superannuated, military, 318,1521.; superannuated, civil, 50,074/.; Ireland, 90,3137. The differences between the grants of the present year and the last year were-ordinary, 13,1027. less; extraordinaries, 23,2791. less; unprovided, 7761. more; superannuated, military, 1,5991. less; superannuated, civil, 1,4787. less; Ireland, 6,3161. less. The total sum required this year was 1,199,000l. The reduction from last year's amount was 45,000l. Then, deduct from 1,199,000l., the sum required this year, savings in 1820 and 1821, 38,000l., and presumed amount of sale of old stores, &c. 91,000l., and the amount which the house would have to vote stood reduced to 1,070,000l. being less than the last year's vote by 130,000l.

48,000l. for the expense of the establishments of the Tower and buildings in Pall-mall. 7,000l. for the royal laboratories. 8,585l. for salaries and increased salaries and allowances for persons employed in the civil establishments of the ordnance of the first class. 12,271. for salaries and increased salaries of persons employed in the civil establishment of the second class. 812,0957. 19s. for salaries, and increased salaries for length of service, to officers of the civil establishment. 241,235l. Ss. 9d. for the pay of the royal regiment of artillery. 29,4351. 7s. for the royal horse artillery and riding home troop, and 2,9997. 10s. for the field-train department. 6,9371. 58. 9d. for the pay of the medical establishment of the military department of the ordnance. 6,0591. 10s. 3d. for the royal military academy at Woolwich. 1,4667. for treasury and exchequer fees. 140,464/. for extraordinaries.

97,839l. 5s. 5d. for the ordnance in Ireland. 307,401l. 4s. 6d. for allowances to superannuated, retired, and half-pay officers, and pensions to widows. 10,7511. 23. 1d. for the same head of service in Ireland. 43,817. 10s. 2d. for retired allowances to civil officers; 6,256l. 13s. 3d. for the same service in Ireland. 100,0007. was proposed for barracks. Agreed to.

The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow.

On the motion of Mr. Wallace, the warehousing bill was read a second time. It was ordered to be committed on Friday next.

The reports of the committees of ways and means and supply were received, and agreed to.

The other orders of the day were then read and postponed, and the house adjourned.

House of Lords, March 18.The Earl of Liverpool laid upon the table, by his Majesty's command, an additional article to the treaty between this country and the King of the Netherlands, relative to the slave-trade; also papers relative to the supply of stationery in Ireland. Ördered to be printed.

The King's property and national debt reduction bills, were read the first time.

The yeomanry corps and lime exemption from toll bills were read the second time. The Irish arms bill went through a committee, and was reported without any amendments.-Adjourned till to

morrow.

House of Commons, March 18.— On the motion of Sir R. Wilson, accounts were ordered of all sums paid in shape of fees, &c. at the

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court of requests, Southwark, from the 1st of August 1809, to the same month 1810.

Mr. Canning presented papers to the house, which, he said, related to the slave-trade. This country had a subsisting treaty with his majesty the King of the Netherlands for the abolition of that traffic; and two additional articles had lately been added to the treaty, as would be seen from the papers which be presented by command of his Majesty. The first additional article to the late treaty was to render the circumstance of one slave being found on board adequate proof of the fact of a slave voyage, and to facilitate the reception of oral testimony for the condemnation of the parties; and the second article was to make the proof of the fitting up of a slave-ship evidence of her having been engaged in that traffic. The King of the Netherlands had acceded to both articles, and a formal exchange of them had taken place. The government of Spain had also adopted them. He was extremely sorry, in the discharge of his duty, to add, that to neither of the articles had the Portuguese government given their concurrence. At present he should content himself with moving that these papers be printed. Ordered accordingly.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer called the attention of the house to his Majesty's present of his majesty's late father's library to the nation, and after remarking upon the splendour and munificence of the gift, moved that the papers relating thereto (the letters and the treasury minute) be referred to a select committee to examine the matter thereof, and to report to the house.

The motion was seconded by Sir C. Long.

The committee was then appointed.

