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his toiljeity's government had made reductions in all the depart-
, lients,. '1 he office of..l4ent..General of Ordnance was retained be-
, Mee it W.. 3 considered necessary. What were the duties of that
office? Why, they were most important, and they would not do their
duty if they impaired theservice of the country. They did not vindi-
retethe maintenance of the office for patronage, but from a know.
iedge that it was necessary for the public service. He denied that
the government looked, as the hon. baronet had stated, to the
mrtice in the days of Sir R. Walpole. The hon. gentleman had
said that the office was retained to support the influence of the
creel,. He left it to the house to consider whether the appointments
to the eke had not been dictated by 11 desire to reward in peace
.hose who had made themselves most conspicuous in war.—(hear.)
The cir,ce becoming vacant its 1822, by the death of Sir Hildebrand
1. it was given to Lord Hopetoun. It was not considered a
slner.-re. Lord Hill took It nest, then Lord Beresford. It was
tt yen to Sir George Murray, and after that pliant officer to Sir H.
Clieven —(hear, hear.) a
Mr. C. GRANT said the right hon. gentleman had been elo-
quently silent upon the real point of diFirssion, namely, the utility of
the office. Every other topic had been introduced—they had been
treated with a display of the heroic exploits of the Duke of Wellington,
and certainly no one could feel more respect for that noble duke than
he did, hut he felt the encotnium bestowed on that occasion quite
...r.,,cessary. Then in eulogium was expressed with respect it) the
illustrious officers who had filled that office. Every heart beat in
waiters upon the service of these great men, but it appeared to be a
sort of presumption to dispute the diets= of the Duke of Welling.
ton. He admitted the authority of the Doke of Wellington, and
that of the right honourable gentleman, but that house amid re.
cut every argument which declared any pester to be greater than the
power possessed by the house itself.--(Hear, hear, hesr.)—.on the
use of the office he would say, that there could be no doubt of the
efficacy of it, if the Master-General of the Ordnance was absent.
At the time the Duke of Wellington gave his evidence upon the ne-
cessity of the office, he had been absent from it six months at the
Congress of Vienna. lie agreed with his honourable friend
te^,t the question derived great importance from the distress of
:ee c: entry. There never was a period at which that house had
i3e'') •o narrowly wa:ched. Every member in that house was closely
...,:Klted. Such was the march of intellect and intelligence, that in
a ,tor: time after their decisions, all they did was canvassed all over
re eswntry, not only by the enlightened classes, but the labouring
Commissioners were then engaged upon the task of seeing
Rat might be reduced in the clerks' salaries; and he might ask,
hat would be the public opinion, if the clerks were reduced or dis-
charged, and this useless office of lieutenant-genend suffered to re-
main ? He should support the amendment.
Colonel WOOD opposed the amendment. No man could
deplore the general distress of the country more than he did,
but his opinion was that distress was giving way.—(A cry of
"Where ? where ?") He could name one place, Mark-lane. Upon
the whole he considered it necessary for the public service.
Mr. C. W. WYNN could not avoid stating, as shortly atipossi.
ble, the opinion he entertained. He admitted that economy was ne-
cessary, but the best economy was to provide for the efficient per-
formance of duties necessary for the public service. When he found
the opinion of the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of An.
glesey favourable to the office, he did not know how to abandon it.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he liked a strong and an united govern-
ment, and, as long as such a government acted boldly, it would
have his cordial support. But cashiering was in fact become
the order of the day. Sir W. Clinton, Sir C. Wetherell, and
others, were dismissed, and that for a manly exercise of their re-
presentative character.—(Hear.)—But his main position was not
yet answered ; and he defied It to be answered satisfactorily to the
public. He meant to east no slur upon the government, but to be
strong it should he bottomed upon public opinion, otherwise the go-
vernment would have to deal with a different manorial. Hear.)
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when a division took
place—
For the resolution
Against it
Majority —76
Upon our return to the gallery we found the house proceeding in
committee, when several resolutions were agreed to, and the report
was ordered to be received on Wednesday next
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house
adjourned at One o'Clock.

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The Resolutions which Lord KING brought forward in
the House of Lords last night, for the avowed purpose of
placing upon their Lordships' journals a statement of the
views which he took upon the CORN LAWS, are well
worthy of public attention. The speech, in which he ex-
plained those views, is distinguished not less by the per-
spicuity of its details, than by the sound principles which
it asserts ; and the positions advanced by his Lordship
appear to us perfectly irrefutable. In pointing out the
prejudicial operation of the Corn laws, and the manner
in which they affected those profits which he consi-
dered the best criterion of national prosperity, Lord
LLs c observed, that—" The level of profit on all ca-
pital was determined by the return for capital em-
ployed in the cultivation of the least productive soils : if,
therefore, bad soils were cultivated, the profit on capital
was reduced. What, then, were the disadvantages to
which the country was exposed by the Corn Laws ? In
Great Britain, coals, machinery, and capital, gave great
advantages ; and the produce of four Englishmen might
ho said to be equal to the labour of eight Russians. Why
not, then, exchange the produce of the labour of the
four Englishmen for the produce of the labour of the
eight Russians ? If, on the other hand, English labour
were exhausted upon the cultivation of bad soil, the

result must be less beneficial in proportion to the bad-

noes of the soil and the quantity of the labour. He—
Lord KlNG—was satisfied that if English landlords
knew their true interests, they would admit foreign
corn without restriction, and allow every thing fair play.
It was said, indeed. that the Corn Laws were established
for the protection .
,of the landed interest ; but if that word
" protection" were followed through the history of this,
and other nations, it would be cecina:that it meant only
oppression and checks to industri.• In France industry had
been checked from the time of COLE ZIT to the present.
The history of Spain was nothing but a history of op-
preision,miscalled protection. Little Holland was the
only country where the system bad not been adopted;
and where, accordingly, industry had met its just re-

ward. England bad been 'injured by supposed protec-
. Lions ever sincs.the reign of CHARLES 11. and the Corn
Caws had been a most fruitful source of f011y.".-In the
discussion of snob a question—and in such an assembly—
it is not less rentarkabie than chseriag, to find bow in-
telligibly the voice of *Oar opinion at length begins
04 fek, end tmilerstood—within doors, ;
. is well es without.. 1,44 Kuro bore testimony long
siti; tb the progress 'of the' ." larch *et s" eat