtenityindge:.:ll4!'h the yelling of
it!
tits multitude
suffered
dorietta_d_fullY, while theitcult'norneservpeuralled his legs, a EnidBl
til:lrZeeratioas of the people. Tile b
1411,42e1,1°! atom an hour, it was cut own and delivere,
dy Lying been
Preaz 7 "ve3 of the deceased. --Northampton Free

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE O 1 COJTMONS, 111ARcn 21.

The SPEAKER took the cildr at a qu ater past five.

Returns from the fink of England of ti:e number of
notes issued during certain periods, were brought up, and
laid upon the table.
The bill for lighting the town of Gloucester with gas,
was brought in and read a first time.
Mr. F. BUXTON moved the second reading of the
Alliance Marine Insurance Company Bill.

Mr. HAWES brought in the Newport Harbour (Mon-
moothshire) Improvement Bill, which seas read a first time.
Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the bandloom
weavers of Hilsden (Lancashire) complaining of distress,
and praying that a board of manufacturers be appointed
to regulate and equalize the rate of wages.
The same HON. MEMBER presented a petition from the
methodists of Holmfetb, complaining of grievances, and
praying redress.
Mr. COOTES presented a petition from the dissenters
of a town in Surrey praying relief.
Captain W'NNINGTON presented a petition to the
same effect from the borough of Worcester.
Mr. WILKS presented petitions from the dissenters
of Bet khampstead, Herts ; Castlehedingham, Essex ; Crea-
ton, Northamptonshire ; Duckenfield, Cheshire ; Guels-
borough, Northamptonshire ; Southminster, Essex ; Tot-
t2ride, Herts ; and the baptists of the Rev. D. Perrey's
congr, gation, Liquorpond.street, Boston, praying relief.
An. 110 N. MEMBER presented a petition from an indi-
vidual of the name of Swift, complaining of the Glasgow
Lottery Bill, seating that lie should be much injured by
it, and praying to he heerd by counsel against it.
Mr. TOOKE presented a petition from Chemsford, and
another from Evesham, praying that a bill might be
passed to prevent the employment of children in chimney
sweeping.

Mr. PHILLPOTTS presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Gloucester, praying that an act might
be passed to prevent the employment of children in
chimney sweeping ; also a petition from the same place
praying for an act to be passed to enforce the better ob-
servance of the Sabbath.

Mr. PICOT presented a petition from a place the name
of which we did not distinctly hear, praying for the repeal
of the malt tan.

Lord HENNIKER presented a petition from the dis-
senters of a parish in the county of Suffolk, praying to be
relieved from their disabilities.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Governor
and Company of the Chelsea 'Water-works, against the
Great Western R tilway.
Mr. STANLEY understood the hon. member opposite
(Col. Davies) meant to move an amendment on the motion
that the house resolve itself into a committee of supply.
He (Mr. Stanley) had had some conversation with his
noble friend Lord Althorp, and found that there would be
no objection to that motion, theref.re the hon. member
might, perhaps, as well move his amendment now.
Colonel DAVIES was quite sensible of the inconveni-
ence of moving an amendment of the nature of which
he had given notice on such an occasion, but he
had found himself in a very awkward situation with re-
sptct to this notice, and he had only taken this course as
a last resort. As there was no opposition to it, he had no
objection to move now, which he did, that a select com-
mittee might be appointed to inquire into and report what
would be the best mode of expediting the business of the
house.

The amendment was then agreed to, and the committee
appointed.
Mr. STANLEY, in answer to a question from Mr. IL
L. BULGIER, said, though he could not positively state that
trial by jury had been introduced in all cases into New
South Wales, yet he was happy at being able to inform
the hon. member and the house that his Majesty's govern-
ment were taking steps for the purpose of introducing
trial by jury into all cases in that colon•.

REVISING BARRISTERS.
On the motion for the house to go into a committee of
supply,

Mr.
GOULBURN rose to draw the attention of
the right honourable gentleman opposite to the
ease of the revising barristers. Those gentlemen had at
their last circuit been put to very considerable ex-
pense, in some cases to upwards of 100/., and
up to the present time the Treasury had not
been able to afford any remuneration even for the expense
which they had been called on to pay out of their own
pockets. This, he confessed, appeared to him to be a
case of very considerable hardship, and had put to great
inconvenience those individuals who had been appointed
under an act of Parliament, and had been obliged
by the act to pay these expenses out of their own funds.
The commissioners upon corporations bad received pay-
ment of their expenses and labour, and this, the case of
the revising barristers, appeared therefore to be one of very
peculiar hardship. His object was to obtain a favourable
answer, and he hoped the right bon. gentleman opposite
would give the house an assurance that the revising bar-
risters should at least be repaid those expenses which they
had piid out of their own funds.

