The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-06 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of most kinds of Grain this week arc moderate,
and the return of Flour not large. The Wheat trade is dull for
all sorts, except superfine, for which there is a pretty good de..
mandat Monday's prices, Barley, Beans, Pease, and Oats, zre
unaltered. Flour unvaried.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
English 2,650 qrs. I 3,780 qrs.
Iris -
Foreign - -

Oats. I our.
1,630 qrs. I 3,610 sacks
5,660 I
I -

CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat.

Barley.

.IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 5.

On the LORD CHANCELLOR taking his seat, a few mi-
nutes before five o'clock,

Lord KINNOUL presented a petition from the Pres-
bytery and Elders of Dunblane, praying for the better ob-
aerVance of the Sabbath.
Petitions to the same effect were also presented from
Sunderland and Newcastle-on-Tyne, I y the Bishop of
Durham ; from Charlton, in Gloucestershire, and from a
place in Dorsetshire, by the Bishop of Bristol ; from
London, by Lora Lorton ; and from Worcester, by the
Marquis of Worcester.
Lord KING presented a petition from a political union
in the county of Galway, against the adoption of coercive
measures towards Ireland. Also a petition from an indi-
Vidual in Dublin,- praying for poor laws for Ireland, and
the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the
subiect.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH said that the motion
he had made for returns relative to certain proceeding.s
in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in
Ireland had not been complied with.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was his opi-
nion that the order ought to be rescinded, which was
confirmed by communications he had received from the
highest common law authorities in Ireland. The pa-
pers were kept in a chest, which was never allowed
to be opened, or any copy or extract made, except in the
presence of the Lord Chief Justice.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH, after some observa-
tions, which we could not catch in the gallery, said, that
notwithstanding what had been said by the Noble Lord, he
must persist in his motion.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the case now as-
sumed a very different aspect. He would ask the Noble
Marquis and the House whether it was proper or even par-
liamentary to move for papers for the avowed purpose
of attacking an individual without first having given no-
tice.—(Hear.) It was a course which he bad never seen
pursued ; the usual mode was to give notice that
he had a charge to make against that individual, and
that for the purpose of investigating that charge,
it was necessary that such and such papers should be laid
before the House. However, this was the first time that
it had ever been intimated to him that the motion was in
any way connected with a charge against any individual.
lie understood that the production of the papers would
he extremely irregular, and contrary to the law as it
existed, and, until he had made farther inquiry, he could
not consent to their production. . .

After some conversation the motion was withdrawn.

COERCION IN IRELAND.

