Star.
London, England, 1817-05-08 00:00:00

THE BANK.

Mr. GRENFELL said, that accor (dog to a papa
usually circulated among the Bank Prvii, ~.e„ but
never laid by authority before th.it Hans', appeir„
ed that no inconsiderable number of elm— V..). nettled
were actually Aliens, or Foreigner,, ~,;e tLa
profited by the transactions of tiii• Bank. *4.111(.16:rd
the money of the people of England, 11:11+C real!ybe
astonished- it the extravagance of its t;,,verrimtat
and the improvidence of its Tar lia wont. '1 "e at,ject
of the motion was to ascertain what propprti.,,i of
those enormous profits which the II ink desired 'r
its transactions, and which were drawn hom the*.
lie purse, went out of the country into the poctels of
foreigners. He admitted it would be justitie til,:n.
allowing the proceedings of the Bank to be ..Iy
wrong, whether the advantages were shared by
tish subjects alone, or in conjunction with loreignfr.
It was no satisfaction to know that one Noble I.ord,
whom he could name, had been enriched, .41 the':
of April last, by a bonus to the amount of iebkvou,
and another Noble Lord, on the same occasion, re.
ceived between sixty and seventy thousand. But it
was ofet *onably an aggravation of the sputa,
and'att tavation of the evil, when no incon:ide.
Table. :lion of those profite went out ( f
contllrrktr the purpose of enriching foreigners.—
The, Honourable Member here alluded to the nor.
moue elsolunments which the Bank derived from its
transactions with Government: He trusted the e,:te!.
don would form a part of the inquiries of the C,i.:-
mittee now sitting to inquire into the finaners t tie
country, and- if they did him the honour of callus
him before them, he pledged himself to prose, to
the satisfaction of every Member of it, thit a sar'sg
of no less than £400,000 per annum might Le 'Ras.
ed by the adoption of a different system. /le :oc-
cluded by. moving, first, For an Aecouit of t:.e
Number of Proprietors of the Bank of England ca
the 31st March, 1817, distinguishing Alien Prepr t.
tors from British Subjects; secondly, For an A:.
count of the Aggregate Amount of Capital Stock is
the Bank of England, sheaving what propottiors to-
longed to British Subject, and what proportion t:
Aliens, up to the same period.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, be could not conceive any right whin th"t
Huse had to call for a return of the names of
reign Proprietors of the Bank. The policy of "
land always had been to encourage foreigners to
their capitals in our funds. Besides the returns,
granted, would prove fallacious, because a great
of property might be invested in fictitious
Considering.the motion as improper and
he should certainly give it his decided negative.
Mr. PONSONBY supported the motion, not
cananbe-distinctly understood for what
Honourable Friend made it, but because

sores good would result from it, judging
benefit which the country had already derived
thanaartions of his-Honourable Friend upon the

jut.' His Honourable Friend had saved the
more than £90,000 a-year, in consequence of
vestigations which he bad induced that House ,
dertake, and be knew no individual wbo had
formed an equal service to the nation.
Sir J. NEWPORT concurred in the opinion
'his Right Honourable Friend, as to the advantagn
produced by the former efforts of the Honoursole
-Member, and saw no reason for refusing to
the present motion.
Mr. MANNING said he could have wit,`ial
have heard some Parliamentary ground laid,
adequate argument urged, for the present
which he had not. He did not see any
good that could result from it, while, on the.
it might do mischief, by creating an alarm 1•
minds of foreigners, as to any ulterior procce6',
which the House might adopt. He objected tc
bpoa the principle that they bad no right to intake;
hist, at the same time, be had no objectit n to 04
that the proportion of profits derived 6) Amu'
very inconsider.ible.
Mr. GRENFELL, in reply, stated, that ther°".
portion of Alien Bank Proprietors was one-tent: a
the whole number. With respect to the profits"
joyed by the Bank, the House was prol- 4bly r.,
aware, that, during the last 20 years, th !Ir 4
vided, in addition to 7 per cent. upon tiler capita+
no less a sum than £25,000,000 sterling, by bow'
increase.of dividends, and increas..! of capital. rc.
profits were exclusively derived from its trantlim.
with Government.

