The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-08 00:00:00

."HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAJtcu 7.

The'.SPEAKER took the Chair this day at the usual
hour.

The Right Hon. CHAS. GRANT took the oathiyuld
Dais seat upon his re-election.

Sir CHAS. IIORGAN presented a petition from the
Maltsters of Chepstow, and another place, against the
Malt Acts.

Mr. POWELL presented a petition from Sarum against
the Corporation and Test Acts.
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Mr. LLOYD presented a petition from a parish in the
county, of Limerick, in favour of the Catholic Claims.
Mr. MONCK presented a petition front the Maltsters of
Abingdon, Barks, for the repeal of the Malt Act.
Mr.. LEGH KECK moved for copies of the order sent
from the Treasury to the Board of Excise for the last year.
Mr. GRA.ITAN presented a petitiouirom certain Mer-
chants of Dublin against the Bill for dissolving the Hiber-
nian Joint Stock Company.
Mr. W. PEEL brought up a Bill to enable the Magis-
trates to hold SegelOns in Westminster during the sitting of
the Court of King's Bench. The Bill was read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday
next.

Mr. J. WOOD presented a petition from Mr. Tucker
against the return of Mr. Sugden for Weymouth.
Mr. MANNING presented a petition from certain
Burgesses onlenryn, against th;'l3ill for disfranchisiug
that Borough.___

Sir' T. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition froth the
Maltsters of Bath, against the Malt Regulation Act'.
Mr. VILLIERS moved that there be laid before the
House the number.of Executions issued by (we believe)
the Court olatchequer, in London and Middlesex, for the
year 1827.
Sir C.BURRELL presented a petition from the Maltsters
of Horsham, against the Malt Regulation Act.
Mr. JEPHSON presented a petition from the Catho-
lics of two parishes in the county of Cork, praying for a
repeal of Roman Catholic Disabilities: The Hon. Mem-
ber took occasion to observe, in presenting similar petitions
from a place in Cork, that the petitioners grounded their
claimi on the Treaty of Limerick ; he should only make
one observation, namely that an admission slipped from the
Right Hon. Member for Oxford, which bore directly
against his line of argument. That Right non. Gentleinan
referred to the propositions refused by Ginkle as a proof
that no such things' were intended by the Treaty as were
now relied on by the Catholics, for these Propositions re-
ferred to the holding of. civil and military situations, from
which they were debarred by a statute of Elizabeth, but
naturally did not include seats in Parliament, from which
there was no law to debar them.
GREECE.

Sir R. WILSON said. he wished to put a question to
the Gallant Admiral opposite, which grew out of an
answer to a question put by him the other night
to the Right Honourable the Secretary of the Colo-
nies, relative to 2,500 Greek women and children
who, subsequently to the battle of Navarin, were sent as
slaves to Alexandria. The question which be wished to
put was, whether any part of our naval force in the Me-
diteiranean (not damaged in the battle of Navarin)
amounting to 16 or 18 frigates cad sloops of war, were

employed is blockading Patras, and the other fortified
places in the Mores, which were in the possession of the
Turks.
Sir GEORGE COCKBURN said, the naval force in the
Mediterranean, exclusive of those ships engaged in the
battle of Navarin, consisted of fifteen vessels, and there-
were two or three ships in the action which were not
damaged, but as the former vessels were on different eta,
tions in the Mediterranean, when the action, which was
wholly unexpected took place, they could not be made im-
mediately available for service. The last despatches re-
ceived from the Admiral commanding on that station, were
dated the 21st of November last, and from those despatches
it did not, appear that any of our :rival force was em.
ployed in blockading the forts mentioned by the Gailant
Officer.
Major PEEL presented a petition from the Malteters of
the Western Division of Norfolk, against the Malt Regula-
tion Act.
Mr. LAMB presented returns from the Charter Schools
in Ireland.
Lord MOUNTCHARLES presented a petition from the
Roman Catholics of different parishes in Donegal, praying
for a repeal of the Ronan Catholic disabilities.
Sir G. HILL presented a petition from the Governor
and ether Members of the Ulster Salmon Fishing com-
pany, against the Salmon Fishery Bill. •
After some discussion, in which the Kisictir of KIRRY,
Mr. S. Rica, and Mr. lemma took a part, the petition was
ordered to be printed.
REMOVAL OF A JUDGE IN INDIA.