Mr. WOOD said he was afraid his answer would not
be so satisfactory as the house might expect. He was
aware of the hardship those gentlemen had been put to,
and he agreed with the right hon. gentleman that
the case was entitled to a most favourable consideration.
As yet the Treasury had not been able to pay the money
that was due to the revising barristers, as they could not do
so till the money was voted by the house. This was the rea-
son why the payment was postponed. With respect to the
corporation commissioners, he (Mr. Wood) was not able
to give any answer in the absence of his light hon.
colleague, who was better acquairved with the subject.
Mr. HUME regretted that th,! noble !old at the
I cad of the department of weods and firests (Lord Dun-
cannon) was unable to be presiit, as he (Mr. Hume)
w!shed to put a questicn to him, which, although it in•
volved an expenditure of but trifling amouct, was', in his
opinion, usele,s.—(Hear, hear.) His attention had been
attracted by the erection of an immense wooden building
at the bark of Whitehall, which he lied ascertained
cost the public from SO/. to 1001. a-year, and which was
built merely fur the distribution of what was called the
KinesAlins ; namely, a few pounds of salt meat. The cost
of such a building for one single day in the year appeared to
him so extravagant that he hoped it would be ii) future
dispensed with.

The SPEAKER then put the question, that the order
of the day for the house to resolve itself into a committee
of supply, be read, which was agreed to.
On the question being put, that the Speaker leave the
chair,
Mr. HUME said he had given notice of a motion on
which be had intended to take the opinion of the house,
and had reference to ordnance estimates. As it was the wish
of the government to have it postponed, for fear it might
be any impediment to public business, he would not now
bring it forward, reserving to himself either in the com-
mittee, or in bringing up the report, to introduce it if he
found it neceisat y.
Mr. STANLEY said his Majesty's Government felt
indebted to the bon. member for not pressing forward his
motion now. It was most important that the Ordnance
Estimates should be disposed of as soon as possible, for
his noble friend, Lord Althorp, was anxious to take an
Opportunity of stating before Easter what his plan for the
commutation of tithes was.

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
A message from the Lords was announced, requesting
the house to communicate to their lordships copies of the
reports, and evidence upon the bill for excluding the
freemen. of Liverpool from voting for members of Par-
liament for that borough. The messengers were informed
that the house would send an answer by messengers of
their own.
The house resolved itself into a committee of supply,
COMMITTEEwhet,
lABERLEyMATES.
grEAYER.OhFaviSogUPI PLY.--ORDNANCE ESTI-
Theeft the chair,
Colonel A
Ordnance Estimates, wa's hinprising to bring forward the
able to effect reductions evean- happy
to state that he had been
beyond the most sanguine
expectations which in the last session he had expressed to
ez
d
the house. The apparent savingb,astcoobute pen
pared with
was
the
ed,
stimates of last year, on the
um
stimates
257,0001., and on the sum to be voted the apparent saving
of
e,
on
tmheount.
wait s 295,5000/.of He
ransfe said r
ato the arm pparent savyinet s because a part
conisted a t
ing to 175,0001. The real saving, therefor
to be expended was 82,0001., and that on the sum to he
voted 120,000/. He believed that this would be deemed
satisfactory by the house when they took into considera-
tion all that had been previously done. In the ordnance
estimates of 1829, as coutpared with those of 1820, there
was a reduction of 600,0001. The saving effected in
this department by the previous Government was
370,0001. ; and from 1830, when the present Govern-
ment entered office, there was a still further reduction of
335,000/. This took place in a department which had
been frequently pruned down before by their predecessors
He wou d now call the attention of the house to a few
points. The first was the Irish survey. The estimate
for th-s survey had been formed on insufficient data, and
the consequence was that the vote was now exhausted.
It was, however, the opinion of his Majesty's Go-
vernment that the survey ought to be proceeded it:.

Indeed he did not see Low this could be avoided, because
Government had almost pledged themselves to the Irish
members that the survey should he completed. This sur-
vey was of the greatest importance to Ireland. It was an
agricultural country, and the first step to all beneficial
reform, whether as regarded tithes, land tax, county, or
grand jury cess, was an accurate survey. The taxation,
for want of a good survey, had hitherto proceeded on
insufficient and very unsatisfactory data. This gave rise
to much trout le and Learthurning, and the only way to
set this at rest was by having an exact survey. Such
being the case, he trusted the house would not object to the
expense necessary for prosecuting this important work.
The next point to which he wished to call the attention
of the committee was the agency of the Ordnance Board.
Government was pledged to some alteration in this branch
of the estimates, and an alteration was in contemplation;
hut it was not considered an effectual one. The agency
was 7,0001., of which 1,0001. was paid by the officers
themselves, and 6,000/. by the Government. An esta-
blishment with a charge of 3,000/. would he necessary,
and, therefore, Government set about devising some other
means of saving this expense. The payment of the Chel-
sea pensioners was undertaken by the Paymaster of
the Forces, and thus a saving of 2,700/. was effected. It
was now proposed that the agency of the Ordnance also
should be transferred (as we understood, for the hon.
member was scarcely audible) to his noble friend's de-
irartment, and thus a saving would he efficted of
3,000/. a year. The last point to which he should
refer was the removal of the depot from Tooley-street to
Woolwich and the Tower. The great accumulation of
stores was a subject of complaint last session, and in this
way he trusted that ground of complaint would be re-
moved in future, and a saving effected of 4,0001. a year.
His colleague had a plan in contemplation for a more ef-
fectual check on the issue of stores, which, he trusted,
when brought into operation, would be productive of much
good. He would not trespass further on the attention of
the house than merely to remind them that in judging of
these estimates they should consider them as the ordnince
expenditure of one of the greatest and most powerful na-
tions in the world.
The first resolution was then put,

. -
" That a sum not exceeding 70,562/. be granted for the sa-
laries of the Master-General and the Officers of the Ordnance,
and for payment of the salaries of clerks in Woolwich, Pall-
mall, and Dublin."

