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CATHOLIC DIz.ABILITIES.

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FOREIGN WOOL DUTY.

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The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock.
COAL DUTIES.

11IDES AND SKINS.

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The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented a petition from the
Roman Catholics of Caniek.on-Sitir, in the county of Tipperar►,
prapng to be relieved from the disabilities under which they M.
bout, in common with the other Catholics of IrelancL—Laid as
the table.

PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND).
The 31arquis of LANSDOWN moved, that an humble Ad.
(Ire.% be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be plew.ed
to order a copy of the Reports of the Civil Engineers to the Irish
Government, relating to the public works in Ireland, in the year
1811, to be laid before the House.—thdered.
BOUNTIES ON FISHERIES.

The Marquis et DOWNSHIRB presented a petition from the
boat owners, fish curers, and °thus. of .trdglass, in the county of
Down, praying that the bounties on lishrrirs may not be removed.
—Laid on the table.

Lord CALTHoitTpriTs;nteti a petitio TfToni the wont-growers
of Abinghani, in Suffolk, praying foe a continuanco of the Duties
on foreign wooL—Laid on the table.
I:A3IE LAWS.

Lord CALTHORP presented a petition from the Magistrates
of the County of Suffolk. praying their Lordships to make an
amendment in the Game Laws; and stating also that they wished
to be relieved front the exercise of duties in their official capacity,
rendered peculiarly irksome by the present state of the laws.
Lord SUFFIELD stated, that he had received a petition of a
nature, from the Magistrates of the county of Norfolk, and
feelin as he did the propriety of the prayer of it, he would sup.
port the petition of the Noble Lord.
After a few words from Earl GIIOSI'ENOR. in support of the
petition, in which the Noble lord entreated the House to make
some amendments, during the present Session, in the thane Laws,
The petition was laid on the table.
SILK TRADE.

The Earl of WESTOIORLA ND presented • petition from
7.000 inluhitants of the parish of St. .Mathew, Bethnal r.r en, proe-
ms; that the Bill now before their Lordships, for the repeal of the
reitrlctioms on the silk trade, may not pass into a law. The petition
►rued, that it would tend to incrrise pauyeirm to an alarming ex-
tent ; and utoler all the circumstances of the case, he requested the
Noble Earl opposite (Loudentole) to postpone the consideration of
the measure until linable Session, when the new laws relative to
this trade would have been in operation.
The Earl of LAUDERD.ILE
_observed, that the Noble Eari

was wrong in supposing that the of the new laws on this sub-
ject rookd be known next year, as the Act would not tyke tercet
until Ind& He should be much obliged to the Noble Earl (West-
• morland) to look over the names of his petitioners, and sec if a
great proportion of them had not signed the petition that had been
presented by the Noble and Learned Earl en the IVoolssek a few
days since. 1:e did not like to mention names, lest he should
bring individua Is into danger; but to stew their Lordships how
little :hese petitions were to be depended upon, he would mention
an instance of a poor man who had rtfu ed to sign the petition that
had been presented by the Noble and Learned Earl, and on the
day after his n.fusal, his name, and those of his wife and children
were attached to it, in a neat clerk's hand ; and so zealous had been
the party who bad written these names, that they had given the
man two children more than he had ever possessed, in order to
swell the number of the petitioners. How many bad signed in this
wry he did not know ; but he should be sorry if that 61. any House
of Parliament should be instruments to such a conspiracy.
The Earl of WEST3IOR LA ND said, that whether this was or
was not the ease, the people's minds were alarmed, arid he did
think it impolitic to agitate them unnecessarily at this time.
The petition was then laid on the table.
On the Order of the Hay being read for their Lordships going
into a Committee on the Silk Trade Bill,
The Earl of HARROtVItY observed, that after the decision
their Lordships had conic to in the lest Session of Parliament with
respect to the restrictions on the silk trade, be rout I not avoid ex-
pressing his surprise at the Noble Earl introduemg his present Bit'.
To the yowl so he had put on a f enter ocauion to the Noble Lord,
why he should wish to persuade their bolds:tips to come to
a different opinion now to that whisk they tame to last year, he bad
received en satisfactory answer. Foe himself, he could see no Tea-
son for prematurely apes:log Acts under which the town had en.
joyed a long course of tranquillity, a d the trace hey regulated had'
flourished. Under hse consluerations he so !hi move, that the !
word ,t now" be left out, and that their Lordships go into a Com.
rnittee on the BUI that day six months.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE did not expect the opposition
that had been made to this measure by Node L 'ids oppotate ; and
the argument of the Noble Earl as to the eau iunlity of the town
and the flourishing state of the mitotic ure fanjet these restrictive
statutes, if it were good at all, wt u'd poly to other manufactures.
Why should not Manchester, for in lance, be placed under the
saute emulations with regard to its manufacture, as the diuritt
of aphid:kids •es with refereneeto its trade. The fact was, the
error of the system was glaring, and it could be supported by Noble
Lords only because it was an error of long standing.
The Earl of WESTSIORLA ND thought it too much to risk
the peace of tto metropolis with these theoretical speculations,
wan the trade to which they referral was flourishing. He sin-
eerely wished that the Noble Earl opposite would mix a little hu-
/Lanny with his philosophy, and not drive those poor people to de-
spair by the premature introduction of a measure that they think
would be ruinous o h sns
Their Lordships then divided on Lord Ilarrowby's amendment,
when there appeared
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Majority for the house going into the Committee —6
On our re-entering the House, we found their Lordships in a
Committee on the Bill which was reported, ordered to be engrossed.
red fixed for a third reading on Friday next.
LAW STAMPS REPEAL BILL, &e.
Their Lordships went into Committees on the Law Stamps Re-
peal Bill, and the Passage Vessels Regulation (between Great
Britain and [reboil) Bill, which were reported without amend-
mat 3.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, MAY H.

