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London, England, 1815-03-03 00:00:00

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UOUSE OF LORDS, Ttinr.sDAY, NLUtcu C.
T Earl of FORE:WONT moved the second reAdin!; of tht
Bill for enabling Z•ldrittiz.l Persons to exchange Glebe Lands
and Parqooage lion;eg for other Land, and Ilvuses; 16% Lut=d-
ship gutted, that tl:e object of the Bill IC s to encourage the
residence of Ineurnhentg.
The Arclibiliop of cANTErinumr expreg,el hi. :41ipve-
bation of the BM; wench wai read 4 ,ecutui tiutr, and cum-
mittt..d for the tint Tuesday after the Rec.::,s.
The Bank Loan Bill I.,assed through a Committee, ant! was
reported.

CORN LAWS.
The Marquis CArzD presented a Petition from
the Land Owners and Occupiers of Laud in the
County of Kent, praying the House to take into
conaideration.the state of the Corn Laws.
The Earl of DARNLEY adverted to the proceed-
ings of the Meeting in heat, which was sum-
moned in consequence of a Requisition to the
High Sheriff, who decided to hold it at Maid-
stone on the Market-day. The result Was that
all the rabble of Maidstone attended, together
with the workmen from the paper manufac-
tories, and a number of idle discharged ser-
vants, who raised such a clamour that he (Lord
Darnley) could not be heard, nod the Land-
Owners and Occupiers of Land adjourned to an
_tun in the Town' where, at a very respectable
Meeting, certain Resolutions and the present Pe-
tition were agreed to. His Lordship took the op-
portunity at adverting to a publication in the
nrewvap,ers purporting to be a speech delivered by
the Chief Magistree of London, whicli he roust
consider as altogether an unfounded statement, it
being impassible to believe, that one whose peen-
Lar duty it was to preserve the peace, would utter
sentiments wholly subversive of it. It was there
stated thiit the Lord Mayor of Landau had stated
that the import price being SOs. the average price
would heat that atnount,• an assertion which was
negatived by all experience, and it would be seen
that grain had actually fallen in price in the last
market-day, notwithstauding the measure relative
ro the Corn Laws was under the consideration of
the Legislature. It was also alleged to have
been stated by the Worthy Magistrate, that if
the measure was carried, fixing ;lie import price
at SOs. the Qaartern Loaf would be at Is. 4d. or
Is. Cal. The Worthy Magistrate, of all Men,.
ought to know what could be done with a silcit of
alour, and it was known that the produce of a
quarter of Wheat might be made into 101 Quar-
tern,4oaves, at all events it, would at least 80.—
Taking it then at the very losvest,caleidat ion, and
the average price of Wheat at 80s. the Quarter!'
Loaf ought not to be more than one shilling.--
How it happened that the Quarter') Loaf in Lou-
don was dearer than in the Country the Lord
Mayor and Court of Aldermen would bast explain.
His -Lordship concluded by observing, that the
proposed measure respecting the Corn Laws was
the best calculated to promote the general interest
of the country.
Earl STANUOPE animadverted on the expres-
sions applied by the Noble Lord to the persons
attending tire Meeting at Maidstone, observing
that they of. .course felt keenly upon sueo a sub-
ject, and must respecting any question that re-
lated to starving the people. As to the speech
attributed to the Lord Mayor of London, the pro-
per way would have been for the Noble Lord, he.-
lot he commenced upon it, to have sent the news-
paper to that Magistrate, and asked hiai whether
be really used these expressions ? Upon this Inca-
sure he thought the Legislature were beginning
at the wronce end ; the proper way would be to
see what could be done for the purpose of de-
caeasing taxation, and t hits to render labour cheap,
and enable the farmer to sell cheap. Instead of
this ki number of taxes hail been proposed, which
world fall w.th increased weight upon the farmer
and the lower classes of society.
The Earl of LAUtIERDALE deprecated the use
of inflammatory language, and particularly the
phrase of starving the people. It was not, nor
could it be, the intention of tiny man ro propose
a measure-that would-have a tendency to starve die
people. The object of the measure nosy btfore
Parliament was tae general welfare of the people ;
and whenever tiat measure came before that
House, it should have his firm support, con vinced-
as he was that it was essential to the well-being
of the count ry.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL agreed with the Noble
Earl (Lauderdale) as to the essential importance
of the measure now before Parliament regarding
the Corn Laws, and observed that it was too nine('
fur the Noble' Earl (Stanhope) to say that the
proposed taxes would press upon the agriculture
of the country,.and upon the lower classes, the
fact being that agriculture was exempted, and that
the greatest care had been used that the new taxes
should attach most to the higher classes, and those
the best able to bear them : as to a decrease of
taxation there was every dispoSithm in the Go-
veromeot, and must be in every Government, to
lighten the burdens of the people. The Noble
Ea'rl, however, must be aware that the public
creditor mast be paid, and the estahlishntents for
the peace and security of the country provided
for ; but the fact was, that the people would be
this year relieved from taxation to the amount of
9,00.0,0001.

• Earl STANHOPE, in explanation, disclaimed
having ever intended to impute to any one a wish
to starve the people, or having at all hinted that
the public creditor ought not to be paid, or a
peace establiShinent provided for.
After sonic further explanation from the Earl of
Darnley and Earl Stanhope, the Petition was or-
dered to lie on the Table.
Adjourned till to-morrow (this day.)