Star.
London, England, 1819-06-15 00:00:00

CRSSIOI: OF PA RCA.

Sir CHARLES MONK recalled his notice respecting Parra,
as he was sorry to find that the Treaty for the Evacuation of that
place had been carried into effect—it had already been given up
to the Turks. He could not avoid expressing his sincere sorrow
for its fate, although he knew it was unavailing.—(Hear, hear.)

CHARITABLE FUNDS.

The House having resolved itself into a Committee
on the Charitable Foundations Amendment Bill,
Lord CASTLEREAGH expressed his desire to
give some explanations respecting the present Bill,
and as to the nature of the alterations which he
wished to introduce. The principle was the same as
in the former Bill. It was in the recollection of the
House, that the original Bill of the last Session was
narrowed in its general scope in the House of Lords.,
Although it was returned thus limited in its purview,
yet there was nothing to discourage the hope that a
measure of a more comprehensive extent should not
ultimately be successful. It was with that inducement
he proposed the present Bill. The very able Report
of the Commissioners appointed under the Act bad
been laid before that House, and from tke talent and
intelligence it displayed, entitled to the highest con-
sideration. In consequence of the character of that
Report, he felt that their prospects were brightened,
and that there now existed the hope of carrying the
measure with an efficiency, that, while it afforded
satisfaction to one side, would mot produce vexation
on the ether. It was proposed to increase. the num-
ber of Commissioners, paid and unpaid, to ten each.
That two should constitute a Board for all purposes,
save that of making Reports to Parliament ; in dis-
charging those functions, five should be necessary.
Where ...re extent of inquiry extended over such a
number as 40,000 Charities, the intended division
must be productive of considerable benefit. That the
salaries of the paid Commissioners should be £lO,OOO
per ann. and £BOOO for expenses. There was a clause
also which gave to the Commissioners the same power
as the Commissioners of the Army Accounts possessed.
The latter had the power to examine accounts and to
convict, but not to impose fines. That was given to
the V ce-Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, or a Judge
of the Exchequer. The Commissioners also would
be enabled to call upon the Attorney-General to pro-
ceed against parties for irregularities. It was also
intended to take away the power of intermediate ap-
peals. He therefore trusted that the authority of the
Commissioners would be made fully commensurate
to all the great purposes of the inquiry. So that in-
stead of having abuses, when made out, accumulat-
ing on the notice of Parliament and of the country,
measures of immediate redress would be put into ope-
ration. The only probability of any difference of
opinion, he believed, would arise on the exceptions
to be made as to particular Charities. It was next
contemplated to extend the operation of the Inquiry
to one class of charities, he meant those created by
the voluntary subscriptions of individuals. Any in-
terference with such associations might be preju-
dicial to their beneficial progress. It was intended,
therefore, to except them by a particular clause.--
With respect to that class of Charities which were
under the superintendence of special visitors, the Bill
contained the same clause as the original one of last
Scesion. That exception had therefore the authority
of that and the other House. Even the Court of
Chancery did not feel itself authorized to interfere
with visitors, who only etercised a discretion in the
management of the concerns of a Charity, but took
no part iu the application of its funds. The Com-
missioners would be required under the Bill to report
to the House the names of the Charities having spe-
cial visitors. Such was the general outline of the
Bill; and he trusted that when the blanks came as be
filled up, it would appear well calculated to promote
the object for which it was introduced.
Mr. BROUGHAM congratulated the House on
the introduction of the present measure, as it went to
restore the Bill which he had introduced last year,
and which was defeated in the other House of Par-
liament. His Bill, or rather theirs (for the House of
Commons had agreed to it) went to make all Chari-
ties the subject of inquiry. They were then told that
th„. latitude to which this provision must lead was
too great, and accordingly they limited its operation
to Charities connected with education only—Wear.)
In the present Bill, however, the limitation was aban-
doned. and all Charities whatever were to be sub-
mitted to the inspection of the Commissioners. There
was but one exemption in favour of Charities founded
by voluntary contribution, and under the superin-
tendence of persons appointed by the contributors.
This regulation went upon the principle of avoiding
any interference which might have a tendency to dis-
courage voluntary contributions. The Bill of last
year. as it was introduced, gave powers to the Com-
missioners, which were necessary to prosecute in-
quiry, but it came down from the Lords, leaving to
the Commissioners only the right to invite the at-
tendance of persons guilty of malversation. The
Noble Lord following that precedent, intended that
the Commissioners should have a power of conviction,
tat9ugb he (51r. Brougham) did not think that the
clause introduced for that purpose would be found
effective. Still it was a great improvement, as it would
tend too:store in some measure the original provision.
Another subject of congratulation was, the axing of
two Commissioners, as the number to constitute a
quorum, which was also in the Bill as originally pro-
posed, though it was afterwards altered to three in
the other House. The last improvement was that of
en, ling the Commissioners to institute proceedings
,ilthe Court of Chancery. This, too, was provided
f in die original Bill, from which it was adopted

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!into the present, with some slight modification. His
objection still existed to the exemption of visited Cha-
rities, and if he should fail to bring the House to
agree with him on this point, in a future stage it was
his intention to propose, as the next best measure, that
the Commissioners should be armed with some means
of putting the visitorial power in motion. In what
he had now said, he confined himself merely to those
parts of the Bill on which no difference was likely to
arise. On the objectionable parts he should reserve
himself until the blanks were tilled up, and the ques-
tion for the receiving of the Report was brought be
fore the House.

