MR. RICEtook the opportunity of reminding the Government of the propriety of improving their harbours, particularly upon the southern coast of England. The French Government had proved themselves very active in this respect, in the improvements that had been recently effected in Calais and other harbours. He trusted that that feeling of pride for their naval superiority would induce the Government to devote their immediate attention to this subject. He knew he would be told that this was not the time for entertaining such a subject, because of the vast expenditure that they were obliged to encounter under the present disastrous state of Ireland; but he still did not think that this subject could be with safety much longer delayed, and he could only express his surprise that it had not been before attended to.