Mr. M. A. TAYLOR. presented two petitions from Sunderland,
ra tying for a reduction of the duties on coals carried coastwise.
.11r. COKE presented a similar petition from Diss, in Norfolk.—.
Ordered to lie on the table.

Lord bOWTllEiiprt;;niCria ittiWonfrom the tanners of
Wilitehaven. against theduties on hides and skins.
Sir K.
ners of Ho!ywell.—Rcferred to the Committee.
EQUITABLE lA)AN BILL.
LOCKH A R'l' presented a peti'ion from the pawnbrokers
st [rondo'', against the Equitable Loan on the table.
INTERCOURSE OF SPIRITS.

Mr. H. DRUMMOND presented a petition from Sterling, fora
froe inns-mime of anirita between Sim land and England.
Mr. MONTEITH present d a similar petition front Linlith_
goi..—Ord.red to ha on the table.
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" Mr. ILSE was desirous of knowing_ what the intentions of
Government were relative to the spirit trade of Scotland ?

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.Flr. 111:1t!tllsi said, that it was the intention ot the Chancellor
or tr.. Es:Ott:quer to int:Wm.:come system of free tia.lc in %pinta
between England and Saulasol, bee so snowy impediments were to
be overemie thaett one found impossible to do anything in the
my:et Awing this Session of Parliament, but that the subject
be taken up early in the seta.
NEGRO SLAVERY.

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est. BAOWELL profaned a petition from Roteres, against the
• trot..

Lam K. NNE RS presented a similar petition from Lough-
borough.— (inbred to 1k an the table.
LINEN BOUNTIES.

Mr. V. FITZUERALD presented a petition from Clere,agaiust
r,:prel the hum hour:Neg.—Laid on the table.
ATTOHNEVS"fAX.

lls. V. Pi TZVER.II.II.t presented a petition from the Attor-
nye of Emus, against the attorne►i tax.—Laid on the table.
BEER BILL.

Mr. WHITMORE presented a petition fart the licensed
victustiers of itidEurth, against the Beer Bill.
Mr. I.11"f LETI,N presented a similar petition from Stefford.
Me. NV I": LI, presented a similar petition from York.—lte-
teernd to the
PRIVATE (I)3IIIITTEES.

Mr. HUM E gave notice, that on Thursday next he should move'
that it be aisi:e one of the standing orders of the Holm, that no
Member sheidil vote in a private Committee oil a nicastire in
which he was personally interested if challenged by the opposite
party
PA LAMIIA Nli PRIZE-310NEY.

Mr. if U,IL present... 4 a petition from some persons interested
in die prize.murev for the capture of J'alatnbang, in the Clot In-
dies, which was taken in the yeir 11;12. The petitioners stated that
they were r:ftrrt-cl :tom the India House to the 1 reasury, and
front the 'free-Ary. hack again to the India House, and mad gtt
nu butt of sa-i.laction. He thought it a disgrace to the country
that prire.inuney should be PA) long in arreas.
I,ird STANLEY Willelured in what bad fallen from his lion.
'cm, and he trusted that the petition
would meet with attention in the
he payment of the Deccan prize.
- --rust be twine misapprehension
were many difficult points in'
cleared tip by the parties them-
inn from the petninntlS which
Itich alone the delay was attri-

wiii7-cht.dibteilewas3l rain betr Aben a
to pnxnt n;
pt ey was it We to a ttiotil n theaprops quarter. The delayJ iretvinplirt
Mr. Il kit I; i said, that there no
t• part ut tic p:tltlolltrit. There
trn which could only be clear.,
vei.ra. Tbey retiMrcd information
tiwy had failed to ftaniab, and to Irbil