The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-03 00:00:00

1311'ORTED.

SECOND EDITION.
SE?: OFFICE, Semi o'Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(TH/6 EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Criminal Justice Ireland Bill, the Larceny
Laws Ireland Bill, the Stamps on Policies of Insu-
rance Bill, the Plate Glasa Duties Bill, and the India
Prize Money Bill, were read a third time and passed.
Mr. it. GORDON and others from the Commons
brought up the County Lunatic Asylums Bill, to
which an amendment to their Lordships' atnertd-
went had been produced.
On the motion of the Earl of LtinitlCK, cer-
tain returns connected tt/itli the Irish Butter Trade
were ordered.
Lord CIAVTON presented a petition from Dun-
dalk, against the Market Towns in Ireland Bill.
Lord GWYDWR presented a petition front
Boston, Lincolnshire, against Slavery.
The Hate! Licensing Bill went throne Coni-
mittee.

Lord GWYDVR pfesesented a petition from
ceartain lead tnitaers in Carnarvon, praying for ad-
di.tiona! protection to British lead.
Mord GOSFORD presented a petition from the
Irish Mining Company, praying for protection to the
Mining interests in general.
Lord KING said that before their Lordships tires
ceeded to the question to be disctissed thic evening,
he felt it his duty to ptegeot t' them a petition
closely connected with the subject. It came from an
person known to their Lordships, to whom he was sure
they would pay every attention. It was the peti•
of Mr. Cobbett, and the petitioner's object was, that
their Lordships sLoilid not in any
t,'„,:ti, degree vary the
Act of I
by which the virettlation of notes under
I 3.1., Was to cease after next April. For his own part,
ithe Neble Lord thought that the worshippers
of paper-money, were of the worst description of
heretics. lie was an enemy to declarations of any
sort, but if he were to have a declaration, he cer-
tainly would prefer one, stating that the worship
of paper money was a superstitious and damnable
idolatry.—(A laugh.)—He thought that by this
means he would exclude from Parliament persons
much more wicked than those against whom decla-
rations were at present levelled. In fact this love of
paper was the most damnable of all heresies; he
had called it the other day the Manichatan heresy,
because its votaries worshipped the very principle
of evil ; for paper money was their god, and high
prices their heaven.—(A laugh.) The petitioner
stated that efforts were made by the Representatives
of those who wished to extend their circulation, to
convince Parliament that they were the friends of
the poor. Mr. Cobbett, on the other hand, stated
that—awl in this the Noble Lord fully agreed—
with him—none suffered so -much front the Small
Note currency as the Poor. Who, he would ask,
suffered most by the failure of Banks P Those, who
could not afford to refuse a If. note, or those who
were too ignorant to know its insecurity. It was,
therefore two absurd for any person to say that he
wished to assist the poorer classes by keeping up an
insecure, and useless paper money. The Noble Lord
well remembered when in 1826 one of those issues of
paper money became embarassed, he was examined
before a Committee, who were enquiring into his
affairs. when asked what quantity of his Notes were
out ; his answer was, I don't know. He was asked
what rule be went by in is•tring his money, and his
answer was, none. He was then asked, what limit
there was as to quantity ? he replied, we issue our notes
according to the wants of the public ; that is to say,
he issued all that he could send out, and this he
called attending to the wants of the public. The
Noble Lord, after attending. to the Earl of Stanhope's
eulogy on the Bank Restriction Act, said that the
petition characterised the power given to Bankers
of issuing Notes as an invasion of the King's pre-
rogative.—(A laugh.)—And very justly; for
why should Parliament grant to unauthorised
persons the privilege of coining. This progativc
had been given to his Majesty for the purpose of se-
curing and regulating the currency. If this power
were also extended to these paper shops, it could he
looked at in no other light than as an invasion of the
privilege conferred ern his Majesty for the security
of his people. If such a system were allowed, the
effecs would be, that there would be no security from
panic. As to payment in gold, beino a complete
cheek 00 the issue of paper—it was In fact none.
There was an esprit de corps among these issuers of
paper, and if a gentleman were to ask assistance
from them, the very first question would be " is he
one of those whoever asked gold frOm us, if so he
can have no assistance."

