The Sun.
London, England, 1816-02-21 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A nets SVnt Was oetlavit fu'r dm City of Crottae, in to.
totnu of Mr. Fativitt.

Sir O. LLal4tK.st wit ,untice that to-morrow week l►e. would
more for teary; tab .bgijig,iti a, Bill. fur the better prisurtini
unifirrmity in n rikitt. and Measures.
ritu Ererhoid •Estattiatil I *as read a third time- runt pasted.
The House weut into tt. Cutatittltre tut the Tonnage Duties
Aet.-;-The ItesOluti.ins Were :weed to.
The Bank LO3ll UM 'WRY mead a first aid ordered tb bi read
a second tints to,innrrow, '

KENNET A.Mi.AVON• CANAL. • •
On the motion by• Mr. C. DUASDAS, for tile se.
coed _reading of the Kennet an,. Avon
Mr. LOCKHART contended thia there was no
Parliaments ry grOnnd tov.thelue.isure, and moved,
that instead of the word 'e now," the Bill be read
a stecoiul time '' this day Sig ErfOnths."
Mi. DICKENSON also spoke against the
Mr. C. DONDAS supported the . • '
Mr. PEEL unposed the measot on the satni
grounds as the preceding speakers, contending
that tb public had no, benefit from it: If thflt
pt-;ticiple were• established, the Proprietors of
.every Canal iii Ireland wouttlinive the same right
oleppeal, as there was scarcely one of those C.
oafs that afforded a shilling profit.
Mr. Nevt‘t.s, 'Mr. PROTHEROe, and Mr. Gott"
boN also opposed the Bill, which was subsequently
lost by a majority of 81 to 17.
Mitt or AonteuvrvriE.
Mr. WESTERN postponed his motion on the
State of the Agricultiire of the count' y., to Thurs -
.day se.nnight; the 29th instant. lie also moved
for an Account of all Monks received as Pears'
Rates, in the seVetal Parishes of lingiolia and
%Wes, f,at the year Putting the sth of March,
1815. Ordered..

INCREASE or SALARIES.
toed-Joust Rusent,t. ',rose, to move for an Air•
count of the Sa110;3 received by the Commis.
'loners and other Officers of the Board of Cue-
toms and Excise of London, sta.ing, if any, or
what angmentation had been made to the same,
since the Ist of Janitary, 1815.
Mr. 13nouanAm, before the question was put,
wished to be infoilited whether tiny angineutatiort
had been
. made in the salaries of Officers of the
!Lich e t mployed on hoard revenne cutters, and if
no, sunder what authority ? Also, whether there
were any Treasury minutes or correspondence rut
the subject of increase- of saFiries between the
Treasury and the
_Officers of the Bonilla of Cus-
toms and Excise, previous to the,lst Jail. 1816
Sir CnAn Monett wished to know whrther'iwy
engmentation had been made to the salaries of the
Officers of the Navy Board.
The CnAsCuwat of the. Excqatwaa slid .not
see how such qttestions as these could be answer-
ed, without his }giving offence to those Oentle7
men whose interrogatories of a similar kind hi
had,deelined answering already.
Mr. HottNßlt.---Althemgh Ministers refused to
give information to simple questions, on the plea,
of their privilege toWithhold it unless demanded
by a motion, he would suggest to them to stop in
their. mode of proceeding; end prevent the-rept-.
tition of Such questions,. by coming dowit,to the
House at one:e• with an account of all they 4ot
chute in the u=liy of the pledged retrenchment, anel
what they iron! daily been cutting , off since the
pledge was given, in order that the public might
know. if they %vete really redeeming the pledge.oc
not.

Lord CASTLEREAGH deprecated this mode of
perpetual questioning. , His Majesty's Govern-
ment, as .the Hon. Member might or ought to
know, bird a (ay imposed on -them by Act af:Par-
liatnent, to render such accounts to the House by
the 25th of March. Instead, therefore,- of thu
public service being benefited: by such questions,
as to not only•witat -had been clone, but what Wall
likely to be clone, min contemplation of doing, the
Uott. 11.1eMber Lutist• feel, that they can be of no