Mr. Maberly moved the following resolutions. The hon. gentleman then read the following resolutions, and concluded by moving that the first be adopted :

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"1. That all duties on windows, imposed by 48 Geo. III. and subsequent acts, shall cease and determine.

"2. That all duties on inhabited houses, imposed by 48 Geo. III. and subsequent acts, shall cease and determine.

"3. That all duties on male servants, imposed by 48 Geo. III. and subsequent acts, shall cease and determine.

"4. That all duties on licences to coachmakers, and on four and two-wheeled carriages, (except on taxed carts,) imposed by 48 Geo. III. and subsequent acts, shall cease and determine.

"5. That all duties on taxed carts, imposed by 48 Geo. III. and subsequent acts, shall cease and determine.

“ 6. That all duties on horses, ponies, and mules, imposed by 48 Geo. III. and subsequent acts, shall cease and determine.

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"7. That all agreements compound for duties with the commissioners of assessed taxes, under the 59 Geo III. and subsequent acts, shall cease and determine."

He was seconded by Sir W. de Crespigny, and supported by some other gentlemen: the first resolution was, however, negatived by 94 against 48; and the rest without a division.

Mr. Jones moved for leave to bring in a bill to enlarge and ex

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Dr. Phillimore asked leave to bring in a bill to repeal an existing statute which subjected a clergyman to five pounds penalty if he omitted to read the act of parliament against profane swearing four times a year in his parish church. Leave was then given to bring in the bill.

Mr. Hume rose to move for papers connected with the income and expenditure of Ireland.

1st. For an account of the gross and net revenue of Ireland for the year ending the 5th of January, 1823, and of her total expense for the same year.

2d. For a return of the exports and imports of the port of Dublin for ten years preceding the year 1801, distinguishing the amount of each year; and for the same account for the ten years preceding the year 1823.

3d. For a return of the tonnage of all vessels cleared outwards and entered inwards at all ports in Ireland, distinguishing the amount as to Dublin, for the ten years prior to 1801, and for the ten years also prior to 1823.

4th. For the account of all fees

received in the council-office, and in the chief secretary's office, for the last two years.

5th. For an account of all fees paid during the last five years, by the government of Ireland, to the attorney-general, the solicitor-general, and the rest of the crown counsel of that country.-Ordered to be laid on the table.

The mutiny bill was read a third time, and passed.

The report of the committee of supply on the ordnance estimates was then brought up.

Mr. Hume rose for the purpose of protesting against the scale on which the ordnance estimates had been framed.

The house resolved itself into a committee on the Irish grand jury presentment bill.

After a few words from Sir John Newport, the house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on the 9th of April.

The house also went into a committee on the marriage act repeal bill.

The house then resumed, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow.

The Irish tithe commutation bill was brought up, as amended, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 21st of April

next.

Mr. Hume gave notice, that he should to-morrow move for a return of the number of persons who had been prosecuted for blasphemous libels.

The Welsh judges' jurisdiction bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 18th of April next.

Mr. Brogden presented a petition from Oxford against the insolvent debtors' bill.

Mr. Goulburn presented copies

of a correspondence between the government of Ireland, the judges, and the commissioners of inquiry. -Laid on the table. Also copies of the bills of indictment preferred against the Dublin rioters.-Ordered to be printed. He also presented copies of orders in council relative to apprentices on board British merchant vessels. Adjourned.

House of Lords, March 19.The royal assent was given by commission to the assessed taxes' repeal (Ireland), assessed taxes' reduction, transfer of aids, Scotch creditors, and Chancellor of the Exchequer's (Ireland) bills.

Several petitions were presented against the insolvent debtors' act. Marquis Camden presented a petion from Rolvenden in Kent, complaining of distress.-Ordered to lie on the table.

The Marquis of Lansdown thought that after the failure of negotiation with France and Spain to avert the war, the whole of the papers relating thereto should be laid upon the table.

The Earl of Liverpool entirely agreed with the noble marquis, and said it was the intention of his Majesty's government so to do.

The bills on the table were forwarded one stage.-Adjourned.

