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

'IMPERI'AL PARLIAMENT.

'MOUSE OF COMMONS...-TBUIISDAY, MAY 4.
Sir J. YORKE, presented a petition from an individuld'immed
Georg* Lennie, who belonged to several Friendly Societies. The
petitioner humbly suggested to the House that much light,would be'
throwo on the subject of Ftiendly Societies by appointing Coin-
mission (the Hon..Mintiber called it a roving Commission) to ex-
amine into these Societies during the recess, so that the• House
might not legislate upou a subject they knew very little of::—Or-
tlesed to he printed.
SLAVERY::
Mr. H, DAVIS presented a petition from several mortgagees
ofitest India propel ty against the sudden Emancip.ition of ;the
Simi, and Selling upon the. House not to adopt any I,...eity mea-
sure with reference to their remapcipatiop, which would , de-
piive %hail (the mortgagees) of their propeity.---Ordered
pritate&
SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION LAWS.
Mr. IIItiALTNIONT preiented a ,petition from several Ship.
Muses of Vieth Shields, against tbe. Narigatieu Laws, and
eztrlSlirallg qr. btt .4Efrestott state of the 'shipping in, gem:rel.-7
fle had hem; &twit at la ~t th a'nfl had wittlised the
tligtaiiiiicotapinitleil of in the Petition, and therefot4 ht would
supp.irt the Petition Ile wished to mac the Iligy• Pon. Presi-
dent of the jlaaa if any thingwe4i uontiniptition for
the relief of the vast body of Petitioners whom he thought claimed
the atinretteition of the, House. ,
Airy 11.415SKISSON defermi any dismission wt this subject of
importance, till the !notion on the same subject which he lied
given notice .14r to-uiattow was' before the Horse. Ai, however,
ttere wrilihf bus frif,joet of store importanee for the comitleration
tht: 11 ii a to-usirrove 414„ WWl(' I,oatrili! hie motion
(414tive to the shipping) till Mini,lav next.
Coll'ig LAWS.
Wy'st-t pesroootal the resumption of the Adjourned
rielptte nn this Coro Laws till te,roorio*'.,
ATTAINDERWREVE4ISED.
The Limn A,nvocarx brought no the Reports of the Olin-
ruittee Nolte Bills fee Reversing the .Attaindera of Earls Airlie
and Cirnwath, llamas Etch() and Duthie, and Sir Patrick Mur-
ree 'lhrieoland, of Fiugnl. ',pie Reports were received, and the
thit4 tinWitrurpasseid." •
' ' ' ' "VIIATIENCIr.