Mr. B. BATHURST spoke in favour of the Bill,
and recommended that they should rather think of
conciliation than revert to any differences with any
other body.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR contended, that if many of
the Charities which had Special Visitors were shut
out of the operation of the Commission, net half the
gond would be done by the Bill that might be done
by it ; and instanced the case of Sherborne Hospital,
in the county of Durham, in support of his opinion ;
the Master of which Hospital, Dr. Bell, derived, on
the average, nearly £l,lOO a-year, although he was
scarcely ever 'resident there. He remembered a
school, of which the late excellent Archbishop of
Canterbury was Visitor, the master of which school
had turned the school-room into a billiard-room.
Mr. BROUGHAM stated several cases of abuse
in Charities supported by voluntary contributions,
which had come within his own knowledge.
Mr. CALCRAFT was quite satisfied, that what-,
ever emolument Dr. Bell received, as Master of Sher-
borne
Hospital, was not greater than that which he
was entitled to for his eminent services to the Public.

Mr. M. A. TAYLOR disclaimed any imputation
whatever on Dr.Be'l personally. The Statutes of the
Hospital had at different times been altered in favour
of the Master. It was or that he complained.
Mr. BROUGHAM said, he hoped that those who
might be appointed Commissioners under the Bill,
would feel the necessity of devoting themselves ex-
clusively to the discharge of the important trust re-
posed in them. In order to induce them to do this,
it might be advisable to increase the salary beyond
the proposed £l,OOO, that they might relinquish,
without hesitation, all professional practice. This
would, in his opinion, be true economy. . . .

The various clauses of the Bill having been gone through, the
blanks were filled up, and the &port ordered to be brought up
on Friday next.

STISCELLANIZS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought in
the Bill for granting his Majesty additional Excise Duties on
Tea, Coffee, Tobacco, Snuff, Pepper, Malt, and British Spirits.
—Read a first time, and after a short conversation between Mr.
Brougham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Castle-
reagh, ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the
second readiug of the Customs Duties Bill.
Mr. BROUGHAM hoped that as the Right Hon. Gentleman
was about to raise X 2,500,000 by the Excise Duties, he would
net press this measure.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the
House could not judge of the Bill in its present shape ; it was
at present but a skeleton. His intention was to move the se-
cond reading now, and to add the Schedule when it came into a
Committee, which he intended to have fixed for Friday next.
Mr. PEEL gave notice for Wednesday next, of a modest for
the introduction of a Bill to regulate the advances of the Bank.
The Loan Bill went through a Committee of the whole House,
and the Report was ordered to be received tb-morrow.
Mr. HUME hoped that the additional duties on hemp would
be abandoned. That article had been already heavily*, taxed,
and the Manufacturers were now anxiously looking for a re-
duction.--The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed on Friday next.
The Lotteries Bill was read a second time and ordered to be
committed to-morrow.

The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a quarter past One o'Clock.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 'Bl9.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOOKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 21931 220
3 per Cent. Reduced 68 67168
3 per Cent. Consols shut
81 per Cent. 76.1 75f-4 per Cent. 861 ti
5 per Cent. Navy shut
Bank Long Annuities 18 1-16 17 15-16
India Bonds 2 3 dis.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2 pre. par •
Omnium if It 1 discount
Consols for Acct. 69i1 6S-11.

The Bill for limiting the hours of labour of chil-
dren in Cotton Mills, was last night read a second
time in the House of Lords, and ordered to be re-
ported on Wednesday. The fallacy of the arguments
brought against the Bill, in and out of the House,
seems now to be well understood. Talk, indeed, of
the impolicy of interfering with free 'labour! How
can the labour of children, of six or eight years old,
be called free?
By words which fell from Sir C. MONCK, in the
House of Commons, it would appear that the cession
of Parga has actually taken place,- and that the town
had already been evacuated. We state the fact with,
infinite sorrow. How apropos this news has trans-
pired : just in time to prevent the Motion upon the
subject, in Parliament ! Alas ! for the poor people
that have thus been abandoned, we know not for
what reason.

The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night, and
we have also this forenoon received those of Saturday.
The Budget st;11 continues to occupy the attention
of the Chamber of Deputies. The reduction proposed
by the Commission in the credit demanded by Mi-
nisters for the interest of the floating debt, has been
adopted by a large majority, making the grant for,
this purpose only 7,500,000 fr. instead of 10,317,00 W
The following are the other sums which have beeii'
voted in the two last Sittings:—For' the Chambeicfl
Veersl,ooo,ooofr. the Chamber of Deptitits6kooQfr
Legion, of Honour 240100Qfr. Court of:Aecounts,l
(Audit Beard) 1,20,0001 r. tlusCasonsi. ttee mc ittlip. h