The Motions were pnl and negatived.
NAVY BILLS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQL-L,
moveakfor k-ave to bring in a Bill for caahli7g
'fornsury w alter the interest on Navy Bills, w.trezi
paean was 4i.per cent., lie proposed to rye:-
Troasury.the power of regulating the interest Le
,nssin other Bills. The experiment ryas to be fc'r
ninths, and he calculated Ns, proposal woclJ
considerable saving to'thebOlisitty. in January, ,-` •
these Bills were, above '41,000,600 —tITY
A' 2,000 0 0 0 in 1814—in -January, !SIGs th.l
sttl,9oo.oUo—andi•ibtv they were eit360,04X).
Mr. YONSONpt wnuM not .oppose th.! 71,
but he wished to know .4 in the progress el t!..a

sal opportnnity would be afforded for considering the
vercled c!eht ?
Tr, CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
43, t .0, are that such would be the case, as hr
11,,z!:t there were many opportunities afforded for
independently of the present Bill.
PONSONDY had no wish to invite that dis-
cu„,..., but Merely wished to know if this was to be
c.oe?
A'ttr some observations from Mr. General. and
the CitaNcEhson of the EXCHEQUER, leave was given
wt.„./11., in the Bill.
DURATION or RLECTIONS.
Mr, C. IVYNN rose, pursuant to notice, to bring
fot„,rd h,s motion for the appointment of, is•orn-
mime to inquire into the :means of limiting the do-
-110 nrf Polls at Elections. Formerly, the matter
was 1,3 to the discretion of the Sheriff, who acted,
Illtstver, uader a responsibility to that House,
-if he
plittsesl it. It was then enacted that the Poll should
be kt:pt open until an hour had elapsed without any
r.er a
:Tearing. So many abuses were practised un-
-42r tl•st law, that it was afterwards found necessary
Declare that the utmost duration of polls should be
limited to fourteen days. It often happened, how-
ever, that great and expensive delays were created
by candidates who, though without any chance of
tatistre success, would sometimes protract the poll
to the fait hour. He had known an instance in a
pirough, where there were only 900 voters, and
r6ere the poll was kept open for ten day. It was
Lis opinion that some regulation upon the subject
is: very beneficially introduced. In the City
of Lo.ldon, for example, notwithstanding the voters
were 50 numerous. the time of polling was limited to
eight days, while every small borough bad a right to
burteen. It was to remedy the ineonveniencies which
were now felt that be had brought forward his re-
m motion. He concluded with moving the ap-
ron:talent of a Committee to consider of the best
mode of shortening the duration of the polls, together
sich the further regulation of Elections.
Mr. WILLIAM SMITH seconded the motion,
aid instanced the practical good effects of such a
measure by a reference to the custom of Norwich,
vhere, though the number of voters amounted to five
eximand, the election' was terminated in a day or a
any and a half.
The motion was carried, and the Committee ap-
pointed.

CASE Of MARY RYAS/.
Sir JAMES M.INTOSH. said, that at*, boor be
role, aqd from the appearance of the Houseche should
oidearour, in submitting the motion of which be bad'
given notice for that evening, to trespass very shortly
to its attention. As its object was to seek Or farther
information, he should have abstained as present
from any general remarks did not the transaction it-
s lE to the administration of law and to the

