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SILK TRADE.

The Earl of LAUDliiiiiiLi-i-tiiitrd, that he then rose for the
purpose of bringing in a dial to repeal certain Acts of his late'
Moiety, relating to the Silk Trade. l'he Bill he should have the;
honour to prosiest to their Lordships wet almost the same as that
which bad received their Lordships sanction, and he would take
the bbtety of explaining to the House why he thought the pre.';
sent 818 would answer better than the one that had passed. ( rhe
Noble Parrs face was turned towards the woolsack, and in conse.
manes his voice was v:ry imperfectly heard below the bar.) We.
urdaretood his ler AO to say, that many persona who had been
toot zealous fur tb, restrictimis have already changed their opi.
rims; and the j. urneymen manufacturers, who still clung to the
resaktioes, wou'd rather see them all repealed than that which'
impelled muter. to employ their capital in London. That re-
:dr:aim the journeymen einsidered their strong hold, and they ,
would rather see the abolition of the whole take place, than the
one to whkh he hid alluded. He was anxious to account the Ins
ismdect to their Lordships in originating this measure, and this ,
was a swing motive that operated with him, lle did not share
the feelings of those who thought that the Bill' of the present j
aleatiou "(mold be destructive a the silk manufacture; but those !
who thought so • mild rather see all the restrictions taken off!
during this year than in 1526. The manufacturers look upon
the demands of February, March, and April, as the most important
of the yeer,asd by the present system that important petted oldie year
be interbred with, in bringing the Bill regarding Fre.nch silks
tars mosatioa at the precise m men the other was to be acted upon.
His principal object, therefore, in proposing the prevent measure
ra their Lordships, was to prevent the two Bil 4 coming into ope- I
ration at the same time; because, if it were adopted, his Rill
would be acted upon for a twelvemonth trevious to the other be.
ing in force, by which an opportunity would be afforded to the
maufacturers to make themselves acquainted with the progress
of the new system, before it was greeted by the Bill with respect
'to French silks. A year might now be given for a trial of that
system, and on that account be had drawn their Lortiabipe at.
amnion to the subject.
The Earl of HARROWBY thought it extraordinary that the
Noble Lard appetite should bare introduced this Bill, after their ,
Lordships had rejected the adoption of a similar measure on the
report of their own Committee.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE, in explanation, said, that as a,
pcinfol the altered annotate of many individuals connected with
this qomition, he would merely notice, that they used to come down
in great numbers when any discussion was expected on this sub.
jet ; lint that was not now the we, as they looked more favourably
moo the measure that he had the honour to propose, than the one
that brought the two systems in contact at the same time. The
Noble Earkwas under a mistake in stating that a similar memmre
had bees rejected by their Lordships, in consequence of the report,
of their own Committee.
The Bill was them read a first time.
UNITARIAN DISSENTERS' MAISRIAGE BILL.
Led DACILE presented • petition front Cambridge, in favour'
of the Unitarian Marriage BilL The Noble Lord presented simi-
lar Petitions from two other plea, the names of which we cotld
not learn; which were severally laid on the table.
The Bishop of SALISBURY presented a petition from the
Clergy of a diaries, the name of which we could not hear, pray-,
Mg that no alteration may take place in the law relative to the mar-.
eau of Diskettes.
The Bishop of CHESTER presented • similar petition from the
clergy OM Archiesconey of New Sarum ; as did the Right Re-1
verend Prelate froin the clergy of the city and vicinity of Chester ;
from the clergy of the Deanery of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire ;
trap the clergy of the Deanery of Bolton-IMMoors, Lancashire ;
from the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Rochester ; and from the,
orgy of the ,Arehdesconry of Bath and Wells, which were seve-
ralty laid on the table.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN, having moved that the Home
should gu into a Committee oo the Unitarian Alarelsgz Bill,
The 'Whop of CHESTER rate to oppose the mum. Having
sr, vaned their Lordships before when this qualm me imam thee
et m d molest, be should make but a few obsenatimeo the pram'
mason ; but in justice to his own feelings be was obliged to say,
ton the time that had beest allowed hint to consider of the measure
some it was last brought before mho it Lordships, Led only served to
motien him in his former opinions. Unitarians hod no solid
grounds for objecting to the marretze service. The dergyman give
the weeds of dm- Weaved Lard hinvielf, and therefore it um a
meltery far Dissenters to raise scruples respecting them, for by so!
