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remained, but provision had been made for those by
Parliament on the revenue of the year.
Mr. GRENFELL expressed his satisraction at the
intelligence given by the Right Ho:i.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER

had always 'expressed his readiness to- take up the
-subject of the balances of public numoy. but Isecould
not do it without the concurrence of the liaak, s‘ho,
on the present occasion, he was happy to be able fo
state, bad volunteered their aid.

Mr. GIitNFELL was glad that his object bad
been attained any how.
Mr. PETER `•1OORE repeated his former argu-
plint, that the three millions lent by the Bank with-
out interest were taken-out of the public money, since

they were lent on condition that the balances ef
money, amounting to no less than eleven millions,
"should lie left in the hands of the Bank. • The Chan-

cellor of the Exchequer had now shewn what use
could be made of those balances. Ile had sheivn
that what was deficient in one department was paid

out of the Surplus of another-4N°, 7[o, from. •the
*CharceTor of the Exchequer and' various pads .qf the
HOiirej?—But i►istead of issuing five minibus for the
service of 'the Armt•, achy did he net take them from
those 'balances ? He was however, that his
Majesty's Exchequer seemed to have at last come to
their senses,. and to have commenced to make a

proper and economical tre of the grants made by the
Howe, alwayg liberally, and dfter, pi-ofusely.
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
wished to correct a misapprehension which die Ho-
nourable Gentleman seemed to have made. He (the

Chancellor of the Exchequer) had never said that the
surplus of one department had been applied to the
service -of anoth"r. However proper or economical
such a plan might be, •it would not be authorised,
and he shoilld-Aerefore consider it t breach of his

duty. All that the. Executive Government had con-
sidered itself at liberty to do, was to apply any part
of the sums granted by Parliament for any service,
and which might remain tinexhalistcd, to that parti-
cular service, beyond the time for which it had been
voted.—The Resolution was then agreed to. The
House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be
brought up tO-morrow.

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• FEILIttI4 ♦VI]ILNAOEtIEs.
Mr. LAWSON, pursuant to his notice, rose to
call the attention of the House to the state of the Jaw

as it respected wild animals reclaimed from their
original barbarism and natural ferocity—(A laugh).
He was aware that he might be exposing himself to
some degree of ridicule by leading the Flouse into
'such a discussion. There were Honourable Gentle.

men on the other side of the House, whom, however,
he did nct then see in their places, who, from their
manner cf treating his observations on a recent occa-
sion, might perhaps alledge that he had undertaken
this subject from a fellow feeling, being himself of
the ferine species. It was very far from his wish, he
could assure them, to increase the number of penal
enactrpents, or add to the severity of a code, against
which the sentiments of the public were now so loudly
proelaimed. He had not been hunting through the
volumes of our erimhal jurisprudence for the pur-
pose either of•tilling up chasms, or lopping off exu-
berances.. Hehad. been induced to submit his pre-
sent proposition, not by any_ impatience to become
a legislator, but because he thought the law de-•
fective .in this' particalar case. At a late trial
during the last -Assizes-at -Hertford, a Man was in-
dicted for stealinga number of tame ferrets (a laugh).
Ihg,Ltiry:fpund,isim Gttlty-; but the case being re-
forredtcObe:Judges, who were just equal in number
but who: hid not the advantage of being
'rtarved- into unanimity, they unanimously agreed,
that ferrets being animals-fens natty te, • no property
.could be held in them, and that the stealing of them
was not..pu.nishable.. Those Hon. Members. who lived
much in the country, and were conversant with rural
economy; innsile. well acquainted' with the extreme
viefUltiess-of this animal rn the destruction of that
noxious, Odious, and disgusting teptile, the ra..:—(A
laugh.)—lt bad been said by the Poet, that all things
wete created for the use and delight of man, and it
was well known that the rat itself, base and ferocious
as it 'Was, might be rendered tame, and be so domes-
ticated as to rum f're»i one side of 11th house to the
other with Mc tetmnci dorility(Hear, tad Ihtighter.)—
The animals in Polito's Menagerie were also, in
his opinion, deserving of legal protection, though
by no means so useful as the ferret—(Hear, hear.)—
They served, however, as practical illustrations of
natural history to the young of the rising generation
of both sexes. To steal a lion, at present—an act of
which he certainly did not recollect any. instance—
(A laugh), was no larceny, and yet it would be a libel
on that noble beast to say that it was of a base cha-
racter. lie proposed, therefore, to include in his
Bill all animals reclaimed from their savage nature,
and subjected to the use of man. Badgers and mon-
keys had their useful qualities, and if they themselves
were not often stolen, it could not. be denied in this
age of fePpery, that many Stole thcir faces, .anticks,
and gestures. His object would be, to punish the
offence of. stealing; them by seven years transporta-
tion, Or by whipping, at the discretion of the Ses.
;ions. The receivers of them when stolen, should, he
thidght, be subject to the same, not.a greater pu•
Aliment, as was' sometimes the ptictice in other
catg • With regard to their. hecOminrg nuisances,
lie: considered the law. to be quite effectual upon
anal should auk, therefore, „intro-
duce any.,,new
.with reference to it.--
He dial not 'Coast of Possessing any squeamish or
iffibrbid iensbility, but he coin not sec property of
thii•kind in a diffeitnt state with respect to its pro-
tection by the law.from any other, and he knew that
then miters of it ,as well. as their.families depended
on its securitytwilhoutheing antionsao see that pro-
teCtion'extended.to them. He moved, therefore„ fir
koave•t4ttstii4g in sr Bill'for the purposta he lad

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;....mThe ATIVItI4EYAGENERAL.aftersonIe pitie,
seconded .thtmotiop, ip. order,to bring . the subject
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.fpirly,:hefgre the liouse. . . .
" • The Galter7Was then clearqd; bat the motion was
nekltified without i divistOn:* - -
......04. ogr remhdtnlasione•Mr.,LAioiilitints nn Elilip, SAO:Mils.
Anktis..l%Lutiou on 44 iNbject oi tlie:Trialby 4tutte. ..
- --Ni'. p3iponed his .melloi!rclative to the Came Lawni
41011tVeti ti I oglionow. . • • .
, ..Illotietrwit then given by the,Arrimry-gattattah so( kis. Jo.
itiltA.Zt Twestfdt ,c'e.k.‘l,llt, to move for leAvz to bring in i
BM to ilipea thli braixti.vt the 11;innItnt Lai.. - -
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*um u..,...y OVA, the Surtetn Lays within which 11%ctica Pc-
AithilAtictitiCtit titscuted, would expire. -.Ad'------ ' •

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