character of judicial proceeding. The case had oc.
,curred within a recent period in the City of London,
•and was, he presumed, known very generally to those
whom he addressed, and to the public at large: A
person of the name of Ryan was convicted, a Session
ur two pad, of highway robbery, at the Old Bailey ;
tbeciate of the indictment he did not know, nor of
the time when the report of the Recorder was made,
to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. It was
not considered, he presumed, a case where the inter.
terence of the prerogative of mercy could be applied,
and the sentence of death etas carried into eirecutioh
on Friday last. An attempt to effect the escape of
ner husband, by the wife, Mary Ryan, bad been dis-
covered, and for that offence, on the tossoona of the
day on w frith lie suffered the sentence of the law, the
wile was brought to the bar of Criminal Justice. To
cite a person under such circumstances to trial.lo,
call upon a human being. a woman too, under aA
those agonizing feelings, to make a defence to is
the already aggravated sufferings of her help-
less condition, by arraigning her for such as alleged.
crime, was one, he must say, of the most inde-
corous proceedings, and perhaps savoured mews of
the character of inhumanity in the exercise .of Bri-
-15,11 Jorispithience, than had ever before. *sea wit.,
nested in thai humane country—(Bear, hitsrikar.)...
It was, lie might be told, Strictly legal...she accuse•
ton was, and he• believed it was fully, borne eau by
the facts; but these admissions did not *wogs its
• character, because in the prosecution of the offence—.
sa the tone pi bitng ag it forward, a course was par.
sued in direct hostility to the spirit and principle of
every just Near, hear). There existed laws its
this and iu almost every country, which, if carried
into strict execution, were advlrse to the dictates of
justice itself, and therefore to enforce the one at the
"Pease and is violation of the other, would be to
convert that administration, which in its pure exercise
was the school of humanity and best source of moral
Instruction, into an instrument of deep-felt odium
and remorseless severity. punish domestic affe.c..
bon—to make war on the endearing charities of life
—to extinguish those ennobling peewees of the homes
temp that are the best solace in misfortune end the
strongest preservatives against crime, could never he
Worthy of the dignified character of the Magistrate
2nd Judge— (liar, beer). Who did oat peeelleet
.the case of Lady blithsdals, and applaud her eon.
PFal efforts to release her husband from the Tower
11. s any other feeling but that of approbation bees I
tziressed whenever that generous sacrifice was re.-
Etsted ? Was, then, that approving sympathy so
ger.erally bestowed upon the efforts of a Lady to
L3ll life, to be denied to a similar endeavour on
.ee part Of a humble and helpless woman, even
!•1 tlie lowest walk of society I—(Bar,
When he reflected that alter her efforts to release her
..esuanu were ineffectual, after mercy to him was
withheld, and the 4w was to take its course, the pro-
secution against wretched wife was not rehn-
'soished, he felt he could not trust himself with cow
Th:r.t,og on the character of those who pushed kr
ele conviction _(Near, hear,) even before the corpse
cr the husband was cold. At stub a moment to make
a detente 1 they :night with as much propeiety have
• demanded a defence from a maniac in the fartlikral
of her disease. It made little difference whether the-
victim was brought from a cell in Newgato or s cell.
la Bedlam. • There could be no trial, becaust
7, there,
111i1 be no deleure-and there could be noolfence•
• kfliuse the womai.Was not in the possession of that.
natural capacity which the principles of all law posit
• tit-i) ITt 111 d He trusted he should not hear eget
C 1.% tit the character of the woman—with lie was
*•.(111Y tiat2ttainted but of this he Was certain, that
toe Iciore unfortunate tho was, the stronger Was IA