doing they object to make woe of words in the eererhooy,
she t tey affindutingly apply in the baptismal. if tow Noble
Lord would shire him just grounds for scruples on the tart of the
Unitarians, he would vote for the Bill, audible all his influence in
tomeatug it; but he knew they could not. The Church of Eng-
land would be wanting to her high character, if she did not declare
the true ebb se it eras in Jesus Christ; and he would wok their
Lordships if the church had not taken every opportunity consist-
ent; with her faith in Christ, to meet the views of the Dissentersof
e sty denomination. He maintained that she could not have more
faaly considered the scruples of the Unitarians, if she acted ho.
coolly by her own establishment. If the Dissenters wanted pre.
-Meets for conforming to established rules, they might find them
in theticrlpturea, where the great Apostle of the Gentiles set the
Unitarians example, by assenting to the ceremonies of the Jews,
sad the meatest authority man could have MI done the same. He
bad ever Tound that cancesslon led toconcession, by which danger-
eus fns ovations crept in. The Church of England was • tolerant
•cirtireli ; but still toleration had its limits ; and although she was
oohed upon to allow person to worship God in their own way, still
she must take we of herself—for it must be never forgotten, that
the church was not a sect among sects, but an establishment, and
she mold net sorely give up her doctrines and her discipline to suit
the wishes of Dissenters. One stone after another would be pulled
away from the sacred fabric, until nothing remained of it. He
hoped their Lordships would not give up that church that had con—
Maimed so lamely to the_prosperity of the country, and therefore he
should move, Mat their Lordship. should go into the Committee
on stet day three mouths.
The Bishop of EXETER observed, that if he could conceive
that the doctrines of the Church of England would be endangered
by the present measure, be would not support it ; but thinking that
Me scruples of the Ilnhanuss ought to be considered, and that the
Chu:eh of England would be strengthened by its adoption, because
it would prevent thou who differed from her tenets being compelled
to join to her amnia, be should give his rote for the measure.
Amendments, be was aware must be proposed in the Committee.
Tie ekes that be had in view was to assimilate the present mea.
sure ha mush as wield. to that of the latit Session He thought a!
Masi ought to be introduced to prevent, as far as possible, clan-
destine marriages • and ameba clause, lie thought, would be of
adeantage, that Diameters should keep their own registry. With
eater aluorions be thought the Bill would be desirable, and there-
km shook{ vote ter going into &Committee.
The. Bishop of ST. DAVID'S ruse, when the cry of " Ques-
tion" be erne general. The Right Rev. Prelate, persevering in his
itursainstion to address their Lordships, stated that the doctrines
DI which Unitarians object were professed by the great mejority of
C.OfiLiDOD.• They might's well object to the Scriptures themselves
es to the Marriage Service. The objection would apply to the
whole dottrime of Claristenim. Ile should oppose their Lordships
gems into the Committee..
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY observed, that it was
true the Unitarians beef the existence of the Trinity ; and he!
mull ash their Lordships what the Church was eoatending Mel
the present system? a simulated wpart went on the ut the
padre
arlanato the marriage a:smutty. (Hear, hear, hear, from the
Opposition Benches.) It was neither atom mat km than repeating
the mike in one sense, and receiving it in another; a 'poem of
preeariatim that he must ever Moto:Atm (Cheering.) Receiv-
ing, as'he believed the nicaiure wood!, in the Committee, such al-
tam:tone as would make it free freed objection, lie should vote for
itegning into that stage.
The Champ of ST. DAVID'S and the Archbishop of CADTIL.'
lost Mutually txplained.
The Mirquia of LANsDOWN said that he should be sorry,
from what he had heard both in and out of the House, to allow
the question to be put without adverting to opinions that had been
gives respecting this measure ; particularly those that had been
_pivsuut of Mena, which were in complete misaeprehensios of the
RAI, add inconsistent with the law of England ; because, when he
hosed it laid that Me law should remain with regard to marriages,
as it did in the time of William—to that he would answer, if the!
law did exist at present, as it did in the reign of Wiliam, there
Mild be no ocessinte for an application (loin the Unitarians for
relit The law introduced bJyLord Ilarthecke, the tfigilleo. 11.
