The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-27 00:00:00

PARLIAME NT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 26.
Mr. COURTENEY, and others, brought up from the Gam-
mons the Bankrupt Laws' Amendment Bill, and several Pri-
vate Bills, which were read a first time.
EQUITABLE WAN BILL.
Earl GROSVENOR presented a petition from the Trades-
men and Manufacturers of the town of Stockport in favour of
the Equitable Loan Bill.—Laid on the table.
Lord WILTON presented a similar petition from the town
of Chorley in Lancashire.
Petitions to the.same effect were then presented—
By Lord SUFFIELD from 164 inhabitants of the King's
Bench Prison, who stated they had suffered from the eseetions
of,Pawnbrokers.—From tlee Inmates of the Fleet Prison, and
Pram-the inhebitants'of -the Prison in WhitiCress-street.
Zy. Earl TAZiK.ERVILI.,E, from the Wearers of Spitel-
fields. -
By Lord DACRE from the Officers employed in the East
India Warehouses, andll-oni the Tradesmen.ef
,Hy
.the .3 I arguls of. pAT II , from, the InhabitantS and Trades-
men of Bath, and, from those of Warminster. ' - • -
-By Lord ROLLAND, frorri the Inhabitants of Harnmer-
lenith, Fulham, and Llielsea. . .
-These Petitions having been laid on the table,
The Earl of L.-iUDF,RDA LE presented a petition from
the Sugar Bakers of the City of London 'against (as we under.:
stood) the Equitable Loan Bill. In- doing, this he wished to
remind the House of the. exact situation in which the Bilinow
,t;od. ft had 'been read a first time, and *before the-second
readint• shottlit take place he -had been anxious to' procure all
the information-possibl, on the -subject. • The Papers moved
for had been ordered to be printed,. and he trusted th4t their.
Lerdshipe would see tile impropriety of proceedint -until they
were before the House. The petitioners against the Bill said
they could prove at the Bar--,the illegality of the. Company
which it was sougiit to esteblist; and he was §uteill'it'elone.of
thiir Lordships world wish' tb set nft iliegeot ',Crimpariy;
which stood exactly On-the same. footing as the -Caltelier AsmPt.,
elation, which they. had j3ined in.puuine, down, pn the ground
of ilkgality. As the decieion of thZ.
esting and important-to the *bole cetintry, ?le should !neeva tbr
the attendance of the Jndges to put quesionu to, the witnesses
examined at the bar, and bctrtistpd. that die .Ilonse:wbuld ap-
point a 'timefor the qu&stioh of lawto be argued. He stated
this, in ostler flhat'Their,LorgShipte should know what course he•
ineendedtpintr,ite and thetno individual should be taken ,by
surer:se.
1...-(I*.DACIZE was lay) unwilling to take-the HottSca or the
bls Eart-bk eurpris. e,.and therefore would abstainfrom‘moV-
Mg the second, rvaclingoi the Bill till all the papers to-be pre-
duced on the, subject. were prinied and' on their LordshipS!
table.-:-The petition was t.,Tvrait.litint Thai tabk. - •
T:1 IE CA TH ole ,CLAI MS, . '

The LOR D CkiANCEL r.OR presehtedapetition frorn the Pro-.
testant Dissentersof the Baptist perstiasion,.heloligi,ig to Kist-
street' Chapel, Waheottli. e,gainSt- further cOncessions Lathe Ca-
tholics, evertif _their remaining sobjeeted to the same resiriction
under which ;they (the petitioners) laboured, were,theconse-
quence.--Laiii Oit the table.
The Earl of DoN orott MORE presented a petition in favour
of the Catholic Claims from the Protestant Dissenters of Car-
rick-on-Suir.—Laid on the table.
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. . . '
Lora HOLLAND Faso presented a petitionfrom etri-tirV ' Pro-
testant Dissenters in favony of the Catholic Claims. Ile watt
surprised that Protestant Dissenters should have,expressed sen.
tments hostile to these claims, especially as there was now sns.:
pended over them. a cruel law known by the name of the. Test
Act. .lt was true that at the time of the gre.-..t struggle
_agalist
Popery the Protestant Dissenters had manfully contr!b4t,A to
die passing orthat Act, but= it was with .an 'expressed ltoe' that
a day would come ivliert.the Members, of the Church would 'aid
them in being freed from its disabilities. But from Ow moment
of its passing to the preient time no Chaoge been cif:.:cted in
their favour: - The conduct of those who petitioned for its eon-
tinuance might.be consistent. with that of their stio....:stors, but
ij was not has ;in opposition to what they ncw. had a right to
wish and to clni!n.
• The petition, havinr,been laid on the table, `2-
.1. 4.

, Earl Rom YE Y. pre;iented a petition from the Clergy of
atone against the Unitarian Marriage Bill and one -from the
Mayor, Common Councilmen', and Sheriff's of Kitigstown, in
31aiditone, against the Catholics.—Laid on the table. •
Lord KEN VOli presented a similar peation from a parish in
Itterionethshire.—Laid on the table.