tide to the protection of diet house—(Near, hear.)
It might be said that there was no fault in any quar-
ter, and that she regretted event was the result of in-
evitable misfortune. He need not assure the House
that he would be most glad to be so convinced.—
Candour, boweiter, compelled him to say, that he
was not to be satisfied in that view—(Neer; hear.)—
The proteedings in the case went to sliew, that this
unseemly and shocking spectacle might have been
prevented by a due foresight and vigdance. It was
unnecessary to inform the House, that the Officers
of the. Crown had a right to stop criminal proceed-
ings, not indeed capriciously, but in the exercise of
a sound and wholesome discretion. Theyhad the
power, in the language of the law, to entili.a Noll;
Prosegui in cases fit for the application—( Hear, hear). I
Was the present then not a case which, on the most
imperative grounds, called for its exercise ? He did
not believe that there ever existed in this country an
Attorney-General that would have withheld its appli-
cation, and most certain he was, that the good-na-
tured and humane man, who so recently filled that
office, would, if informed of' the circumstances, in.
; stantly have applied the remedy—(Hear, hear).—But
supposing that from the influence of some invincible
1 ignorance this remedy did not suggest itself to the
prosecutors, what objection was there to postpone
proceeding until the legal officers on the Bench had
communicated the circumstances to the Attorney.
General I It was said in explanation of the proceed-
lag, that, as it was the last day of the Adjourned
Session, to postpone the trial would have subjected
1 the woman to a much longer period of confinement.
That was very true. but a Nab Prosqui would, in 24
hours, have released the wretched woman for ever.—
He could never imagine that an English Lawyer
would have hesitated for an instant. She might then
have been enabled to pay to her departed husband
those rude honours which the ancient usage of her
country had hallowed in her affection, and her ina-
bility to discharge which so acutely aggravated her
distress. Should she ever return to that country, he
feared she had a tale to tell not the best calculated
to win the reverence, and to attract the gratitude of
its natives, to that exercise of British law, which,
when exercised in the mild and merciful spirit of its
insntutions, must ever excite the most profound ve-
neration and regard—(Near, hear.) And surely there
never was a country in which it watanore expedient
that those feelings should be diffused and excited—
never was there a moment more seasonable for their
introduction—but it is not to our own shorei this re-
cital will be limited. It will be related in. foreign
nationi gladly, by those who look with envied; eyes
at cur national character and fame—it will be listened
to by, every enlightened friend to our institutions,
abroad with a sorrow mingled with surprise—(ilmr.
hear.) It was, therefore, no slight incentive to his
interference, to afford tbe House the opportunity of
making that full declaration of the public sentiment
that would in effect con'ect those impressions that
would otherwise gain ground in foreign countries, by
ahewiag to the world that such a violation of huma-
nity would not here be silently suffered—bat, on the
contrary, that it could no where. bop deeply felt and
so publicly reprobated, as in tbe 'Bihish House of
Commons—(Reer, hear.) The Lifted and Ho-
. urable Baronet concluded, amillkingreatscheering,
with moving for the production of 'the papers con-
utd with the trials, ltr.c.
• Mr. RILEY ADDINGTON stated, that he was
nit aware of the case uutd after the poor woman was
lionsht to trial. It was impossible to make that
mina, in truth, though, it might be so construed in
law. The moment, on Saturday last, that his Noble
&dative bad heard the first statement of the case, be
instancy WA the necessar steps to have the pardon
n( the Crown granted—(Near, heer, hosr).—That
eaumusication, he knew, would impart satisfaction
to the Learned Gentleman and to the House—
(, heer)....Hs believed truly, that it was out of
a mn principle of humanity that the trial was pro-
d upon ;-.,firsto to prevent a long imprisonment
soder the expectation that her pardon, on-
' illiottlettlants, would be quickly olgaltted•
' :liana= ATKINS explained theivitite pro-
fit the trial, and assured the Holm that the
same. . ane emotions which the Learned Mover
evigra
were as poignantly felt bp-the 41124 Bench,
whose regretted duty it was to try...the unhappy wo-
nun. The Court would have postponed the trial,
but as the indictment was traversed, and as her
Counsel (Mr. Busy) wisely calculating on the effect
of the circumstances is producing either her scream'
or her sitinute pardon, urged it, they did not feel
they posuessed the discretion. The Jury too, although
from the unetinivocal proofs, and notwithstanding a
most persuasive appeal of her. Counsel. they could
not but find a verdict, still made a most zealous re-
eommeudatioo to mercy. He had to repeat, that his
feelings in the exercise of his ditty oa the Bench, were
never so severely affeeted--(then, Agar).
Lord CASTLEREAGH was assured that every
Us/Wm in the Hoare: was convinced that the disun-
ited amnion of the unhappy woman was not more
olliering to herself than to the Court before which
it was tried. He misted the Learoed Mover would
fod that his humane purpose was answered, and that
th• inquiry had gent far enough, Though a prose-
cutiouin the sante of the King,
.the Lart.Officers of
the Crown had no power, he believed, to interpose.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY said. the ease was not
alone most calamitous to the wretched individual,
but entributed to render odious and detestable the
administration of judo, and he Mt assured that the
House would feel greatly iodebied to his Learned
Friend far the opportunity of relieving the character
of the imuntry from the reproach. 'There wee, there
mead not be any oistsure age tbe G0v.0.--
Go the contrary, it had in
Intmanity. (Hear.) The
gam, also were woody blamelies,
der the wading and riflemen'
tdittly ceosurnblo. (Harr
1-40311$ in such a east, th
law of nature. la the a
tparskowed bee husband. c
y 00 Calialifial Orin'
bit wholly under the husband'i
I caw GI murder and treason. ____ ,___
Jury have done under thecircumstances ? And here
was an illustration of the mischief of those taws that
place conscientious men in the situation either of vio-
lating their oaths dr ofd! oonding. the most virtuous
feelings of their natureslgor.) What was the