-511. HUAIE said there certainly was some improve
went in these estimates as compared with those of former
years, but it was not so great as it ought to be, and as it
might have been. The first point on which he would
observe was the Irish survey. He had opposed the vote
of 300,0001. for this survey. It was voted on the condi-
tion that the counties of Ireland should pay a part of the
expense of the survey. He now put the question, did they
do so? It was true the additional sum now proposed was
only 25,0001., but before the survey could be completed
it would cost 250,000/. more; for not more than two-
thirds of Ireland were hitherto surveyed. England had
nothing to do with this survey, and should not be put to
the expense of it. He hoped some honourable member
would explain why the pledge given that the Irish
counties would contribute bad been deviated horn.
With respect to the agency, be was satisfied that the
distribution of it was an inconvenient one. All the
money voted under the bead of Ordnance might
be pai 1 through the same channel. His honourable
friend seemed to think they ought to stop short in reduc-
tion in consideration of what had been done in 1829 and
1830. This was not his opinion. The reduction in the
present estimates arose principally under the head of stores
and ordnance works. The actual saving on the military
and civil establishments was only 8,4931., a very inconsi-
derable reduction ; so small, indeed, as scarcely to deserve
notice. He was sorry to see so great an indifference in
the house to these estimates. The whole expenditure made
in this department previous to the late war was not more
than 500,0001. He decidedly objected to the civil and
military branches of the ordnance service. In time of
peace they were both enormously extravagant. Here they
were at peace with the whole world, and still paying for
the support of the army, in all its branches, no less than
13,000,000/. He approved of the removal of the stores
from Tooley-street. They should also remove all the pe-
rishable stores both at the Tower and at Woolwich. The
consequence of having kept their perishable stores there
was a loss of many millions, as he could prove very clearly.
He way anxious to ate the pay department both of the army
and the ordnance put into one office. The total estimate
was 1,366,0001. Now of this Greenwood and Co. paid
592,0001., and only 774,0001. was paid by the department
itself. The different branches of the civil establishment
cost 195,0001. ; barracks and stores 272,7681. Now in
1792 the whole expenditure, under the head of barracks,
was only 18,0001. The pay ana other incidental expenses
of the engineers and artillery was 560,0001., while in
1792 the charge under this head was only 159,0001. Was
there any necessity that they should have now so many as
8,000 engineers and artillery when there were not usore
than 3,000 in 1'792 ? There was nothing in the situation
of this country, nor in that of Europe, which could war-
rant them in keeping up so many as 884 artillerymen.
There was a charge of 26,000/. for the hire of carriages
on marches. This he considered totally unnecessary.
As to the pensions, they could do nothing with them until
such time as they fell iu by death. The next item on
which he should observe was 5,109/. for the professional
establishment at Woolwich. The three last items under
this heed never before existed in time of peace ; nimely,
a Director General with 3501, a year, a DirectoreGeneral
of artillery 5001., and the loyal carriage depai talent. He
did not complain of the amount of salaries, but the offices
should have ceased altogether with the war. The next
item was that of works, 194,4041. The charge for
management, officers, and pay of del les under this bead
was 30,738/. Now in any other establishment, public
or private, he did not find that the charge for manage-
ment was more than Si. per cent., while here it amounted
to nu less than 881. per cent. The charge for barrack
expenses was 261,708/., a sum much too large. Barracks
were now rising round them like palaces. Look for in-
stance at that now building in the Birdcage. walk. It was
superior to any public work in England. It was to much
to call on them to vote additional sums for this purpose in
Windsor. Valuable as their molly was to defend the country
in time of need, such extravagance was not justifi eble.
There was a charge of 7.2151. for the lodging of barrack-
masters and barrack-sergeants. This was a large allowance
merely for lodgings. Tne charge for barrack-masters'
expenditure was 57,8191., for building and repairs
135,0001., and for clerks of works, overseers, and lore-
toe n, 28,0001. ; that was a charge of 20 per cent. for
mere superintendence. He was well aware that the
present government found the department in the state it
now was in, and therefore they were not so much to
blame; but they should immediately proceed to alter the
plan. By a return laid upon the table in the year 1820
it appeared that there were then in existence sufficient
barracks to accommodate a much larger number of men
than that composing the present army. What occasion
could theme be then for new barracks ? This partly arose
from the circumstance of keeping the ordnance barracks
distinct from those of the line. He was informed that at
Portsmouth the government was actually paying for the
tnessrooms and lodgings of troops of the line, and that
this was occasioned by a jealousy which prevented them
being allowed to make use of the ordnance barracks there.
In place of the present complicated mode of dealing will
the ordnance and the line as perfectly distinct branches of
force, they should have recourse to a simple plan.
In every other country but this the line and the ordnance
were placed under the same commander-in chief. The
whole establishment should be simplified. In place of
expending 1.:ths0001. in the building and repair of bar-.
r..eks, and 28,0001. for superintendence, they ought to pull
down the old barracks instead of building new ones. The
whole charge fur barrack-masters in England, Ireland, and
the colonies was 36,191/. The next item was an im•
portant one, the stores, and it naturally divided itself into
two parts, the civil and military branches. He thought
Coe military branch ought to lie brought under the Com-
mander-ins Chief. There was an office in Pall. mall, at a
charge of 70,000/. a year, while the amount of the stores
annually purchased did not amount to more than 45,0001.
What was the use of a seperate establishment fur the ord-
nance stores, great coats, and similar articles? Why not
contract for these articles as was done for other branches
of the army, and have them supplied immediately ?
There was a charge of 18,000/. for bedding. Now this,
like the great coats and other stores, might be contracted
for, and had immediately when they were wanted, instead
of being left to rot in stores. The whole amount of stores
required was only 90,000/. worth, and for this an esta-
blishment was kept up at an expense greater than that at
which the whole exchequer business of the country would
atiwneadsmta3hne,:ave9 whole
tri
o. under the plan lately proposed by govern-
ment, the proposed expense of this being only 11,0001
The
expense of the storekeeper's department at Woolwich
le; telxiepeenxsepsenosne
koefepilanhgousrteorrsesthweem ere 83,88,92
59/7.i.
So that there was a charge of 100/. per cent, on the
amount of stores the ordnance received. If these stores
were supplied by contract there would be a saving of
athe
100/. per cent. on the whole. He would
ask house,
e '
then, whether this was an economical vat ltappeared
clearly to him that all this waste plight be saved and
these unnecessary expenses were not warranted untfe'r any
e.rcunistances. He would show what was the result
ofpersevering in this system, and some of the few hon. mem-

