The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

NO USE OF LORDS, 31.4 Awl 25.
The Duke of GRAFTON presented a petition from
,Suffolk in favour of Reform.
Petitions were also presented by the Earl of CARLISLE,
trom the seamen of Poole, praying to be relieved from
contributions to Greenwich Hospital; and by the Duke of
DEVONSHIRE, from Derby, Witham, and Youghal, in fa-
vour of Reform.
Mr. MuNnar and others, from the Commons, broughl;
UJ several private Bills.
DOWN PETITION.
The Marquis of LONDONDER.V believed the
House was always disposed to r) tend its indulgence,
when any Noble Lord kit an anxiety to explain
misrepresentations of anything that was said in that House
in the public Journals. Some of the public Journals of
this day--he would not say all of thorn--had represented
bins to have designated the persons who had signed
the petition from Down, which Earl Grey had
presentesl. last night, as being the lowest rabble of
the. country. He must in toto deny havissg ever used
Ruch expressions. What he had said vas, that it was
signed by the fewest freeholders. With respect to the
signatures of the persons whom the Noble Earl had al-
luded to, he had net seen the petition, and could not for
a moment conceive that those respectable names which
the Noble Earl I..sd referred to could hare t'.gned that
petition. He trusted their Lordships would consider that
he had non- set himself right with the House and the
public, which was extremely important at the present
time. It would have been most painful to him to have
made the assertions attributed to him.

Earl GREY was quite sure the House would attend to
any statements made by Noble Lords for the purpose of
relieving themselves from expressions that might be injuri-
ous. He was glad the Noble Lord had taken this oppor-
tunity of disclaiming those expression., for if he did
not make use of them, he (Earl Grey), together with those
who supplied information to the Presx, had fallen into a
most egregious error. He certainly understood the Noble
Lord tc say so ; he had repeated it and answered it, and
no contradiction was given by the Noble Marqui. re-
specting it.

The Marquis of T QNDONDERRY felt confident he
had never used the expression ; if he ltti, he should be
e-xceedingly sorry for it.
The subject then dropped.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE said, their Lordships would
recollect that some time ago he had given notice of his
intention to move for certain returns relative to the
population of different towns and counties, for the
purpose of bringing before their Lordships the whole
question of Reform. It would be in the recollection of their
Lordships that he had postponed bringing fortrard that
question sine die. Owing to indisposition he had requested
a Noble Friend of his to give notice last ',light of his inten-
tion to bring forward that motion on Monday next. That
had not met with the convenience of some of the Noble Lords
in that House, and the matter was postponed till Thursday.
He begged to say that that day would be extremely
inconvenient to him, and he should therefore bring forward
the motion on Monday.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from e.
place in Sussex, praying for a repeal of the elsessed
taxes.