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London, England, 1825-05-05 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAT 4.
This morning their Lordships met at ten o'clock, and prayers
fiLA being read by the Bishop of GLOUCESTER, the hearing-
of Appeals was proceeded with.
. Appellate Peers—the Marquis of Conyngham, Lord Duffe-
rina and the Earl of Caledon.
In the first appeal of " :Acheson v. Paul. and others,'" from
the Court of Session its Scotland, the Lord Deputy now moved
t~ sir Lordships to affirm the judment of that Court, which was
iffirmed, but without costs.
Glarnmis (Thomas Geerge Lyon Bowes, Lord Glainmis)
John Dean Paul, Bart. banker, and others, trustees
of the late John Bowes, Earl of Strathmore," was next call-
el ft,r ; when Mr.-Forsyth and Mr. Walker were heard for the-
aT Periants, after which the further hearing was appointed for
tai-morrow.
Lord GIFFORD rose at four o'clock, and at 20 minutes to
lire o'clock, the LORD CHANCELLOR entered the House.
Upon the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY the
Private Bills upon the table, among which was the second
reading of the Wyebridge Bill, were- forwarded in their several
stzges resented at the Bar
.
Tostr..nis from the Treasury, p
A counts of the Transit Trade of the Port of London, pursuant
to an order of the Rouse:.
. Mr. JOHN javax, from the Equitable Loan Bank Com-
pany, presented in like manner from the Directors of that In-
stitution some Popers of the Ist and 2d of May last.
The Earl of. LAUDERDALE here remarked that he did
not see, among these returns, the Papers of the 6th November
taxi.- • -
Mc, f iTtnAn, from the East India Company, presented an
account of the number of ships contained in the East India
Docks, pursuant to an order of the House.
Petitions were presented by Lord DACRE, with respect to
the -St,-CaShicines Dock Bill, which were ordered to be refer-
red to the ..Committee on the Bill now sitting. • '
The. Earl of BOSSLYN presented petitions on theme
subject from. ,the. parishes •of St. John and St. Olave, Ber-
mondsey, which also were referred to the Committee on the

THE EQUITABLE LOAN BILL.
NACRE gave notice that he should on Monday next
move for the second reading of the Equitable Loan Bank Com-
pany7s Bill ; and upon the motion of the Noble Lord, their
Lordship's were ordered to be summoned for that clay.
Upon the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, a Mes.
sage was sent to the Commoner, that their Lordships had agreed
to the amendments in the Scotch Juries Bill, which was ac-
cordingly read a third time, and' then passed.
THE CATHOLIC CLNIMS.
The Bishop of BATH and WELLS said, he had to pre-
sent to their Lordships a petition, with strong feelings of inte-
rest, from the Clergy of the Diocese of Carlisle, with whom he
bad been connected for the last forty years. The petitioners
were anxious for the preservation of our excellent Establish-
ment he was requested by the prescnt lord Bishop of
the Diocese to add, that. their sentiments entirely concurred
with his own.
Upon the motion of the Right Rev. Prelate, the petition was
read at full length, deprecating all further concessions to the
Catholics, and ordered to lie-upon the table.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE 'presented a petition to the
same effect from the inhabitants of Yarn, in Yorkshire.
The Bishop of St. DAVID'S presented three similar Peti.
:ions, two from parishes in the Counties of Brecon and Radnor,
and another from the Borough of Haverfordwest.
Lord KENYON presented a petition from Banbury, in Ox-
sordshire, praying that no alteration Might take place in the
present system of Corn Laws.—Adjourned to-to-morrow.

HOUSE OF CONIMONS.
A person brought up at the bar, the evidence taken before the
County Courts Committee.
Sir NICHOLAS COLTIIURST presented a petition in fa-
TOUT of the Cork Trade Bill.
Sir R. FERGUSSON presented a petition from Edinburgh,
against the Leith and Edinburgh Joint Water Company.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition in favour of the
ship Canal bill, and another in favour of the County Courts'
Bill, both from Somersetshiree
ORDERS OF THE HOUSE.
bord ALTHORP, in moving that the report of the Cotmty
Courts' Bill on the resolutions he brought up, said he should
also propose to discharge the order for referring the matter to a
Committee up stairs. '
General GASCOYNE objected to the motion, of which the 1
Noble Lord, he said, had given no notice; whereas it was-e'ne,
• well known practice of the House that no Hon. Member should
move, without having previously notified his intentionho do so,
-on Mr. Speaker's paper. . .