Irers present might recollect the battle he had in former
sears fought to lessen the storekeeper's department, which
at last he had succeeded in cutting down by 100.000/.
a year. This saving related to all perishable articles in
store ; and he would point out to the house how some
practicable results might be come to on the subject. He
made a motion last year for a return of the amount of
stores, of all perishable'articles in store, in order to know
what was their cost, and what was the expense of keeping
them in the storehouses. The return he alluded to showed
that the prime cost of those stores amounted to about
180,0001., and that, adding thereto two items for interest
and compound interest and for expenses of keeping since
the stores were first purchased, namely, 154,000/. and
200,000/., the whole charge would amount to somewhat
more than half a million sterling. He held in his hand a
catalogue of the sale of ordnance stoles of the amount of
the original purchase money, and of what they were sold
at. The third day's sale consisted of harness, collars,
back bands, breeching, &c., for horses; and the first lot,
which cost originally 684,000/., to which add 17,000/.
for interest, at the sale fetched only 37.000/. From which,
if agency and other expenses of sale were deducted, the net
produce to the public would be about 25,000/. In the
same manner he found that every other item of stores
was disposed of. In the Finance Committee that sat
in 1828, he caned for a return of the number of mus-
kets then in store. By a copy of that report, which he
held in his hand, he found that the number of muskets
and carbines in store was 926.850, and that the annual
charge of keeping them was 20,000/., and they had been
twenty years in store. He was happy to see that some of
them bad been since sold to France and Belgium. But it
was monstrous to have such a stock of muskets in store—
a stock sufficient for at least fifty years. If we were to go
to war now, or if other countries were to go to war, they
would be found of very little use, and would not be pur-
chased, in consequence of the late improvements that had
been made in that arm in France and in other countries.
He would advise his Maj,sty's government to turn them
into old iron ; and he was glad to see they were doing
so, since they were selling them by thousands and tens of
thousands. Ever since the war lie had been hammering
at them—(A laugh)—and he considered he was now en-
titled to expose the folly of such a system. So much for
muskets. The number of pistols in store was 50,000, of
swords 154,000, but there was still a much more extra-
ordinary item. What he alluded to was 287,353 sets of
accoutrements which were in store, consisting of pouches,
bayonets, and belts, the average original cost of each
set being 14e. Would the house believe that after all
the time these things were kept in store, and after all
the expense, of keeping them, they were sold out at the
price of ls. a set ? But such was the fact. We bad an
African corps to supply with accoutrements, but so bad
were those that were in store, that the Ordnance was
obliged to go on contracting for new accoutrements, to
supply this black African corps. When such was the
case, what hopes could that house have from such a de-
partment ? He did not blame the present department
for selling these stores at a loss; but he ma `e this state-
ment to show the inevitable losses that must arise from
keeping any perishable article whatsoever a long time in
store. There might be some excuse for adopting such a
system before 1793, when there were difficulties in the
way of having manufactured in a short space of time a
large quantity of these articles; but that excuse could not
hold good at present, when, in a given time, in conse-
quence of the great improvements that had taken place in
manufactures, more arms might be supplied than would
in any event be necessary. In voting the present estimate
the house would be supporting a system that was at the
same time insulting and ruinous to the country. He
would say nothing about 60,000 ball and blank cart-
ridges; but he could not help mentioning that there were
in store 279,000 barrels of gunpowder, the annual ex.
pense of keeping which was upwards of 6,000/. So that
of this one article there was a store for forty years; it was
a perishable article, and deteriorated in quantity every five
years. Besides, we bad powder manufactories, which
kept going on manufacturing every year, for no other
purpose that he could see except to keep men's hands in
practice. There was a powder manufactory at Fevers-
barn—

An HON. Maxima—Why don't you blow it up?—
(A ldugli.)