• Mtillt..+Gottiniit preseeted!c Petition farm several parishes in
Fcrttland against any v. /ration of the Currency of that part of the
Kfltgioltr—Referred to the Committee.
Lad -VpI..k.:STONE presented a Petition from the Burgesses
al:61'114: the town of Paisley, in favour of an alteration in
the Nitittey Seotland. He wished to knoW whether his Ma-
jestrit 141161104 s intended -to do any thing towards an altera-
tif.n 114_,Infpeti they would pause, for he had no doubt there
be more petitions of the same tenor as the one hi had in
his hand. '
Mr. lIIISKIRAON deprecated any discussion 'relative to the
alteration of Currency before the Report of the Committee ap-
pointed td 'examine into 'the Banking Systems of Ireland and
Keotiand was before the llotiete, - ' •
Lord FOLKSTCINE said he had put the question to the Right
Hon: (leak:nen, because he saw that Iginisters bad come .for-
ward with a mrsasure for the relief 'of the people of England at a
very short notice. The petitioners, however, did not attribute
the cider:thy; which called for rut alteration of the currency, to the
Corn d.rtivs.
Mt. J: -p. GRANT 'said, that the Petition deserved particular
attention, becOuse the manufacturers of Paisley, though partiti-
peting in the genera distress of that part of the country, had never
been lietrayeit into a cringe act of public disturbaoce. He dia.
senteg froin'that port or the Petition which attributO the present'
distress,tO.the:state of the eurrency in Scotland.
Sir 11. WILSON flenieti that those Who had voted in 'he ma-.
jority of the other night, voted against an inquiry into the cause'
.of the diattstat its the manufarturing districts. ;,
GenerdliGAgCOYNE said, that petitions hail. not been pre-
emoted frofti'LUttertabire, bee:toie the manufacturers believed that'
they 'would 'hi of no utik")' They saw, the determination of the
landed interest to oppose any ititeration of the Corn Laws, and
knew' 'that Ministde hail 'determined not to interfere with the
uuostiatt florin„ the present Session. He trusted, 'however, that
Ile Homer_ -could not, sep.. r: ire without having taken up the
question. liu 11,4 the , pnye.rument `had not postponed the
.tinuesure they. introilliisitit theo,tnilter night, with any view of
abandon in~r it. IY, wave convinced they were tort candid to tAdre
:inch a unwell., that the measure would he pen...tiered. in.—
(Hear, hero r)-Llf the :Maui/ had only appointed a Connnittee to
inquire into the gener;d. question, and they had reported progress
altar sitting t ntoight; Ind beloved the disturbances in LACS-
Slat svinOil never nave: Own place.
After a few werris'frain
:Col. 'JOHNSON ant Mr. BUICUT, the
patition ti.•;,S 'ordered fs.. be pript.4,:
-• CORY: .YS.,
Sit T. LETHBRIDGE row; to petition which lad
iiat iota hisPessession by an
,individual of whom he knew
Jutti.Mg, who dcscribm himself' as -Henry Phillip, corn dealer,
'in the City, of London. The petitioner preyed
:the House not to
pass the measure recently introduced by the Government, with-
out granting him redress for louses which he should suffer there-
by. He stated that he had held four thousand quarters of foreign
wheat in bond from the lath of. May, 1822, which he had taken
out last year under the measure thin passerkby liniment of a
fluty a ten shillings per quarter. He had hitters 'been keep-
ing his corn in the hop of getting Inc it a higher price, and
ass t.lte importation of freih fir. 'ii wheat was t 0.,; at 125.,
ti. in prayOd :compensation for I t sutler
pittneo-.(l,aughter, And ,expressious Of disapprobation.)—The
kfon. Baronet said he could not deny that it WAS 4 most extra-
ioellirtaiy Petition, but it *hewed the situation in which all corn-
dealers would be' plueed,hY the memoirist of Government. The
Petition hail been put into his hands—he had no• knowledge of
,ithe party front whom it carne.—and in presenting it to the House
..he bad done his duty. There was one fact he wished to mention
as.isiocif orate great seusibility of these corn dealers, and the
titucktates with which they sow Any thing which wae likely to af-
'tact their interests. He was informed, as a fact, that at Liver-
pool, on Baturilay last, great activity had, taken place in the busi-
nese of cm., - Whether they had for.eseen the measure which the
Gorernment proposed onlibmday, he could not undertake to say.
glut he believed the feat lurharl stated could lie very well atithen.
,tieated. He only mentioned thelact ; but the sensibility of the
• corn deAlers,••• And'the acittetness With'whielothby,perceived the in-
-ttorions of (Prot-moult, were certainly greater that any displayed
by the corn growers. Before yhe moveil, ,that the Petition be
• printed, he.would eat nestlyeepreas his hope that as his 111;:jesty's.
hfialaters bail put off 11 is 40404 until to-morrow night, they
would yield -to the wish whieb he thought ;was enter-,
tamed in comition by the great body' of the House, end let
it rest altngetlier.---(Cries of " No, no. ')—He hoped they vrould
do an; and he would state why. They had carried. their point in
the first measure, bywhich the eorn now rin.hond .wooled be let
free, anti he thought it Wouldha more in quantity than theri, sti-
Mated, .anil come'into general cettionAption. The effect 'of this
bad Hein already to cause a great stagnation of rices in the mar-
ket for corn. , one he believed could, • umber these cirentn-
ittancest expect any very high prices, and certainly not famine,
prick*, hefore 04'n:wing of Parliament if, as was understood, a
'rlissulutton'svas to take place soon. Why then svaii thie respoitsi-
hility to be taken by the Governmeatt,respotteibility asked for;,
but not wanted--r-for all the .Right, )Ion.: Cretitlenten who hail
notonoken on the falloi4! said,
,they
woold.,rother lie withont is
:.He Aid nut wish that _they should have it, lle klitnigl4 .it would
I:olr•cgttttlt*: power in; the -Ilan& of his. Majesty's Ministers, by
ilirt4ll they oeuld fix the' price of every man's acre of land through-
einititry....4w, at all events, of his quarter of corn. lie did
Orrtielleve that they would BO use 1!, but lie would rather see the
pbtet remain in the hands nf Parliament.
Init',HYST.SON said that as there would be an opportunity
of SlissanOtig;t hers before, the Minus to-morrow,-,(Cheers)
ehonkil,not say oite word alamt. Ile ..rose solely to repel,
10.1.-ttillttOitioni an luttinuation which he understood to have been
agawit him by the, Hon. Baronet. • He did nut hear what
had fallen from the lion. Ilaronet, for hi was not, in the House ;
, and wadi inacetwate,ip meting what it was, lw wished to be
tteiceetti4. He understood it to have keen insinuated that certain
Livertiool, and, he believed, in London, had 'reeeiveti
intimation from hini of the intentions of Government.
1.4.111 nitiont dissented.
•
.4 tif];',EISSON would 'nit itito the 'House whether, eon-
!„,u g„lus nopnection; with biverpOol and with the Government*
i~srir~N4iiriat $s Intuit not apply 'to-himself. He Would say, upon
bottottr,, that it was impossible for any individual in Pindon or
Alt #l4 Java had the slightest intimation of such a ustori
the subject had been thus opened, .he Weida
Atoorliattlid occur in reference to it. The only letter which he
h keealve'd • f/ttriy Livetpool' he received tea 'days ago 'front
toy ,hruirtent Curn ,dealers of .that tat . contemning "4.
.0";
the
mild: inlglicitif;aitoithd .to-. the distressiSl mann
ere in Live'stooVy enabling the (len in bond to he
sold ,for tbeit PrignsiMptient ~Peeling the deli-
bt , ally. txittintu,ikattnri with' them upon such a topic:, con-
' .1.04Yi could 'timatie'tllo4lo.,*onet, to his usualliabita of
pridnet .futtfitids'hig 'edhstitnents; ho left
httittf..:idtoketter unnoticed-410610, heio!)--;„itint he hoped
ser
ittidesunk wood Nor see trite reason why lie had so acted:,