Mr. BROUGHAM wished to know whether it was
true that a Learned Judge in India had been removed from
his situation, for expressing in bis judicial capacity an opi-
nion, from which it might be inferred that he contem-
plated a period when the East India Company's Charter
would net be renewed. He trusted there was no founda-
tion for the report.
Mr. COURTENAY: could not say that the report
was without foundation, but the Government had not
received any official notification of the suspension of Judge
Smith, but he believed that that Learned Judge had been
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called upon for an explanation of the expressions attributed
to him.
Mr. BROUGHAM said it was ominous to hear of an
explanation having been asked from a Judge, for :a judicial
opinion expressed by him—from any quarter except the
Cottit 'of Appeal. He should be glad to know by whom
this explandtion was demanded.
MK COVRTENAY (as we understood him) said the
explanation was . required hy the Vice President of the
Council. ....
3.s , PUBLIC CHARITIES.
Mr. PEEL ilioved that an huMble Addreis be presented
to his Majesty, praying that there be laid before the House
the report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into
the public charities of.the country.
After some observations by Mr. BROUGHAM, Mr. J.
MARTIN, Sir .J. YORKE, Mr. HUMS, and Mr. D. W.
IlaaysN-, the motion was agreed to.
MESSAGE FROM TH LORDS.
A Messenger from the, Lords bilbught up the Lunatic
Asylum Bill, which their'Lordships bad agreed to without
an amendment.
Mr. BROUGHAM presented a petition signed by the
most 4spectable Catholics in Ireland, praying for a
Repeal of the Oath taken by every Member of Parlia-
ment upon taking his seat, that the Roman Catholic Reli-
gion is damnable and idolatrous. He should, when his
Hon. Friend the Member for Westminster b ught forward
i his motion for a repeal of the Catholic Di ilities on the
29th April, move that the prayer of the pe ion should be
taken into considetation.—Ordered to be printed. -
Mr. BROUGHAM presented a petition from) John
Yale, an innkeeper at Halifax, in Yorire, com-
plaining of the conduct of the Magistrates aPhe Quarter
Sessions at Brewster, in refusing to renew his licence,
without. assigning any reason fer their conduct, but by
merely saying, " We have made up our minds, you
have lost your licence; we will givenereasen." The petitioner
stated that in May last, lie took an inn, at a rent of 851.
a year, in Halifax ; that be expended 250/. in necessary
repairs ;_ that at the last Sessions of the Peace held in that

part of the county, he had applied to the Sitting Magi-
strates for a licente,'and halt been rerused, without the
existence of any good groundi for the refusal. The effects
of this proceeding had:been most_calasnitous to the peti-
tioner, who 'was utterly ruined. -The,Learned Gentleman
said, if the statements in itetifion wee at all borne out
by the facts, that the case of the petitioner was one of the
hardest that he had ever lieard of, No case of greater
hardship Had-arisen even out of the operation of the Li-
censing System itself. 't ,
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After an observation from 'Mr. DUNCOMBE,
The petition was brought up, read, and' ordered to be
printed.

- Lord CASTLEREAGH presented several petitions of
Roman Catholics in the county-of Devon, in favour of Ca-
tholic Emancipation.'--Ordered to be laid on the table.
DECCAN PRIZE MONEY.
Mr. MIME inquired of_the_Right Hon. the Chancellor.
of the Exchequer when it was intended to make a distri-
bution of tlorDeccan Prize Money.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUZR' said the
subject haal been recently under the consideraßbn of his
Majesty's Government,' and he believed he might say; the
period of distribution would be annimneed in the next Gq—
zette, or in that which followed it.