Star.
London, England, 1817-03-15 00:00:00

DISTILLATION IN Iitt.LAND.

The Earl of DARNLEY presented a Petition
from last, complaining of the dearness and scar-
city of grain, and praying the distilleries might be
stopped. His Lordship said he did not int.an now
to go again into the subject, but he reserved to him-
self the right ot bringing forward a rotnion respecting
it at a future period, it he should deem it advisable.
Fie must, however, repeat what 116! had before staled,
that Ministers had incurred a heavy responsibility in
not stopping the distilleries early in the season. In
having called the attention of the I louse to this most
important subject, he could not but regret that be
had not had the ass4tAnce of any ot the Peeri who
'snore immediately represented Ireland, wbo could
have more satisfactorily detailed the general 6:nation
of that part of the United Kingdom.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL protested against the
doctrihe of responsibility attaching the Executive
Government, for not interfering with regard to the
subsistence of the peep le. If it was thought right
that the distilleries should be stopped when grain
reached a certain price, let it be so enacted by law,
but nothing could be snore unwise than to leave it
to the discretion of the Executive Government, be-
cause with the most honest intentions (as every Go.
vernment would act with such intentions, whatever
difference of opinion there might be upon other
points), the Executive Government was very liable
upon such a subject to be misled. They would ne-
cessarily have various accounts from different quar-
ters, in one part a good harvest, and in anotii..r a
bad one ; and nothing could be more mischievous
'than to leave it to the Executive Government to strike
a balance between conflicting ar.d opposite interests.
He thought that in only one instance within his re-
collection, bad tl;g distilleries been rightly stopped,
aql that Was in 18.021 when one bad harvest followed

'Die Marine Marin)? Ell was reported, end ordaed to be reld
a th.rd time on flolonday.
Returns of the dates of Appeals from the Property Tax In tke
Cl:y tit London were presrrited.
A petition was presented front Hinckley, In I.elcitstertltire, at=
tr.buting the doorels of tkat town in a great degree to the pre.
sent pressure to the Poore Rates. It slittd, did( Fut 05 a po.
pulatiun of 6,4G0, three thousand received Parochial Itetief.
Berea to lie on the table. "
NAVY ESTIVATE.

The Hoese trent :nto a Committee of Sepply, whet
Sir GEORGE WAR RENDER obser.,ed, that
on inoving a vote for the ordinary services of the
navy, he should refrnin from saying any thing that
might anticipate the- discussion which tile loose
would be tnatiled to come to when'the whole ques-
tion should be before them. He should ise =Lims
to bring this question forwartt as soon as possible
after the Eater 'Recess. At present he should
merely propose bis first Resolution, ‘, That the stun
of 131,144t,u00, he p,rsotsfl to his Majetsty, on ac.
count of the Ordinary Services of the Nary, for s'z
months, from the Irt January, *17."
Sir M. W. RIDLEY, although he did not mean
to object to the Resolution, disapproved of t",e mOdi
adopted by Ministsrs of gett:Vg •souse ilto 'her
hands before tie discos. on. e.,t a larger .t nnt 'but
usual. He hoped the 9r,lntnittce
the necessity of recer:/rnending-ete cots of
the 'dams of the usele&TlMAlrhr the Admiralty.—
The Honourable Baronet alluded ts 'the situation if
Acting Pursers cf the Navy, who eomplained Of 01
hardships they were under, from not being put on
what they conceived a proper footing stir.% regard tii
half pay. He considered their case to be one of pe..
culiar end he was It:forms:el they had pettss
tioned the Adroizalty, but had received no answer.
Ssr G. HOPE give sonic explanations why it was
impossible for the Admiralty to do any thing more
for them thin had been dine. It was an establilited
• ale that that sienniel he no nsore Pursers th sn ships,
If .nst .s tumor as Mt fir 4.50 had been broken up and
Isold since the peace. There were a great nthiber of
saperannu it:ti Pursers in the Navy, who were put
nn the regulatiln list ri halt pay but it wgiskit
every person who 1140 been an Acting Purser atsnard
that could be put on the established list, as they
were not confirmed. He' assured the Hon Baronet
that the suhj.7ct had undergone the fullest discussion.
Mr. CUR WEN stated an instance of a FM* whO
had acted for two years, and nut entitled to any pro-
vision.

Sir G. HOPE said there v ere teeny in that situa-
tion who had served a lonAer time, and the hardship
did not rest with them entirely, for there •rr:e also
many Midshipmen w:Io had servra from s.•ven to
eight years, and obtained no mfr. becausa they had
not born confirmed for Liedtenants.

Sir C. POLE th•mght it.WAS the business or Pub*
Boards to enquire into the subject of complaints. Th.e
Honnurabk Admiral tool: oceation to complain that
the Pen.ions of the Widows ol Naval Officers had not
been increast.d since Mt. F 1 referred to the ne,
elect which the IVidows of those Officers who fell
during the American war, had eso,:rieneed Irom the
Boaed of Admiralty, who had not till lrely reel:yeti
any remuneration. He complained of the want of li-
berality in tarrying on the works of the Breakwater.
Mr. CROKER observed, it could iv): be expected
that he should debate the subject now, the vote being
for money on account merely for the service of the
navy. The Honourable Gentleman noticed some ob.
servistioni made by the gallant Admiral in the esti.
mates in respect to the appointment of certain Clerks
in the different Boards. When the estimates came
regularly under discussion, he should be prepared to
spew that the Widows of Naval Officers were placed
on the same footing with the Officers Widows ig
the Army.
Mr. LYTTLETONohsyrved, that the establichcd
liberal ty of the Admiralty Bread was to game so
apparent as the Honourable Gerelernao su!,posed.
[ The Officers en halhpay were required to tike an
oath, Which was nut the case in the army. Thi. he
[ thought was a hardship —The motion was agreed to.
Sir G. WA R RENDE R advet teJ to the coduplaint
respecting the treakwatar, and declared that some
[reduction had taken place in the w,[rks, because they
[ were not so necessary in peace as in war.
A sum of 0730,753 was then moved-for theextra-
ordinaries of the Navy.
Sir C. POLE said, that many persons were now
unemplorcd who cfFeesl toe,' the wanks at the Bre,