The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HO USE OF LORDS, 117 A r 9.6.
This day their Lordships met at Five o'Cloca.
Lord .Bitouou.tm took his usual scat immediately after
their Lordships met.
.'h(l F,',uir:;-r of Entailed Estates (Church of Scotland)
Bill pasied through Committee.

Lord KENYON presented petitions from several places
in Suffolk and Pembroke, praying for Church accommo-
dation. Also petitions from places in Northampton, against
anv!urther grant to the College of Maynooth.
Lord STRANGFO R D presented a petition from the
hand-loom 'weavers of Norwich, praying tor the protection
of national. industry.

Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions from Green-
wich, St. Andrew's, and other places, praying for an
alteration. in the present Corn-laws. Also petitions
from the Bapti*ts of Weymouth, and from places in York-
shire an 3 Somerset, praying for the abolition of Church-
rates, and the release of John Thorogood. Also a peti.
tion from Aberdeen, signed by upwards 2,600 persons, against
any additional grant for the purpose of Church Extension.
The Noble Lord then presented a petition from Paisley,
pray ng that patrons in Scotland might receive some com-
pensation for the loss they would suffer by the Bill of the
Noble Earl opposite (the Earl of Aberdeen), and a
petition from' Dunfermline, praying for the total
abolition of an 'Established Church in Scotland ; also a pe-
tition from Neweastle-upon-Tyne, praying for the enforce-
ment of the law for punishing any adulteration of tobacco,
and a petition from Gloucester for an alteration of the law
relating to real property. The Noble and Learned Lord
then presented a petition from 200 poor inhabitants
of North Uist Island, complaining of great distress,
owing to the alteration in the duties on salt.

CHINA.
The NonLt and LEArtNED Lotto proceeded to present a
petition from the Corporation of Merchants of the City of
Edinburgh, in which he said that not having had time to
peruse the• immense mass of papers which bad been pre-
.i,entcd to Parliament on the question of China, he would
simply state what these petitions (worthy of respect)
wished to represent to that House. They stated that they
believed the impending war with China was pro-
duced by the opium trade, and prayed that as the
Secretary of State had in 1838 declared that the
British Government had taken no steps in favour of those
who had incurred the penalties of the contraband trade—
it should not be insisted upon that the Chinese make
compensation for the opium which had been seized. The
Noble and Learned Lord tnon said—My Lords, without at
present declaring any opinion on the justice or injustice of
the war with China, this I will:venture to say, that I believe
the grezt majority of the people of this country and of
sour Lerdships will concur in the prayer, that this war
may not be found to have orie•inated in a desire to obtain
compensation for the opium—and that such may not only
not be found to have been the purpose of the
war, but may not be made the reproach
against its success, and that it may not be
said of this war as was said by an historian of the wars of
Henry Vll.—that they arose from thirst of treasure--that
they resembled a mine, with iron at the top, and gold at
the bottom.

PRINTED PAPERS.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH gave notice for Monday of
a motion for a Committee on Printed Papers.
REFORMS IN THE CHURCIL—ALTERATION

OF THE LITURGY.
'The Archbishop of DUBLIN, in presenting a petition
from some clergymen and lawyers, praying for certain
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alterations in the Articles and Liturgy of the Church, said
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rally, irreconcilable' and often: contrad.ctory. But still
he thought the represatations of personi of high respect-
ability and character worthy of at least a hearing. But
this he must declare that he could n .1 concur in any
application to Parliament for alterations in any other than
the temporal arrangements of the Chu, and that the
only proper authority for changing its putt:ly spiritual and
ecclesastical arrangements, was a cony, waticii, the absence
of which ecclesiastical legislation, he was of opinion, had
been long severely felt ; for he was convinced that the
early Reformers of our Church could n, ver have intended
that after they had effected their alterations in the Church
the means of carrying- such necessary changes in future
should be lost, when those changes were rendered neces-
sary by the sure -vet silent vicissitudes of time.
The Bishop of LINCOLN said he had expressed an
opinion that uncompromising adherence to the exact
terms of all the Church formularies—to these far instance
of the Athanasiaa, creed—should not be required as a
sine gnu non, for ordination; and that if a large body of
the clergy of his diocese should apply for alterations of the
Liturgy, he should think that a convocation ought to be
called for the purpose. But he did not believe that the
desire for alterations in the formularies of the Church was
at all general among the clergy ; on the contrary, very
limit d. —( Ileac, hear.)
'rho Archbishop of CANTERBURY said he did not
believe the wish for change was at all general in the
Church, but as to the expedience of reviving the convoca-
tion he thought it mi'bt he worth cooaideration.
The Bishop of NORWICH FiaLi he felt that in the
minds of many, both clergy and laity, a great tenderness
of conscience existed as to subscribing to the creeds and
aitieles of the Church. There was, 'however, an answer
to this, that the Church ..,:-:ranted a certain degree of elas-
ticni and expansion to tlic belief of its members. Placed,
as its early reformers had been, in the difficult situation of
settling the standard for men of many different sects,
it bad been said by a distinguished authority