The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-23 00:00:00

IRISH CORN.

Sir J. NEWPORT, adverting, as was understood,
to some Government Contracts for Corn of
British growth, excluding Corn the growth of
lirland, in direct contravention of the Act of
1806, asked on what ground the restriction was
wade ?

So- G. IVARRENDER observed, Gat the Scotch
Coro %vas tqually excluded ‘vith the Irish, and
attributed tLe exclusion to the difficulty of ob-
t,iiiing the supply in the winter season. It was
to be recollected, that Ireland hail the monopoly
in the supply of salt provisions.
Znr J. NEWPORT contended, that no difficulty

had ever h: en experienced in corm ying corn front
Ireland to Plymouth, Portsmouth, &c.

CONIMITTFEE OF SUPPLY.

The I-louse having ;es°ivy! itself into a Com-
mittee of Supply, on Mr. LoNG'S motion, several
Resolutions were moved and adopted, to make up
deficiencies left by certain grants of last year. On
the motion that 60,0001. be granted for the Peni-
tentiary House at 'Milbank,
Mr. Alderman Wool.) inquired whether that
would he sufficient to complete the sum wanted
for that establishment ?
Mr. LONG stated that about 40,0001. would he
required next year to complete the whole accord-
ing to the estimates.

Mr. Alderman Wool) complained of the erec-
tion of R steam engine for grinding corn in that
prison, where the prisoners themselves ought to
be made to work. Such an expellee was- Unne-
cessary.
Mr. Lot contended that the whole had been
conducted with the greatest attention to economy.
The Jail fistd been originally intended for 800 pri-
soners. It had now been enlarged to such an ex•
tent as to contain one thousand; and the expense
had been increased in a fair proportion to the
original estimate. The object of the steatn
gi,-e was to grind corn, and supply the building
with water, which in so large a building, and for
such a 11111111)er of petsolit, could not he done by
manual labour. Such work, besides, would not
be likely to improve the prisoners, and the prin-
ciples on which they were employed was that of
teaching them such arts as would enable them to
gain their livelihood when they should have the
fail.
Mr. Alderman WOOD maintained that there was
a prison in France in which 20- persons supplied
5000 wi!is

Ater a few words from Mr. B6NNET and Mr.
Ilot.roon.

Lord NUGENT stated, that in the jail of the
town which he had the honour to represent, a
vet tical wheel had been erected at the expense of
180 or 2001. It was worked by eight men, and
with so much success, that a proposal had been
made to supply the whole town, containing 5000
inhabitants, with water. For that Purpose,. five
hoots' labour every clay on the part of tl►e eight
men he bad mentioned,would have been sufficient.
and the water could be raised to a height of 70
feet from the bed of the river.

Mr. LONG said, that it had been a question
with the Committee, whether more might not
be lost by employing the prisoners in raising the
water, instead or giving them other work, than
the erection of a steam engine would cost, and
the latter had been adopted on the ground of eco-
nomy.
A desultory conversation ensued, in which
BROUGHAM, Mr. flumkt, Mr. LONG, LORD No-
GENT, Mr. HocFoRD,
and Mr. W.:nit:rut, partici-
pared ; alter whichthe Resolution was agreed to.
Mr. LONG then proposrd 21,0001. for the Ex-
pences of the Penitentiary House. tram the 24th
of June, 1819, to the same day• IB2o.—Agreed to.
On the Resolution that 50,0001. be granted to
cArry on the lniaud Navigation between the two
seas, . _

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Lord CAUHAMPTON objected chiefly to the name
of Caledonian Canal, is Caledonia had celsed to
exist in the third century. Ile wished to know
at once how much would be required to com-
plete that nuriert aking ? also complained that
great numbers of English, Welch, and Irish,.were
employed, instead of the native labourers.

Lord BINNING stated that 80,0001. would be
wanted on the whole, so that 001y,30,0001. would
remain to he granted, if the present Resolution
were agreed to. As to the English, Irish, and
Welch employed, they did not amount to one in
seventy. lit 1819 there were but 3 English, 1
Welch, and I Irish, all the rest wete Scotch, and
Ihe whole employed in the Eastern Division were
240. The canal had been undertaken at the
pressing• solicitations of the Brltlc trade in the
North of Sco►land, the %Vest of England, and the
North of Ireland, and had already produced much
good. From the 7th of April to the ;4th of No-
vember last, 152 voyages had been made upon
Lochness, without any accident.
After a few observations from Mr. tlontß, the
CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. WILLIAM
SMITH. and Mr. Alderman \VooD, the Resolution
watt agreed to.
The House then resumed, and the Report was
ordered to be received to-morrow.

A new ‘Vrit was ordered for the County of
Monmouth, in the room of Lord GRANVILLE SO-
MERSET, who had accepted the office of one of
the Lords of the Treasury since his Election.