The National Register.
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price of agrictiltuial produce. Ile defended the Sicking
Fund, and conteuded that even if the whole 3.000,0011.
appropriated to it were given to the reduction of taxation.
it would give a vary trilling-relief, whilst sweeping away
our Sinking Fund would give a mortal stab to public
credit.
After After a few words from Lord Redesdate, elm 00114110` AP
tot& Liverpool was agreed to, and their hirdelsilia ad.
jourued at elevens o'clock.
WEDNESDAY. FEB. 27.
The Laid Chancellor heard appeals.
Earl BATHURST presented two petitions complaining of
so ieultural distress, and praying relief. One was from Hants,
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the other from Hertfordshire. Both were laid on the table.
The Lord Chancellor's Assize Bill went through the Com-
mittee, and the report was agreed to.—Adjourned.
TBUBSDAY, FEB. 28.
Mr. Vernon, from the Treasury, presented the annual report
of the Commissioners of the Herring Fishery ; also an account
of the number of vessels from the port; of Scotland engaged in
the whale tishery..'fliese returns were laid on the table.
Mr. Mason, from the East India House, presented an as-
Count of the regulations made by the different governments of
India, for Iti2o.
Earl BATHURST adverted to an act passed in the 43d of
George the 2d, which provides that all proceedings in Colonial
Cduncils, which interfere with the Ecclesiastical Establishments,
shall be laid before Parliament during 30 days. in order that
they may receive the sanction of the Legislature. An act having
been passed by the Legislative Assembly of Upper and Lower •
Canada, by which one-seventh of the produce of all lands was
appropriated to the maintenance of the Protestant clergy, doubts
had arisen whether the remaining six parts of the produce were
subject to tythes. A bill had consequently been brought in by
the Assembly of Canada to remove those doubts- The noble
Earl added, that he held in his hand the said Bill, and in com-
pliance with the act of Parliament, he laid it on the table.
The Assize Bill was reported to the House.
Lord KING asked the noble Earl for information, as to the
o.urse to be adopted by His Majesty's government in the other
House of Parliament with respect to the Corn Laws P
• Earl BATHURST said, his Majesty's confidential advisers
could not object to state any proposition they intended to submit
to the other House, but it was i.nnossible to explain what the
other House of Parliament intended to do.
After a fee words in reply,
Lord KING said, be should mention the subject again to:
stmenre. when a noble Earl (Livarpooly would ba in his place
Adjourned. -

FRIDAY, MARCH 1.
The Earl of BLESSINGTON gave notice of his intention to
move, on Friday next, fur leave to bring in a bill for facilitating
the registration of deeds in Ireland.

ALTERATION IN TILE CORN LAWS.
Lord KING rose to ask for information on a subject which
'nide great impression on the public, namely, alteration in the
Corn Laws. The object at the present time was to raise the price
of corn. under the dread of what was now considered an evil—
Plenty ! To use a word expressed in the other house of parlia-,
tuent, many were suffering under the " hydrophobia" of plemy.
(A laugh.) It would not surprise him f the Bishops were to
dizpense with the prayer for plenty. The noble Lord then
asked, whether his Majesty's Government had formed any opi •
nion on the subject of the corn laws. If Government I:ad not, he
would ask the noble Earl whether he had fetmed any opinion, or
whether the country was to be left to the mercy of the persons
composing the committee ? If that was to be the case, he should
say, " Good Lord deliver us!" Judging from the manner in
which they discharged their duty on a former occasion, he should
say little goo(' was to be expected teem their eft iris at this time.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, with respect to the inquiry.
to which the noble Lord alluded, he should repeat what he said
on a firmer day, when he moved for documents. lie did nut
conceive that any measure that could be adopte I with respect to
alteration in di? corn laws could have a salutary effect in Teasing
agricultural distress. lie should say also, that any measure
! coming from the other house of parliament would be one which
had no tendency to raise the price of It inight be expedient
to enact provisions with respect to the impartation of corn. No
question deserved consideration more than the question whether
it might not be proper to export corn subject to duty on a scale
lyver than the present price. What that scale would be must
'ffepend on the regulations which the conitn:t:ec iniettit recant-
mend.
Earl DARN LEY defended the support he gave the corn bill
In 1813, and contended that much obloquy had been erronemisly
cost on that measure, which, as a measure of necessity, we; to be
justified. The only tensely which could be applied to the present
evils was a reduction of taxation.
The Earl of 1.1 VERPOOI, coniiitered this conversation irre-
gular, and moved the house do adjourn.
Lord CA LT I'oo PE said, that the corn bill of 1815 had been
frustrated by the system of averages. lle defended the members
of the prison agricultural committee, and expressed a hope that
the country in'ght derive advantage from tlich deisheratiats
The hottv.: adjourned toMonday.

HOUSE OF CONIMONS.
MOND tV, yea.
Mr. Hutchinvm, from the Batik, presented an account of
the politic b dance= in the Mud. of the B ...k.
Mr. Scott, from the Cliaamellain's Landon, pre.
,ented no a ecanot of the receipts and dbbersements of the
O. plans' Font
Protium, cuntplaitsing ngt icten:ral .lit.trew, were re. 7
dented tram Citelteandin ouJ other , arl3 at lit,.areatt t
B.iffolk,.,nd Devon:4ore..
Lord NLTif..)lt I' tires. soled n petition from Joh., Crouch•
a Lteutenont. in sir n try, repreteatin; that h, i
the a mire t.f I.& country many years; that t lie a..r
twenty militints of property hrlunit•:'t to the e•'nrart t
Om he had produced more tatorovern. at, in nano] ran too,
charts. he. t ion had taken place withia the hat 352 ycar.•a •
bat flint ne bad r.•t eited no renaunerati n fur •u. accrue.:
Pe.itiuu irrtlered to be printed.

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