- Mr. HUME—I wish I could.—(Laughter.) When he
was at Feversham last year the warehouseman would not
allow him to visit the establishment, because he (the man)
said that a man at Woolwich was dismissed for allowing
Mr. Hume and Mr. Benett to go over the laboratory there.
—(Laughter.) He understood that the establishment at
Feversham was now kept up merely for growing willows.
Although there was in store gunpowder for forty years,
still they went on making two thousand barrels yearly, at
the expense of Si. or 61. a barrel, which would not sell (or
more than half that price. So much for gunpowder. He
found that there were in store 30,000 iron guns, 2,000
brass guns, 16,000 carronades, and 18,000 gun-carriages.
Think of keeping in store 18,000 gun carriages ! But it
might be said that 12,000 of them were ship-carriages.
If they were taken from ships they were good for nothing,
and of whatever sort they might be, after keeping for some
time, they would rot, be condemned, and thrown out as
useless. Was the folly of such a system practised by the
ordnance nothing ? As he said before, it should be joined
to the military department, thereby getting rid of the esta •
bliahment in Pall-mall. He found that there were in
store a twelve years' aupp), of wheelbarrows, which, unless
they were made of me:al, could not last, and must be
thrown away as rubbish. He also found that there were
in store 93,000 blankets, 44,000 paliasses, and 112,000
sheets. Tois was a dead loss to the nation. They could be
all supplied by contract and would be fresh and good, and
the expenses of storekeepers and of clerks, who had only
to keep rotten stores, would be dispensed with if
such articles were contracted hir. He was one of those
who had approved of that part of the report which re-
commended that those things should be placed under the
direction of one responsible individual who should be
obliged to see the whole of the duties of storekeeping pro-
perly and cheaply performed. If he had shown, as he
thought he had, :he bad policy of keeping in store perish-
able articles, the loss upon them in the shape of interest,
&e., the charges of storekeepers, desks, and labourers, it
must be evident that the system was in every way a useless
and losing one. He knew it to he a fact that guns, and
good ones, were now seliing as old metal. There was not
a warehousekeeper in the kingdom that would not take
charge of the whole establishment for 10,0001. a-year.
In the next item in the estimates he Lund among the
miscellaneous expenses 45,0001. which he was bound to
say ought to form no p irt of the estimate s. In the
miscellaneous expenses, which amounted to 78,0001., he
found the sum of 4,0001. for packing stores. Now this
sum would be saved by contracting, for the contractor
would be made to pack the stores at his own expense.
Teere was another expense which he must allude to,
namely, for vessels removing gunpowder, 4.830/. He could
riot see the use of ibis expense, and it ought to be removed.
He saw another item, 2,8501., for the purchase of land.
Upon this point lie asked for explanation. The law
expenses he found amounted to about 7,0001,, and
the Exchequer fees to 1,147/. He had hoped to
see these latter done away with. One great ground
of complaint was the civil expenses of the Ordnance
for superintending the expenditure. The persons so em-
ployed were paid as follows:—Master General, 3,000/. ;
Surveyor General, 1,2001 ; Clerk of the Ordnance,
1.2001. ; Principal Storekeeper, 1,200/. ; Treasurer,
1,0001.; Secretary to the Master General, 1,000/. ; Se-
cretary to the Board, 1,400/. ; total, 10,000/. Clerks'
salaries at Pal!-matl and the Tower, 5,012/. ; at Wool.
wich, 3,069/. ;in Dublin. 1,5501. Salaries at the out.
stations of England, 15,237/. ; 'at the out-stations in Ire
land, 2,1671. ; salaries of clerks abroad, 24,8311. He
would put it to the house if this account was not a strong
one, and whether such expenses were necessary ? The four
clerks in the Tower received more than the Exchequer
clerks. The t ital expense of the civil department was
upwards of 128,000/. This was an exorbitant sum, and
the expenses of the establishment in London were partied
larly exorbitant. If the house would not go with him,
were they prepared to vote all these expenses for keeping
stores, and of the civil department of the establishment?
If the store branch alone were got rid of, there would be
a saving of 39,000/. There would be a great saving in
every department if the business was transacted by war-
rants on the Bank, or the agency of Messrs. Cox anti
Greenwood, or any other similar firm. There was no
mode so economical as this ; it was adopted at Chelsea
Hospital, and the agency expenses in every 1001. amounted
to no more than 1/. Any agent would transact the business
of the department at at least one-third less than it was
done at present, and even in this way the expense,
of the Army Pay-office might b, saved. By adopting
this principle all the Treasury expenses would be got rig
generally extremely extravagant, and
the OBrdonaaninscewere
Board was the most extravagant of all. The
whole of these civil expenses might be saved by placing
the ordnance department on the same footing on which
stood in every part of the world. In India the artillery
and engineer departments were under the commander-in
chief, as was the case in Germany and France, and this
produced an immense saving. If such a principle was
adopted in this country, local boards might be got rid of
altogether. The amendment he intended to propose in
the committee he would defer until the report was
brought up.

