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London, England, 1841-05-14 00:00:00

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1841.

The Earl of WARWICK, last night, in the House of
Lords, took an exception to a petition presented by Earl.
FrrzwitxrAm against the Corn-laws, because the great
majority of those who signed it were females, who could
not write their own names.

Earl FrrzwmmAm, thus challenged to defend the right
of petitioning, truly and justly said the people were not
to be deprived of the right of expressing their opinions
because they were not as well educated as Peers. At
the same time he rebuked their Lordships for the tem-
per in which they received the petitions of the people, and
plainly told them that the want of education
in the people was caused by the neglect of the Peers:

Honour to Earl FITZWILLIAM—we need not despair of

success while there is one man, and he has an excellent
coadjutor in the Earl of RADNOR, who boldly tells their

Lordships truth like Earl FITZWILLIAM. He is, how-
ever, their best friend and the truest patriot.

The Earl of HARDWICKE, a ship captain, a friend pro-
bably to impressment and the use of the cat-o'-nine-tailb,
.aid truly, though he meant it sneeringly, that Earl FITZ-
WILLIAM had made a speech which would make thu
people believe the Noble Earl was their friend. Th
ship captain, however, said, as a matter of reproael:
to the Noble Earl, that he only wanted to substitute h
fixed duty for a sliding scale. If Lord HARDWICKE be
a total and immediate repealer, let him say so, and
gain the golden opinions, the possession of which Iv
envies in Earl FITZWu.LIAM.
The Earl of RADNOR obtained a return of the names
of all persons who have received compensation for slaves,
which, when it shall be published, will be a most useful
index to some gentlemen's opinions and characters.
We cannot conclude without expressing our delight at

seeing. their Lordships fretting and fuming night after
night under the goads of the people's petitions. Peti.
tion again, as long as a Peer can be found who wil

ay the petitions before them ; and when they close their

doors against petitions, they will cut the last link of re•
spect by which the people • are bound to them. Their
Lordships did no business of the least importance.
In the Commons a great number of petitions were
presented, chiefly on the repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. MUNTZ moved an Address to her MAJESTY, t,
institute an inquiry into the conduct of the Earl of CAI:-
DIGAN, in the command of the 11th Hussars. The Hon.
Member said that he undertook the task in consequence
of numerous solicitations. He supported his motion by
a reference to those well known facts which have
made the name of CARDIGAN notorious through the land.
Mr. MACAULAY opposed the motion, principally on the
ground that the House ought to interfere as little as
possible with the exercise of the Royal prerogative in
military matters, particularly as to rewarding or punish-
ing. He referred also to the circumstance of officer,
buying their commissions, which Mr. MACAULAY seemed to
think justified them in using the power they bought as
they liked. But Lord HILL and the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON were of "'pinion that, to flog a man on tip.:
Sabbath, in a place devoted, a short time before, to re-
ligious worship--substituting the halberts for the altar
—was not an offelce to subject a man to a court-martial.
If they had said a Colonel, we should have assented to
their doctrine. He is of the rank of privileged wrong-
doers ; but any person of a meaner rank, who had- so
violated public decency would have been brought to a
court-martial and cashiered, as was Captain REYNOLDS,
for an offence infinitely less. Mr. MACAULAY was quit:
sure that no improper motives could be imputed to hie.
for resisting the motion, for Lord CARDIGAN was a po.
litical opponent, and he did not know him by sight. -

Lord U. LENNOX vindicated the Earl Of CARDIGAN'
from a charge of having given an officer the lie, but at
the same time admitted that something of the kind had
occurred in the dining-room, where the offence of the
black bottle" was perpetrated, which the Horse Guards
thought a serious affair in Captain REYNOLDS. Another
instance of grievous partiality in the Horse Guards.

Mr. W. O. STANLEY supported the motion.
Sir H. VIVIAN was authorised by the Earl of CAR-
DIGAN to express his deep regret for having flogged a
man on the Sabbath, which Sir HussEir said deserved
unqualified censure. He disapproved, however, of the
motion.

Lord Hoy:rim, after Colonel VERNER, Mr. EWART,
and Mr. WARBURTON had each said a few words, ex-
pressed his concurrence with Mr. MAC AULAY.
Colonel SALWEY said the conduct of the Earl of CAR-
DIGAN had created not only dissatisfaction but dis-
gust in the army. On a division the motion WV-
_t
lost by 58 to 135. We presume, therefore, that -.0
othereffort will now be made to remo7itihseenEs:.:
r i •
i loin of y
CARDIGAN
WO antici-
lraotine nothing—inaanmdanFwrhoom`.:holiisldo brave the odium which
le has braved must insensible to shame. There is no
making him fe.r.;, ks the old shying goes, without breaking
his backs

The adjonrned debate was then resumed, Mr. G
STONE bespeaking a hearing when Lord HowicK should
in the House, to vindicate a certain maker of Sugar in
Demerara at the expense of the lives of many slaves.
Mr. BROTHERTON vigorously but briefly supported the
Ministers, described the distress of the manufacturing
districts as dreadful, and denounced both the sugar
duties and the Corn-laws, the last of which, he said, he
hoped would be torn from the Statute-book.
Captain HAmw.roN opposed the Ministers, but recom-
mended, if they wished to benefit the poor, to remove
theended,
Corn-tax altogether.

Mr. ALSTON opposed the Ministers on the Corn-laws,
but on the sugar duties woild support them.
Mr. HARLAND opposed the motion, as injurious to the
West India interests.

Mr. HASTIE assured the House that the measures of
Ministers had given great satisfaction to the mercantile
world. In anticipation that the motion would be lost, he
recommended an equalization of the legacy duty.
Mr. G. PALMER alluded to the imputed divisions on
the Tory side to deny theni ; but if • they
do not now exist, it is quite clear that
they will soon arise. Sir R. PEEL will never be able to
divide the spoil equally amongst the plunderers he
.takei office to support, and the protected gentlemen
be as ready to devour one another under
Government as they are now. Protection
is nothing more than one man plundering another, or
trying to Plunder a third, instead of the two labouring
to increase their store, whereby all wound gain cud all I
would be enriched. Mr. CLAY showed that West Indian
sugar u 04141 compete with Liavt-grown sugar.

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