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IMPERIAL PARLIAME.YT

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Touivoat, Pirnit 45.,
Their Lordships met this day, p.rsuaut to their lad ad-
journment ?miaow, to the Esser recess, wad forwarded • f-w
Private Bilis, which were before the. House, in their respective

stages.
Mr. Johnson, from the Irish Secretary of States Office
presented an Ac. °ant of the state of the Pions in Ir d tort for '
the year 11104:, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Pada-
ment —Which were ordered to lie on the Teale.
The iehop of OXFORD moved that the Order for their
Lordships going into a Committee on the UillTeriM.l Advow-
eon Bill to-morrow, be dtiearged ; which beteg done, it
was ordered, on the further Morton of the Reverend Prelate,
that the House should resolve itself into a Committee on the
said Bill on Mondly next.
A Private Bill was brought up from the Commons by Cul.
Stanley, and read a fird time.
The hearing of the Irish Appeal Cause, Osborne Y. Cox.
was fixed for the 16th et May.
Some papers respecting the Appeal from the Irish Court of
Chancery, Card r. Burton were presented. at the Wit, and
orderei to lie on the
The Leath Harbour Improvement B:11 we. brought up from
the Commons by Lord Atoning, and teed a first time.
The Bart of SUFFOLK called the attention of
the House to a topic which 11,- deemed of considera-
ble importance, and in some degree connefted with a
bill (the bread assize) which had recently received
the Royal Assent ; and therefore not a proper sub- •
jest for animadversion. He regretted, however,
on revolving in his mind the whole of the informa-
tion, which, either lie had collected from personal
observation, er which had been conveyed to him
through other channels, that important business had
called him from town for a few days, and so pre-
vented his delivering hi: sentiments upon the subjea.
while the bill alluded to was under their Lordships
consideration. What he had now to call the attention
of the House to was, the present very high price of
bread in the metropolis: he stated before, that he had
heard, that bread had been sent into town
from the counter for sale; but thil be afterwards
understood had been done chiefly by vs individual.
who was in want of some ready money ; beo daring
his late stay in the country, he rn that bread
WAS generally sold considerably lower th en is town.
About Cheltenham, Tetbury, and other places,
which he visited, it was sold at is. the qeartern
loaf ; it was now at I s. 4.1. the quartern loaf, which
made a very grew difference, and was a matter of
important consideration, and a most serious one to
the poor. The principal cause of the 'breasl being
' at this very high price in town was, he understood,
the praaices of *number of mealmeneand
who resided at a distance of between 13 and 20
miles from the metropolis; some of these were very
wealthy men, reputedly worth from 100,0001. to
200,0001. and of course had a great command
of money ; these were informed by their es-
presses, at given times, of the .soft state of the
mat lets, and by their unprincipled proceedings,
for such be considered thee", seined the yeses.
of the articles in question, to their
This was a consideration well worthy the serious at-
tention of the Legislature, and, in the way of re-
medy, he would beg leave to suggest that 'which
struck him as likely to be the most effeaual. and
this he would also press to the attention of the
House: what he thought would be the most likely to
countered the proceedings to which he adverted,
was, that Government riwuld establish public ma-
Uazines, for the reception of corn, &c. ; suppose at
xbridge, or at other places about a similar distanCe
from town, and thence to•supply the markets of the
metropolis, as occasion [Mesa require, at reasen-
able prices. He would content himself with gene-
rally suggesting this remedy, and calling the atten-
tion of the House to the subjea, not proposing, at
present, to offer any motion upon it.
A short conversation of au explanatory nature
then took place between Lord W A LSI Mellen arid
the Earl of Sur FOLIC ; the former Peer stated, that
the third reading of the Bill adverted to hat beers
deferred two or three days in consequence of what
had fallen from the Noble Earl on a former night
but that, having subsequently understood from Lim,
that he had been satisfied upon the point, and had
no objeaion to the further progress of the Bill, he
had therefore moved the third reading of the Bin,
on the day on which it had taken place.
The Earl of SUFFOLK, in reply, explained the
naturcof the different informations he had received
upon the subjea, and which had induced him to
proceed as he had done.
The LORD CHANCELLOR quitted the Wool-
sack. He admitted the great importance of the
subjea to which the Noble Earl had called the at-
tention of the House ; but begg,, 1 leave to • 'serve,
that it was by no means affetted by the operation
of the Bill adverted to by him, which merely went
to a regulation of the Assize of Bread.
Adjourned till to-morrow.

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110tTSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER, on the Howie being assembled this dayi'
informed them, that His Majesty had bean wait• rl u; on with
their Address of the 11th inst. mul'hud 'aein viciously ',eased
to receive it on the Throne The answer was,. that he alwars
received with pleasure the dutiful addremes of ha+ faithful.
Commons, and alit he wa, Cully aware of the mgr0.,46011 of
the objets to which the present Addicts plea, •:
Mr. GARROW, and two other new M -whets, took he
oaths anal tneirsests.
Mr. Johnson, from the Chief Secrtwart'e /Mire in '•-land,
presented wintol Public Accounu, winch went unl..red a. lie oat
the table.
Mr. MAY mneed, that the arenuist cif the D.W.a. T di?nit
lowed by the Ranker Ireland, and laid before that House, be
printed; which was agreed t

IRISH SMALL NOTES.
Ivor. LEE adverted to the present rules prescribed
by law, for the issue of small Rank Notes in Ire-
land; by which it was enjoined, that no, private
banks should be allowed to issue notes under three
guineas value h that country. The clfed of such a
measure Mutt nibviously be highly detrimental to
trade in general. The farmer could not, on ac-
count of the scarcity of specie, sell a small quantity
of corn there, to the nuotint of 40s. or 50,. mien he
could, which Was very rlyely the case, give change fi r
a three guinea Date, and the same ditti.ulry Was fail