Al;. COBBETT thought that the house ought to be

very much obliged to the hon. member for Middlesex far
ening into these details. The bon. member had asked,
when would the soldier cease to live in palaces? Why,
the answer was plain— Orel; the 1 lieurer should again
live in the cornent hens,. znerly to dwell in.
But when was that.? When ski, e should be
the amount of taxis cellected antra ti!y in...cid of fifty
millions. He knew it would be ea lad ae ill-natured
observation to say that soldiers were kept for collecting
taxes, but if they were not kept for that purpose, what
were thy kept for ? They had now had sixteen year; of
peace, and his Majesty kept constantly assuring them that
there was no danger of war. Since that was the case,
what were these soldiers and barracks kept up for ? The
house was about to vote upwards of 1,300,0001. when
there were not fifty-one members present. He had much
to say with respect to the expense of surveys, and the
large sum paid to the half-pay officers of the artilhry. Hr
tound that there was no less than fifteen officers of the
artillery on the half pay.
Colonel MABERLEY said that the hon. memlaer for
Middlesex bad mixed up the charges for the various de-
partments in such a manner that he (Colonel Maberley)
found it extremely difficult to take them from the chaos
in which they had been involved. The whole sum to be
voted was about 1,346,000/., which was divided into
ordnance service, barrack deparment and buildings,
military stores, and superannuation. The hon. member,
in the first place, silts fell to the large establishment kept
tip, and the great number of soldiers in the ar illery. It
was obvious, on reflection, that it required a much longer
time to train an artillery soldier than on•• for the line, as
the former must necessarily receive setnething of a sciela
tific education. It was-necessary to drill him as a cavalry
soldier, and in the use of military weapons; and it was
also necessary that lie should be made in some degree ac-
quainted with laboratory practice. He believed that it
was not possible to instruct a recruit to make him an
efficient artil:ery :addler in less than three or four years.
If the artillery were not properly drilled, it would hardly
be possible to send out an expedition with a chance ul
success, however it might be called for. He would appeal
to any roan at all conversant wi h tnilit try matters, whe-
ther it was not necessary that the artillery corps should
be placed on a different footing from the troops of the
line. The troops of the line, in case of need,
might be replaced by the militia, but that could
not be the case with the artillery. He thought
that, if the honour of the country was to
be maintained, comparatively a large force of
artillery must be kept up. As it was, England did not
keep up near so large an artillery as other countries.
Even America, in proportion to her military establish-
ment, had a much larger artillery than England. LI
the United States he believed that there were four bat-
talions of artillery, and only six battalions of the line.
The corps of artillery was much below what would be
considered sufficient in any c• ntinental state in which a
large army was kept up. Toe lion. member had cam
plained that the artillery corps was paid by the ordnance
storekeepers, and not by the agents. That was done
because the storekeepers were necessarily obliged to per-
form a great part of the duty of agents. Tne hon.
member said that the payment of the corps was the
only thing to look to, and they ought to consider the
cheapest mode in which it could be done. The object,
however, in the present mode of payment was to see
that the artillery were not paid snore than they ought
to be. There were between seven•y and eighty clerks
in the war-office who were occupied in checking the
pay of the army, and it was deemed necessary that a
similar check should be kept up by the ordnance.
One-third of the civil establishment of the ordnance was
kept up for this purpose; therefore the hon. gentleman
was wrong in saying that the civil establishment was
kept up for the stores alone. 'rite next point to which
he came was the barracks. He believed that the ex-
cellent discipline of the British army- was owing, in a
great degree, to the barracks. The expense certainly
was great ; but it was not near •-o much as it formerly
was. No military roan, who had the interest of the
army at heart, would wish to do away with barracks.
—(H ar.) The question then was, what should be
the cost of the barrack establishment ? He was prepared
to show that within the last few years great reductions
had been effected in this department. In 1814, when the
charge for barracks was transferred from the army esti-
mates to the ordnance, the amount of the estimate was
270,000/. ; and in 1834 the charge was 196,000/., thus
making a saving in the barrack establishment in 1834,
as compared with 1824, of no less than 96,0001. He,
perhaps, could not do better than rca 1 to the house a
statement of the reductions that had b en made in this
dep artinent. In i 824 there were 157 barrack-masters,
eight deputy barrack-masters, and 28.1 barrack-sergeants.
In 1834 there were 103 birrack-tuasters, three clerks,
and 244 barrack-sergeants, thus showing a reduction in
the years of 54 barrack•masters, five, clerks, and 42
sergeants. In Ireland the establishment was not one third
more than it was in 1824. He thought that the ord-
nance department were entitled to credit fur the reductions
they hail effected. The next head lie came to, was the
ordnance expenditure, and he was prepare'', if necessary,
to show that it was less as compared with that in time
golden time of the hon. member, namely, 1792. At that
tune, also, the ordnance had not to defray the charge of
the ordnance survey, or the ordnance sea service. Ha
would mit, however, enter into details. It ought to ne
recollected that the ordnance had to euperinend the
budding and repairing of lot ts and barracks in almost all
p irts of the world, and it was absolu ely necessary that
the utmost care should be taken, to see that the
work was properly done.—(Hear, hear, hear.) lie
ought previously to have observed, that the ordnance
had determined, for the future, to have as much work
performed by contract as they safely could. In that
case, however, it would be alisolutely necessary
to keep up many officers to superintend the buildings and
see that good matetials ware used, that the work was
properly done, and al--o that the articles furnished by con •
tract were of the pope'. quality. The bon. member m ale
seven' observations respecting stores which lie (Colonel
Maberley) cow(' scarcely class in any order. The hoe.
mintier complained of the large stuck of stores. Un-
doubtedly there was a large stock, but the Ordnance were
taking seeps to reduce i'. There was then sitting at Wool-
%tech a committee to inquire into the subject, with a view
to determine the quantity of stoles net should be retained,
and what should be disposed of. Wi h respect to tae ma-
nufacture of gunpowder, when they had such a large stock
in hand, be would only observe that nut noire theta one or
two thousand barrels were m ode in ti e year, and it was
considered desirable that this manufacture should be conti-
nued, fur the put pose of having a number of persons well
acquainted with the niaeufacture of the article, and also
that scientific experiments might be tried as to the menu
facture. With respect to the establish Meat at Fcversham
the hon. member was in error, as it had been dune a.vay
with some years age.—( Hear, bear.) He had already
admitted that the quantity of stores on hand was very
large ; but it would not do to get lid of the whole stock,
as had been suggested by the bun. gentleman. He was sure
that the house would agree with him that the Ordnance
would he guilty of a great neglect of duty if they did
not keep up sufficient stores to be prepared for hasti-
lilies. His Alajeaey's Ministers had fully concurred
in the recommendations of the committee, of which
his honourable friend the S orekeeper of the Ord-
nance was Chairman, respecting the keeping of
stores. The committee recommended that there should
not be an accumulation of stores fur more than a
consumption of three or four years, and also that a great
part of the surplus stores should be disposed of. It like-
wise recommended that many attic:es now manufactured
should, for the future, be purchased by contract. His
hon. friend the Storekeeper-General had acted upon the
suggestions of the committee, and he (cal. Maberley)
would not do more than refer to what had been done since
the committee made their report on the 29th of July,
1833. It was found on examination that nu less than
13,050 various articles were in the depot in Tooley-
street, and the-military committee had struck out those
articles which they thought should not be kept. In 1833
the number of articles in store was 13,056. There were
then only fifty.eight articles in store in Tooley•street
(Hear, hear.) He was, therefore, justified in saying that
they had succeeded in making a more sweeping reduction
than was suggested by the hon. member for Middlesex.
He trusted that he had shown to the satisfaction of the
house that the Ordnance establishment was not larger
than was necessary.
A desultory conversation thin arose, in which Mr. Ag-
lionby, Mr. Hume, Mr. Littleton, Wood Maberley, Mr.
Shaw, and Mr. Warburton took part. .