was an ineovation of the old law of the land, and placed Dim
sealers, 'and matieularly Uniunians, under restraints that'
had' not beere experienced. Lord Hs rdwickes was a bill to
Imam etardedne lutorttges, and it incidentl, brought Dissenters
wader the necessity of being included in it. the Right Reverend
Prelate (Chester) had said that concessions must stop somewhere ;
bet in the present instance no eamsaiiin was asked of the Church
of /England. It was declared not to be necessary to alter the
Liturgy ; and he we would repast no concessions were required from
the Church. It was to relieve her frotn the necessity ut admitting
POOTOM into bee Mau for the moment, and for the purpose of con.
wassenem. who did mot believe ia, her doctrines, and whom she knew
did sat believe is them. He had on a former occasion attended to
the observation of the Noble sod Learned Lord on the Iroolsack, j
but he could not find in them any reason for foregoing the measure
Mat he had brought forward ; and be was still less inclitted to
wen to the doctrine of the Noble and Learned Lord on other :
peseta to which be refund ea that mess on. There was strays a
dlcinetton taken between blasphemy and those who entertained a i
dab:mace of opinion am points 1 itch:trine ; although the furious

*way of a mob had caused one the first philanthropists of the
crummy (the Noble Marquis andel, we believe, to the tveatment
of Dv. Priestley) to be treated with die mo disgraceful indignity. •
IWhen opposition came from so high an authority as the Noble sad
Learned EarlOP the Wombat* to a Incas:ire that eppein.4 to him
so unobjectiormlee, he would ask the Noble :lord whether he
apprehended danger to the authority or revenue of the Church ?
The privilege now nought by the Iris:senors had existed in Ireland
for a length of time, and the clauses under which they exercised
(that privilege were much larger than those at present sought.
to: the An of 1711' was only a rotenone that confirmed an
Act of tieurge the Second, by which all Dissenters marriages
were declared valid. The only opposition to that Act e as,
that it was not such an Act as WILI that night objected to. as
! directed against the Establishment of the Church. That Bill ,
the House of Cotutr.oas in Ireland without
opposition. ,
,177171 Leeds an opposition and division wok place ; in which di-
vision a ta• c roman of Right Rev. Prelates were in: luded. The
Bishops a .0 divided on that occasion signed a protest, declaraory '
of their opposition to the Bill, because it did not provide sufficient
security against clandestine niarriagss, because it was not distinct
i res Ing renew. rod because it dal not as.itnilate sufficiently the
'I
r is of Dissenters with those of members of tile Establishment.
• le Church should get rid of simulated admission ; and feeling,
I
strongly on that point, lie wished for DO assent to his measure'
but the assent of the heart. Those persons who believed re-
-1 ligion to be a mere engine of Government, he could easily
I, Imagine were but little scrupulous in encouraging acquiescence
;in such n:atters, not carieg whether simulated or sincere ad-
I. mission of doctrine existed; but such proceedings were unworthy I
of a Christian country, and unworthy of a Protestant kingdom.
An amendment had been proposed, to which he should give no
opposition. He thought no preference was ehewn to the Dissenters
above the Protestants of this country. As to the amendment pro-
: posed by a Rev. Prelate, with respect to keeping a registry, lie
thought no objection could be made to that proposition, except as
'it might affect a general registry. The object of legislation was
• to make the ceremony of marriage as binding as possible, which
could only be weakened, If not dissolved, if at the moment of con-
feree by that obligatron, they were compelled to use words in a
• sense which they could not attnbute conscientiously to them. He ob-
',lend many force being used ; such force would only be injurious to
the moral character of those who used it ; it could not make con-
e vats, though it might create hypocrites. It was upon these grounds,
after the enlidity se this claim had, as he understood, been admitted,
' that he laid this Bill on the table, in order that they might go into
a Committee upon its envisions.
I The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the respect he felt for the
Noble Lord, and fur the Reverend Prelate, made it impossible for
' him not now to state the grounds upon which he never could con-
! sent that this Bill should go into a Committee. He did not say
' that no such Bill could be adopted, but with respect to the Mea-
-1 sure now befiwe the House, it was one, which, for the sake of
the Dissenters themselves, should never receive the sine-
lion of that House. After a long life, now nearly exhausted—
after all the experience it had conferred on him—after a long and
laborious attention to the subject, he must protest, for the sake of
I the Dissenters themselves, against any measure that had a tendency
to degrade the Established Church. No man wished more liberty
—no one a more extensive toleration to the Dieseuters than he did,
, and he was firmly persuaded that that toleration could only be en-
' joyed where such an Establishment as the Church of England ex-
isted. The Noble Lord would excuse him if he adverted to some-
thing that had fallen front him on a former discussion of the Bill.
