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11.4RI.LIMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.
IIOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY it.
. Mr. Tomlin', from the Treasury, presented Accounts of all
Veva.ls laden with Corn and other Grain that had entered the port
of London during the year 1824.
On the motion of the Earl of LIMERICK those Accounts were
ordered to be printed.
Mr. Farren, from the East India Company. presented an Ac-
count of the Number and Rates of the Ships that had entered the
East India Docks during the Tenn 1823 and 1073.
QUARANTINE LAWS.
The Earl of PARSLEY wisheu to know why the accounts re-
lative to the Quarantine Laws, for which he had moved on a pre.
elan evening, had not been laid upon the table.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL 'aid that the matter WAS not Con-
nected with hta department, and therefore he could rot tell the
reason, but he woooke inquiries on the subject.
The Earl of DA RNLEY.observed that he should not trouble
their Lordships farther on this subject, until the Bill to which he
had referred Came down Prom the Commons.
Colonel Lygon and some other Members from the House of
Commons brought up three private Bills, which were read a first
nate.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
The Marquis of ANGLESEY presented a petition against the
dorms of the Cau.olies, nom the (entry, Clergy, and Dissenters of
the county of Anglesey ; and another from a borough is the county
of Stafford.
The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition to the same effect,
from the borough of St. Ives. in the county of Cornwall. The
Right Reverend Prelate observed that the petition was most re.
spectably signed, and among others by the Mayor of the borough.
The hORD CHANCELLOR presented a similar petition from
the town of Denbigh.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented a petition to the same
effect from the Merchants, Bankers, Atuficers, and others of the
city and eidnity of Glaagow. signed by 13;0110 persons; and
surothet perinea from the liiloderators and Members of the Pro.
%incite! Synod of Ross, assembled on the 19th April 11.26.
The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S presented peutions to the same
'Feet from Cardigan, Narbon, Fishgunril. Whitehurch, and several
perishes in the counties of Pembroke and Cardigan.
ffrI,OROSVENOR said that he bad Testerday presented a
petvbon from Congleton, in support of the Catholic claims., bio he
had b-en erroneously stated to have presented such petition from
Alsnellester. Now he only alluded to the petition )hat had been
previously presented from Manchester, and did not present any
petition from that place.
Toe Bishop of CHESTER said he had a petition to present
I-0.11 the town to which the Noble Earl had just alluded—the town
otCongleton, to which the names of almost all the respectable in-
heitants, amounting to $OO, were attached. It contained the sig-
natures of the whole of the corporation, with the exception of the
Mayor and one Alderman, He felt it necessary to allude to the
observations of the Noble Earl who presented the petition lest
night, and to state. that the petition he Oise Bishop of Chester)
new presented was agreed to at a public meeting, which was sum.
monfd by widely-serecd laand.bills, and was far from being a
r-otiggled petition as the Noble Earl had said. lie had reason to
believe that the petition the Noble Earl presented contained. the
alnatures of many children employed at the mills, and that it
!Tamely contained one respectable name out of the 270 affixed to it.
i!e had reason to know that the sentiments of the people of Con-
WCIOO were hostile to the claims of Catholics, at least in the pro-
portion of six to one, and that it was the same through the great
manufacturing district in which this town was situated. The Right
Reverend Prelate then presented the petition.
Earl 0141)SVENOR said that he knew there would have been
many more signatures to the petition he had presented if more time
had been allowed to sign it.
'The Earl of SRA F'ftISBUILY presented a petition to the same
from Linlithgow.
Lord AUCKLAND presented a petition in favour of the claims
c' the Catholics., Irvin the Protestants of Tipperary.
Laud KENI'ON prentoted a petition against the claims of the
Cesholies, from the Rev. Thomas Sibthorp. The Noble Lord said
that the petitioner was err. individual connected with the University
ut Oxford, and that the petitioner stated, that if tl.e Bill now
before Parliament were allowed to paw. into a law, he mild not
mice the oath of supremacy, and should be consequently deprived
U+' that chance of preferment which lie might otherwise expect.
Pe prayed, that if their Lordships did pass this Bill into a law,
they would add a clause to exempt the clergymen of the Church of
Eogland front taking the Oath of Supremacy; and lie added. that
the plowing of such a law would be robbing the Established Clergy
of their coestitutional rights.
The peutiCio was then read.
Time petitions were severally laid upon the table.
CORN LAWS.
The Earl of 81 A LMESBURY moved for returns relative to the
Importation of corn front Canada during the years 1823 and 1824 ;
els* for a copy of the minutes of agreement between Earl Bathurst
and the proposed Canadian Company; also for accounts of the
crown lands exchequered ; and also for accounts of the quantity of
Canadian corn disposed of since the year 11320—Ordered.
EQUITABLE LOAN BILL.
Lord EXMOUTH presented a petition from Southampton, In
favour of the Equitable Loan
Viscount DUDLEY and WARD presented a petition to the
same effect from the journeytnen bricklayers and carpenters of the
C:ty of ben I ie.
Lord COLCHEs'FIiR presented a petition of a similar nature
from the borough of Colchester.—Laid upon the table.
DISSENTERS' MARRIAGE BILL.
