The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-25 00:00:00

m 1-o of the whop House on the Charter of the
:i.,tvh Cempatiy.—Postponed to NI onday.

CORN LAWS.

Sr' J. SHAW moved for a return of the average
ries.% el wheat, flour, and the quarters loaf, within
the Bills of Mortality, from the years 1804 to 1813,1
both inclusive.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
proposed to extend the return to a greater number of
years. if it could be made later, it woold be desir-
ahle, for the purpose of comparing the effect of the
Act of 1804,0 a the price of bread in Landon ; and
-preposed to carry it back to 1791.
rit J. SHAW said, his chief object was to show,
41.:. t by the measure which was passed last night, now
t i.eace was established, and Ibp public had a right
10 expect to set their bread eheiker, the inhabitants'
of London, one-tenth of the population of England,
W cid be paying dearer for their bread than they had
dime in ten years of war. Many of the burthens on
.agrltottere were about to cease in the extinction of
the Property Tax ; labour, timber, and iron were
cheeper, and yet the House were about to pass such
a Bill as this. The Bight Hon. Gentleman might
have. otherAljects in his extensiou of the return ; this
was the only object for which he moved.—The return
was then ordered.

• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
, moved the Order of the Day for a Committee of the
whole Howe on ihe.Corn Laws. _

Ordered that the Petition presented to the House
that (lay he referred to that Committee.
Mr. CA LCRAFT said, that the subject having
+nen gone into very mac at length, though by no
tot ,•Is exhausted, he should not trouble them that
even;u4,, but should feel it his duty, when the Re-
pnl t should be brought up, to take the senise of Idle
llote,e on the reduced price which he had pro-
pesld.
Mr. SIIEFNEIt said, he should hold himself in
readiness to support the Amendment.
The (louse then went into the Committee, and
passed several Resolutions. Upon the questions
to the mode in which the average should be taken,
Mr. Alderman ATKINS said, that it should be
aseertiitted only on Wheat fit for flour. It was now
taken on flour. Ile thought the House should have
the tetorn•of prices on which the average was taken.
The weiebt and price sh..uld be stated.
, Mr. RORINiON said, that the Committee had
already voted that the average should be taken in
such mairtier as by. law now required ; and if the
Committee were to adopt the Hon. Ahlerman's sug-
gestion, a subsequent Resolution would contradict a
preceding. If he thought proper to persist in his
propsition, he bad better make it to the House
upon the report of the first Resolution; but it might
not be amiss to observe, that the proposition would
have the effect of keeping up rather than of lowering
'the usual average.- If t..e average were taken by the
• best wheat, tit-would always keep the average at the
higher price.

Ordered. that the Report of the Committee be re-
ceived nn Monday.

Lord HAMILTON objected to this, as his
'notion ow the Bank Restriction Bill was fixed for
that day.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
proposed to adjourn that toTuesday, I. which day
he would agree.elso to ptistporm the, very important
Imminess of-Mince, se that the subject of the Corn
Laws might meat with no delay.
Mr. TIERNEY did not see how that subject
pressed, whereas his Noble Friend's motion must
come on before the Bank Restriction Bill went to
another stage, and the Act expired 25th of March.
The motion had already been postponed from There-
da if last.

Sir S. NEWPORT urged the importance of the
P tj ec t of corn, and that ir.hould not be postponed
from day- to day, during which the public mind might
be i n (131;1(.3 on a topic of aliotheis the most likely for
roisit,,,rescntatitiw to produce a ba,i ..lrect. There
would hs. full time for deliberation till Monday ; for
though many might say Sunday ought to be ofher-
s occupied, yet few people occupied that clay
so entirely with religion as to exclude all temporal
thought,. _ _

Alter some further conversation, it was at last
flied, that the Report on the Corn Laws should be
brought up on 7.:nnclay : that Sir Samuel Romilly's
motion for the Militia skouldstaudfor Tuesdays that
Mr. Whitbread's motion on the subject of Sir 'onset
Dull and Gen. Smith should stand for Wednesday :
and that Lord A. Hamilton's motion should have the
preferencaoLall.natice on Thursday, and that the
Mink Restriction Act should go into no cut Cher stage
in the moan lime.

Sir R. HERON moved for !cave to bring in a Bill
to improve the situation of the poor by amending a
former Act, the object of which we could not catch.
Leave was granted, and the Bill was read a first
time.—Ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday.
Mr. W. KEENE presented ■ Petition from Lud-
low, agalust the Property Tax.—Adjourned to
Woodsy.