The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-07 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Jovis,- (s°' die Mad, 1824.

CANAL—Glamorganshire 1 Bills read a second time, and corn.
ESTATE—castle Island • i milted.
Co etPAWlES—General or United Gas Light--Bill read a third
time, and passed. Compressed Gas—Petition of the Rat-
cliffe Gas Light Company, against, referred to the,Commit-
tee on the Bill. Manchester and Salford Equitable Loan—.
bill read a first time. Australian Waste Lands—Petition
for leave to present a Petition for a Bill referred to a Commit-
tee. British Gas Light--Bill ordered to be brought in..
London and Westminster Oil Gas--Petition from Aberdeen,
in favour, to lie on the table.
EAST IMDIA COMPANY—Petition for leave to present a Peti-
tion for a Bill referred to a Committee.
Roans—Commercial—Petition of Commissioners of Wapping
Paving, against, referred to the Committee. on the Bill.
Whiteparieh and Southampton, and Faversham—Bills read
a third time. and
.passed.
Gas LiowT —Birmingham—Petition of Inhabitants, in favour,
to -lie en the table ; Report on Petition for Bill read, and.
Motion, " That leave be granted to give Notices of the ap-
plication now making to Parliament for the purposes men-
tioned in the Petition," made, and withdrawn. Greenwich
;;and Deptford—Petition of John Thomas, against, referred
to the Committee on the Bill.
ItstPßOTEXP:NT—lslington Petition of Inhabitants, against,
referred to the Committee on the Bill. •
IweLosultEs--Pamber and Inharst (Hants)---Bill read a 3d
time, and passed. Sutton Coldfield (Warwick)—Petition
of Owners of 'Estates, against, referred to the Committee
on the Bill.
CITY OF LONDON—Blvldriar's Bridge Debt—Petition for`
Bill reported. Report to lie on the table ; Thames Naviga-
tion and Coal Exchange Debts—Bills ordered to be brought in.
SUSPENSION BUDGE—St. Katberine's--Petition of Water-
men's Company, against, to lie on the table.
Docx—St. Katherine's—Petitions of Watermen's and Ar-
, rnourers' Companies, against, referred to the Committee
on the Bill. Petition ofCommittee of Inhabitants, complain-
. ink; of misrepresentation, to lie on the table.
TtrerxEL--Thaines--Petition of Watermen's Company,
against, referred to the Committee on the Bill.
COAL TRADE—Sunderland—Petition of Ship-owners of King's
Lynn, against, to lie on the table. •
POOR RATES—Newton—Bill read a third time, and passed.
BR wars—Hammersmith—Petition of Robert Tunstall, Esq.
against, referred to the Committee on the Bill.
BEER DuTtEs BlLL—Twenty-one Petitions from Brewers,
&c. against, to lie on the table.
ALE AND BEER—Petition from Oldham, respecting the sale
thereof; to lie on the table.
LAND TAX ASSESSAIENT.—PetitiOn from Taunton, against
unequal assessment, tote on the table.
P trim' cast s--Petitions of Licensed Innkeepers and Victuallers
' of Lowestoff and Halesworth, for the repeal of the increased
Duties on Licences ; to lie on the table. -
If ID ra AND SKINS BlLL—Petitions from Butchers of Bury St.
Edmunds and Abingdon, in favour, and of Tanners, &c.
of Leicester and Shrewsbury, against, referred to thebom-
mittee on -the Bill. •
WOOL—Petition from Woodbridge, against the repeal of the'
Duties' on the importation of Foreign Wool, to lie on the table.
WartEnousra) WHEAT BlLL—Petition from Woodbridge,
against, to lie on the table. Second Reading deferred till
this day.
L/NEX BOUNTIES—PetitiORS from Londonderry and Cork,
for. continuance of, to lie on the table.
DISTILLERY Lawse—Petition from Linlithgow, for a free
intercourse in home-made Spirits throughout the United
Kingdom, to lie on the table.
ASSESSED TAXES—Petition from. Clifton, for the repeal
thereof; to lie on the table.
HOUSE AND WINDOW TAX—Petition from Limehouse,
for the repeal thereof, to lie on the table.
SILK Du Tins—Petition of Manufacturers, &c. of Dublin,
against any alteration, to lie on the uthle.
Galen Laws AsrEleoxixez T—Petition from Gloucestershire,
against, to lie on the table.

ORDErcS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
Laboureren! Employment Bill—Second Reading.
Pauper Lunatics Bill—Committee.
Judges in Wales Bill—Committee.
Four per Cents. Acts—Committee thereupon.
Assize of Bread Bill—Second Reading.
Beer Duties Bill—Further Consideration of Report.
Law StaMPs Repeal Bill—Committee.
Tithe Composition (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
Growing Crops (Ireland) Bill—Second .Reading..
Clergy Residence (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
Customs (Coals and Linens) Bill—Report.
Slave Trade Laws Consolidation Bill—Report. • I
Supply—Committee. -
Ways and Means—Committee. •
Saving Banks Acts—Committee thereupon.
Dividends Transfer (England and Ireland Bill)—Report.
Passage Vessels Regulation Bill-3Co' mmittee.
Glass and Sweets' Bill—Report.
Roman Catholic Marriages Bill—Second Reading.
Warehoused. Wheat Bill—Second Reading

NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
Mr. Martin (of Galway)—To increase of Salaries annexed
to the Great Officers of State, and to high Judicial situa-
tions in the Country, so as to render them more adequate
to the labour and importance of the duties to be discharged,
and more worthy of the justice and liberality of the Nation.
ix Charles Long—Bill relative to the affairs of Chelsea
Hospital.
3. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—To move Grant out of
Consolidated Fund, Exchequer Bills, and Surplus Ways
and Means 1823, and to state the Budget. (In Committee
of Ways and Means).
NOTICE GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Thursday, May 13.
1. Mr. Jones—Committee of the whole House on Salaries and
Annuities to Welsh Judges.
2. Mr. Wodehouse (of Norfolk)—Continuanee of the present
Salt Duties.

2. Si

Tuesday, May 18.
Mr. Peter Moore—Bill to repeal Combination Laws.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Portuguese Consulate Office, London, May 6, 1824.
Si R—ln compliance with the instructions. which
I have received, I request thitt you will publish, for the infor-
mation of the public, his Most Faithful Majesty's decree, under
date of the 10th of March last.
. F. T. SAMPAYO, Consul-General.
" lasnow, MAncx 10.—Orders are issued from" the office
of-the Secretary, of State for Foreign Affairs, that all the Portu.
guese diplomatic agents at Foreign Courts, do, each in the
court in which he resides, cause to be published, that his Faith.
fill Majesty never will recognize, nor consider himself bound
tofulfil, any contract or engagement entered into by the pre-
sent Government de facto of Rio de Janeiro for obtaining a loan ;
and that every other agreement of a similar nature, whatever
be the guarantee or hypothec on which it is secured, shall ever
be regarded by his Majesty the Ring of Portugal as null and
of no value. The said agents are also ordered to make public,
that Brazil wood, gold dust, and Brazil diamonds are articles
belonging exclusively to the Crown, and which may be re.
claimed on the part of his Faithful Majesty in every instance in
which they have not been sold for the account and by the order
of his Government. Consequently, every contract for a loan on
the hypothec of such articles, which, inasmuch as they form
objects of Royal commerce, cannot but be regarded as property
of his Most Faithful Majesty, must be deemed illegal."—
( Lisbon Gezettc.