He (the Movie of Lansdown) was pleased to find fault with
me on account of a distinction I then drew between the Uni-
tarians and the Dissenters. Persons denying the doctrine of
the Trinity, were exempted from the benefit of the Toleration
Act. Such opinions, however speculative, were not regarded as
the sentiments of Dissenters, but as. in fact, contrary to the Chris.
tiaa religion. A case mese in Westminster Hall, which was
argued below him by a peat man and a most profound lawyer,
fur whose opinions on every subject he had always felt the greatest
reverence; he alluded to the late Sir Samuel Readily. Sir Samuel
Roinilly, in arguing before him the caw of the Attorney-lieneral
and Parson. which was upon a petition filed to carry into effect
certain charitable object,. of the will of the testator—SOS. Remaly.
in that very case, did insist that the common law, with respect to
Unitarians, remains, as it originally stood ; that the doctrines they
professed could not be regarded as the doctrines of Dissenters, but
that they were contrary to the Christian religion. That with
to ether Mannino., the Court over which he (the Lord C )
presided would have been bound to carry the will into 111LOCUMS0 j
but that with respect to Unitarianism (so that great luminary of the
law was pleased testate it) he had as much authority to interfere as
be would to carry into effect some project fur the establishment of
Judaism. Ile trusted their Lordships would not think that he did
wrong in refusing to decide that question. He was sitting in the
Court of Equity, and not in a criminal Court, and the ground
upon which he put it was, that that charity was instituted before the
9th of William, but his decision did not in fact touch, for that was
unnewesary for the purposes in the cause, the objection of Sir ha-
Reuel Romilly. Raving made this explanation In vindication of
his own conduct, he should confine himself to the Rill WWI: He
thought it hail been pretty chaffy stated and substantiated that the
principle upon which they were called to pass this Bill was
such as would sanction the call, and make it utterly ha-
possible for them, withal( being guilty of pees and fla-
grant inconsistency, to refuse that oill—he meant that it
would authorise all the Diameters to all upon their Lord-
ships to pass a Bill, with a similar object to the prensist, foe their re-
lief. But it wan said that this Bill 111•11 *liiikii WOWS INV tad
done the Mae thing required by It he the Jens Neil Quakers.
But what had bees done 101' Jews and (linkers IN their Lordakips
see; and if a Bill with a similar object was Induced, they
would treat it accorningly. This was not a deg& MI requiring
relief for the Unitarians; indeed if be wee dieresed to de se, but
that was rather for a Committee, he would tear its perrisioes to
pieces. This Bill professed to relieve all who ilk tiwebis as to
the Trinity. But who wee they who held there tees ale ? Not
merely Unitarians, but Arians and Deists. But they wished to
make the Church of England a participator with these sects. To
such an attempt he would sq-
- - . Non bane movement nee in ono cede morantur.

In short he would not sacrifice to the policy stated in this Bill, the
paramount policy of the Choreh of England--to that sacrifice be
would not be accessary. He thought that a worse Bill than the
present had neves bemintriedaced to the House.
Lord HOLLAND said, that after the discussion which had al-
ready taken place on a former night on this measure, he hardly ex-
pected to have heard • speech of so much warmth as that with
which their Lordships had been favoured by the Noble andLommed
Lord. Indeed, so lit de hadlie anticipated any debate on this measure,
that he had been accidentally engaged, up to the very moment
his entering the House, in the 'aerosol of a work of one of the purest
men, and one of the ablest writers of modern times—he meant the
late Mr. Cowper; and be was very much diverted in reading a
story, which Noble Lords at first sight would think very little ap-
plicable to the question then before the House. When the writer
of the letter. Mr. Cowper, was at Ramsgate, he was walking along
the side of the coast, and he saw there a great and eminastlasyer
whom he calls Sam Sprats (a laugh); he was meditating deeply,
and the poet, anxious to ascertain the cause of his thoughtfulness,
inquired, and received from the deep lawyer this answer—" I was
wondering how such a production as that sprat should proceed from
ao vast anti infinite an element." Now, in hearing the Noble and
Learned Lord on this question, he had felt exactly the converse of
Jack Sprats' amazement. Hew such a Bill as that now on the
table, with so circumscribed an object, could disturb so grave and
enlightened an assembly, he was utterly at a loss to discover. How
he could think that this miserable Bill should disturb the whole
state of the church, was one of those questions which would puzzle
the most profound resolves of the policy of the Noble and
Learned Lord. He really would recommend to the Noble and
Learned Lord, anxious as he professed himself for the Establish-
ment, not to give way to that dangerous practice of thus call.
