The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-04-17 00:00:00

%ad the Roman Uatholtee Übe slue 7—lord they cone. . m a tt e s tneee offences. or, rather, did their coins& any ~,fr o ce, hoe that of worshipping tiod accordiag td the, dictates of their cvniseience T--o(Hear.)—The principle of exclesion, therefore, on hecount of religion solely.' was a new system. they had ant meek, lit front their aacettors. If their Lordships were to go back to the time of Eliubeth, they would find that Roman Catho lics not only were not excluded from political power. hat that they filled oflt:es of the highett trust under `that Pri mess. Thin was then a ittrong Rbtnan Catholic party in the country, and a Roman Catholic rival to the throne; yet Elisabeth did not take her confidence front them. She was afterwards excommunicated by the Pope; yet this circumstance did net alter her behaviour towards the Catholics. When a rebellion broke out, she seat Lord Howard, a Roman Catho lic,. to the North to quell it.—(tlear, hear,hear ) —When the Spanish Armada threatened this coun try with an invasion, and when it was known that ?hilip undertook the expedition from religious motives, Anal that the Pope apt.rored of it—whom did Elizabeth. :house to command the fleet? Lord Howard, of Effing ham, a R ttttt an Catholic—(flrar.)—She also placed a Known Catholic as Governor of Dover Castle, and at lengths conferred upon Lord Howard the situation of Lord high Admiral, an office that is at this day thought too high fur a subject to hold.—(Hear.) — Whilst the Roman Catholic Peers were excluded the (loose here, they still etrisiosed in the Howe of Peen, of Leland. The reign of Charles 11. was the hest opportunity the Roman Catholics could have, and vet they made no use of it. Such an opportunity :could never occur to them. Besides the Church of England was not now more indifferent to its interests, nor were its defenders weaker than they had been in that reign. Eves in those times the Duke of York had dith.ulty in getting himself excused Crum taking the Test Act. By the terms of the truly of Kilkenny, tin oath was to be imposed on Irish Catholics but that of allegiance. This measure had the effect of pacify ing Ireland. Tu this day the Church of Scotland did not take the oath of Supremacy. But then it was said the sect': Hies given by Roman Catholics con sisted of oath:', and Roman Catholics, it was said, were not to be believed upon their oaths. The Bithep of LONDON (as we understood him), stated that his observation was, that the oaths of Ca tlsolics would he taken, with a reservation in favour of the duty which thee owed to their own Church. The Marquis of liti:KlNtillASl contended that the Rev. Prelate s construction of the oath led to the concha lion which he had drawn. It, h o wever. the Legislature thought Roman Catholics unworthy of credit on their oath, they ought not to have obliged him to take the oath of 1797, where all the tenets of his relig' were set out. For his own part, he had no ohjectiou to bare Ail oath amongst the secoirities ; lint he appealed to the good sense and feelings of the Hoese in favour of this measure, and lie asked any Noble Lord to put his hand to his heart, and say that it ',Quid not pass sootter or Inter.—(clear, hear.) —If their Lordvltlps then were I on vtiwed that sooner or later this measure •houlil be adopted, what he would ask their Lorildtir, was lb.• use or what could be their object in postponing' It to a feature and re mote period. Were they to overlook any means for se citen, the trantrili•y of the country? Were they to risk the tranquility a hich the country at present enjoyed by the rejection of this Bill ? Who was there moors their Lordships who could _pronounce with any certainty on the state of Europe ? won't! then, In bur's name, intreat them to give their Roman Catholic fellow sub jects an interest iu the preservation of the Constitution, and to employ and strengthening i t , and not doom them to perpetual exclusion. The Bishop of CRIES l'Elt next addressed the Howe. but i,n a tone so low as to be for some time inao , able in the Gallery. 11 e ituderst oil his Lod sh p to say, that h • opposed this motion from a eon vietion th it the Roman t atliulies were already in full an i complete possession of religious tolerati..n. las objection was nut to the inal:vi.suals, but to the rel.- give'. It was an established •loctr:iie atie , ngst that there was no salvation out of the trier (or Ca tholic) Church. This was thei: belief. or if not wh, was it held as a liratuns r . ff awn ov r our beads ? The Catholics looked to the Pope at the head of their Church, but according to the doctrines of the Church of England the King was the sup. elite head of the Church.