!emotion of the ittclitistt that trignesaed this retolthig
spectacle ? There wait not, as the newspapers stated,
god as the Worthy Alderman (Atkins) admitted,
peraon in the Court whose heart did not rebel and te-

pulse the calamitous inhumanity, under the form of
judicial proceeding. The prosecutors shoiild have
considered this, and not subjected the administration
of public justice to such odium and detestation.—
(Hear, hear ) It would have been easy for the Ma-
gistrates to have suggested that no witnesses should
be cane& The fact was, there never had occurred,
in the history of tht law of this country, it more dis-
graceful inhuman event than this.
Mr. BATHURS contended, that when the
transaction was etigthatized with the epithets of in.
humanity and cruelty, is should be viewed as a whole,
and not taken detachedly.
Mr. H. MARTIN said, there could have been no
difficulty to have delivered her from the indictment
and from trial, had there existed a disposition in the
proper quarter to do sd. The prosecutor might
easily have declined calling witnesses, and surely it
would have been highly to 116: honour to have done
so, instead of carrying on so disgraceful, odious, and
disgusting a prosecution. He trusted the House would
agree to the motion, because it would do much more
honour to the cause of justice than by dismissing it.
Sir JAMES WINTOSEI, in reply, observed, that
be bad not, in bringing this motion before the House,
directly or indirectly, designed to impute any blame
to Government, for, on the contrary, he was much
gratified with the very alert manner in which huma-
nity had been extended to her ; neither did he impute
any iniproper motives to the worthy ANlerman and
his colleagues. But while he said so it was impos-
sible for him to be silent when he vintemplated such
an unusual, detestable, and unnatural prosecution,
and it was equally impossible not to blame the very
institution of this prosecution, which was directly
contrary to the spirit of the law—(Rear, hear, hear.)
Odious in itself, it became infinitely more Aggravated
after, the Recorder's Report was made. The Magis-
trates knew on the Saturday that this poor man was
to suffer the punishment of his crime, yet they took
no pains whatever to acquaint his Majesty's Attorney.
i General of the horrible coincidence between the poor