ing out wolf when a mere mouse, a church mouse, stalked
through its aisles. The whole Bill mounted to this--whether per-
sons professing Unitarianism in this country should be allowed to
marry as they were permitted previously to the Act of 1758--whether
they should be allowed, following the dictates of their own con-
science, to abstain from the repetition of language, to which, in the
sense it was used by the established church, they had a conocien-
nous objection. But a Noble and Rev. Prelate had on that night
taken it on him to explain the scruples of other people. He said
that the Unitarians ought to feel, what in point of fact they did not
feel, any scruple on the °elision. Now he (Lord Holland) knew
no other way of judging men than by their declarations ; he had
no other mode of judging them than as he should wish to be judged
himself; and when he said that any particular eel or declaration
was contrary to his conscientious felling, he conceived that no man
had a right to say to him that they were not contrary - that be was
in error. Then words, said the Noble and Rev. Prelate, were the
words of our Saviour--tire Upitarian uses them in other places
Urdu declaration of our Saviour. To which he replied, that the
Unitarians did employ these words, but in another sense. Ac the
weeds of Christ they used them ; but when these words were, as
contended, distorted front their original acceptation—when a
different meaning was annexed to them, they refused their assent to
such a meaning. " Oh !" said the Noble and Bev. Prelate, but
Hyou may put one sense on them, and we will put another."—
e was sorry to hear such language—such an argument in favour
tit prevarication used in that House. The Noble and Learned
Lord had contended that this Bill made the Church the handmaid
of the Dissenters; but what was the Church at present ? Not the
handmaid, but the prostitute of the Dissenters—consenting to
marry them, though they professed at the eery moment of the ce-
remony to disregard it. Thus did the Church beeome—
Id
quod dicere nolo.
The Noble and Learned Lord had thrown out, and certainly no
one was more qualified, doubts as to the Quakers and Jews' Mar-
rhige Hill ; and he had called upon his Noble Friend to bring in a
Bill similar to that measure. Would the Noble and learned Lord
support it ? But the Noble and Learned Lord, when be (Lord
Holland) had, upon the Alien Bill, asked him who were Aliens ;
he had hot thought prorper, or he could not, answer ; so, upon the
detention of Bonaparte, lie would not give any opinion upon its
legality. But how consistent via that with the course taken by
the Noble and Learned Lord to-night. When they were stirring a
single step in the march of toleration, his (tiara for the Church.
nursed in doubt, Caine forward to the assistance of the Noble and
L•arnal Lord. One Noble and Reverend Prelate said that this
Bill would be injurious to the dignity of the Church. He
thought that the sentiments which the Noble Metropolitan held I
and expressed on this subject, were not merely the feelings of a
' liberal gentleman, but of a true Christian. The Noble and
learned Lord had that night professed his anxious regard for
the Church of England. He recollected to have read • very'
lively invective against exacieration ; and that exaggeration
consisted in something said in Parliament. l'he Noble and
Learned Lord would hare an opportunity of consulting the
individual from whom that observation came. The exaggerstions
they had heard tmnight surpassed, he more than suspectal, the
exaggerations to which the Noble and Learned Lord referred. He
supported the Bill because he thought it did not interfere with the
privileges of the Church—because it tended to quiet the scruples of

rleibli°••• MOW.
_Peak and respectableital, to whom he *as
wii in ss rent tbe sadistic% for by the NH!
The Earl W LIVARPOOL said, that he meant to vote foe this
1141 ring into a itimmiften. He was • sincere friend to the to-
kill" of the Eatahlieltett Church, and be could on to this measure
tot • scintilla of evidence injurious to the interests of the Efts-
blipped Church. ft the quem lon was put to him whether he would'
vote fer a similar Bill as applies! to an o er dissenter., his answer
was, that he must first see the Hill. But he did not bee. if clandes-
tine marriages and fraud were guarded agaima, 'natter. of i,treat dd.
bettl.y, but if they were, and provided both parties were dowatem
he confessed he saw neobjeciien to such general relief. They were
not acknowledging any new principle. They had recognised the
principle In the instance of.lews and Quskert ; but his Snide end
, hemmed Friend on the Ward/tank had stmed that doubts existed as
to the validity of such marriages. Ile knew no sublets upon which
doubts might not he entertained. But marriages had already, since
! Lord Ilardwickex time, invariably been celebrated between Jews,
!and great property had passed in consequence of such marriages.