— (Hear). By the law • stablislied in !Ott it was enacted. that the King and tiovernusent of the country should he essentia!iv Protestant. by the same law it was enacted, that the Peers and sitting in Parliament should be Protestant, and %lambi swear to support a Protestant aseendorcy in Church and State. Not" lie conceived that those oaths were tutally irreconcilable with the doctrines of the Church of Rome. According to the law s to which he hail alluded, the Pope sir Mahe!) of Rome could h.ite no jarisdiction isithin these realms: but the rroposcil Hill would allow of an interteretice contrary to the spirit of that law, and a greater anomaly could not he introdured into our legislation.--(11e.al). fleiiilis they hail nu reason to believe that the Roman CAM. hes of lreland would rest satisfied with the proposed concessions. When their Lordships recollected the concessions made to theCatliolies in 1;93, they c not lelp perceiving that their increase of appetite lad eronn by what it fed on. '('lie Right Reverend Pre late, a ter gime Aservit:ons upon the introduction of J. suits i han.slied from Russia) into this co nicry, con .eluded by expressing a hope t: at the pace and b oppi ',less of this Protestant country should no' he again distnrhed by the agitation of a question %chug' opened athicir to such dissention and i ritat ion. Tile Bishop MJUW It I' supported the Bill in a t‘peecli of same lenzth ; hut in Ctili4Vlplelll'e ,•t the icelthe :one. we 'egret we aonld catch hut a Sere tete of his .d4eivations. We understood him to s that lie *el i;out now appeared ammo , : their Lordships. exclui elec t that ihaestion was Mon t :ht thrum hr alwaysonxioas to support, because he it a :,easnse of justice towards the Roman Catholics. anti ' mt'lswrc of polity and expediency with regard t.• •`l' Aire at largo, It the Peels:mato I burets 00014 i " ). • im maintained without isollietiuo• thieot rvstrictioas •na On our fellow-sn:jects, it w ..s an argu ment that the establishment was not sound. Ile slid -not brio re that. 'Time reptiied DO ands nap ?'" • lie believed the Church to he • stahlistied tilt the purest principles, and he if:rennet Isis life fur - he mointenauce of lier doer tines. It was lit Iler 71 0 '11:r el the Clergy, more tlean .Hy others, :19 give . .11.:!Ity to the Protestant Church, and that oat not P"rig jealousies and tlic;stssott•, bat by their 4 " 4 " 4- ;OA forbearance, and disposition to coned- - *: l ' . * 7 he Right Rev. Prelate combined his aro ai..uts. were entiitly inaudible to us. ~~. or' ar c ..f r sw wok; si e ? ? 0 ' M 0 2 gor. it 1.1 ° 4 04'1-7 0 0°14. Lord RIORSDALIS said. ba suety milt in the country a political party. The Utmost Ca then& ante a aumeroas sect had a strong political body. They were more than any others swayed ht, the °phial& df theltleaderk and be would airm that •no man. wbil. belonged to that religion had the possession of his oarlik conscience. The Bill halm the [louse alluded to thoIPI4MI truant Church in Ireland and to the Preshykstias• Church in Scotland; but forgetting the principles on which both were founded, was calculated to *adenosine both those establishments. It did nut directly repealalt the laws by which those establishments had remained hitherto secure; hot by a sort of side wind it invaded them, and nnikingroom for the human Catholic Choech aimed a deailll blow at the Protestant establishment. — n di. ect opposition to the Statute of Elizabeth, that Bill Pprovided that the authority of the Pope of Home should te must fully recognised within this realist. They were then shout to subvert the principle which their ances tors supportel!and acted upon in 16;11. It was said to be uncharitable to exclude the Roman Catholics merely be cause they were Roman Catholics ; but they were ex cluded by their ancestors for no other reason hat be came they were Ronson Catholics. The framers of that Rill thought securities necessary for the safety of the Protestant Religion. All parts of the Bill recognise the necessity of such securities, and there was none to rtfee tnal as the security which the laws had already coal. fished, namely, the security of exclusion. The Roman Catholics would never be satisfied. If the right of sal (rage had not been conceded to the Roman I atholito. that Bill meld never have some up to their t When county Members at elections in Irelanirl h att l themselves advocates for the emancipation of Roman Catholics, half those who heard than smilesl, because they knew that to be the voice of their Catholic consti tuents. Instead of conciliating, the Hill would be pro ductive of irritation. 