The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
IiOUSE OF LORDS.—Tassimv, Jvs 17.
The Loan CUANCRLI.OII took Ida mat at O. o'clock.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
Navtoamon Laws —By the Berl of LONSDALE,
from Whitrhaven, and Lord STANLEY, from Liverpool,
complaining of the repast of the airtleatios laws.
INCUNBERED ESTATES (IRELAND).
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bate( to Ow werkhwt of
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The LORD CHANCELLOR dehmisil the practice of
the Court of Ineumbered Estates, whisk was in mos I
amass@ with the practice of saw Norte is tie Visited
intakes In the Comet of Chissely it yea the cat- 1
Mau practice to give shod ewer peeephomee, and every
Mead lath causes in the order which to the court seemed Se
The Reel of GLENGALL explained.
The motion was then agreed to.
NAVIGATION LAWS.
Lord STANLEY, an presenting the petition from 1
Liverpool, raid he was 111111b0111 to give to her Majesty's '
meat an opportunity, upon a question of great '
, of explaining to the house the course
they had taken, and intended to take, upon mat-
ters ea which they had asked parliament for, and
pawned at their request had entrusted them
via, Wye discretionarypower. The petition he held in
Rh toed mast technically be taken to he the petition of •
:121;individuii, es it was signed by Robert Rankin,
e'lan of the Liverpool Shipowners Association. It
mat be taken so representing the deliberate opinion of the
shipowners of the port of Liverpool, and it entered with
more than usual formality into the subject. It did not
emanate from a body tneetiug for the purpose, but it was
banded oa the report of a committee appointed to inquire
Into the writ+ of the case. The petitioners stated that
they were the owners of a large amount of British ship-
ping, end that in common with other shipowners they were
at, present greatly suffering from the act for repealing the
navigation laws passed in 1419. They stated that all the
apprehensions which they had entertained with regard to
the injury which would he done to their interests—and
wken speaking of their interests he begged also to include
the interest. of the eountryat large—they said that all the
iinesions consequences which had been foretold had been
mere than realised. He slid not contend, nor did the peti-
tioners, that upon the whole the foreign trade of this
oorntry had been reduced, nr that the foreign trade bad not
been increased sinev the posing of that act, butthey coin-
vistaed that the amount of freight bad been so reduced,
and that the re bad nut been fair and equal competition,
but that there bad been a competition in which they
billowed under great disadvantages, end that the freight
was so 'Agee& especielly on long voyages, as to be almost
wiremenerative. Although there had been an increase,
the advantage hod been derived, not by the British shippers
principally, but by for, ign shippers trailin,„: to this country.
The law CAW' i-ito op 'ration on the le, January ISIO, and he
held in his hand—taken from the papers furnished by her
IrajeetJ'e goeernment—a return of yeseels entered into and
etemeM out of British pens since that period. Ile WWI quite
aware that these table: did not represent with perfect acce-
ssory the amount of the tonnage inward or outward, because
be was aware that there were great fallacies in the returns
made &Awe the act, inasmuch as on a single voyage of each
vessel the separate tonnage had been calculated but fir
the purpose of compering one period with another, the fal-
lacies being equal, the statement furnished was sufficiently
asearate to get some idea of the matter to which he was
going to call attention. The noble lord then read the fol-
lowing table :

TO PM.. 1444. ISIS. lASI. logreme.
TOY Imatir 1,17Y,4b1 .....4.421411111...-11,111,414 41427
Of which Valtal Demos.

4,020,113 4,111.121.—...4.•,73.914 31 IN I
lamest
1.4044111, ..... 1,330,001 1,1111.11311......1,1103,132 131,3311
Biala . ... 14,112. 17,111 23,717
CIAAMIII7SOTWARS% 1eet044..
3,031,11/..-1,411,108 _. 4201.971 477,070

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