Star.
London, England, 1815-06-13 00:00:00

PILICL SIXPENCE-HALIPISNNI.

The Report of the toinipittee on the idsh Made Wines BIK
was brought op and armed to. • .
tie:•eral Petitions were prevented (rent Parishes ill MAW 112.4
azaiust the Poor Remuial 13:U.
NtlY PO3T-nkiict.. .

On•the Order of the Day for the further inkrlgern:
tion of the Repoit of the Post•ollice Bill, and its
re vornmitment being mored ,
Mr. H. SUMNER repeated lt:s turmer objectloni
to the measure, and contended; that the ptiblic ii cold
by no Mean: be hmeiited iy it. He oblected to the
t thing the money lroM the 'Orphans' Tuna, whi..4
• had already supplied lur local improvements marlir
XfXT,OO(,?.
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Sir JA!.:ES CRAW conterldeci that there wat ng
pitblic fund from which the pr, portion cF the eipence
to be borne by the City, towards t 1.4! New Post-Ofnc,t,
could be t.:!:eti with so midi proprlet• es frotit. Oug-
ht question. Ile was of opini.:m that the Sentiirteuts
of the Honourable Gentlemh.n were calculated to
mislead the, Wine.. •nq 4endcd the. C;ity. again*
the charge of want cf'attentiOn to; the interests of
this fund, and that of ntak;og the Mst.otfice bii ii.
ir-4 a job, by which a*llatiou it had been charace
I tented.

Mr. G RENFELL defended v.n trout-able'. P 4•
:onet (Sir, W. Curtis) against some observatinns re-
specting his office of Senior Alderman, and Receivex
of the Coal Dnties. He also et:peated. 'the on
he had p;cv!ously advanced against the Bill.
Sir W.. CURTIS explained the gre..t attention
which the duties of his of lice ITT:h.:he The Orilittns'
Fund, he conefndA, WAS a fund of improvem ,
and was most comcientiously applied. Govethm
had great an interest in the /tiew Post-Offite as tht
City had. He desct ibed the numerous improvensent
that had ul heel-ems been made in the pti,.lte bu i.
ings of the City, out of their own funds, partictilarly •
those of their streets.
Mr. BA ICING was ccineincel thin whatever the;
'Honourable Baronet (sir W. Curtis) had had to •Irs
with the Orphans' Fund, had, like every other trans;
action of his life, been conducted with the strictest.
honour. But he coul:1 not let the subject pais with•.
out again entering his protest against the wanton an
unnecessary expehditute of =rimy on the Building o
the new Post-Odice. Th,•re was no d,,Ubt that
' was intended to prolong the they upon coals, in ender
to replenish the Orphans' Fued, and make up for the
money to'be taken from it. Tile Lity of tor doe
im-
posed these duties nut only upon the City of West-
minster, but also on the country for thirty or forty
mills round ; and this tax, altogether objectionable,.
was laid upon people who had no interest in the ire-.
provements to Which it was applied. The Honour-
able Gentleman then repeated all the objections he had
made against the Bill in' its different stages. It,
seemed at if the Treasury ossraowed with nsopsy,
at'id that Government was looking about to see how
it could be expended. Something h:tween and
£f)0,000 bad been spent upon the present
within the last ten years, and before much of the
niottar was hardly dry, the same p‘.lseris who a
thus enlarged it, came to Parliament to apply to have
it pulled down and Mrit, at an expence of 600 or
,x %'OO,OOO. The buildings-as they now sin ,d mere in
gootrvpair, and p:rfectly alecpeoe to the spprposes
to which they tyre devoted. The I lonourabie Gen-
tleman concleded with moving, s.s an amendment,
that instead of now," the 11,use go into the Com-
mittee this day three months."
Mr. H. .s"•,me ea and Sir Jean's Sir 'tn. erplained.
After a few II,Oli!"; 110;11 Lord COMPTON, the 11 use
divided—For the ismeadnient 35—Against it 45
Majority 50.
The House then went into the Committee, wheti
Mr. H. &Next' proposed an amendment to the
clause relitive to the Committee for eupetheending
the building. IC was, that instead-of the names of
the I.lrd Myor, Aldermen, and Common Council
of the City of London, he substituted quite of the
Members for London, Westatinster, and the four
counties of MiddL:ser, Surrey, Essex, and Kent.
On this a divi-ion took place -eFor the amendment,
15 against it, 62: majority, 47.
A. conversation then ensued between Mr. Batumi,
Mr. LUSIIINGTON, Mr. GOLIGON, Mr. H. SUM.N Lit;
and the CHANCELLOR of the 1::;CIIEQUEll, resrecting
diffetent clauses, in which some amendmersts were
proposed end agreed to.
" Mr. GORDON asked across the table. whither it
WAS the intention of Ministars to lay before the I.lonse
the complete plans and estileat.:s of the proposed-
edifice ?

The CHAHCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
dnsvrered, that h would not be possible to producte
them belay the.nest Session of ParliAtneCt.
Mr. H. SUMNER, thought, that under these cir.
cttrastances the business ought to he suspended, as $
much greater space of ground might be clbafied•thau
would he wanted.

Mr. GORDON was sure that nothing Hie a' ebi:'
rect plan or estimate was yethefoie the House there
wets nothing but an outline of a giotind-planpf with
pencil-rketch of an ele#ation, which did not even
;hew Whether 'the building was to be two, three, or
four Kos ies high. '
Mr. B KES was of opinion, that an area consi.
derably less than that in the estimate would be suffi-
ciently extensive.
Some further observations were offered ky Mr.
BUTTERWORTH, Mr. BARING, Mr. Gomm', and Mr.
Peontestos ; after which,
Mr. H. SUMNER restated his objections to the
Bill. That business which had been so well conduc.;
ted on an area of 2.5,000 feet, might be satisfactorily
transacted on one of 4.0,000; and to this extent the
scite of the present Post (Mice might be enlarged,
by taking the round between Sherbourne-lane and
Abchurch-lane, which could be obtained for thirty-
five thousand pounds. A great fancy seemed tops
vat! in favour allaying the officers of the new arab.
lishment on the ground-floor, And taus, of coorsp,
caused a 'greater spice to be required than amok(
otherwi,e be nee( scary. It had been asked, is the
alumna iinwhich the bags were to. be -

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