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be confidently relied upon, under all circumstances;
but your Committee venture to suggest, that a con-
siderable improvement may be effected in the exist-
ing system, without overturning, or remodelling, or
even disturbing it to any great exienth and their
recommendation upon the whole matter is.this :
That no
.public buildings should• be hereafter
•
erected nor any considerable alterations in the struc-
ture of any of the'exiStiitg buildings be adopted,
except upon: direetiOns -given by the Lards of the
Treasury, and founded upon wninutes Ofthat Board;
'and that the plans and estimates for all such new
buildings or alterations of eXisting buildings, should
be 'Signed by "at least "Three Lords or the Treakify,
and be preserved in' the- records-of that office.

That a commission, consisting of;tive persons, two
of whom at least should be Privy Councillors, and
holding'sorne responsible offices; should be appointed
by his illajeaty'to act as a council without salary,
tOadVise the Board of TreaSury upon all designs and.
plans for. the erection at considerable alteration of,
public buildings "
That previously to the
.dccision of the Board of
Treasury on any. designs, plans, or estimates, to be
signed and recorded_ by them as before suggested,
the opinions and recommendations of this council for
public buildings tobe so, appointed, should be laid in
writing before the Board, and should be annexed to
the plans_ and estimates approved of and recorded at
the Treasury.
. It will be seen by the reference to Lord Goderich's
evidence, that some such assistant council as is here
recommended would in his opinion be of great.service
in enabling the Commissioners of the Treasury to
judge and determine upon the designs for buildings
which are laid before them.

Your Committee cannot conclude this Report; in
which they have deemed it necessary to offer so
many observations concerning 'the unsatisfactory
manner in which the erection of the public buildings
is at present directed and superintended, without re-
commending to the immediate attention of his Ma-
jesty's Government the expediency of a revision of
the existing regulations by which the conduct of
that department is governed. • •
There are many points in the evidence accom-
panying this Report, suggested by professional per-
sons of experience and judgment, which are deserv-
ing of consideration ; and it appears that some useful
reforms might be introduced into the code of instruc-
tions now in force for the guidance of that office, if
a careful inquiry were made into the subject.
In suggesting that such an inquiry should be forth-
with inst►tuted, they desire to be understood as not
intending to convey the imputation of any blame
upon the officer now at the head of that department,
of whose diligence, fidelity; and zeal in the execution
of his duties, according to the existing instructions,
they have -learned nothing in the course of their
examination which could induce them to' entertain
the slightest doubt.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, Jui 9.

The LOtigitude Acts--itepeal -Bill, the New South
Wales Bill, and the Constabulary (Ireland) Bill,
were read a seeond-time aiid indeied to be committed
to-mnoirow..;--Aijourned.

PRCYI'ESt At/AIMIT•THE THIRD READING OF THE

SCOTCH AND IRISH•SM ALL NOTES BILL.

DissENTIENT.--Because, to a wealthy Jur& commercial
state, encumbered with a great debt, a paper currency,
measured by a metallic standard, is the safest as well as the
Most advantageous.circulation.

„ . . .
It is the safest, becatise-in.times.of panic, or of adverse
exchanges, a metallic currency is the first to disappear and
the last to taint).
It is the most advantageous, because, in a State so cir.
cinustanced, an extended currency is an essential part of
the machinery necessary for production ; and to compel
the producer to use a more costly, -instead of a cheaper,
circulation, in the same thing, -in effect is to prohibit-the
-use of improved_maclainery in manufactures or husbandry.
(Signed) FEKRERS.
July:9.,. • • I,nthe (.;ARNARVON.

PROTEST AGA INST-TH`--E SECOI/ D READING OF THE
- A SCOTCH AND IRISH SMALL NOTES BILL.
Dissuvrtitice.—T. Because this Act will materially ab-
stract the necessary intercourse between the inhabitants of
the English borders and the neighbouring market towns in
Scotland.
2. Because it it a wanton extension of .our Penal
Code, :.ilready overcharged, by which many will be injured,
and nobody benefitted.
(Signed) CARNARVON.

- HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 9.
There were only fifteen. Members present at four
o'clock, and the SPEAKER adjourned the House. •

THE BULL IN THE CHINA-SHOP.

Veluti Dux Taurus.—. Scat. Thcb. 2, =3.

Come list and bear, how I chana'd to pop
On a sight most rare and strange to see;—.
I saw a Bull in a China-shop,
And an Irish Bull, to boot, was he.
•
Thinks I, "I'll stop and watch the sport ;"
• For I felt, I own, a strong ambition
To know how Bulls themselves comport
When plac'd, as 'twere, in " a false position."
And soon I saw, as he roll'd his eye,
How the lovers of china felt alarm
Though some bull-fanciers, standing by,
Said, " Never you fear—he'll do no harm :
" 'Tis a beast, uncommon just and fair,
" And, though but little of crockery knowing,
" Respects all that-'ere sort of ware
" As much as any Bull that's going."
Meanwhile, the animal stump'd about
Wherever his hoof a footing found;
Which is rather a ticklish thing, no doubt,
Where cups arid saucers are lying around ;
And nice little images there too lay
Of Justice, Freedom, and such little matters,—
Brittle affairs, that will soon give way,
When the hoof of a Bull among them clatters.
At first, old Taurus, shy of the ware,
And only wondering how the devil he
(Like the Doge in France got there,
Treated the gimcracks rather civilly;—
Merely amusing the mob and himself, •
Now snuffing at one thing, now at another; ,
And tossing some delicate Rcmucti dell,'
In spurt, from one of his horns to t'other.
At length, however, the beast began
To feel at home,—and I needn't say
What ills await poor mortal man,
When Bulls in China-shops "have their own Svay."
First this went crash—then;smash went that,
As the spunk of the noble brute increases ;
A whiskof his tail laid Freedom flat,
And his hoof knock'd Justice all to pieces.
'fill, 10, at length, 'twist tail and hoof,
Such a deuce of a clatter round me broke,
That, feeling I wasn't myself bull-proof,
And, alarm'd for the fate of my bones—l woke
Yes, woke,—for it's all hut a dream I've said--
I had gone to sleep on an indigestion, . -•- -
• And bother'd my head, ere going to bed, •
With W—n's Speech on the Catholic Question.
*On fit voir acc Doge Versailles dans tout son eclat; tai
demands ensuite cc qui I'avoit le plus frappe dans ce lieu en.
chante :—“c'est dx-m'y voir."-ITimes.
.

INTERESTING To SPORTSMEN.—On th
forenoon of Saturday last, while cutting hay in afield not a
hundred miles from Cambusbarron, a mower laid .bare a
partridge's nest, containing eighteen eggs.. Anticipating a
sumptuous dinner of poached eggs, themower deposited
the whole eighteen in his pocket, and hung up his Coat in
the barn. While taking down his coat to go to dinner,
his felloW mower remarked, " WILLIE, your pouch is surely
fu' o" mice;" but conceive the epicure's disappointment and
surprise, when, in place of eggs or mice, he found his .pocket
full of partridge pouts. The whole eighteen were imme-
diately returned to the place near their nest, where parental
affection brought their dam to their protection, and, iu
twinkling, they were all safely gathered under her wings,
while other ten minutes delay in being hatched, would have
consigned them to the frying-pan. From the forwardness
of the hay harvest this season, it is to be feared many fine
covies will be destroyed, and not be so fortunate in making
such hair-breadth escapes... Stirling Journal.