House of Commons, March 19. The Shadwell church bill was read a second time. Petitions were presented against hawkers and pedlars-the cottage tax at Dumbarton-the repeal of the Union duties, from the potteries of Armagh-the local taxation of Dublin-the equalization of the duties of East and West India sugar, from the West Indies-tax upon coals.-insolvent debtors' act.

. Mr. Wilberforce presented a pe

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tition from the society of Friends for the gradual abolition of slavery. The petition was ordered to be printed.

Mr. Canning asked whether it was the intention of the hon. member to found any motion upon the petition.

Mr. Wilberforce said that it was not, but that such was the intention of an honourable friend of his.

Mr. F. Buxton then gave notice that on the 22d of April he would submit a motion, that the house should take into consideration the state of slavery in the British colonies.

Mr. S. Rice moved, "That the 9th and 11th reports of the commissioners appointed to examine into the courts of justice in Irelaud, the letters of the lord chief baron, and some other papers on the subject of those reports, be referred to a select committee, who were to report their opinions and observations thereon to the house." The motion was agreed to nem. con., and the committee appointed.

Mr. Hume, adverting to the number of prosecutions which had been instituted by a society calling itself the Constitutional Association, and the Society for the suppression of Vice, who had, he observed, usurped the province of the king's attorney-general, wished for a return of the number of such prosecutions He would not go into any details at present, as his motion was only preliminary to a future discussion. He then moved for "a return of the number of individuals prosecuted by indictment, information, or other process in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the 31st of December, 1812, to the 31st of December, 1822,

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distinguishing the following particulars--whether prosecuted by the king's attorney or solicitor general, or by any other person or party; whether the offence was libel, sedition, or blasphemy; the name and residence of the individual prosecuted; the county in which the prosecution took place; and whether the party was tried; if tried, whether convicted; the date of the conviction; also the sentence and its date; the time when the party was released from confinement; and if not released, the reason why detained."

The motion was then put, and agreed to.

The house, upon the motion of Mr. Lushington, having resolved itself into a committee of supply, a vote of 602,000l. was proposed for the army extraordinaries of the year 1823. 253,000l. for the commissariat department of Great Britain. 82,000l. for the commissariat of Ireland. 1,100,000l. for payment of the interest of exchequer bills. 40,000l. for public works and for the repair of public buildings. 5,000l. for defraying the expense of prosecutions for coining, in the year 1822. 25,000l. for defraying law charges. 62,000l. for defraying the expense of convicts at home. 18,000l. was voted for the establishment of the Penitentiary at Millbank. 3,000l. in support of the national vaccine establishment. 40,000l. to meet certain bills drawn by his majesty's governors and others (in conformity with the orders in council of 1808 and 1817) for defraying expenses incidental to the abolition of the slave-trade for the year 1823. 22,650l. to make good the deficiency in the fee-fund of the treasury department. 15,000l. for

making good the deficiency in the fee-fund of the home secretary's department. 20,5381. for ditto in the

foreign secretary's department. 13,363l. for ditto in the colonial secretary's department. 16,086l. for ditto in the department of his majesty's privy council and board of trade. 10,000l. for contingent expenses, and the payment of messengers' bills in the treasury department. 10,9967. for contingent expenses and messengers' bills in the home secretary's department. 39,0261. for ditto in the foreign secretary's department. 1,872. for ditto in the colonial secretary's department. 2,2381. for contingent expenses and messengers' bills in the lord chamberlain's department (this last vote was for the present withdrawn.) 5,250 for defraying the salaries of officers in the receipt of exchequer. 9,0407. for the salaries of the commissioners and clerks of the insolvent debtors' court. 1,0581. 5s. for professors at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge for reading lectures. 15,4461. for expenses of the house of lords and house of commons. 23,2371. for salaries of the officers of the houses of lords and commons. 4,800/. for the lord chamberlain's department. 50,000l. for secret service money. 10,147. 13s. 11d. for printing, by order of the commissioners for carrying into execution the measures recommended by the house of commons respecting the records of the kingdom. 17,0001. for printing acts of parliament. 3,500l. for printing 1750 copies of the 78th volume of the journal of the house of commons. 3,500l. for printing votes of the house of commons. 881. 88. for deficiency in last year's vote. 20,000l. for printing