The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-29 00:00:00

CORN LAWS.

Lord KING rose to present some petitions to their
Loulships on the subject of the Corn Laws ; and, in doing this, he
could not follow the advice given to their Lordships, the other
evening, by the Noble and Learned Lord on the 'Woolsack, not
to accompany petitions with any observations—that method being
more consonant to Parliamentary usage. If, indeed, it was his
object to protect every kind of abuse, and preserve every thing
complained of as a grievance, he should, most probably, follow the
prudent example set by the Noble and Learned Lord. But this
object was rather, on the contrary, to put an end to some abuses;
and, whenever he presented a petition, he should never fail, if he
thought it worth while, to accompany it with comments. The
present petition was one which was well worthy of their Lord-
ships' attention, on account of the great sufferings of the petition-
eta; it was from the weavers of Carlisle. Among all the manufac-
turers who had sufliired very much lately, he believed the weavers
of Carlisle had suffered most. Indeed, he did not know that any •
thing could excuse the language they used, but the extraordinary
sufferings to which they were a prey. So extraordinary were
their sufferings, that they used language he never expected to hear
from a large body of the King's subjects. A vast number of men
had put their hand to a petition, in which it was declared, that
they, the weavers, could only expect to survive their present dis-
tress, if at all, crippled by some lingering disease ; and that tens
and hundreds of thousands of persons debated deliberately, whe-
ther it were better for them to die of hunger or on the scaffold.
They must be extraordinary sufferings which could drive men
to such despair; and nothing but most extraordinary sufferings
could induce men to use such language in a Petition to their Lord.
ships. He had made inquiries into the truth of their state.
meats, and been assured their sufferings were quite as great as
the re estillte4Attn. The Petition prayed . for the Abolition
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and the starving petitioners had also caught at some other things
than the Corn Laws. He could not conceal from their Lordehipe,
that the petitioners also *skid, that the Church Property ahould.
be appropriated to liquidate the National Debt; and that there
should be a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament.---(Thu
Petition was read at length. )..__The, Noble Lord then presented
another Petition, praying for the Revision of the Corn Laws,
from the Dean of Guild and the Guild Brethren, residing within
the Borough of Arbroath. The Petitioners heartily approved of
the conduct of Ministers, in allowing the importation of foreign
corn in the summer. The Noble Lurd said he had several more
Petitions to present on the same subject, but be should reserve
them for some other day.

ABSENCE OF MINISTERS.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE rose to make a
few observations before the House adjourned. Their Lordships
were placed in a situation such as be never recollected before.—
Things occurred, and some Noble Lords wished to ask questions,
but there were no Ministers present to answer them.—(The Earl
of Westmoreland, who had been sitting on the woolsack with the
Lord Chancellor, now rose, and came round to the Treasury
Bench.)—He saw, indeed, the, and Learned Lord and the
Noble. Earl, but neither of them was accustomed to answer ques-
tions in that House. He was surprised at this, because the Noble
Earl at the head of the Treasury was generally very ready to at-
tend to the wishes of Noble Lords. Some of his friends, as well
as himself, had questions to ask, and he took this opportunity of
mentioning the matter in as decent and proper a manner as pos-
sible; that the Noble Earl who was absent might be aware of the
wishes of some of their Lordships.
The Earl of WESTMORELAND was not aware
that his Majesty's servants were guilty of:any neglect in not being
present in that House, It wasa customary, when any Noble Lord
had a notice to make, to give notice of it ; and when his Noble
Friend knew that any Noble Lord wished to make a motion, he
would no doubt attend in his place. If it were not very inconve-
nient for his Noble Friend, he would attend to answer the ques-,
tions of the Noble Earl to-morrow.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE explained, that he
meant to impute no, neglect to the Noble Earl, to whose readiness
to attend to the wishes of their Lordships he had already home his
testimony.
Mr. Crayfer, from the Treasury, presented an Ac_
count of the number of Bank of England Notes in circulation be-
low the value of 8/.

Mr. Tierney, from the Tax Office, presented en
Account of the number of Cases decided by the Judges under the
Assessed Tax Acts rince the last Returns.—Adjourned.