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London, England, 1828-06-13 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE B.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at a
Quarter past Five o'clock.
Sir A. GRANT and others brought up copies of
the Reports of the Salmon Fishery of Scotland, and
the United Kingdom, and the Laws affecting the
same.

Sir A. GRANT, Mr. H. DRUMMOND, and others,
brought up several private Bills.
Mr. Mason, from the East India House, delivered
in an account of the Salaries and Pensions granted
by the East India Company.
Lord DERBY presented a petition from the
woollen manufacturers of Bury, Lancashire, against
any further tax on the Importation of Foreign Wool.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented petitions
against the introduction of foreign wool, unless sub-
ject to a higher duty, from Porchester and from Len-
ham, Kent.

Lord LAUDERDALE presented a petition from
the owners and occupiers of land in Whitby, against
the proposed scale of duty on Corn ; also a petition
from the owners and occupiers- of land in a parish in
Lincolnshire to the same effect; also a petition from
the same description of persons in various parts of
England to the same effect.
Lord SIDNEY presented a petition from Mr.
Montagu Burgoyne praying that an early day might
he appointed for the hearing of the case of Dr. Farr,
as the parish of Sutton was in a sad state.

Lord GROSVENOR thought that the prayer of
this petition ought to be attended to.
The LORD CHANCELLOR agreed with the
Noble Lord that an early day ought to be appointed
but he felt it his duty to state that the whole delay
in the case had been caused, if not by Mr. Bur-
goyne himself, by his own agents.
Lord MALMESBURY presented petitions from
the owners and occupiers of land in various parishes
in the county of Lincoln against the proposed scale
of duty on the importation of Foreign Corn. Also
a petition from the same class of persons residing
near Banbury, Oxfordshire, to the same effect; and
wishing their Lordships particularly to take into
consideration the propriety of adopting some measure
to improve the taking of the averages.
Lord DE DUNSTANVILLE presented a pe-
tition from the Truro Slavery Society, and other
friends of Liberty, praying for the abolition of
Slavery in the Colonies.

The Earl of GROSVENOR wished to ask the
Noble Duke opposite if Monday next would suit him
to answer the questions he (the Earl of Grosvenor)
wished to put to him on this subject ?
The Duke of WELLINGTON begged the Noble
Earl would defer the questions till Thursday next;
to which the Noble Earl agreed.
Lord DURHAM presented petitions, praying for
the Abolition of Slavery, from Sunderland and
Bishop Weannouth, and from the City of Durham.
Similar petitions were presented by the Earl of
SHAFT L SBURY, from Lostwithiel (Cornwall.)
Lord SKELMERSDALE presented a petition
from the Manufacturers of Wigan, Lancashire,
against the payment of wages in any thing but
money.

• Earl STANHOPE presented a petition, in the
absence of a Noble Duke, from owners and occupiers
of land in Bedfordshire, praying that no change
might be made in the Corn Laws of 1822. The
Noble Earl supported the prayer of the petition,
and declared that he should oppose the principle of
the Bill.

The.NOble Earl presented a second petition from
the Committee of the Norfolk Agricultural Society,
praying that if the Corn Bill should be'passed into
a law, they might be permitted to annul their
leases. '1 he petition prayed also for a higher scale
of duties, if the Bill should pass.
His Lordship presented a third petition from the
Agricultural Society of Holderness, praying that no
alteration might be made in the scale of Duties pro-
posed last Session; and petitions from Lenbam and
New Romney, praying for a higher scale of duties.

Lord GODERICH prospot:d a petition (rani et.
person (as we understood called Samuel Curry),
praying their Lordships to recommend to his Ma-
jesty to appoint Commissioners to enquire into
what he called, but which the Noble Lord
really did not understand, the Cambridge Protestant
Divinity Statute, and moreover to inquire into the
system of education adopted in this country. With
respect to the first part of this petition, the
Noble Lord really knew not what was meant ;
and with regard to the last part of the peti-
tion, he was not aware that there was
a commission now in existence for the pur-
pose. The whole was one of the moat unin-
telligible petitions he had ever seen—(A laugh),_
but in compliance with the petitioner's request he
begged to lay it on the table of the House.
Lord GODERICH presented a petition from the
Mayor anti Corporation of Ripon, praying for the
Repeal of the Statute restricting the circulation of
Small Notes.

Lord CLARENDON presented a petition from
a parish in Glamorganshire, against Slavery.
Lord BROWNLOW presented a petition from
a variety of parishes in Lincolnshire, against the pro-
posed scale of duty on the importation of Foreign
Corn.

Lord CARNARVON presented a petition from
Lord Shrewsbury, praying that the standing order of
the House might be dispensed with, that the Noble
Earl might be permitted to be heard by his Counsel
at their Lordships' bur, upon a bill he wished to
have passed by the House for the purpose of enabling
him to make certain settlements of his estates. The
Noble Lord hoped there would be no objection to
this-petition; he, however, mould only lay the peti-
tion at present on the table, and move that the dis-
pensation of the Standing Order of the House, be
taken into consideration on Tuesday next.
Lord LAUDERDALE considered, that if their
Lordships ever permitted a petition to be laid on
their table, praying them to dispense with the
Standing Orders of the House, which were for
the government of their own conduct, they would
be setting a most dangerous example, and affording
facilities to most - mischievous consequences.—
(Hear, hear.)
The Duke of WELLINGTON would feel sorry
to raise any impediment in the way of the Noble
Petitioner's selling his estate is any way he might
desire, but he really did not think the present mode
was the one that ought to be resorted to for the
purp9se of accomplishing his end.
Lord CARNARVON then withdrew his peti-
tion for the present.