Mr. G. F. YOUNG asked whether any steps had been
•aken to reduce the stock of tnuskets and gunpowder on
hand. He found that there were 96,000 muskets in
store, and 240,000 barrels of gunpowder. It would take
forty or fifty years to get through such a stock.
Colonel MABERLEY observed that the committee re-
commended that there should be a stock of gunpowder
kept on hand (goal to two and a half or three yeas' con.
,umption. The average consumption of gunpowder was
bout 6 000 barrels. With respect to the stock of nuts.
kets, he thought that there were many objections to dia.
posing of them.
Mr. G. F. YOUNG thought that t; ree years' stock of
;unpowder was too large a quantity to keep on hand,.
The vote was then agree I to.
The next vole was 6,1784 to defray tile expeubes of

&c., at the thdliaLee Department, Woolwich.•—•
A :reed to.

The fo,lowing resolutions were agreed to, after brie f
c mv-rsations, viz.:—

15,237/. for (i, fr ying the salaries of the estah ishment
"t the Office of Ordnance at the whole of the stations at

nrn+.

26,9981 for the salaries of the Office of Ordnance at
th, out--!arions in Ireland and foreign parts.
36,19-11. for the salaries of barrack-masters, deputy
,xrvack-masters, and sergeants of barracks in Great Bri-
lain, Ireland, and the Co!onies.

5,000/ for the salaries of the master.gunners of the
sev,ral ga,risons and batteries in Great Britain, Guernsey,
Jersey, and Irehod.

75,411/. for the expenses of the Royal Engineers, com-
monly called the Sappers and Miners, and the establishment
for the education and tr,ining of S.ppers and Miners in
Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies.

276,2271. for the pay of the Royal Regiments of Artil-
Hy in Great Britain and Ireland.

