§ MR. HUMEbegged to ask the Under Secretary for the Colonics whether any measures had been taken in consequence of the Combined Court at Demerara having separated without voting any supplies beyond the 30th of September?
§ MR. HAWESreplied, that the period for which the Court had voted supplies had not yet expired, and that, therefore, no deficiency had occurred. The determination of the Combined Court to vote supplies only for a certain time appeared to have arisen from their dissatisfaction at Earl Grey's refusing his assent to certain reductions of expenditure which they had proposed. That noble Lord had, however, stated most distinctly to the Lieutenant Governor of British Guiana that he would be ready to give his most earnest attention to any well-considered system of reduction and economy which had been calmly prepared, with something like discrimination and justice, but that he certainly could not sanction an indiscriminate resolution for reducing the salaries of all officials 25 per cent, without any regard to the nature of the duties they had to perform.
§ MR. HUMEsaid, a specific resolution had boon proposed to reduce the salary of the next Governor from 5,000l. to 3,500l., and upon that the whole question turned.