'flee Roman Catholics would not stop with what the Bill granted, they wont.' go farther. In Ireland, his Lordship said, the Rom in Catholic Reli• gion was on a different footing fruits that in this conntre, for there they have a hierarchy ready cut anti dry to enter into position. The Noble Lord concluded by moving that the Rill he read this day six months. Earl lIA It ROW 131 felt more surprised by the tone of many of the Noble Lords who had preceded him than by their arguments ; in thew bole course of which they contended that the Established Church of this country was to be brought into danger by the propodietl cots cessions to the Roman Catholics. Not yielding even to any tor the Noble and Reverend hi inch in attach 111# Ili to the Established Church, or zeal for its pre eervation, yet he could see mu tlanzer that could pos sibly arise from the Kill then itelote the liouse. Could he be persuaded that any risk might he incurred from the passing of the Bill into a law, so tar from supporting it, he would not only vote with the Noble and Learned Lord for postponing it six mouths, hut for its utter and irrevocable rejection. Rut, instead of danger, he contended safety to Church and State would grow out of the 'Leasure. Amongst the mane objects sure to be attained by tho Bill , it was not an unimpertant one that all b.... 11 feelin_:s would be there by terminated and removed. Ihe principle of the 11111 he apprehended to be, to grant to the It mien Ca ths lies every thidig that could he granted consistent with the senility of the t hurt+ Awl State, and he would maintain, that not one of their Lordships should vote against the Bill, who nas not prepared to prove 'qv noticing ought to be conceded by establishing 'he existence of clanger front concession. Much bad been said of the intolerant tenets of the Roman c o rk.. lie Church alit! Prelates, and the doctrine of exelitelve salvation. Were they Roman Catholics only who maintained that t!ocirine ?—(Hear.)—Could the Pro :estatit—the Preebyterian Church deny having pro- f Lassa siusilar doctrines. Protests had been coterie' into by the latter against et hat they called damnable doe trit es—atiti these w.•re the tenets of Presbyterianical. 'o to the period of the Union of Scotland to Eee .atil they remained unchanged. During . the this , u•- sion of the Union a solemn representation was Itemlr by the Church of Seutlandl_ against that Artie'r which pros idea for the security of the t•iturch of E.telantl un accomit of the guilt that would thence be incurred. There were then in Pas liament sixteen Peers, anti lone lier Co Cr' Presbyterian-, and an En.:!ish Ecele sias:ical Peer declared, that were he to live to see that I'M tn carried, lee should have outlived all the later, and nearly the Constitution of the countr%•.— Tl.e Act of Union did pars into 111 Is t*. Both flosses of Parliament—every place in Etiglaiel were thrown open to the Presbyterians, and more was done, solos.- tpiently. for rounding the int, rests of the Establish .di Church than ball been done before.—(Hear.) — Were the Bill now before the House to pass, not more than six or seven Roman Catholics would he eligible to seats in that House ; and, having thought it his duty to intuire, lee had ascertained from the best authority that there did not exist the most remote probability ut more than fourteen or fifteen Members of the Roman Catholic Religion being returned to the House of Commons, and what danger was tobe apprehended friett that trAing nLitsber in that floats', eustaining. .' i. did, six hundred and tifty-eight Members: —When the laws against Witeheraft were repealed. Witchcraft itself also ceased: and if the abolition of the laws against papery in Ireland, %VAS to Csllow that has lately passed against Witchcraft in Ireland, the dangers of both would he quieted alike. The Catholic Freeholders in Ireland were at present on a level with the Protestant FaTeholders , a n while such political potter was grante d to the peasantry, why should proportionate power be refused to the rich and estlightened among the Catholic body ? Or why, as it was often and iatpressively stated, %induld a perfet nal re :lining fee he held oat to the Catholic Ilarristers for sedition and disaffection, by placing beyond his reach the reasonable objects of his and'oitiou ? The Noble Lord concluded with expressing his litres tli-t their Lurdiehips would treat with slue res . tect ti. cision of the other H ouse after mature deliberation, and that whatever their (it'll vote might be, they would allow the ineasitre to go into a Committee, and thus satisfy tae public that they were uot influenced in taeir decision by prism or Ir . ...prejudice, or by any considerations inconsistent situ those whirls should ;,!hence the conduct of temperate and etsli;litetted S;atesmen.—kliear, bear.) 