the contrary, he was well convinced that if the company's affairs were vigorously conducted, it would not be long until they would reach as great a state of prosperity as the most sanguine wishes of any friend to the interests of the company could reasonably entitle them to expect. For the accomplishment of this great object he would recom mend that the general state of the company's affairs should undergo the most ample investigation before a committee. The result, he was confident, would be highly favourable to the company. But at the same time that he was convinced, from his knowledge of the affairs of the company, that a committee which had it in view to obtain a correct statement of the debts, assets, and revenue of the company, must necessarily draw inferences favourable to the company, as he had before stated; still he most clearly saw that something was wanting for the present to be done for the assistance of the company. To attain this great and most desirable object, he would recommend that a loan should be raised under the sanction of Parliament, not that he could by any means suppose that there could be any hesitation or doubt of the solvency of the company, but that he saw how much more advantageously a loan would be raised under such circumstances, than if the company itself was to go into the market for that purpose. Before Ireland was united to this country, it was the uniform prac tice with the English Parliament to include the loin for Ireland in one general vote along with that which was given for this country. By the adoption of such a system, the company would gain what they most particularly wanted, an extension of their capital, and the public would have considerably better security than they could now possibly have, as, from the profits to accrue from such an extension of capital, there would be a sinking fund for the total and speedy extinction of the whole debt. Dr. Laurence then caught the chairman's eye, and was entering into a consideration of the subject, when Mr. Robson rose to order, and moved that the House be counted. The gallery was then cleared; when only 31 members being prescat, an adjournment took place. HOUSE OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16. In the appeal "Chamley v. Lord Dunsany and others." VOL. III. 1835-6. 4 R Mr. Mr. Perceval was heard for the respondents. Farther hearing the next day. The royal assent was given by commission to the Scots distillery bill, the vote of credit bill, the Irish customs bill, the Irish prizage bill, the Greenwich chest bill, the Greenwich hospital bill, the Portsmouth and Dover works bill, the training bill, the militia ballot bill, the oil of vitriol bounty bill, the Westminster buildings bill, the postage bill, the Irish poor bill, the Newfoundland fishery bill, the grain interchange bill, the quarantine bill, the land tax commissioners mistake bill, the Paddington canal coal bill, the Irish road bill, and seven private bills. ...The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Spen. cer, and Lord Walsingham. The slave ship restriction bill, the Irish school commis sioners bill, and the nabob of the Carnatic creditors bill were read a third time and passed. The aníendments made by the House of Commons in the insolvent debtors bill were taken into consideration and agreed to. Mr. Hobhouse, and several other members of the House of Commons, brought up the woods and forests regulation bill, the Windsor forest bill, the auditors' bill, Lord Rodney's annuity bill, the stage coach bill, (ordered to be printed) the land tax exemption bill, the warehousing bill, the Irish revenues bill, the Irish hops bill, and some pri vate bills, which were read a first time. The orders for committing this day the Scots forfeited estates bill, and the Scots treasury chambers bill, were, on the motion of the Earl of Lauderdale, discharged, and the bills ordered to be printed. The linen drawback bill, the ordnance lands bill, the chancery clerks' bill, and the seamans' families bill, were read a second time, and committed for the next day. The masters' in chancery bill, the Irish militia service bill, the volunteer officers' rank bill, the Gibraltar and Malta trade bill, the silk bounty bill, the sugar bill, the French wines bill, the gunpowder importation bill, the masts bill, the raisins bill, the excise laws bill, the Innkeepers allowances bill, the Irish quit rents bill, and the bankrupt laws bill, passed through committees, and were reported. Adjourned. HOUSE HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16. The House having, in pursuance of a message by the deputy usher of the black rod proceeded to the House of Peers, the Speaker on its return announced that the royal assent had been given by commission to several public and private bills. The pilots' bill was read a second time and committed for the next day. The bill to protect the public harbours, &c. and the oakbark bill, severally went through a committee, and the reports were ordered to be brought up the next day. The London additional force bill, the Irish postage bill, the Nelson annuity bill, the royal family annuity bill, the malt duty bill, and the receiver general of the customs regulation bill, were reported, and those bills were ordered to be read a third time the next day. The land tax redemption amendment bill, the warehousing goods bill, the woods and forests surveyors bill, the Windsor forest bill, the Irish hops importation bill, the Grenada loan bill, the lottery bill, and the stage coach bill, were read a third time and passed. Upon the latter, Sir John Sinclair took occasion to observe, that the provisions of this bill did not appear to go far enough to satisfy the wishes of the public. But yet it formed an additional arrangement to those already existing, which he hoped would operate to diminish the evils complained of, as to the number of passengers, particularly outside, upon stage coaches, and the general conduct of the drivers and guards of such vehicles. The honourable baronet added, that this bill was only meant to be temporary, and that he would, very early in the next session, call the attention of the House to this subject, in order that endeavours should be made to establish a more eligible system. Mr. Caley presented, pursuant to order, a return from the commissioners appointed to examine the public records of the country. Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. Mr. Glover, from the commissioners of customs, pre sented an account of the number of ships, and their tonnage, which have, within a certain time, cleared out for 4 R2 the the coast of Africa, from the several ports of this country. Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. Mr. C. Wynne brought up the third report of the commissioners appointed to examine the civil affairs of the navy. Ordered to lie on the table. The House having resolved itself into a committee upon the consolidated fand bill, Mr. Vansittart moved a clause of appropriation. Lord Folkstone observed upon that part of the account in which it appeared that 41,0107. 6s. had been paid for the discharge of Mr. Pitt's debts, although the words of the address voted by the House upon this subject contained these precise words, "a sum not exceeding 10,000/.” Mr. Vansittart remarked upon the insignificant amount of the difference alluded to by the noble lord, and stated, that this difference might be considered the result of the order, that no deduction for fees should be made upon the sum originally granted. Lord Folkstone said, that to overlook such a difference would be to establish a precedent, tending to justify the minister in exceeding the grant of that House, in apply ing a sum of the public money beyond that which Parliament or that House might authorize. The noble lord also noticed some incorrectness in casting up the accounts, upon which this bill was founded. Mr. Vansittart referred the noble lord to the journals, in which he would find a similar difference to that of which he now complained, and that in the case of the illustrious Chatham, which difference was afterwards sanctioned by the House of Commons. After a few other remarks from Lord Folkstone and Mr. Vansittart, the resolutions were agreed to, and the report was ordered to be brought up the next day. Ordered, on the motion of Mr. Paull, that the accounts which were ordered on the 224 and 24th of April, and the 12th of May last, relative to India, should be laid before the House forthwith. Mr. Paull observed, that the papers, the expence of printing which was the preceding day moved for, were, he thought, included in his motion upon the same sub ject. However, he was glad that the honourable general hl, in his absence, taken occasion to supply the omission." Sir A. Wellesley stated his reasons for the motion refer red red to, to be simply that the total expence of the printing should be at once before the House. BARRACKS. Mr. Robson rose, pursuant to notice, to call the attention of the House to the accounts on the table, with respect to the expenditure of the public money in the barrack department. In times like the present, when the national expenditure was no less than one million and a half weekly, when the national burthens were rapidly increasing, and likely to increase still farther, he did not think it necessary to make any apology to the House for attempting to occupy its attention upon the subject of the flagrant abuses, which he had no doubt of being able to shew existed in the department to which his motion would refer. It was now nearly two months since he had felt it his duty to mention this subject in the House, but at that time he was by no means so well acquainted with the mal-practices which had prevailed for these ten years past, as he had since become. He was now fully satisfied that the statement he before made was even below the fact. The House would recollect, that, when he brought the business forward, many gentlemen seemed to doubt the correctness of his information; and that in consequence of such doubt, he received a check that was calculated to discourage the prosecution of his object; but no such check should ever avail to restrain him from the performance of his duty, or to damp his feelings in the pursuit of the public good. However, notwithstanding this check, it turned out immediately afterwards that the rectitude of his pursuit was recognised even by those from whom the check proceeded. -For the noble lord (H. Petty), whom he now saw in his place, but a few days afterwards, brought forward precisely the same motion which, when proposed by him, was rejected. But at the time of that rejection, he was fully persuaded that the noble lord was not at all aware of the enormous abuses that were going on, and it was but justice to that noble lord to say, that he immediately afterwards applied himself to a diligent investigation of the subject, and the result of that investigation was, that the noble lord found the case much worse than it had been described by him; in consequence of which discovery, the noble lord took the course already alluded to, and did him the honour of copying his motions. Now it turned out that the rent |