35 97i/. for the pay of the Royal Horse Artillery and
Ri•iing-houses in Great Britain and Ireland.
2061. for the expenses of the Director-General of Artil-
lery and Field Train Department.
10,1981. for the expens,s of the medical e,tablishment
f the milt try department of the Ordnance in Great Bri-
tain Ireland, and the colonies.
30,7:38/. for the superintendence of Ordnance works
and repairs in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies.
Mr. CORBETT complained that the regulation required
all candidates for commissions in the artillery service to
aye been educated at the Wooiwi,:ii Academy. Ttlis pre-
vented privates from ever hoping to receive cototni.:sions,
however deserving them, which he thought an injustice
to the country at large.
Mr. HUME hoped the time was not far distant when
a ray of hope would be held out to the soldier in every
branch of the service of rising from the ranks, as in France
and other countries.

Sir E. KERRISON had the honour of knowing many
valuahle officers who had served under him who had been
so raised for their merits.
The vote was carried without a div.isi6n.

The next vote of 29,714/. for the extraordinaries in
t,:e o...fiance in the colonies was agreed to without a
discussion.

Upon the vote of 28 0761. for the superintendence of
repairs of barracks and fortifications,
Major BEAUCLERK should move the reduction of
the amount taken for these fortifications.

Mr. STANLEY suvested that the sum to which the
hon. and gallant member had alluded had been granted
on another vote, and he must move his amendment upon
the bringing up of the report.
Mr. G. F. YOUNG complained of the largeness of this
sum for superintendence, which was twenty per cent.
upon the expenditure.

Colonel MABERLEY said that the duties were arduous
and responsible, and could not be adequately provided for
at a less charge.
Mr. COBBETT said that, of all the cheating and
robbery that ever took place in the world, nothing ever
eqarilled the doings in the barrack department in the
colonies. Would the hoatse believe it possiale that a
birrack ha I been entirely built in the colonies by the
soldiers, without a farthing addition to their pay, and a
charge of fourteen or fifteen thousand pounds made at home
fir the building? Ha believed it, for he had superintended
the buil ling of it.—(H,ar, and laughter.) The right
lion. Secretary for the Colonies asked when this was ?
Why it was before the right hon. gentleman was born.—
(A laugh.) He had no doubt be could prove it even now
if he could get access to the papers of the office. He
mentioned the mat er to put the right bon. gentleman on
his guard against such things for the future, and to assure
him that nothing on earth equalled the roguery carried on
by the people in the colonies. It had become so inveterate
that he believed nothing short of the fear of the eternal
wrath before their eyes, would deter them from their
roguery.—( Laughter.)
Mr. STANLEY was very sorry to hear from the hon.
member that in the building of any harrack,in the superin-
tendence of which he was engaged, these should have been
so much roguery.—(Hear, and a leugh.) The fact was,
that it was in consequence of this very system of cheating
in the colonies that the works had been transferred to the
Ordnance, the superintendence of which formed the ground
of the present vote.
The vote was then agreed to.
The next vote moved for was a grant of 14,4041. for
extraordinaries of the Ordnance.—Agreed to. -
The next item, of 65,031./., for barrack-masters' ex-
penditure, and lodging-money to officers in Great Britain,
Iceland, and the colonies was then proposed.
Mr. COBBETT deprecated the increase which was
yearly taking place in expenses of this description. Kings
had teen encouraged, of late yea's, to surround them-
selves with barracks and a forest of bayonets, as if they
were afraid to trust their lives to the affections of their
people. Such was not formerly the case ; in the times of
Wiliam 111. and the first Georges, the royal guard of
honour was kept up more as a show, than by way of
def.nce to the royal person.
The following items were then agreed to, without
comment :-129 582/. for military, civil, and !wrack
contingencies; 55,0001. for military and ordnance stores;
and 20 0001. on account of stoles required for toreign
works and repairs for the year ending March SI, 1836, ;
3,5141 for Ordnance Office expenses, unprovided for in the
years 1832 end 1833 ; and 1,7471. for Exchequer fees.
On the sum 01.168,198/. being voted for superamtuated
allowances, witloxs' pensions, &c.,
Mr. IJUNIE asked a question which was inaudible ira
the gallery, to winch
Colonel MABERLEY was understood to reuly that co
officers av,re permitted to remain on the superannuation
lit who were capable of service.
After a few observations frotn Mr. COBBETT, Mr.
RUTIIVEN, Mr. HUSIE, and Colonel INIABEILLEY, the vote
was agreed to.

The hou,e then resumed, and the report was ordered to
be received on Mond4y.

POLISH EXILES.

Oa the motion that the house do resolve itself into a
committee on the Exchequer of Receipts Bill,
Laid DUDLEY STUART rose to rut a question In
the noble S i...etary for Foreign Affairs, whom he had
the pleasure of seeing in his place, It appeared from thw
n tirspapers that a circular had been addressed, on the pare
of the Emperor of Russia, to the several European G.
vernments, desiring them not to receive or afford staceour
to any Polish exiles who might happen to come into their
respective territories. He (Lord Dudley Stuart) would
be glad to know whether any authoritative message had
been received by the British Government?

Lord PALMERSTON had no hesitation in replying to
his noble fro.nd s iiquiry that no such communication as
he alluded to had been received by his Majesty's Govern.-
mint.