The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-12 00:00:00

INiPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORD'S, TituasnaY, MAY 11.
Mr. Saviti.k Otruy, and other Members of the Haile of
Commmis, brought tip several private Bills, which wel'e read a
first time.

LOVAT PEER] E.
Mr. Ann Wiiter to the Signet, presented th return
of the Scottisli.linlges to the Order of 1e House, for examining
the aged witnes764 in Scotland.

Mi. Loy Err; from the office of the:lii*tor-General of Corn
Returns, pres'ented an account of the tiVerage price of 'wheat for
the week endink the Gth of May.

The Mary of Y phaented a petition from
owners and occupiers in the neighbourhood of Charing- 'roes, in
favour of the Chafintl-cress• Improvertiht Bill.
Petitions from *anon*
_.l7ilaces were pfeaeuted against Slavery.
Lord DUDLEY and WARD presented a petition from :11er-
chants, IVanufacturerik, 'lid Traders, in Olasgow and its vicinity,
expressirig their apprehensions at the intended measures for throw-
ing opill the Colonian Markets, and roingthat such measures
:might not be passel/ into a law. TheietMon iias signed lifloo.
persons, and expreasida hope that it *nuld receive due attoution
from their Lordships.

-ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Earl DARNLEY presented a petition from the RenfaA' Who-
lies of the town of Preston, Lancashire, pray itig kr a removal
of the disabilities under which fliey lahoured....44‘id ou the
table.

Earl GREYsaid that lie haft& similar petition tti present from
a respectable and important portion of the Catholic body. The
petition was signed by the-Doke of Norfolk and by other Noble-
men and Gentleinen of that persuasion; praying for a xepeal of
the disqnitlifyitt laws which affected them as Roman .Catholics,
Year after year had •he been presenting similar petitions, but
without effect; and he thou'ght that unless their Lordships grant-
ed relief to the Catholics, the consequences, at one time of the
other, would be most lameOtable. He thought that justice and
policy equally required the concessiolui of those claims; and that
was his opinion in:times of phiSpertty as well as of adversity. He
wished to state that at the, present period, when distress' and difli-
culfy added much to the danger, he hoped that the prayer of the
petitioners would be acceded to; and that thereby the security of
this•country would be established.

The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from 'Wood-
bridge, in Suffolk, against any alteration M the Corti Laws, •
Lord KING presented a petition from the journeymen cot-
ton-spinners of Manchester, praying their Lordship to release the
foreign corn now in bond, ani-ttleo4o give'bis Majesty's Govern-
ment a discretionary power of miktitting foreign grain. His
Lordshipsaid, that he agreed with Ai* petitioners in thinking that
such measures would lower the prices of food, and that they
would also create a demah in foiiign countries fot the manufac-
tures of England. Hit Lordship then presented a petition from
the freemen of Worcester, praying for an alteration in the Corn
Laws.

PROMISSORY NOTES.
Earl GROSVENOR rose for the purpose of stating that it,
was not his intention this SeSsion to bring forivaid his promised
measure for the more speedy iecovert of Promissory Notes. At
that late period of the Session it Woolilitot be convenient to enter
upon the subject; but he had not alter it his intention of bring-
ing it before their Lordships, whick he would do at a future
period. . ..