The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-24 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, M

The Royal assent was given by CO=lll,llol to the Union
Duties, Irish Militia Reduction, Quorum. 14 gistrates, Ap-
prentices, and several private Bills.
Earl TALBOT presented a petition from Newcastle-under.
Lyme against Slavery in the British Colonies.--Ordered to lie
on the table.
The Irish Commercial Intercourse Bill was read a third time
and passed. •
Orr-the motion of the Archbishop of CANTERBITRI/2°, the se-
cond reading of the Marriage Laws' Amendment Bill was fixed
for Tuesday next.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from
Newark, in the county of Nottingham, against the Claims of
the Roman Catholics.--Ordered to lie on the table.

The Irish County Ti asurers' 11111 went through a Committee.
On the motion of the Earl of Powtnottstottr., the time for
giving the securities was extended from Michaelmas to January
next.

Several other amendments of an unimportant nature were,
after some conversation between the Earl of CAL EDON, !AM'
DUFF EIIIIsIg anti the Earl of DOIIOIIGIIMORE, agreed to,—
Adjourned till to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ROYAL. COMMISSION.
At ten minutes before four o'clock the Yeoman Usher of' the
Black Rod appeared at the Bar, and summoned the House to
the House of Peers.
On the SrEnxun's return he informed the House that he
had beard his Majesty's assent given by Comniission to several
private Bills.—(See Lords.)
BEER BILL.
Mr. BUNG presented a petition from certain Table.beer
Brewers in Middlesex, against the Beer Bill.—Laid on the
table.
Mr. DENISON presented a similar. petition from South.
wark.—Ordered to be printed.
Sir CHAS. :MORGAN presented a petition from a Magis..
trate of the County of AI onmouth, in favour of the Bill for the
revision of the Laws relating to Master and Servant.—Ordered
to be printed.
Mr. DAWSON presented a return of all Places Ili Eng-
land having a local or separate jurisdiction.--Laid on the
table.
Mr. JERVOISE presented a petition from Owners and
Occupiers of Land in the County of Ilants against the Game
Laws.—Laid on the table.
Mr. S. WIIMIREAD presented a petition from Uxbridge,
in favour of the abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.—Laid
on the table.

SCOTCH LINEN TRADE.
Mr. LINDSAY presented a petition from 174 Manufac.
.turersj and 219 persons of the County of Kenmuir, Scotland,
against the proposed interference with the laws relating to
Scotch Linen. The individuals wefe most respectable, and
he took that opportunity to repel the charge made against
the petitioners, as eminating tl.om the influence of the Stamp
Masters. •
Sir RONALD FERGUSSON maintained that very few of
the independent manufacturers, joined in these petitions. In
Fifeshire, where so many manufactories were established, only
two petitions had been got up. Aberdeenshire was unapt.
moult in favour of the alteration ; and as for Perth, which had
produced so many petitions, the whole linen manufacture had
been long on the decline, and was almost totally transferred
to other districts. The value of the whole linen manufactuies
of Scotland was about three milliona per annum, and the pro-
perty of the whole of those who had petitioned upon this occa-
sion did not amount to more than 20 or 30,0001.
Mr. S. WORT IdEY Nano objection to theirtgoing from bad
to good principles of trade, but he had rather they should pro-
ceed on the principle of convincing the people concerned that
they were right, than that that House was right and the parties
interested wrong. It might possibly he very expedient that
the stamps should be taken oft, but he thought the parties enti.
tied to an opportunity of being heard.
Mr. PHILIPS could not admit the policy of inquiring into
this subject when no one Member seems to think the stamps
which they put forward.
necessary.
dd,elaanyd ordered to be printed.
mADBERLy thought the petitionera were not entitled
to the cplesitittnioonf
winasqutiirlyenanrcad
A Message from the Lords announced their Lordships' as-
sent to the Union Intercourse Bill, and other private Bills.
SHERIFF_ OF DUBLIN.

Mr. ,CALCRAFT moved that the Order of the Day for the
House resolving itself into a Committee of inquiry into the
.conduct of the Sheriff of Dublin should be read.
Lord CRANBOURNE moved as an amendment, that the
Order of the Day for the second reading of the Game Bill
should be read.
Mr. CALC.RAFT said he really thought the' Noble Lord
was making game of the House, u putting such a subject in.
competition with an inquiry of each an important public na-
ture., His only object m making the motion he had made was,
that the House should come to some determination upon a sub-
ject which loudly called either for their making some immedi-
;de progress in it, or giving it up altogether. He had no per.
son::1 interest in it one way or the other, but as the Gallant
Colonel. opposite had been allowed to begin his defence on the
part of the individual whose conduct was the subject of in-
qUiry, he apprehended it Would be a novel course for the House
to make him stop in the middle of that defence. But at all
events, Iti consideration of the number of witnesses that were
in town, at so great att expense to the public, and so much in-