The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-19 00:00:00

PYASTRIiN WARS.

Lord ABERDEEN wished •to ask the Noble Vis-
count opposite, with reference to the papers which
had been printed, whether it was his intention
to give any explanation of the war in which we
were now engaged in the East ? or to produce any
additional information to the House.

Lord MELBOURNE said there was a good deal more
information to be laid on the table, and that it was not his
intention to offer any explanation until the whole of the
information was before their Lordships.
Lord ABERDEEN wished to know whether any ad-
ditional information that was to be supplied would be in-
cluded in correspondence between certain Chiefs, (whose
names we did not hear), before the declaration of war was
made.

Lord MELBOURNE was not exactly aware whether
it would or not.

Lord ABERDEEN then said, that as that was uncer-
tain, he should now give notice, that to-morrow he would
move for a return of that correspondence.
Lord MELBOURNE said that if the Noble Lord
would furnish him with a list of the documents he had
wished, he would probably be able to give him the neces-
sary information.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that he had furnished
the Noble Viscount with a list of papers some days ago
which he wished to have laid on the table, but the Noble
Viscount had given him no information yet respecting those
papers.
The Earl of RIPON wished to know from the Noble
Viscount whether the papers to be produced refered to our
affairs with Persia.

Lord MELBOURNE said the papers would contain a
full statement of our relations with Persia, from the time
of Mr. Ellis's mission.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH w;shed to know whether
the Noble Viscount wished to make a motion on the pro-
duction of all the papers.
Lord MELBOURNE said he had not stated that he
should make any motion, but simply that he should offer
an explanation. _. _

The Earl of FALMOUTH presented petitions from
Cornwall against the Beer Bill.
CORN-LAWS.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Congle.
ton, praying the House to abolish all restrictions on the free
importation of corn. The Noble and Learned Lord observed
that he had read this petition very carefully, in order to
avoid the possibility of falling into the mistake which he
made the other night.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He
had heard that some people did not like to have a
certain French General opposed to them because
they could not sleep with one eye without being detected
by him ; but he thought that no one would be able to
sleep even with half an eye, so as to escape the vigilance of his
Noble Friend on the cross bench (the Duke of Richmond).
He begged, however, to apologise for the mistake he had
made. It was an error that any one, except his Noble
Friend, might have fallen into.--( Laughter.) But his
Noble Friend was the cause of that mistake—(Renewed
laughter)---for it would be recollected that he produced,
with some sort of triumph, a resolution of the Chamber of
Commerce of Glasgow stating that that most respectable
body was decidedly against any repeal of the Corn-laws; and
nodoubtthatseemed
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doctrine,oforf
the Noble Duke, and
it looked as if the manufacturing and trading community
were in favour of the existing restrictions. In consequence
of what the Noble Duke had said a deputation
of most respectable persons, consisting of Mr. Sturge, Mr.
Walmsley, and two gentlemen from Glasgow waited on
him the next morning to inform him of the state of the
case, and they said, " In order to show you there is no
ground whatever for supposing that that is the feeling of the
mercantile classes of Glasgow there's a petition for the total
repeal of the Corn-laws, signed by 43,000 inhabitants of
Glasgow." On coming down to the House at five o'clock,
the officer gave him the petition, and said it was a
petition from Glasgow, which naturally led him
to suppose it was the petition which had been men-
tioned to him. The petition certainly looked as though
there was room for 43 000 signatures, and he had no idea
there were two petitions from Glasgow signed by so large
a number of individuals. That was his excuse for having
taken it for granted that that was the petition mentioned
to him.
PRISONS DISCIPLINE (SCOTLAND),
The NOBLE and LEARNED LORD then presented a peti-
tion from the Commissioners of Police for the borough of
Paisley, for the purpose of amending prisons and prisons'
discipline in Scotland.
BEER BILL.
Also a petition from the Magistrates and inhabitants of
Stroud, for a repeal, or for such alteration of the Beer
Act as would prevent beer being consumed on the pre.
noises. In presenting this petition the Noble and
Learned Lord observed that he was in the hands of their
Lordships as to what course he should pursue with regard
to his Beer Bill. He was disposed to fix it for Friday,
tl.an their Lordships would have the inconvenience of a
debate the night before which would probably last till a
late hour,
The Marquis of WE STMEATH—WiII it be an ad.
journed debate?
Lord BROUGHAM—I caution the Noble Marquis
against using that word, because whenever it is used an
adjournment takes place. Adjourned debates are a griev-
ance—( Hear, hear)—and do very little good to the ques-
tion.—(Cbeers and laughter.)
After a short discussion, it was agreed that the second
reading of the Beer Bill should be fixed for Friday next.

GLASGOW COTTON SPINNERS.
Lord BROUGHAM then presented a petition from the
five Glasgow cotton-spinners who were convicted in Scot-
land about a year and a ball ago of illegal
combination, and who were now under sentence
in the Hulks. From some unfortunate mistake,
they had been kept for two years in prison, and for the last
twelve or fourteen months they had been confined to the
hulks. They prayed their Lordships to interfere in their
behalf to obtain mercy, but he would much rather beg the
attention of his Noble Friends in the Queen's Government
to this subject, because they had already suffered two years
imprisonment, the greater part of that time in the hulks,
and if they had happened to commit the same offence a
few miles to the southward of where they did commit it,
namely, in England, they could only by law have been im-