man's execution and his wife's trial—(lisor, keer.)—
It was a matter of no moment where the poor wo•
man sat during that detestable trial, whether it was
beside her Counsel, Mr. Barry (whose hitnine exer-
tions on this painful occasion did him honour), or on
the Bench, the Ircomstance was still the sane.' The
prosecution wet, he understood, carried on at the in-'
stance of the City of London ; and why had measures,
not been taken to prevent it coming on at all ? Ho-
manity itself might have told the Judges to suggest.
to the prosecutors the propriety of ulling.no wit.
ceases. He was shocked to bear the lenity of her
punishment adduced is an extenuation of -the highly
aggravated transaction— (Hear.) The punishment
itself was a matter of no moment, for the trial was
a severe punishment. What a most appalling spec-
tacle did she present while arraioned at that bar !
But a few hours before she stood in the endearing
connection of a wife, but at that bar she stood an un-
happy, defenceless widow, with her crphan child at
her breast ; her heart wrung at tbar time with the
most agonizing sensations, when she turned to the'
melancholy fats of her husband Ind looked on his
erre gd infant in her meta—(ifeers. hear.)—Goad
Goo I was it possible to conceive a situation more
truly distressing ? and was the House then to be
gravely told, that the lenity of her punishment was
an extenuation of the
•aggravated nature of the cue ?
(Hear, hear.)--Inilination itself could not conceive
a more horrible punishment than that inflicted on her
by her being placed at that bar. The House might
dispose of the motion he had made as they saw pro-
per, but he should consider himself guilty of levity in
withdrawing it, particularly because nothing had
been explained in the slightest satisfactory manner.
It appeared to him that his object would be defeated
if he consented to withdraw the motion, because he.
wished that the House, by adopting it, should make
a public declaratica of their opinion, and hold up this,
fatal, this horrible transaction, as a warning to
Magistrates in fotare. On that account he was de-
termined not to !withdraw it—(Hear. hear.)
Lord CASTLAREAGH—I think it proper to
say, that on a question of this serious nature I shall
give it my support, rather than cause any difference
of opinion in the House—(Lead crier .f Hear, hear,
from all silks of the Mows.)
The motion was then unanimously adopted.
FINANCE INIIIMITTJUL
Mr. DAVIES GILBERT brought in a Bill for
abolishing the Offices of Chief Justice in Eyre North
and South of Trent.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT could not avoid umbrae-
big the present opportunity of stating, that he did not
see the propriety of so many Bills, because he would
ask, whether it was not possible that the Lords might
take ow Bill only, and pass it along with the Com-
peasation Bill, end• throw out all the sea ? This de-
'weird . serious consideration, as the country would
sherd* be additionally burdened. •He suggested
this saw, as swarthy of the attention of dot C,ornatinne
aadAS die House, iwordet that be *iglu not here-
after's...Singed with neglect. In troth, be was of
opinion whit be now stated was very likely to happen.
Mr. D. GILBERT was not- aware of there being
a probability that this would be the can. He thought
the plea of separate Bills was by far the better way
of going to work, and he flattered himself the House
bad 'a poirer of making the other House do their
doty..-(Cries of Order, Order).
, Mr. YONSONBY would merely say, that he re-
membered when the Bill introduced by the Member
for WU Castle was in another place, the highest
authority in that place objected to it, as taking away
from the influence and power of the, Crown. There
was not sibare possibility of what his Right Hon.
Friend had suggested would take place when the
Bills went to the Lords, but in truth there was every
probability—((fki
Mr. HUSKISIKIN'., observed, that the idea sug-:
gested by the Right-Hortourable Gentleman on the
other side (Sir is3qtrieport) had not escaped the no-
tice of the Coosrefittee:-, Wish respect to the object
being coomined in several Bills instead of one, he
begged to say, that that plan bad been approved by
the Member foe. Code Castle. it was impossible to
have done all that was to be done by a single Act,
in cams, fee example, where many offices; such as
the Enbeqbei of Ireland, snare to be regulated.—
Mu It the Witt Honour.
Suppose tint lag itrown

foible denticmatt teal to be itatizedi he trusted the
House would take Measures to prettentstich as act
from becoming the law o! the lai,d. In the Hotitei
even should it become alatv, it was iipen for Mem.
bers to bring in a Bill for repealing that 14w. Pro.
bably he would be told that that fill would dot be
sanctioned by the other House. He would only re-
ply, that this was dwelling on extrettit canes, and had
no connection with the case before them, and it was
impossible to estimate the hindrance to public businest
which would be effected by dwelling on :nth cases:
Mr. J. P. GRANT contended, that the objectiod
to the division of the measure into so many sepal
, rata Bills was very serious. The House of Loyd!
I might be placed by it in a very difficult. sitoatiod-4
To• some of the Bills of abolition or regbiatioh the?
might entertain an objection, but they would be una-
ble to carry that objection into effect, by rejecting
those Bills because they could not alter the Compen.
sation Bill in correspondence, that being a mone?
measure. He saw no reason why all the Bills coule
not be consolidated into one.

