25 FEBRUARY 1832, Page 15

GOVERNMENT PLEDGES.

IN a debate on the Army Extraordinaries last week, a conversa- tion sprung up respecting Swan River: Mr. Hums insisted that a pledge had been given, when the grant of 270,000 acres was made to Mr. PEEL, that no expense would be incurred : the pledge was denied by Mr. GOULBURN and Sir GEORGE MURRAY. Would it not be very desirable that, in all matters of public ex- penditure, when any estimate is proposed to the House, and any promise on the part of Government is given on the subject of ex- pense, the pledge should be regularly entered on the Journals, and signed by the parties making it? It is very awkward for one gentleman to affirm that a pledge was given, and another to deny it.