The Noble Lord then presented the petition,
which was read at length by the Clerk.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented ;e
petition from Wexford, complaining of the conduct
of the Constabulary force.
Se‘T
ral other petitions were pi esented.
The Duke of WELLINGTON then moved the
order of the day. The object of the Bill was to
carry into more complete execution the law of
1826, the object of that law being to prevent the
circulation of Scotch Bank Notes under the value
of .5/. within the kingdom of England. The measure
came before Parliament recommended by aCommittee
of both Houses, and rather than it should not take ef-
fect, it would be better to put an end to the circulation
of small Notes in Scotland altogether, notwithstand-
ing the great inconvenience that would he occa-
sioned there by such a measure. If this law were not
to be put into execution a great many Banking
establishments would be instituted on the frontier,
and by a sort of fraud the object of 1816 would he
evaded, This was an Act adopted by Lord Liver-
pool's Government, founded upon the necessity
of the times, and in which he entirely concur-
red. Nor did he rest on any such theory as had
been dilated on in the House a few nights ago ;
existing circumstances had within the last two years
rendered this Bill, in his view, imperative..Thera was
110 want of capital nor currency in England, and
in support of which, from papers on their Lordship's
table, he showed that the net amount in circulation
at present was no less that 63 millions of circulating
medium, besides the One Pound Notes. Since the
commencement of the gold coinage in' 1816, not
less than forty millions of gold, and ten millions
•f rilver had been issued, the whole •of which
remained in the country, except about six millions,
which had been exported in 1824 and 1825. With
this strength and resource of the country he earnestly
recommended this measure to their Lordships.
(Carr sir-mg.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr;WATMORE brought up an account of the re-
ceipts and appropriation of the pew-rents of the pa-
rish of Lambeth, during the years 1b21,--25.26 and
1827.
Sir H. PARNELL postponed the Order of the
Day for the committal of the Liverpool Roads Bill
until Monday next.

Sir F. BLAKE'presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Berwiek.upen-Tweed, in favour of
Scotch Small Notes in that town.

Mr. WEBB presented a petition from the Inha-
bitants of Nailsw•orth, against the Slave Trade.
Mr. MARSHALL presented a petition from the
Inhabitants of Sheffield, signed by upwards of
10,000 persons, against the additional Churches
Bill.

Mr. BURRELL presented' petitions from the
Landowners of the Western arid from the Land-
ownefs of the Eastern Division of Essex, praying
for a protecting duty on the importoion of Foreign
Wool.

Mr." HANEY brought or the Report of the
Committee on the PoorLawS, which was ordered :o
be printed.
Mr. MABERLY presented a petition from the

inhabitants of the City of Westminster, against the
Additional Churches Bill.
Mr. V. STUART presented a petition against
the Slave Trade from the inhabitants of Cardiff.
Mr. BARING presented a petition from the
Planters of St. Christophus, Tortola, and othe
Islands against the Four and=a-half per Cent. duty
Also a petition from the Planters of St. Vincent's'
Nevis, and nominica, complaining of the manner in
which they had been traduced on the pound of the
Slai-e Trade.
Mr, DICKENSON! presented a petition from
Yeovil, praying for a duty on the importatiod of
French Gloves.
Sir F. BURDETT moved dill. the petition re-
lative to th,-.3 Httpply of Water to the Metiopolis be
trferted to the Committee thereon.—Agreed to.
Mr. .J. WOOD presented a petition from the in-
habitants of Chorley against the Additional Churches'

