§ The House, on the Motion of Mr. Spring Rice, resolved itself into a Committee on the Consolidated Fund Bill.
§ Sir James Grahamrose to move an Amendment to the Act relative to the naval service. By the terms of the Appropriation Act, as it at present stood, all services performed within the year should be paid within that period. Now, it often happened, that sailors who were on a foreign station could not be paid within the year. He should move an Amendment, the object of which was to make the practice and the words of the Act conform to each other. The navy estimates were divided in eighteen votes. Eleven of them could be applied exactly as directed by the Act, but the seven others, including seamen's wages, the cost of victuals, and the freight of convict ships, could not be paid at the moment the quarter became due, for there was often no person to receive the sums due at that moment. He moved an Amendment with a view to meet that difficulty.
§ The House resumed; Bill reported.