Mr. BROUGH AM, in voting for the second ?tad.
ing of the Bill, reserved to himself the right of discus-
sing in a subsequent stage of the measure, the prin.;
eiple of saving vested interests, to the adoption of
which principle he could by no means consent, miles!
he should find that it was inseparable Ironi the *bob.-
don of the sinecures.--The Bill was then read a firsi
time, and ordered to be real a second tithe on Toe*
day, and to be printed.
Mr. D. GILBERT then brought in I Bill for thif
abolition. of certain Offices in the Exchequer in Eng.
land and Ireland.
On the motion that it be read a first time,
Mr. TIERNEY declared, that no man could cloche
that the real object of subdividing the Illiattlle into
on many Bills was, that none of them should ulti.
stately pass: This was evident from the manage:
ment in the Cotranittee, from the delay that bad
taken place, and from the Report, after all that delays
containing no novel matter. It would be June be-
fore all the Bills could pass that Horse. Was it
treating the House of Lords with common decency
to send them ten or eleven silts to agree to at so late
a period of the Session The Bills might have ene-
mies there—there might he parties in the House cf
Lords as well as is that House. He did not presume
positively to assert that there were, but he bad cer-
tainly heard such 'a thing whispered—tit
so, and if the Bills sliduld create discussion, then,
considering their number, was these any hope that
they could all be g_cirthrough with?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
'maintained the exiiittiency of keeping the varies*
propositions which'. itie Bills involved distinct foist
each other. Weritfie Bills consolidated, instead of
being clearer, the *hole would become complicated§
confused, and unintelligible.
-Sir J. -NEWPORT ridiculed the 'division of the
measure into so many Bills, and contended that it
was done only with a view to stage effect, and to
make an impression on the public mind that a great
deal was accomplishing in the way of economy. To
she, best casytitieouldle to consolidate the 'erica:
Prci.P9•Oittnt3n:one Bill, he adverted to the Bill whith
in ISM he bad himself introduced into Parliament,
which Bill %mato abolish 96 offices, and to regulate
above SO others, *hien Bill bad been practically
iaCtedlllloll. and found not to require ansendesewt.
Mr. GOULBURN denied that the.ditision of the
measure into a number Of 'Bills would increase the
difficulty of its adoption.
Lord MILTON asked whether the Honourable

Chairman of the Finance Committet- meant that the
Bills which he had inuodaced, and was about to in-
troduce, should b passed in succession, of should
proceed Mori pares t lithe former—if the other Bills
should be first sent to the House of Lords, and the
Compensation Bill teserved, their Lordslbips might
hesitate to agree to those bills aholishing offices,
until they had the means of knowing what compels"
.s4tiOn it was intenticd to give to the holders of them.
Hg. was at a 19"k3&conceive what objection there
"saisld be to compospnd the Bills in one.
, -Mr. D. GILBERT replied, his object was to ad-
Taus the measuqp Atri passe. The other Bills were
not completely.reaill,,but he trusted they would tee
so to.morrow or neat day.
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that it was impossible,

in the nature of things, that these Rills could pen.
cced Agri pens, because they must come one aftet
another. (A kigh.) Ten Bills could no mote be
brought through the House abreast than ten b ,tta-
lions of infantry. Without having had any commu-
nication with his Honourable Friend, the Member for
Waterford. he had conceived precisely the same opi-
nion as his. namely, that the whole of this transacin
was contrived for stage effect, and to catch a little
sneaking popularity, by spreading the reductions into
ten or eleven Bills, instead of comprehending them in
one, and thus making them go as tar as possible.
Mr. HUSICISSON defended the Finance Corn-.
mittee from the imputation of any unnecessary delay
in their proceedings. Their Report bad been six
weeks on the table, although various ocenuenees,
some of them of 'nature lamented by all, lead pee.
vented it frosts having betas sooner takint' into'Consi.
Aeration. He congratulated the Right Hon. Gee..
datum opptisite (Mr. Tierney) on the recovery of his
good humour. On the only occasion on which that
Right Hots. Gentleman had attended the Committee,
he appeared quite disconcerted to find that the men.
sure of abolition had got into such hands as to render
its succeu highly probable. Whatever might be that
Right Hone Gentleman's wishes, he (Mr. Ruskissots)
was confident that his prediction of the failure of the
measure in the other House would be disappointed.
Mr. TIE RNEY repelled the ttnirarrantable attack
that bad been made upon him by the Honourable
Gentleman. If the Honourable Gentleman said that
he (Mr. Tierney) was not anxious for the abolition-
of the Sinecure Offices, Ise defied hint to make good
his assertion. On %himself day on which he had at-
minded the Coinmstneslnen he hoped Goo would for-
, glen him for having attended at all) he put himself
Bader the wing of therMitiourable Member for Coifs
.saisisle, who he knew:eties3n earnest on the subject.
It Was his earnest desiiii:that the measure should be
-adopted ; but it was also his firm conviction that in
• the hands of Administration it was a mere juggle.
Mr. HUSKISSON, in caplinations•soid. that de
*.Right Hcinuorable Gentleman was diiconcerted whoa
I be mood the proposition in the hands of, I,seceight
Honourable Friend.
Mr. TiERNt:Y denied the isiitibti, and tolled

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