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London, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Sept. 20.
Their Lordships met at half-past three, when Lord
Lowther. waajnttoduced by Lords Redesdale and Stuart
de RutlisaY, and took the oaths and his seat.
BRITISH SLAVE TR &DING.
• Anti-Slavery Society, praying
Lord BROUGHA NI presented a petition from the
British and Foreign
the
attention of the house -to the lamentable fact that Bri-
tish subjects were-extensively engaged, . and • promoted
the traffic, in slaves. -
He (Lord Brougham) had hoped
that British Subjects had long since retired from
all participation in that trade; but the facts which
he had to state would show that some of them
were still engaged in, and seeking profit from,
that infernal tiaffic. Various Mining Companies
were formed in this country, which carried on their ope-
rations in Brazil and Cuba, working their mines by newly-
imported slaves from Africa, who were illicitly pur-
chased by the agents of these Companies, although such
agents well knew that the importation of the slaves was
illegal, contraband, and piratical. Whatever might be
lawful to a foreigner in his own country, it would not be
is long- if he purchased a Slave in any part of the British
dominions. Butifa British subject so participated in slave-
trading, that is to say, by the purchase of a, newly-imported
slaVe, in a country where the importation was by law de-
clared to be piratical—such British subject could be seized
in this country, tried, and convicted of felony. Three years
ago he would be punished with death, but now he would be
liable only to transportation for life, whether such trade
in the country in which the act was done were legal or
illegal. In the case referred to by the petitioners the
only question would be, whether the purchase of slaves
newly imported was an act of slave-trading. The peti-
tion stated that officers in the army and navy were engaged
in making such purchases, as agents of those Companies ;
and goods were manufactured in this country which
were called coast goods, and it was known that they
were employed only in the slave trade. He would not
;:ay that the mere sale of those goods, out and out, al-
though knowing the illegal use for whic:,. they were
destined, was a felony ; but if, as was stated
in the petition, British subjects in the Brazils and Cuba
sold such goods, not out and out, but on condition of a
price to be paid proportionate to the profits of a slave
trading adventure, then such persons were guilty of felony.
The petitioners stated that it was notorious that fetters
and shackles were made in this country for the
purpose of being exported to Brazil and Cuba,
to lie employed in the slave trade. Ho had no
hesitation in saying that such a trado did not come
within the provisions of the Slave-trade Abolition Act.
They also represented that vessels were built in this
country expressly for the slave trade, and one ease of
that Ural was within his ON 11 knowledge. The petitioners
prayed the House to extend the provisions of the Slave
Trade Consolidation Act ofis4, co as to prohibit all British
subjects from dealing in slaves tinder any pretence what-
ever, or they prayed 'that their Lordships would appoint
a Committee to inquire into the subject, The latter
object he would support. Before sitting down he begged
to ask his Noble Friend the President of the Board of
Trade whether there would be any objection to lay on
the table of the House the report of 1)r. Madden who
had been an the coast of Africa on a mission of inquiry ?
• -1;:arl RIPON had nut heard anything relating to
the subject. - The Report alluded to would most
likely be made to the Secretary of State, and
not to the department over which lie had the honour to
preside. He had never heard of the statements eon-
tallied ill the petition, and he trusted most sincerely that
they were untrue.

The Duke of WELLINGTON laid on the table the
correspondence between the late Chancellor of the Exche-
quer and other parties relative to the warming and ventil-
lation of the Alew ilousesof Parliament. It was important
tho papers should be considered as soon as possible.
lie would, therefore; move that a Committe be appointed
to sit on Thursday next.—Agreed
Lord DE CLIFFORD gmre notice of his intention to
move, on Thursday% thy. copies of certain papers relating
to India,
TM col-rpm-AI said he had laid on the table
of' the House three very important Bills. Al-
though it was necessary that 'they should be separate
Pills,. still the object of the whole of them was to
establish Local Courts, so that greater facilities might be
afforded to the subject in obtaining justice. As it was
Aow vtiteaat certain that they could not be proceeded with
duri.:g the present Session, as they could not possibly re-
ceive t he consideration which they imperatively demanded,
he did not propose to ask their Lordships
to proceed further with them before the recess.
The Noble. hard ooncluded, by stating that he wouldbrie.
cv,rwAed his Bills on an early day next Session.
The House then adjourned, at a quarter to Six, until
Thursday next.

HOUSR OF COMMONS, Sept. 20.
no SNEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'Clock.

Sir J. Graham, for Dorchester, and Dr. Nichol, for
Cardiff; took the oaths and their seats.
MAYNOOTII COLLEGE.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented thirty-ftve petitions from
SheernOss and other places in Kent, against any-further
grant to Maynooth College.
RAJAH OF SATTARA.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition, agreed to at a
public meeting in Dub entreating the House to in-
quire into the case of the Rajah of Sattara, and if he
should be innocent to adopt means to restore him to his
former authority.