The Earl of RODEN wished to call their Lordships'
attention to a petition which he had to present from an
individual resident in the county of Wexford, relating to
the state in which that county was now nlaced. He,
perhaps, should not have said a word in presenting this
petition but for the reports which he had beard of their
Lordships being charged elsewhere with what was called
the indecent haste with which they had hurried through
svhat was called the Irish Coercive Bill. He thought and
reit himself justified in saying, that any individual who held
'up their Lordships' House as not caring for the comfort
and protection or for the liberties of the people of Ire-
land, when it passed that Bill, must either make that as-
sertion in ignorance, or from some sinister motives of their
own; perhaps with a view to keep up agitation until
they had passed an Act by which the Union would he
virtually dissolved by the destruction of the Protestant
religion and the Protestant Constitution in that country.
The petitioner was a shopkeeper, residing in New Ross,
in the county of Wexford, named William Strongbott
Everett. The petitioner stated the circumstances under
which he had taken a farm in that place, and went on to
say that on the 12th of May last he received a notice
threatening him with destruction if he dhl not compen-
sate the former tenant of the land which he held. He
defied the threat, and the consequence was that, although
his house was situated in a main street in a populous town,
on the morning of the 4th of June it was surrounded and
several shots fired into it, by which twenty nine panes in
the windows were broken, and the frames perforated with
shots. After this every one of the inhabitants refused to
deal at his shop, and such was the intimidation practised
that he was obliged to get the crew of the Pike sloop-of-
war to cut and carry his harvest, no resident daring to
assist him in the work. Shortly after that four of his
horses were houghed, and other property belonging to him
destroyed and injured. The petitioner further stated that,
being desirous of obtaiaing proper education for his
daughter, be bad sent her to the school of a Mrs. Browne,
upon whom a notice was.served that, if his daughter was
not sent away, every person connected with the school
should be murdered. She was consequently sent home, and
he was unable to get her education attended to. He
had, at the time of writing the petition, two acres of
potatoes in the ground, and was unable to get any
one to dig them ; and stacks of barley and other corn
on his farm, which no person dared thrash, or hire him
a horse and cart for their removal. Fearing that their
Lordships might doubt the truth of his statement he had
made an affidavit of the facts, a copy of which was set forth
in the petition. The Noble Earl said that this petition was
the answer he gave to the charges against the Bill which
their Lordships had passed. It was called coercive, and it
was coercive. It was intended to coerce the murderer and the
breaker of the laws, and to give protection to industry and
peace. However he might have differed from his Majesty's
Government upon other points, and however he might
differ from them again, he would maintain that they had
acted most wisely and most judiciously in bringing forward
a measure which he trusted would not only go to lay
hold of the poor and deluded violator of the public peace,
but also those who had secretly and covertly urged them and
goaded them on to the crimes they had committed. He knew
that the measure had met with the approbation of the respec-
table of all (fuses in Ireland, who were not content with
the state of things as they now were, but desired to see
protection to persons and property ; but by no class would
it he more thankfully received than by those farmers who
were desirous of seeing the laws obeyed, and who were on '
that account now living in a state of terror not to be con-
ceived or described, which indeed made the laws a dead
Letter, and turned the Constitution, from being a blessing,
into a curse. He did hope that the Bill would be suffered
to come back to their Lordships' House pretty nearly as it
left it ; and that with the least possible delay it would.be
allowed to give that protection to the King's loyal subjects
in Ireland to which they were so justly entitled.
Viscount CLIFDEN bad it in his power to corroborate
the general statement of the petitioner, as he knew him to
have suffered most cruelly from the persecutions which he
described. He was sorry to say, however, that he knew
of cases of much worse atrocity which had occurred upon
his own estates. Some of his tenants had lived sipon their
farms ler many years and paid no rent whatever, when he
forgave them all arrears and ejected them. He subse-
quently let the land to three other individuals ; and about
three months ago the villains whose principle was that no
landlord should be allowed to change his tenant whether
he got rent or not, came to the houses of the three
farmers and attempted to break in. The first resisted,
but they succeeded, and instantly shot the man dead
and burned his crops. They then went to the second,
where they could net force their way in, but they burned
his crop and destroyed his cattle. The third was attacked,
and it so alarmed him that he died of the fright. Thus
two of his tenants were murdered, and- the other was
driven out of his farm. The course he bad taken was to
order that the land should not be let again, but left waste ;
and so he would ever act, though his whole estate should
be without a tenant. If every landlord did the same he
had no doubt the evil would soon be corrected. The
state of the farmers in Ireland was one whole scene of
terror. He was informed that in many places they never
thought of lying down in their beds. He believed that
the " voluntary tribute," as it was called, was collected
by terror; and that fellows stood at the chapel doors and
compelled them to put in their shilling and half-crown
voluntary contributions. He wondered how men could
have the face, as he knew they did, to get up in the other
House and declaim against the Bill, when they admitted
in private that it was necessary.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH denied that distress
had any thing to do with the disturbances where they were
worst, and believed them to originate in sheer wickedness.
In Dublin there was a standing committee of mischief,
which would never rest until put down by the strong
hand, and the public mind would never until then be at
liberty to adopt the truth.
After an inaudible observation from the Marquis of
SLIGO, the petition was laid on the table.—Adjourned.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 5.

The House having been occupied in balloting far elec-
tion petition committees, the gallery was not opened until
a few minutes before five, when the rush of persons to
obtain places was equal to that of anyproerctedi,ngeav,euniens.g
during the discussion of the pending important w y
Besides considerable confusion in the, gallery, there was
much noise in the body of th? House,.Ourigig_ whiel, some
Bill was brought up for second reading.
Mr. COBBE1"1. said be had beard something read to
the House, but what it was he could not tell ; and h
deprecated this mode of.doing business.
The SPEAKER—The lion. Member must be aware
that there is a security against any Bill being surrepti-