The Bishop of CHESTER presented a petition against the Dis-
senters' Mani age Bill, from the Clergy of the Deanery of Borough-
bridge, is the Diocese of Chester.—laid on the table.
Mr. S. Wortley. Lord Stanley. Lord Binning, Mr. Spring Rice,
and other Members from the House of (;ounrnoos, brought up
:several Private Bills, which were lOW 4 first time.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
Sir John Newport brought tip the. Catholic Relief Bill. The
Honourable Baronet was accompanied lw Mr. Brougham, Mr.
Plunkett, Lord Milton, Lord Stanley, Mr. Wynn, Sir-11. Par-
tall. Mt. Spring Rice, aid several other alembers of the House
se. Commons.
On the motion of the Earl of DONOUCHMORE, the Ca-
tholic Relief Bill was resit a first time.
The Eirl of DONOUOH MORE then said—My Roman Cs-
thOlie fellow subjects have for a long time placed petitions in my
complsinlng of the disabilities under which they laboured,
It':Cl praying of your Lordship, to remove them. I ani sure, then,
that your Lordships will believe the sincerity of my satisfaction in
welcoming from the other House of Parliament the signal prof of
jcstioe and conciliation which I now behold upon your table. I
aril not at the present time trouble your 'Lordships with any farther
observations, but I could not forbear saying so much at receiving a
Bill so thoroughly anti so well conceived in all its parts. On so
important a subject I know your Lordships ought to have as much
time as possible to consideration ; but ss the circumstances are
somewhat peculiar, and as the recess is drawing so near. I feel the
necessity of not postponing the second nntling of this Bill longer
than Tuesday next. That day. l understand, will be agreeable to
the Noble and Learned Lord on the IVonbuick, and equally no to
me Noble Friends, and on that day I shall move it.
'The Earl of LII'ERP(4)I. said that the usual course was to
move first that the Bill be printed, and to give notice that if thei
prints were oo the table, the second reading would then be moved. '
The Earl of DONOUO}hMORE then moved that the Catholic
Re ter Bill be printed, and that their Lordships be summoned for
Tuesday neat.
The LORD CHANCELLOR put the question, and the Bill
was accordingly ordered to be punted, and the Peers to be sum-
moner tor Taesday nest.
The House then Adjourned.

HOCSE OF CO3I3IONS, WEDNESDAY, MAY
LEITH DOCKS BILL.
Sit G. CLERK brought up the Report of.the Committee on the
Leith Locks Hill.
On the question that it be laid on the table,
Mr. KENNEDY said he thought it was a partial Report and
ought not to be received. The Bill itself was objectionable from
bong an interested speculation of private persons, without the
st.ghtest proholatlity of public good, and the Report, as his Honour-
aLie Friend below (Mr. Abereremby) could inform the house, was
not the resole of fair examination.
Ala ABERCROM BY said that in the Committee upon this '
r.:11, the majority of those who voted on the lust day had not heard
either the eindence or the Counsel employed by the parties. He
.hourht it his duty to state this, after being referred to by his
honourable Friend, because he considered such methods of coo-
oucting public business.; tognly prejudicial to the country, and very
le,tortous to individual Interests-
Mr. BROUGHAM thuoght his Honourable Friend deserved
the thanks of the House for ininging under their notice a
tog of ibis description, vtte% be mid nu limitation an d tig to
be one of 170., injustice. Hut it was not the first instance of the
xind which had occurred in Use. present session, and he now gave
moth), of his ititention to introduce son c measure which might pro-
tett the country from the cattlewncs, or it might be (fur he thought
he ought to use the word) the corruption (11=0 of those who
managed the paldic butineati m Committees.
hue G: CLLItK agreed with the Hanoureble and Learned Oen-
ticoleti its to the impropr;ety of conducting public business in the
muntier de robed ; but he could at the same tome assure him, that
no Committee could we more tree from such imputations than that'
one whose Report he bad just brought up, and he thought the
Learned tietuteman ought to hare waited to hear the facts of the
are before tie indulgri nonsell in such general censure. On the
i.,.t day of attendm,te, 25 3lernhere hart se,teil for the Report and
sly S
agionst is ; and he :child assure the House, from its personal
knooknlge, that a greet proporti,m of those who voted then had at-
tended pretty generaby the sittings of the Committee.
AB/UK:ROM BY to expLination observed, that lie had
Atletaitti us. an last day to cute nis objections to the course which
/144.1 been pursued. bat be (moist. !row Lt,t number of Members in
,itendmice. that it would be I:l:poceible to cffeet any thing against
tar opinions of each a majority.
Ali. Lc NDI.3 auil .31r. SedZs condemned the conduct of such
I totatuitteos, and eapressed their opinion that it was highly prrju-
whial to public interests.
air R. ICRUCSON objected to the Htport, not only because
t)cntleinen t... 1 voted upon the Committee who never attended be-
ioti, but bemuse ttseCammittei ins composed of Gentlemen from
the sister kingdom, at.d frosts the c'entre of Enghand, who could not
be sapposei to-understand any thing of the affairs of our sew-ports,
we cots,przliend thoroughly th.: evidence, et= if they bad taken the