'Ode Earl of LIVER Pill 11. said he should he 4,, r ey st any individual in or out of that House sla usl.l go . s way with an impression. that it was nut iitten.led to ive thie question the (idlest -poseillie. aiseenssi tn. kerefure Ise Aosta wove the a djoartouctit ot t he Jebate. The debate was accordingly aellonened to •Isis day. The House then ifisijouree 4 at Uses o'Clock ::sit HOUIIIeOr‘VMMONII.-11011 DAT, Antis. IS Mt. 831tTH brought up the Report ti( the ton Itlection Voissosittee, confirming the decision of a former Committee. watch stated that the right of election *as vested in the borough.—Ordtred to lie on the Uttr. Mr. W. DUNDAS presented Petitions from certain ipertbasts of gainbargh, and the Chamber of Com tierce of that town, complaining of an act of last Ses sion regulating the commercial intereoure between Ilreat Britain and Ireland, as affecting their interests. and praying fur the revision of some clauses in the sai Act.—Ordered t,. lie on the table. _ Mr. D. IiILISBRT brought up the Report of the Londus lustitutiou Bill, and the several amendments were then agreed tO. Mr. S. U. WHITBREAD presented a petition from the fresholdersof Middleses, praying for Parliament ary Reform.—Laid on the table. Mt. iLLICIL after adverting to the Polity elf re tainitig Canada, on wltieb be said be Shook% give its opinion, moved that the petition be telliatml to the Committee en Foreign Trade. Sir R. KNATCHBULL objected to the matida, as tending to prolong the labotivs of the CAnomittee, it being desirable that they ithstabl Rake their Report as soon as possible. Mr. ELLICE said a few words, and the 00t10111 was then agreed to. On the motion of Sir H. PARNRLL; the Hilybead Road Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW, the At• torneys' Admission Regulation Bill, and the Bills of Etteliange Bill, were read a second tune,' and ordered to he committed. Sir T. BARING wished to know from the Right Honourable tientlentan the Chancellor of the fixchr• goer, whether the present Chairman of the Committee for the Auditing of the Public Accounts. had relit • quished his situation ; and whether it was the intentio:i of his Majesty's Boverameet to put into his situatio3 the son of a Noble Lord ? The Hon. Baronet bore tel.- timony to the merits of Mr. Serjeant Praed in the situa tion. which he nnderstood him to have expressed hls intention of relinquishing, if he bad met already rt. Aagned The CHANCELLOR of the EXQHEQUER said, the only answer he could give the Hight Honourable Baronet was, that he believed MT. Serjeaot Freed had relinquished his situation, bet he was not prepared to answer the other question of the Hon. Baronet, as to the appointment of a successor. TIMBER DUTIES. Mr. WALLACE moved, that the House resolve heel( into a Committee on the Timber Duties. Upon the question that the Speaker leave the Chair, M P. (MANI' rose to move as in amendment, that this snii:ect he referred Id a Committee o f the whole House, to consider further thereof. He con tended that a sum, amountin7 to no less than 600,0001. a year, was paid by way of drawhadk, partly to the American Colonists, and partly to the Emperor of Rossi* for the purpose of forcing the people alibis coun try to go to a market to whirl , they wonld otherwise re ject. lie 'wild nut but regret that the first practical measure of the Committee on Foreign Trade, was one hirh in olvrol a total violation of every sound principles of political economy. Such was the injury which accrued to the people of this *wintry, and all the evidence went to sbew that the Timber Trade to the Colonies was a trade that produced nothing to the owner of 1110 soil. Another effect of the measure before the Hoes. was to usake this conutry tributary to Rossi& to the moonlit of II;0.1100/. a-year, because we chose Russia to export her deals to ns, in preference to Norway. He 1.410 110 reason able gronnel for taking au large a sum out of the pockets of the people of England, merely, as it seemed, to enable the Kos,' tits to wake .is much money satin. Norwegian , . Ile could not regard this as a party question, hut merely as a question which had &onsets entirely out of the ttoiraeulooss mistakes of the Right Hon. (gentleman op posite, Ile trostesl the. House would consent to go azitin into the Co.ositittee, and reconsider the whole subject, before this Hill passed into a law. He should propose a duty of 21. a load upon Hattie timber, and 3/. as. on deal, the deal I ring charged by its cubical contents. The lion. Member concluded by moving, that the !loose re ve itself in'o a I:ominittee for the further cousideration o f the ditties on timber. Mr. WALLACE argueol in support of the opinion which he had formerly stated its