Mr. SLANEY hoped that this measure would
be deferred until the ensuing Session of Parliament,
Mr. JONES said thAt the Bill gave stith extra-
ordihdry powers to i.iituithWatclehs as he was sure
air
,Iltittse ilevi3r would consent to-
the petition was then ordered to be printed.
Mr. BENETT presented a petition from the itl.
habitants of Devises, praying that the House would
enforce the regulations relating to Slaves sent out
to the Colonies in the year 1823.
Mr. H. OORDON said that some kind of antello-
'Atkin had taken place in alitiest every Colony.
M. AST ELL brought in a Bill to extend the
i'd.ovisions of the East India Mutiny Act to the
I3ombay Marine.
- The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time on Tuesday next.
FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL.
Mr. LUMLEY presented a petition front the
Manufacturers of Fire-Arms at Birmingham, against
so much of the Foreign Enlistment Bill as prohibited
the exportation of arms and warlike instruments.
Mr. LITTLETON cornplaned that the Hon.
Member for Surrey (Mr. Falliner) gave notice of a
motion for a Repeal Enlistment Act ; but after the
notice had been on the paper for two months, it was
dropped at so late a period of the Session as to
prevent any other Member from advantageously
taking it up. The Foreign Enlistment Act was of
the greatest possible injury to commerce, for it pre-
vented us front carrying on a trade in those articles
in which we could command a preference. Yet the
despotic Government of Austria, and the enlightened
Government of France, permitted this trade to be
carried on. Ile was sorry the Hot). Member for
Surrey was not in the House to explain why lie had
abandoned the Bill.
Mr. BARING could not conceive why every
state in Europe should allow its subjects to supply
foreign countries with ships and fire arms, whilst the
inhabitants of this country were alone shut out from
this profitable exerdse of industry. He did not
think it was too late to introduce a short Bill to
place our manufacturers of arms and the ship-build-
ing trade on a level with those of other countries.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that the year this
Enlistment Act was passed, this country was under
an absolute pledge not to interfere between Spain
and her Colonies. The Hon. Member who pre-
sented the petition, seemed to mistake the law. At
the period alluded to, his Majesty was advised to
issue ant order, prohibiting the importation of warlike
That order was repealed in six months, and
stores of this kind might now be exported. By
the Act, however, we were prohibited from fur-
nishing foreign powers with vessels which might
be used as transports or ships of war. This, he
thought might have been a very wise provision
when it was passed, but he did not think it ought to
become the permanent law of the country. A ship
might be converted into art article of war, but it war,
but it was not necessarily so. Our artificers were
not fully employed, and he thought this part of the
Act might be advantageously repealed. It is closing
up one source of British industry, and there-
fore he did not conceive that it was
at all necessary. He should therefore join his Hole
Friend (Mr. Baring) in requesting his Majesty's
Government to modify the existing law, so as to
give facilities to our shipping trade.
Mr. LAWLEY said the petitioner's were aware
that the Order of Council was repealed, but they
understood that ships carrying articles of war into
port might be seized.
Mr. HUSKISSON explained.
Mr. R. WILSON—This law was passed at the
instance of the King of Spain ; and in proof of this
assertion he mentioned what fell from Mr. Canning,
when the Hon. Member for Montrose proposed the
repeal of the law, in order to ennt'ole our subjects to
enter lute the service of Portugal. The Right Hon.
Gentleman then said, that such a repeal would be
but an act of political justice. This being the case,
it was clear that the Bill was originally in-
tended to be merely a temporary measure, and it
was unjust towards the South American States, and
other states on the Continent of Europe, to allow
it to remain a permanent part of our law.
Mr. PALLIER expressed himself favourable to
a repeal of this law in the form in which it now
stood. -
Mr. Secretary PEEL did not at that late period
of the Session think it prudent to make any decla-ra-
tion as to the policy intended to be pursued by his Ma-
jesty's Government upon this subject,ltut he had given
tine subject sufficient consideration to justify imn in
express my doubt as to the propriety of the line.of
policy pointed out by the lion. Member opposite,
who thought that every subject of this realm, should
be at liberty to enter into the service of a Foreign
State, without any restraint, save and except the
power of the Crown to recall such persons. his
Hon. Friend had shown that, by the present state of
the law. The free export of military stores was
permitted, and the only restrictions left were that,
British subjects should not be at liberty to enter into
the service of Foreign States, and that Foreign Powers
should not be at liberty to resort to this country for the
purpose of building ships of war in our Ports—the
free permission to do either of which would in his
(Mr. P.'s) opinion be highly inexpedient. He put it
to the House whether it would be wise, whether
it would be decent to allow British subjects to serve,
for instance, in the Turkish or Egyptian fleets in
theLevant,:whilst our fleets were employed in block-
ading those ports, some of which those fleets wished
to enter and depart from. With respect to the un-
limited right of foreigners to build vessels of war in
our harbours, he wished to know whether that
ought to be alloWed when the probability was, that
ships so built- would be employed in annoying and
committing depredations upon our commerce. All
nations had, under the present state of the law,
the right of building in our ports ships for
commercial purposes. Ile now conceived that
the right of restraining them from build-
ing ships for other purposes than those of commerce,
out to be allowed to remain in the Crown, the more
especially, as the House must be satisfied, that such
right would now be oppressively exercised.
After a few observations from Mr. P. THomP-
sos, Mr. BARING, and Mr. C. W. WYNN, the
petition was brought up, read, and ordered to be
printed.

stores•

(Lett Sitting.)

TA rrERSALL's THIS DAY

Many of the members being at the Bath Races, very
little betting took place, must of it o❑ the July Stakes
at Newmarket, which will be run on Monday. They
closed as follow

JULY STAKIP:ti (NEWMARK ET)•
4 to 1 apt Mr. Greville's Fancy
4. to I apt Mr. Wyndliam's brother to Twatty
4. to I agst Duke of Grafton's Artist
ti to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dulcinea filly
ti to 1 agst Mr. Wilson's f. by Cervantes
ti to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Bravo

DONCASTER ET. LEGER.
477 to 1 apt Col. King's Bessy Bedlam
43. to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Velocipede
5 to I agst Hon. E. Petre's The Colonel
28 to 1 agst Mr. Gascoigne's