The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-28 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS.
heir Lordships met at ten minutes to five o'clock,
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the county
of Herts against the Ministerial measure.
Earl HAREWOOD also presented a petition, signed by
4,280 of the most respectable inhabitants of Dorking, praying
their Lordships not to pass the Bill for the repeal of the
corn-laws, as they conceived it was fraught with the greatest
danger to the country.
ST. A.SAPH AND BANGOR.
Earl PO W'S introduced a Bill for the disjunction of these
sees, which was read a first time.

Earl HARDWICKCORN-LAW'S.
resented a petition from th Commis-
sioners of the Bedford Level, setting forth that e they had,
by the expenditure of large sums of money, in the
erection of steam engines for draining tho land
succeeded in reclaiming a perfect morass, and making it excel-
lent growing land, that it was now flourishing, that they were
it terested in the maintenance of protection, and praying their
Lordships not to assent to a repeal of the corn-laws.
EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES BILL.
On the motion that the Bill be read a second time,
The Duke of RICHMOND rose and objected to the course
now proposed to be taken. ]t was contrary to the usual prac-.
tice of the House to enter upon business of that kind until the
presentation of petitions was over. Especially did he object to
any departure from the usual course when such an important
Bill, as the Corn Bill was under the consideration of the
House.

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he Ministerial OBLE DUK CORN-LAWS.
ag E then proceeded to present a petition
ai t
measure, on the corn-lrom the
landowners, ter:ant-farmers, and others, resident atf Chelms-
ford, in the county of Essex.
Petitions in favour of the Government measure were pre-
sented by Lord Radnor, by the Earl of Ripon, and by Earl St.
Germans.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM presented petitions from
the county of Essex against the Corn Importation Bill.
Lord BEAUMONT presented similar petitions.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE, in presenting a petition,
said that the petition which he had the honour of pre-
senting was numerously signed by the merchants,
bankers, and traders of the City of London. The
petitioners prayed that their Lordships would pass the mea-
sure which her Majesty's Government had introduced be-
fore the House. The petition was signed
twenty-four of the Directors of the
blan by
k of
England ; by nineteen of the bankers of London,
and by two hundred and seventeen of the merchants and
traders of the City.—( Hear, hear.) He was sure that whether
as regarded the intelligence of the persons signing
the petition, or the material interest which
they had in the measure which was then before
their Lordships, their Lordships would give that
petition
that
given the
risetitm:o considerationtbhuet syhs
tee
mit
moi deserved.grhctom rmemericni He would not
enlarge on the influence which ought to attach
hptoaedti
Lord-
ships that a petition was presented in 1820 which
policy !which
had been from that i step by step pursued. In the same
way he trnsted tho periodpetition from the merchants of Lon-
dondal their
would cause their petition
s to sanction a course of policy
which would lead to renewed andp extended commercial policy.
Lord ASHBURTON would venture to say that it would be
easy to obtain a petition as large, ands s numerously signed,
informing their Lordships that in tis:: yi 101 tail measure