The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-08 00:00:00

ROUSE OFCONIiNION.;.

Pe litions ,svvrr prosented from tit,P Niervitants
and Manttfattuters •of Morden, Huntley, and 3losselburgh,
and Six other places, against making any alteration in the pre.
sent System octhe Scotch Currency.
JURORS' BILL. •
Mr. W. WYNN moved the Order of the Day for receiving
the Report of-the Jurors in India Bill.
Mr. HUME confessed be felt it desirable that the Right
Hon. 'Gentleman ,Should introduce a regulation_ tor constituting
'Juries in Ititlizr, sin eases were olFentes were committed by !tn.
tish dr Whites againar.Natives, of a_proportionate number of
Black or Natives, as-Well as English.
Mr.- W. WYNN said a distinction hal always been drawn
between British•subjects ant! Natives; the latter were not held
by the existing law to be entitled to all the privileges of British
subjects, so far as to sit nu a Jury impannelled to try a British
subject.• Indeed it Would be scarcely politic to permit a Jury
p:utly ormithommedarn to try a Chri- tiara, tltimplaints it was
true had been made of the exclusion of half Castro being ex-
cluded from sitting juront, and those complaints had been
deemed Worthy of -consideration by the Government, both at •
home and abroad. The admission of Indian Mabonimetlan mt. ,
tires to sit onAt jury and tri-Cliristians,:was in his mind almost
Unot. altogether impracticable under the present system of go-
vernment in India. •

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Aft•r a tbw wards from. Mr. W. smith, Mr. W. Wynn, hi
expiation, 31r. Hume and JrTrant, the Report was rrc
read, and the Bill ordered to. be read a third tittle on Monday
next. •

• SCILLY ISLES.
Ah. MIME prorated
petition tront certaalnhabitants of
that an inquiry should be instituted
into the appropriation of certain sums of money granted by
Parliament, under the sanction of the recommendation of his
Majesly's-51thisterst, for the express purpose of improving the
Condition and resources of those Islands.—itcad and ordered to
lie on the table.

. COMMITTEE 'CL)I THE CIVIL LIST BILL.
'The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved 'that
the House should resolve itself into a Committee on the Civil
List Bill, for the. purpose of taking into their consideration the
Res°littion submitted .to the Committee last night, for granting
a salary of 5000/. annually to the person holding the office' of
President of the Board of Trade.
Mr: HUME rose to Inquire whether the Right Hon. Gentle-
man had yet ascertained whether he had means for supplying
this new salary to an officer hitherto unpaid by the country,
without increasing its burdens at s period when, all classes felt
peculiarly the necessity of increased economy. If that assist.
mice could not be given hint, he should oppose the Speaker's
leaving the Chair. In fact it would be little short of dishonesty
in the House to consent to tho creation of a new salary without
this assurance. No spendthrift even would presume to set up
a new carriage to please hie turn for extravagance without first
inquiring-where thC.Money ,was to come front to pay foiNh. He
for his past could have no manner of of to lt, tbr instance
if it were taken nut of the enornmus revenues of the Bishopric
of Durham—(A laugh.)—Those revenues were granted for re-.
ligirms.ohjects and.purposes, very different indeed front those
to which they were now applied, and were never intended 'to
make any one man so preposterously rich at the expence of an
injured canimunity.
The CHANCELLOR of. the EXCHEQUER observed,
that whatever connection therit Wight he between the Offices of
Treasurer of the Navy and Pcesident of the Board of Trude,
there could-be no poisible connection except in the Honourable.
Member's Mind, between the 4alary of the President of the
Board of Trade and the over,glyWn Revenue of the deceased
Bishop.--(A laugh.)—lndeed nothing would astonish his Right
Hon. Friend more than ,to hear front any doe that it walfr /40-
posed he'should receive his foture salary out of the spOils of
the Bishoprick. He could see no object th3t would be attained
by discussing the subject on the motion for the Speaker's
leaving the Chair. The disett,ision. would be much more in
place in the Committee, and iftlte Hon. Member would permit
him to go into the Committee, and resume there the subject, be
would be equally at liberty- to enter into the detail of his rea-
sons for «.,;;4ting to the. proposed Resolutions.—(Cries .Of
Hear, hear!)

3lr. RU3tE consentetl to withdraw his oppesition to going
inta a Committee, and,tbe Motion watt agreed to.
PRESMENT OP'THE BOARD OF TRADE.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in the Com-
mittee then moved a rerole9sit, similar to that of the preced-
ing evening, for granting's 4,000/. a year to the Pre-
sident of ttte Board of Trade
Mr. H U3IE re-stated his'llbjection to the Resolution
briefly. -
The CHANCELLOR of th€ EXCHEQUER began by,
assuring the Hon. Member thy there was rum ground whatever
for the supposition that by thpi grant the House war' indirectly
sanctioning the continuance at a large salary of a sinecure office,
namely, the Treusurship of the Nary. That office, he assured
him, was any thing but a sit3eeure. Its ("mita consisted not
only in a reference to him of sit payments ors account of the
NaTy, and a chain of responsibilities for all the officers in the
'different offices under hint, tut his duties had been much Ins
creamed of late years by the additional labour required at his
hands in protecting the interests of Reasnen's legatees, wives,
and children, who, until tioteeregulations as to s,,unett's wills,
were constantly made a sscrifice to an infamous and worthless
race of wretches who plutaler the sailor ." relatives by every
species of abominable fraud—(len? !)—of that property which
never had been designed for their benefit. On such subjects
there was naturally a gref4 deal of
inquiry necessary, and he
had known a long and- tedious investigation take place be-
fore the Treesorer coild feel himself justified in paying to a
claimant a paltry sum of twenty shillirge without prejudice,
perhaps, to some poor family in a distant part of the king-
dont. It WWI true that . almost any office might be madesinecure by the prtricipid, if be chose, or could safely resign
the dutitar to deputies, and neglected the (+urge reposed in
him, A comparisen bad been drawn between this office and
the Paymastership of the Navy, but it should. be reeol.
lected that office imposed no responsibility for the money,
so paid as this did. If the House thought fit to impose
on this ()Mier the duties of the Treasurer, then it would
only be right' the Haase should c infer on him, with this new
pecuniary and moral responsibility, an incrtitsed salary equal to
the duties'of the rt:splsnsibility. It never could be expected to
be done at the protest Navy of LOW. a-year which he held,
and so far that which the Hon. Members opposite- wanted,
ni""IY, a saving of the public money, could not be obtained.
Now he confessed he wits not prepared, RR soon as time question
of salary as to this otlide war mooted, to extinguish another
office merely because it happened to beheld by the same person Whose income was the subject of eonsideration, Although, the
office of. Treastirer hart been very m e
.much mitted in 17112, such
an idea had neVer even entered Mr. Burkela ht-ad. The re-
sponsibilities of this office were.very considerable.; italetal he
had, when in that eitteition himself, felt them to be both
onerous and alarming, for one tine morning he wall inro„ned
that n person in the office had abecontied and gone to America.
leaving hirn responsible in hi Attie property for 26,000/.---( A
laugh.!--And.spon tietesSuothet quitted this life by cutting his
throat with his oWn hand, with a deficiency in his uceoents to
the amount ef,tO Vour
.Here tie was made liable to between