referenc.t to the ques tion. Ile thought that the preeretioa which tb' Bill offered to the Colonies was nor beyond what was con sistent with a due regard to the interests •f the coun try. With respect to the shipping interests, he con tended that protection to them, within certain Unlit., should be part of the policy of the country. Ile ob jected to the mode proposed by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, of taking the nwasureinent by the cubical contents. It would have the curet of giving a mo nopoly to Norway. It would reduce the duty on Nor 'w iv Timber from 22!. to I while it w,sulil that on Russia Timber to 301. Ile eunoitlered the in 'crests of the Sawyers nut connected with this ques tion, becaus,: men who worked by the band coo .1 it lie no real interest in Making' l'ollllo.lo cause W1:1 0101110 who worked by machinery, as in the sa v. milk in Scotland. Ile was, o m tie whole, of opini..3 that 2/. was as much as could safely be laid upon 1- - million Timber. Slr. W. SMITH supported the Amendment. Mr. MAR RYA / supported the original tion. lie thought the Colonies had never been pro tected so far as to give them a decided posuseion i-f the market and he was of opinion that Norstay was extr-mely rayon eel. Mr. K. DOUGLAS dial not agree with the Mover of the Amendment, nor did he altogether approve if the Ile , olution, as neither of them were calculated 11 give that equal and full competition which was pr..- reseed, until some time should have elapsed. i:e therefore intended to move iu the Committee, a closote which would remedy the *Select of which he complaito. , l in the Mil. Sit W. DE CRESPDAY said a few words Dot atOible. Mr. tiLADSTONE argued in support of the systr:Li prop:mord oy the `fill, as equitable and beneficial. Mr. BENNET thought that while different mercan tile interests were contending for Cieir several systms of ditties, in reference to Norway, Russia, and ate Colonies, the consumer, or in other words, the people of England, ought notto be forgotten. It was they ‘vho were to pay tile duties. He did not care a far thing fur Norway or Russia, as regarded commercial preference, but he thouzlit time iuterests of the peopls of this country ought not be sacrificed to enrich any canting, base, aud• blood-stained despotism.—(blear.) The motion fur epnimittiug the Bill was then agreed to. Wit/1011( a dll/1.1.01. Mr. KEA I'll LAS postponed his Auieudni• of to a future oprortimity, 1 tie House then revausici t iand the Report ordered t 3 be received to-morrovis- ' • Mr. BATUI.: EST hestiid • S‘'sslc au 'Han. Meonl '-r (Mr. Boston). whether it walikli;a iutentiou to p pone his m .:i..1, which ciseed . fohMednesolay, as t..' :e was inter - in oiati to be g;von.itiettie subject,.ot which the Hells? ht to he its pooseeosiosi. Mr. BUN I i 4%, as sic unaiwstood. agreed to p st pJtie his iotioso. • •. CONIMITTEI: OW .143PPIN. On the motion of Lord .PAIMIIIIISTON, !! . .e !loose went Into a Consuddee of Soefly, whet •.!.o Army Estimates were tat i ohinto 4 csonsideratioss. Jmrd PALMERSTON wortsf`tlio SUM et 6.414/- for t!s. w^ teal (I,:p.irtase:o. and allosiaite N clerhy , 1281.1Rii LAWS. Mr.Sergt.ONSCOVii);ougisiina Bill fur repealing the Usury Lows. Mr. DAVENPORT opposed the Bill. Mr. Serzeatit t)NSI.4JW vindicated the measure, and c , ted some authorities in support of his arguments. Si', R. HERON spoke against the Rill, and •aid be should oppose it in every stage. He wished the second re.stling should be postponed to a convenient time, in or ler that the subject might be taken into mature con sideration- Mr. BAIN°, and Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW said a few words, after which the Bill was ordered to be read a second. time on Friday, the 14th of May. tiener4l HART presented a petition from the parish 0 Cinnough, in the county nt Donegal, in Irehtill, complaining that the farmers there conl.l get no marker for their grain, in consequence of the siistre.sed %Lae of the agricultural interest, and prayinz for the lteensiag of small stills as the best whole of r:•;ief that rouli he adopted.—The petition was ordered to lie on the table l and to be printed. Mr. M.. 1. TAYLOR gave notir , -, that nn IVetlntoulay the 34kh of M ty, be should move for lean• to bring in a 1 Rill to alter the Administration of Justice in the Court of Chaneery, and the appellant juris , liction iit the Ilan-e of Lords, with the view of affording more effectual re . lief to suitors. Mr. T. WILSON moved for certain returns of the dots. on Soap.—Ordered. Irlee lion. Member then moved fur returns of the , polisher and weight of all Iti,les imported front Itttssia, :sitter the year 1t515.