The SPEAKEIZ, in explaining what the practice of the
House was on the subject, observed that there could be no doubt
of the Noble Lord's right to move as he proposed to do, with-
out any previous rotice whatever. The Hon. and Gallant Ge-
neral seemed to have entirely mistaken the practice on, this eub-
j tie. The fact was, that though a modem rule had prevailed,
owing to the great pressure of business, and the dilEculty of
.knowing otherwise-what to take first, of entering notices of mo-
tioes in the way stated in the Speaker's paper, it was for the
House to judge how far it would be disposed to recognize that
- modern practice to the exclusion of the old • one ; which un-
.deuistedly was this—that it was competent to any member in
these cases to move as he saw fit, with or without any such no-
tice.--( Hear, hear !)
CALCRAFT felt, and in common he was sure with
every body else in the House, greatly Obliged to the Chair for
the sound Parliamentary doctrine which 'it had just now laid
down in so clear and satisfactory a manner ; and, indeed,
tor the great pains which the Speaker manifested on. all
to instruct the .House upon such points of form and
proceeding as might be referred to him.--(Hear, hear !)
Perhaps it might be expedient to consider whether the House
oeglit not to proceed at an earlier hour to the dispatch of public
b a
The SPEAKER adverted to the great mass of private busi-
xess which was before the House, and the inconvenience expe-
. rieneed both- by the House and the public interest, on account
of the
,absolute impossibility of proceeding with ,public busi-
ness until an advanced hour of the evening. On -this sub-
ject he was entirely in the hands of the House ; and would
be quite disposed, if Gentlemen would come down for-that
purpose, to commence business at a much earlier hour than
usual . , (ff,es.r
Mr. BROUGHAM, not less than his Honourable Friend,
Wee grateful to the Chair for the able manner in which
it hat expounded the practice of the House ; hut begged to
• throw out' as a suggestion, whether, instead of troubling the
Speaker, whose time was already so- entirely devoted to the
ttLiness of the Rouse, to come down at an earlier hour,it might
not be an arrangement calculated greatly to facilitate the die-
patch., of business, particularly in the sittings-of Committees, to
.11-sect on rS,aturdays.
The County Courts' till was then recommitted to a Com-
mittee the whole Hcuse on Tuesday next; and the order for
1..-i•ritig the Report to a Committee up stairs discharged.
CORN LAWS.
elretitipps against any alterations in the -Como Laws, and.
orotection of the Flour Trade, were presented by Mr.
(00M-ester ecuomne, from Alloa; Mr. GEORGE Hons.
from Wigan, in Lancashire; Mr. A 91-1 T,- from
N'i'tres, in Oxfordshire; and Mr. P. Tazven; from Car-,
rnarthenshire. - - -
ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS. •
Petitions against any further concessions to the• Roman Ca-
tholics were brought up by Sii Joins Oweer, front Pembroke;
and Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, from the Clergy and inha-
bitants of Blackdon, in the County of Somerset. • -
COAIBINATION LAWS:
Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented a petition, numerously
'signed by shipwrights and mariners of leingston•upon-Htell
against the Combination. Laws, and praying that the petitioners
might be heard before the Committee, appointed to inquire into
the effect of their repeal.
Mr. SYKES heartily concurred in the prayer of these petial
tioners. It would, indeed, be great injustice, if. the Committee
now sitting up stairs, and taking a.great deal of evidencHear !)e from
the masters, should take none from theirjourneymen--(
At present, these shipwrights and seamen were in. a state of
the most cruel alarm. - They believed that some measures were
pending in Parliament, intended to limit the rates of their
wages : they complained of the high prices of corn and-provi-
sions, at the same time that they expressed /heir alarm
them - about
itsbeing intended, a:s they seemed to suppose,. to fix to
such low wages, that it would he impossible for them to afford
teesupply themselves with corn.
t • General GASCOYNE had several petitionseopresent on a
• similar subject. The petitioners stated, that no cisinbinations
existed among them now of a character diFereett from that
which usually attached to former combination.,. .They come
plained of the necessity which the high prieehsf coin imposed
upon them of demanding proportionate wegee. for their labour,
• and expressed an apprehension. that Parliament inten he
ded to
asinine into their funds. Now,.upon this intention, which
(General Gascoyne) thought ie-would.les exceedingly impolitic
to act on, he had put a question to his Hen. Colleague (Mr.
Huskistson), and having received no answer to it, "he was ra-
ther disposed to listen to the epprehensioaseifehese petitioners.
He could not go the whole Length with the petitioners, as to the
rights claimed by them; but, on the other hand, he did think
that journeymen or seamen, if they thought" they did *not re-
ceive sufficient wages, had e_good right to strike work, and