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PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE .01? COMMONS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 182,q.

pouSE OF LORDS, MopAy, JUNE 3.

The Home met at ten o'clock in the morning
and proceeded in Appeals.
_ _ _

Lord Viscount EfutchiniOn (Earl of Donoughmore) was in-
troduced by Lord Viscount Melville and Lord Viscount Anson.
His Patent of Creation having been read at the Table, his
Lordship took the oaths' and his seat.

Mr. Spiller presented the 19th Report of the Commissioners
of the Caledonian Canal; and Mr. Je,nner an Account of the
Charge and Expeuces of the Commissioners for Building New
Churches.—Ordered to lie upon the Table.
The Coventry Gaol Bill and some other Local Bills were
brought up from the House of Commons by Mr. P. Moore,
Lord Edward Somerset, Sir Scrope Morland, Mr. Cartwright,
and other Members. and read a first time. .

Petitions against the Roman Catholic Peers' Bill were pre-
sented by the Earl of Shaftesbury from Lewes, Woodstock,
an Incorporation of Glasgow, and the Parish of Keynsham
(Somerset) ; by the Bishop of Salisbury from the Arch-
deaconries of Bath, Sarum, and Wilts ; by the Duke of, Rut-
land from St. Nicholas, Leicester; by. Lord Harris .from Ash-
ford, Kent; by the Bishop, of Ossory from the Bishop and
Clergy of the Diocese, of Killala. - Petitions for a Revision of
the Criminal Code were presented by the Earl of Carnarvon
from Chichester, Wellington, and Bodmin ; by Lord King
from Maidstone ; by Lord Suffield from Frome Selwood, So-
merset. A Petition, complaining of Agricultural Distress, was
presented by Lord Suffield, from the Hundred of Hampstead,
Norfolk. Petitions against the 'Bill in the. House of Com-
mons respecting the Protecting Duties, were presented by the
Earl of Carnarvon from Kent, Suffolk, &c. ; and by Lord
Dacre from Somerset, A Petition was also presented by Lord
Harris from Hop Planters hi the Weald of Kent; praying cer-
tain relief.—. All ordered to lie upon the table.
Some conversation took place relative to receiving the Report
of Sir John Milley Doyle's Divorce Bill, between the Lord
Chancellor; the Earl of Limerick, and the Earl of Lauderdale,
the result of which was, that the parties were to agree about a
clause to be introduced on the third reading, in order to obviate
the objections to the Bill.
The Earl of BLESINTON postponed the re-commitment
of the Deeds Registration Amendment (Ireland) Bill till Wed-
nesday, June I2.—Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

Mr. H. SumNcitpresented a Petition from cer-
tain Market Gardeners, dealing in butter, complaining that
since the repeal of the Agricultural_ Horse Tax, their horses
had been assessed as being used in trade, and they how
were charged a guinea' for each,.ingtead of fifteen shillings
and sixpence, which they paid tinder the Agricultural Horse
Tax.

The 'CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, said, that in
the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, there would be a clause
to remove the grievance complained of. '
Mr. H. SUMNER trusted that the remedy would effec-
tually remove the evil. He 'had himself compounded for his
Horse Tax, but found himself in a-similar condition as the
Petitioners.

The Petition was ordered to be printed. -
Sir E. KNATCHBULL .piesented a Petition from certain
farmers in the county of Kent praying for a repeal of the Lea-
ther Tax.—Ordered to be printed..
Mr. C. ELLIS presented a Petition from Certain 'West In-
dia agents against the Navigation Act AniendMent Bill.—Or-
dered -to be printed.

A return of the number of Conimitments and Convictions for
Felonies in England and-Wales, during the year 1821, was or-
dered to be laid before the House.

Mr. BYNG broughtin a Bill to regulate the office of Trea-
surer of the oounty-of Middlesex, and to alter the mode of
levying the county rate.
Mr. W. DUNDAS presented a Petition from certain Mer-
chants in Edinburgh, • complaining of the regulations of -the
assessed taxes with regard to shopmen and clerks.—Laid on
the table.

Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a Petition from certain
Dealers in Corn in the North of England, against the -Corn
Bills-=Ordered to be printed.
A return of the number of vessels belonging to the United
Statei which had entered or sailed from British Ports, whether
with or without cargoes, and the • amount of their tonnage,
since the year 1819, was ordered to be laid before the House.
Mr. G. BENNET presented a Petition from a person named
Crawford, complaining of some grievances under the present
licensing system.
-After a few observationi Hon. Member, Mr.
IitJaiTINGTON, Mr: -11 GlißEitt,.• and Mr. G. BENNET,
who.also presentid another Petition • upon the same subject,
they were both referred to the Committee upon the Bill.
Mr. BIRCH moved for a return of the names of all Officers
employed in the collection of the Salt Duties who had received
retired allo*ances.L-Ordered.- ' • -

:• - .. - • • .CRIMINAL CODE.
Petitions were presented from Bridgewater, Chester, - Leo-
Minster,. Derby,: Barnard. Castle,, praying a revision of the
Criminal COde.--)idered to be printed.
LICENSING VICTUALLERS' BILL.

Petitions were presented from Manchester and Salford,
from. Preston, from Nbrthwayte, froth Liverpool, alanningtree,
Brighton, amt Warrington, against the Bill for altering • the
existing law, which were severally referred to the Committee
upon 'the Bill. • -
REVORM.

Mr. COKE rose to present h Petition from the Hundred of
Greenhoe in the county of Norfolk, complaining of distress,
and praying Reform in Parliament. The Petition set forth
that taxation was the cause of their distress, and that the enor-
mous sums raised by it were lavished to increase the influence
of the Crovin, by maintaining a corrupt majority in .that
House, and to keep up a large standing army for no .other
purpose than that of subduing the Constitutional feelings
of a justly indignant people. It stated that the majority
of the House was always ready to support any Adminis-
tration, however corrupt and tyrannical. The Hon. Member
expressed his concurrence in the prayer of the Petition, and
said
,that, in the face of the distress of the country,Ministers had
come down and stated that nothing could be done to alleviate
it. Notwithstanding thig some measures had been forced from
them. But he considered the relief now promised was nothing
short of an insult to the eauntry. From the conduct of the House
he was almost ashamed of the place he .held in it. He was
quite astonished at seeing country Gentlemen go so far with
Ministers,when it was evidently to their own destruction. There
was nothing which they were not ready to do, and he was quite
astonished at their behaviour. We understood the Hon. Mem-
ber to say that he thought more relief would be afforded to the
country by taking off the whole of the malt duties than by the
repeals which had been proposed.
Mr. FREEMANTLE objected to thellanguage of the Peti-
tion, but in a tone of voice not audible in' the gallery. He
moved that it be-rejected.
Ms. CURWEN thought the real duty of the House to con-
sist in their removing the ground of such imputations as the
Petition contained.

Mr. JAMES saw no objection to the language of the Pe-
tition. He rose to notice a mistake into which the Petitioners
appeared to hiM to have fallen.. l t was not to keep up the in-
fluence of the Crown that such lavish and wasteful acts were
committed, and he thought it almost high treason to say so. It
was 'to maintain the influence of the boroughmongers.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY thought that House
had a right to claim that it should be approached in a tone of
petition and not of remonstrance. He was quite sure -that it
,could never acknowledge the latter spirit without lowering
itself in the respect which it had always received from the
country. He was satisfied that the present Petition did come,
before them in a tone of remonstrance. The- prayer for Re.)
form was most proper and constitutional ; but it was not pre-
ferred in that tone of respect which they must insist upon if
they ineaneto preserve their authority, their dignity, and their
character. Under this description he could not persuade him-
self that the Petition cafne' and he felt himself bound to reject
it, although he did so with great pain.
Mr. CALCRAFT said it was clear that the' forwardness
of his Hon. Friend had evidently placed the Noble Lord in an
unpleasant situation. It was some time before he said any
thing about the petition, and now he had spoken of it in very
mild language. He thought the House • would agree in the
general principles laid down by the Noble Lord as to the re-
spect due to its authority. But he thought that if a petition
contaited exprpsaicins that were harsh and doubtful, and that
even I they could ..be distorted ,into: disrespect or insult,