The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE I:3.
The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from
Tullamore, and another from another place, in favour of
the King's County Assize Bill.
Mr. BARING and other Members of the House of Com-
mons brought up the Consolidated Fund Bill.
The Earl of WICKLOW moved the second reading of the
King's County Assize Bill, and that it be committed on
Monday next.
On the motion of Lord ROSEBERY, the whole
House resolved itself into a C-mmittee on the Bill for
enabling the Scorch Representative Peers to qualify
in Ireland; and after a slight verbal alteration, proposed
by the Noble Lord, which was agreed to, the report was
ordered to be received on Monday next.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition in fa-
vour of the Anatomy Bill.
Lord KING presented a petition from the inhabitants
of Chester, complaining that the corporation property was
voted away by the magistrates of that town with great
prodigality in private room.. His Lordship then pre-
tented a petition from the Inhabitants of Marylebono, in
favour of the Cemetery Bill ; also a petition from Ireland,
praying for the abolition of tithes.

The Earl of RODEN presented a petition from the City
of Oxford, very numerously signed, praying their Lordship:
to texise the Penal Laws, by which the punishment of
death was enacted, with a view to their amelioration.
The Noble Earl also presented petitions, principally from
places in Ireland, against the new system of education in.
troduced into Ireland.
CHURCH PROPERTY.

Lord KING presented a petition from the Council of
the Northern Political Union, praying that a portion of
the immen,e revenit•s of the see of Durham might be ap-
propriated for the purpose of founding and supporting an
university in that part of the kingdom. The revenues of
the Church were given for the purpose of promoting edu-
cation, as well as for the maiettnance of the clergy, and it
was never contemplated that so large a portion of them
should be bestowed for the support of one prelate.
The Duke of RICHMOND muted that the Postmaster
and Clerk of the Peace of Derby, Stafford, Monmouth,
Oxford, and some other places, be ordered to attend at
the Bar of the House on the 23d instant, for not having
furnished certain returns, to which on a former night he
bad adverted, should those returns not be supplied in the
i rite' im. —Ordered.
POLITICAL UNIONS.

The Marquess of LONDONDERRY begged to call
the attention of the Noble Earl at the head of the Go-
vernment to the progress of Political Unions, and entreated
him to take some measure to suppress them. He had
learned intelligence from the north of Englsnd, which in-
formed him of some most outrageous proceedings of these
Unions. A meeting of one of them had taken place at
Sunderland, at which Mr. Larkin, the friend of Dr. Head-
lain, had said that the Noble Earl was a weak instrument
in the hands of the people, and gave instructions to the
people how to act on the coming general elec-
tion. A publication bed been issued to the public
by one of the northern unions to the same elLct,
telling them that the battle of freedom was only
begun, and that they must require from all Parlia-
mentary candidates pledges to procure a free press,
universal suffrage, annual Parliaments, and vote by
b,lint. The favoured borough of Gateshead hail already
acted upon this advice, and the Political Union of that
town had put forward a candidate who had been required
to be the mere delegate of the people. In s'iort, if the
progress of these unions tic as not stopped, they would
take the entire Government of the country into their
hands. He trusted, therefore, that his Majesty's Minis-
ters would, before the dissolution of Parliament, devise
some measure to put them down. Mr. Pitt, with a
view to put down the friendly and corresponding societies,
of 1794 had suggested certain measures wick he recom-
mended to the attention of Government. He would now
only ask the Noble Earl whether lie contemplated putting
the common law in force against these societies ; and if
that were found insufficient for the purpose, bringing in a
13;11 which would put a stop to the evil of which be com-
plained.

Earl GREY Raid that Mr. Larkin was a friend of Dr.
Ifeadlam's, who he was sure did not approve of the
language uttered at the meeting referred to. With re-
spect to these political unions, they knew from experience
that they were the offspring of excitement and would
disappear with the causes of excitement. Such unions
might exist with perfect safety to good government, and
at any rate no mere enactment could put them down, as
bad been proved over and over again ; so that they had the
odium of passing laws hardly consistent with the con-
stitution without effect. Mr. Pitt's propositions
were not adopted, and what took place in his time
proved the truth of his propositions. Holding these
sentiments, be could in answer to the Noble Marquess
say that no measure of the kind he spoke of was in contem-
plation. He trusted much to the good sense of the people,
and the dying away of these unions, when this cause was
destroyed.