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months of the year in !heir circuit of investigation, and yet they re-
ceived 1,000/. a yr:.r each.

The SPEAK EH explained, and ssid that this vote
' was fOr a grant moved for the first time. This r.ia for thr index
made by Mr. Carlisle, to the fourteen I:eports Isom !fte
Commissioners, and. he was sure he did not nevirate -that vatilts'
when he said it was most valuable. There would be no-necessity
for more than a second index to an equal number of volumes, and,
therefore. the vote could not he annual or continued.
Mr. Secretary YELL detended the • Commissio.ners.
It was true that they were only engaged, with their Circuit for four,
months, but then the remaining months of the year were fully oc-
copied in arranging and considering the information they bad
acquired. To prove that there was every disposition on his part to
diminish the expense of the Commission, 'he had not attempted to
fill up two vacancies which had occurred amongst the ten Com•
missioners—(Cheers).
Mt. HUME explained; and after a few words from
Mr. Sec. Psta., the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow.
Mr. Secretary PEEL gave notice that, on Monday
next, he should move the adjournment of the House.
Mr. HUME soggeated to the Right Hon. the Secre-
tary for the Home Department that a limit ought to be put to the
expense entailed upon the country by applications fur papers that
were not accessary to a... Roiling the information which ilonoorahle
Members desired. lle thoulAt that :rime measures Might he taken
for providing at the public departments all the information which
might probably be required iii ordinary discussions. lie thought,
too, that every Member should pay fur the printing of his ri-
ll/ft papers.

A 'gamma—Pay for your own.
Mr. HUME—I-le certainly would ;-for if he did not
himself, he could not with any countenance watch others, as it Was
his intention to do.

Mr. S cretary PEEL would be happy in supporting
any thing which should reduce the hulk of that mass of papers
which nuw overwhelmed, instrad of wi-isting them.

CORPoiLATZ reND,

Mr.GURNEY said. that it the Right lion. Secretary
for the Home Department did not, next Session, bring forward
some measure to prevent the misapplication of Corporate Funds. he
should feel it his duty to do so. It nothing was done, we should
have Petitions from every great town in the kingdom, in such lan-
guage as would make them be heart.

Atter a tew wind, Crum Mr, Hume, the House adjourned at a
Q,ll/11ITNIt 10 NINE. •

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

The Fourth Report of the Committee pe Finance, like all the pre.
ceding Reports, furnishes. abundant twidence of the Committee'
diligence-, research, and knowledge... ,
The Committee begin by inquiring into and stating the amount
of the income of the country tor the la-st five years. They state
the surplus income fur that period, and. comparing it with the sums
applied to the reduction of the National Debt, ascertain that the
surplus income has fallen short of the amount of the Sinking Fund
by nearly seven millions. •
The Committeetben present a view of the gross produce of the
four great branches of the revenue for thelaat five years, and as it
would have continued if no change of duties had been made ; from
which produce they deduct the amount of the duties.repraled during
that time. They show the total amount of the revenue after such
deduction, and then lay before us the actual produce of the revenue,
in order ro show the increase-on each year by increased consumption,
which increase has been considerable and progressive, being above
two millions and a half last year beyond the increase of 1824.
This is most encouraging ; rind the Committee very justly observe.
, that " notwithstanding the occurrence of extraordinary circum-
stances, the revenue has manifested in each of its principal branches
striking evidence of undiminished productiveness, such as can only
be ascribed to a state of general wealth and industry in the country."
The Coemettee pursue the same examination with respect to the
expenditure for the last five years—they state the Amount of the
fixed charges, and the application of the remaining expenditure, they
dwell upon the increased expenditure fur the Army, Navy, and
Ordnance, since 1825. _ _

The Committee eater largely into a view of the Public Debt and
Sinking Fund, and propose that the sum of three millions be an-
nually applied to the Sinking Fund ;.but that if the eventual annual
surplus should not amount to three millions, the deficiency ought
not to be supplied by borrowing. They are also of opinion, that all
funded debt redeemed by the application of the real surplus of
revenue should be cancelled. That surplus may be employed ha
t►a extinction of unfunded as welras bf funded debt.

The Report concludes in the following most sitisfactory manner :
" The Committee having thus .submitted their view of the im-
portant subjects to which, in this Report, they have drawn the at-
tention of the House, bave only to add, that while,they are deeply
impressed with the conviction, that in the present state of the Pub-
lic Finances, a severe economy in every branch of the National
Expenditure is imposed as a sacred duty upon the Government and
upon Parliament, they drive from their inquiries the strongest
confidence in the resources of the cpuntry to full all its entrilfe•
menu, and to maintain, unimpaired, its high station in the world.".