--1 /Merril. I Mr. SCION presented anti supported a petition from I the Merchant.' and Ship-owners of HMI, pr.iyinit for a repeal of the Duty on Foreign Wool.—Laid un the j table. PARLIAMENTARY REEORM. Mr. LAM PION presented a petition from certain in habitants of the town of Belfast, in Ireland, stating th a a groier t injurious to the charac ter of the Ilonse prevailed among the people in come opener of the faulty state of the representation. As an instance of the undue manner in n bids members wrse returned, they sail that the Corporation of their ono ton it. in %illicit body twelve individuals claimed all aothority to themselves, sent a Noble Lord to the Bouse contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants. The pra y ed I 6.r Reform, and the restoration of the queen to all her rights and privileges. The lion. 31entioer proceeded to state that the Mayor hail declined calling fate Meeting at nhich the petition was agreed to. Ile then went on to comment generally on the grievances of Ireland, and a Iverting to the indifference with which, be said, the petitions of the people were treated, be expressed his hope that the Right Hon. Gentleman in the. Chair would address the 1141113 P on the necessity of RIO!. Altetell.lll being paid to the sentiments of the people constitu tionally declared. Ile thought that such an address avonl.l he attended with very good effect. I Mr. CIIICIIES*FER denied that the petition spoke the sentiments ut the great majority of the resiwczahle inhabitants of Belfast, nisi., he was COTIVIIII•ril, ha I hitilet :as expressed no opinion whatever on the filtration of Parliameicary Reform. The petition, lie meter stood. bad hem. agreed to by a few individuals as s rm . 10 0 41 in a Methodist seseeting-lionse near the town Mr. I,.‘M BTU N, in exit:atheism, %intl . '. died the re• spectahility of the petitioners, and quoted All extract from a ;...polar newspaper, the 1 rida.saitu. in Own= th at they had coo !acted themselves its the st.ntst proper t-sa Mt t. . ( lIICIIESTER explained. Ilse petition was then read, cud ordered to lie on the table. CALCRA FT, on the part of Sir John Newp•rt, postponed till Monday, the 9th of May, the motion of the Right Hots. Part. which stood fur toanor •.v, re specting the (•onsurissiotwrs appointed to import. Wu the administration of Law in the Courts of Justice in Ireland. Mr. ELLI('E presented a petition from certain Mer chants trailing to Canada, stating the injurious effects which they apnrebentleti from any alteration in therm-, ber Duties, moil praying that the Bill might not pass.— The Hon. Member made some observations in support of the petition. and said that if the measure now its contem platten with respect to the duties on Timber, should pass tato a law, the trade of Canada would be entirely de stroyel. The merchants of this country could not send out British produce to a place where it could find no market. The Canadians could not take nor merchandise unless we took their timber and corn. Ile should propose that after the petition was read, it should be referred to the Committee on Foreign Trade. Sir I. CUECIN took a review of the expenses incurred by our possession of Canada, and estimated them at 50,1,014)... a-year. Ile did not think that ....holy worth re- Limning the sooner we got rid of it the better. lord MILTON spoke at so me length on the distress whis..ll so generally prevailed. It would afford him great satisfaction to hear from an Hon. Gent:eman :Mr. limn+) that a Report from the Committee on Agrica'Attre inizht be expected before the Easter re eras, or immediately aftor. He deprecated the anat.' tnalous proceeding, of referring petitions on subjects of distinct interest to Committees appointed for particular p•srposes of a tliffenrni nature. The Noble lord then commented ou the isreoosisteney 1.; some Scowls Mein lwrs in voting against the Bill for the Repeal of the %Lilt Tax un the second reading. while they had sup- ! purls.! it in the first instance. Mr. GOOCH could not say at what particular time the Agricultural Committee would stoke their Report. Fite snhject was one of particular interest, anal the people I•nsked to the result of their labours will the greatest anxiety. It was probable that the Ittport might be laid before the Bowie very soon after Ratter. Mr. MARRYAT supported the prayer of the pe tition. Mr. HENETT thought that nothing could he more repre'wissible than a measure which was 'mime a t.Ol Of -ill 1,0901. a year on the corsonters ut oar prolre, merely to satisfy a set of interestel mer e:tants. NIA:tRYAT eiplaitted. ,51. r aa . I . ite I losav, data atijoucuel At Uue u'i: lock t:ith 1 ..:lit 0 0iitig. • . ) I r. UARRY AT elirlailiii. . . I for ill: ur:ical clitpirtreat. ami ailmittileas WWI/ as i • . . . ' iso 00 r