PROPERTY-TAX ASSOCIATION. •
Mr. WAKLEY prespated a petition from Henry
Jones, Honorary Secretary to a newly formed Associa-
tion, called the London. Property-tax Association, in-
stituted to promote a tax on property in lieu of the taxes
of Customs and Excise. The petitioners stated that
property was able to take care •of itself, but poverty
needed the protection of the law. He therefore
proposed a, tax on property, and prayed the
House to take the subject into consideration during the
present Session. The Hon. Member also presented a
petition from 204 persons connected with agriculture at
Milton Abbot, Devon, praying for the repeal of the ex-
isting duties on sugar. corn, and timber.
CORN-LAWS.
Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Abingdon,
signed by 504 bakers, butchers, and other inhabitants of
that town, praying for the abolition of the Corn-laws.
The SPEAKER informed the House that he had re-
ceived a report from the Election Petition Committee,
stating that the sureties ft ,r the petitioners were unexcep-
tionable in the cases of the petitions against the returns for
the following places :—Thetford, Nottingham, Wareham,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Lyme Regis, Aferthyr Tydvill,
Harwich, Stafford, St. Ives, the County of Rutland, and
New Windsor.

THE BANKRUPTCY COURT.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from. he said,
a most respectable individual, named M‘Donald, com-
plaining of injury done to his property by the misconduct
of an official assignee under the Court of Bankruptcy, and
praying for redress.

TITHE RETURNS.
Mr. (TANNERS SUTTON moved for a return of
the number of compositions made under the Tithe Com-
position Act in England and Wales, from the Ist Janu-
ary to the Ist July, 1841.—Agreed to.
NOTICES OF MOTION.—EDUCATION.
Mr. EWART gave notice that on an early day he
should renew the motion of which he had given notice
last Session, for an address to her Majesty, praying that
she would be graciously pleased to order n report to be
laid before the House annually of the state and progress
of education, such report to be prepared under the su-
perintendence of some responsible Minister of the
Crown.

IMPORT' DUTIES.
•
The HoN. MEMBER also gave notice, that on Tuesday
week he should propose a resolution to the effect
that the principles laid down in the report of the
Committee of the House—which sat last Parlia-
ment to consider if the import duties were essential to
the preservation of the trade and commerce of the coun-
try, and to the beneficial employment of its inhabitants—
ought to be adopted by any Government which sought
to enjoy the confidence of the countgsc-(Cheers.)

WAYS AND MEANS.
-
Mr. WILLIAMS wished, as the Chancellor of the
Exchequer was not in his place, to ask the lion. Baronet
the Secretary to the Treasury, if he could inform the
House
.on what night the Chancellor of the Exchequer
proposed going into Committee on the 'Ways and "Means?
Sir G. CLERK said the Ways and Means could not
be discussed until the Supplies had been voted, and he
apprehended it would be impossible to bring the ques-
tion before the House before Friday, or perhaps Monday.
POOll-LAWS.

Captain PECHELL, seeing the SeFretari of State for
the Home "Department in his place, wished ro ask him on
what day he proposed bringing in a Bill for the renewal
of the Poor-law Commission ?

Sir J. GRAHAM said that in the course of the even-
ing notice would be given of the day on which the mea-
sure was w be brought forward.
• CHURCH EXTENSION.

On Sir G. CLERK moving the Order of the Day for
the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply,
Mr. HAWES said he wished to ask the Hon. Baronet
the Member for the University of Oxford if it was his
intention to renew during the present Session the motion
of which he had given notice last session on the subject
of Church Extension, and if not, whether he intended to
bring forward the question during the ensuing Session of
Parliament?

Sir 11. INGLIS said it was not his intention, during
the present Session to renew the motion on the sub-
ject of Church Extension, of which he had only given
notice last Session—(Hear, hear)—not having brought
the subject before the House since June, 1840. With re-
gard to next Session he thought it better to postpone any
announcement on the subject until that Session should
arrive.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.)
LORI) CHANCEILON OF IRELAND.
Mr. TUFNELL, seeing oe Honourable and Learned
Member for Ripon in his place, wished to ask the Right
Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth if there were
tyet completed in a general
any truth in the report that it had been intended to ap-
point that Right Hon. Gentleman Lord Chancellor of
Ireland, and if that intention had been abandoned ?
Sir E. SUGDEN said, that perhaps he htui better
I:
ee n
s hade e a
sect,been
answer that question. • The statements Which stated.that
but theappointed
measures to that
were ce were,n o fll
fir the displacement of the former officer and the ap-
pointment of his successor. .
Sir R. PEEL said there could be no doubt as to the
o
intention of conferring the appointment in question on
his Right Hon. and Learned Friend ; and the.peyelonny
of kissing hands, which 14 not yet _ taken place, was all
that WPA Wanting to (:amplete the arrangement.
POOR-LAWS... _
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would
knowld be
conve-
nit.
encea great
what day it
would be proposed to renew the Poor-law Bill, he hoped
oPE manyeiiEHLoin said, as
Members
the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir 1..3ee1), whom he saw in
his place, would afford them that information.