tiously passed, as he seemed to infer, by every Member
being put in possession of a printed copy.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. COBBETT—But in the midst of such confusion,
no Member could tell whether it was a Bill being read a
first, a second, or a third time, or what Bill it was.
Lord SANDON, being named from the Speaker's list,
rose for the purpose of presenting a petition, and was in-
terrupted by
Lord ALTHORP, who made some suggestion about the
propriety of the debate on the Irish Disturbance Bill being
resumed before any business, but we could not glean more
than an idea of what his Lordship said.
Lord SANDON was exceedingly unwilling to do any
thing discourteous to the Noble Lord ; but some considera-
tion should be shown for the situation in which he (Lord
Sandon) stood, as regarded the presentation of the petition.
—( Hear, hear.)
After the reading of the Committee chosen for the Car-
marthen election, and another,
The SPEAKER said the question before the House was,
whether the public petitions should be read, or the busi-
ness on the public paper proceeded with.—(Hear.)
Mr. COBBETT was of opinion the petitions should be
received first, as Members having petitions to Ares: nt, ac-
cording to the rule laid down, would be delayed a fortnight,
if they could not present them soon.
Mr. O'CONNELL observed, that he had a number of
petitions—above 40—to present against the Irish Coer-
cive Measure, and he was unable to present them.
Lord ALTHORP said, the House had had a good
deal of experience last session, during the progress of the
Reform Bill, when they were obliged to come to some
understanding upo❑ the mode of presenting petitions. Ir
was then arranged, that in presenting petitions, gentle-
men should refrain from making long speeches, and
bringing forward discussions.—(Hear, hear.)

After a few observations from Mr. WAR BURTON,

Mr. WILKS hoped the House would not persist in
such an arrangement as they had come to of meeting in
the day time—a plan which he believed had totally failed.
(Hear, hear, and No, no.) He thought it had, for
they had only sat at 12 o'clock three days during the
week, and only 64 petitions had been disposed of, leaving up-
wards of 300 names on the Speaker's list. If they proceeded
in the same way, the last name would not be entitled to
present a petition for upwards of six weeks. By that
arrangement the pttitions of the people would be greatly
delayed. He had already got a great number of petitions,
and from letters that he bad recaived he expected many
more; but his name stood at No. 176, and therefore it
would be some time before he could have an opportunity
of presenting any of them. It appeared to him that
the old plan was far superior to the new one.

Colonel DAVIES felt the full force of what the Hon.
Member who had just sat down had asserted. He felt also
the inconvenience of debating on petitions, particularly the
discussions of the Hon. Member for Oldham (Mr. Cob-
lieu). Upon one petition respecting the observance of the
Sabbath Day, that [lon. Member had brought into his
speech various arguments respecting the Jews and Poland.
From such causes the Speaker's list was only diminish-
ing 15 or 20 a day, and increasing by new petitions 50
or 60 a day. The remedy was easy and simple, it was,
that gentlemen should exercise a little discretion—(Hear)
—and confine themselves to the question before the Howe.
Mr. WASON thought the present arrangement had
been most effectual—(Hear, hear)—and it only deserved
to be fairly tried. Some gentlemen, in order to get their
speeches reported, however were in the habit of seizing
tbe first opportunity that presented itself to address the
House.

Mr. COBBETT said he bad befn reproached for doing
that which he had never attempted to do—namely, make
speeches. He was not angry at any body for doing so,
but would in return suggest a complete remedy. He
would suggest that all proper petitions should be received,
and read aloud, either by the Hon. Member who
presented them, or by the clerk, and that no speeches
should be made with respect to them. That would put an
end to the labours of the select Committee, of which the
people were so jealous. The people wished to have
themselves heard, and not their representatives. He
would have every petition printed without the interference
of S;r Robert Peel or any body else. If some course of
that sort was not adopted, be should continue to make
speeches on the presentation of any petition.
Mr. LITTLETON thought if the House adopted a
resolution that Members should merely state the contents
of the petitions, it would be attended with good effects.
Mr. R. PALMER observed, that if gentlemen, on the
presentation of petitions, were precluded from making any
observations, their constituents would feel very much
dissatisfied.

Mr. LITTLETON brought up the report of the Select
Committee on public petitions.
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS.

The SPEAKER suggested the propriety of Members
endeavouring to-morrow to consider some plan for
facilitating the presentation of petitions.