! Differing as he did from the Noble Harm oa mane questions affect-
ing, as he thought, the interests of the Church, he certainly agreed
! with him in thinking that it was not politic to apprehend the danger
of the Church, or express that apprehension upon every important
measure like the present. There were perhaps contained in this
measure some provisions which a prudent legislation would rectify
1 when they entered the Committee.
The Bishop of CH EsTEte rose to explain. He repelled the
charge made against him by the Noble heed of wishing to encou-
rage reservattoo. The terms to which he referred were used in two
distinct senses, and the different +temptations I:nown and sanctioned
by both parties. This was not rewervaion ; it was giving a mere
plosive assent to the declaration.
Lord HOLLAND explained that he had made no charge. He
had merely stated the sphatance of that whichtisd now been con-
fessed by the Noble and Res lord himself.
The Marquis of IA NMDOWN explained.
The House then divided-
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Adjourned at Eight eltlock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tv F.sUAT, M •Y 4.

The Speskar took the (tier
,t four o'clock.
111 F. Johnstone front the flabe of the Irish Secretary, presented
some Returns relative to Vie Maecenas in Ireland.--Lsid on the
table.

BLACEPAIARS BRIDGE.
Mr. Alderman WOODtraught up the Report oldie Committee
on the Clackfriara Bridge Bin, and obtained leave to bring in a
SOUTH LONDON DOCKS.
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition train the fellowship
portent of Locdoe, agaltigt the South London Docks Bill.—Laid
on the table.
HIDES AND SKINS.
The following petitions were presented in faiour of the Hide
and Skins Bill 7—From the butchers of Peterborough, by Ile. &sr-
lett ; from the butchers of Cupnr, by Sir IL Ferguson t from the
butchers of Coventry, by Mr. P. Monte ; from the butchers of
I wadenhall•narket, and by Mr. Curlers ; from the
butchers of Liverpool, by .7rErst
isson ; and from the butchers
of Arundel, by Mr. Kemp.
The following petitions were presented against the Bill :—From
the tanners of Alsoctieviter' by Mr. Blackburn ; hum the tanners of
Wolverhampton, by Sir John Wrottesley ; from the tanners of
Newark, by Sir R. Heron ; two front the tanners of Liverpool, by
General Gascoyne, and Mr. Huskisson ; from the tanners of Lan-
caster, by Mr. Green ; from the tanners of Orford. by Mr. Lock-
hart; and hum the tanners of Canterbury. Abingdon, and Leigh.
on, by Mr. illaberley ; all of which were ordered to be referred to
I the Committee oo the Bill

FOREIGN WOOL
_
f the "A-growers
Mr. LOCKHART preadeaw petition • we,g_Lein on the
of Coolecont again" the aulmrtata "e'en
table.

BOUNTIES ON CURING FISH.
Col. TALBOT presented a petition from the fisheries of Sker.
ries, in the county of Dublin, a”ainst the repral of the fishing(
bounties. The petition wee aigned'by 2,000 persons. who stated that. !
they had expended all their mesas in the induetrii.us pursuit ofi
fishing, in conewitigusee of tbeeneouragement given by the bounties
for the promotion of the Lilting interests of Ireland. The peti-1
tianera enumerated the great disadvantages that would be neees
surily consequent on the repeal of those bounties. The present'',
system had been under operation orly three years, and bad not,
trefbre, received a fair trial. (Hear, bear.) The prc‘jected re-
peal had excited great alarm and dissatiifsztion duoughout Ireland.
—Ordered to lie on the table.
COUNTY COURTS BILL.

Mr. D. fiILBERT preeented a polities from the inhabitants of
Pomace, in favour of the County Courts DilL—Laid on the table.
Mr. DEN AIAN presented a petition from the Counsel practiaing
in the Palace Court, praying that a clause of compersation to them
should be intseduad into the County Courts Bill, if the aseael
should pass into-a law.—Lald on the table.
SLAVIC
Lord G. 6031ERSET reamed a petition from Mosinee&
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