The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-12 00:00:00

NEW POST-OFFICE.

Sir W. Cut:Tt• moved that the Report of the
Committee on the application for additional n►eans
to go ou with the New Post•ollice, should be
referred to a Committee of /he whole llouse.

;Ir. 11. S Nt tt reminded the hose that the
sum of 240,0001. had already been expended in
(fearing a sre for the New Post Office ; and now
those who bad dime this wanted 100,0001. more,
out of which 33.0001. was to be spent in debts
already contracted, mill the sum called for was to
tie (Ih-fitted on the Orphans' Fund. Thar Food
lii' id by a tax On coals and etilm btooght to
the font Of London. A duly of I3s 41, was thus
paid nu every chaldrou of coals, and thcs the
100,0001. would add alio' her shilling. The esti-
mates on which the 240,0001. had been expended
be had objected to at the time, but it bad been
contended that tilt y Isere must accurate ; and
now on the authority of those oho had trained
them, aid who hi) ptoved out in their calcula-
tions by neatly forty per ceiv., they were called
tipoti te, seittelion the raising of another 100,0001.
lie 0101,01 the !loose would ill do its duty it it
itterred the Repoli before it to a Committee of
ti.e whole lion-c, while the details could not be
examined ; be tbeiefore moved as an amendment,
tkat it should be reteried to a 'elect Committee
to examioe the accounts of the expeneitute al-
ready in.ctirred ; and the estimates 011 which the
additional 100,0001. was !Nulled.
Sir TV. Cosecs believed every regard to econo-
my had been had in dispostog of the 240,0001. that
Lad been expended, but unfortunately, as hap-
pened in many other cases, the money woold not
go far enough. There was now, he believed,
some 30 or 40,0001. to be paid, but the business
having gone on so ler, ought not to stop where
it was at present.
. ides Alderman Woon said, the [lon. Member
for Surrey, on this as on many other occasions,
had taken -care to speak of the heavy duty oil
coals, which was paid to the Orphans' Food, and
bad said the 100,0001. now proposed to be tai,ed,
would add to the burden of which be complained.
Now the heavy duty complained of by the Hun.
Member, as about to be imposed, might cost his
constituents one shilling a head extra on their
coals,, but it would not he till thirty-three years
'hence. This burden would ,be incurred, to give
the people of Starry, as well as,the people of the
city, the benefit of a grand thoroughfare to the
North road. To the Orphan.' Fund, he must
remind the Hon. Member, that the Corporation
of the City of Loudon paid every year, while the
tax on coals eolith:tied, 12,0001. out of their
estates, so they were the only party that suffered
'materially front the duties so It-Nut:tidy made the
subject of complain,.
Alter a few words from the Chancellor of the
Excherper, - the ;3pralier, and Mr. 11. Sumner,
Sir W. Curtis withdrew his motion, and the report
was orderer' to he referred to the Elp.•
poitr ed to examine the accounts ColilleCted with
this subject.
Iwo Petitions were presented front the Agri-
culturists of Dorsetsbire, complaining of the dis-
tressed state of the Agricultural lotetest, and
praying, for an enciniry into the same.—Ordered
to lie on the table.

Petitions were also presented on the same sub-
ject Aierom I'Varwickshirc, the nL ighbourhood of
Feversham, Ashborne, and from vatious parts of
liient.7--Oidered to lie on the table.

FOURTH BARON of the EXCHEQUER in SCOTLAND.
The CLIANCRLLOR of the EXCHEQUER begged to
ask the Noble Lold (Lord A. Hamilton) if he
would put off his motion which stood for this day,
on the subject of the appointment of a
,Fourth
Baron of .the Exchequer in Scotland, on account
of the absence of a Noble Friend of his, who was.
then unavoidably absent, and who, it was not ex-
pected, would be able to come down to the House,
to-morrow, but who would probably be in his.
place on iNinnday.
Lord A. HAMILTON said, be would acquiesce
in the request of the ',tight lion. Gentleman, but
he trusted the motion would on Monday he al-,
lowed to take precedence of other business.

The CHANCELLoR of the EXCHEQUER thanked
the Noble Lord for his acquiescence, and said,:
as far as depended on Ministers, there would be
no objection to his motion taking precedence.
Lord A. HAMILTON had wished for the produc-'
lion of a copy of the appointment, and this he un-.
tlerstood, the Learned Lord (the Lord Advocate)
hail no objection to give. Others, however,.he
lad since learnt, might object to its b;:ing given,
end be should, therefore, frame his resolution so,
that with the general question on the merits of
the case, it should embrace the production or
ron-production of that paper. He begged to
say, it -the Noble Lord shoul►t not be- in his place
on ?dontlay, he gave no promise to consent to the
further postponement of the motion.
Admiral Llitlt VEY presented a petition for di.
viding the Quarter Sessions bet Ween Chelmsford
and Ipswich.—Ordeted to be referred to a Com-
nAttee.