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PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARort 26.

Lord G RENVILLE presented a Petition from the
University of Oxford, against the Catholic Claims,
and another from certain Owners and Occupiers
'of Land in Buckinghamshre, complaining of
Agricultural distress.—They were ordered to be
laid on the Table.
The Commercial Intercourse Bill was bought
up from
.the Commons, and read the first time. -
Mr. Johnson, from the London Dock Com-
pany,-presented the -usual Accounts, with a Re-
port of the progress of the Works.

The Earl of VERCL 13i Presented a Petition
from the Parish of Temple, in the City of Bristol,
against thixCatholic Claims.—Ordered to be laid
on the Table.

ThP Earl of SII.XFTECDURY • p:esented a Peti-
tion florn Greenock, against any advance in the
Duties -on Timber.

Mr. Irving, from the Custom House, presented
the Annual Account of the Trade• and Nairiga-
fion of the United Kingdom, ending the 4th of
Jam►ary, Is2l.
The Husbandry Horses Bill was read a third
time and passed.

CRAMPOUND.
The' arquess of LANSDOWN, in the.absence
his Noble Friend (the Earl of Carnarvon), in-
troduced a Bill to indemnify all persons giving
evidence before- the''Committee on the Grain-
'pound Disfranchisement. Bill.—lt was read the
trst time.
`The Noble Marquess then moved for Copies
of the Records of Conviction in the case of Sir
Massey Lopez, and different voters, found guilty
of bribery and corruption.
The Loan CRAACELLOR said, he had no ob-
jection to the m6tiOn, but would reserve, his opi-
nion till the papers were laid before the lious.e
whether they could or could not be admitted as
evidence.---70rderetl.
The Marquess of, LAN-snows presented a Pe-;
tition from the Tiiwn.--and Neighbourhood of
Taunton, in favour of a revision of the Criminal
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Laws.—Ordered to beJaid on the Table.
Adjourned till to-merrew.,
}IOUS E 'OF COMMONS.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

Mr. LAMBTON observed, that he had given notice for Tues.
day the Ioth of April, of a motion for a•Refcrm in the Repre-
sentation of the People. Filidiug, however, that many of his
Hon. and Learned Friends would not that time have return-
ed froth the Northern Circuit, he 4•ished to postpone that mo-
tion for a week, and accordingly gave notice that he would
bring the subject forward on Tuesday the 17th of April.
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AGRICULTURAL HORSES. •

Mr. (.71,TRWESTPO;tio7;duntil Fritlay his motion for a re-
peal-of the 'Agricultural Horse Tax.
• Mr. ,Johnson presented -an account of -the receipts and dis:.
bursements of the London Duck Company, from the 30th NOT.
MO, to the 30th Nov. 1020. AlSo a Report relative to the
pieigre.ss Of the Works.—Ordered to lie on the Table.
• 41r. WESTERN presented a Petition. from a number of re-
spectable inhabitants of the Parish of Great Coggershall, in
the County of Essex, praying that the severity of-the Criminal
Code -Mht be Mitigated.—Ordered to be printed:
Mr.WILSON presented a Petition from the Ship Owners
of London, against anv alteration in the present Duties on Tint-
ber—Ordered to be referred to the Committee on -Foreign
Trade. •

A New. Writ was ordered for the Borough of Biddlestone,
inthe-roO.th of Mr. Bailey, who had accepted the Chiltern
Hundre6.'

. Sir E. KNATCIIBULL presented a petitionfrom the Grand
Jury of the County, of Kent, thanking the House for the atten-
tion they had already paid to the ilistre4ses of Agriculture,
and intr eating that they would speedily, take these distresses
into further consideration. Referred to 'the Committee on the
state of Agriculture.
Mr. DICKENSON presented two petitions, the one from
the Clergy-of the Archdeaconry of Taunton, the other from the
Clergy of the Arclultaconry of We. 11%, against the Roman Ca-
tholic Emancipation [ill. The Hon. Gentleman declared his
own opinion to be hostile to the principle of the Bill.
On the motion that the petitions be brought up,
Sir T. LETIIBRIDGE concurred in the opinion expressed
by his Honourable Colleague against the Bill, ,and stated that
the apprehensions of ri.,,,reat majority of his constituents were
very much excited on the subject. . .• •_.
Abs petitions were then brought up, read, and ordered to be
printed.
Mr. GROSSET-T presented a petitiofi from the Corporation
and Burgesses of the Borough of Chippenhanf, in Wiltshire;
against the Catholic Claims. Ordered to be printed... ,
Sir B.,MARTIN presented a petition from the Merchants
and. Dealersin Corn, of Plymouth, against the Corn Average
Bill. Ordered to be printed.
Mr.S: WORTLEY presented a petition from the Trustees
of the Cloth Hall, at Leeds, against the Bill for the alteration
of stamping. . Ordered to be printed.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from the Archdea-
conry.and Clergy of York, and the West Riding, against the
Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill. 'The Honourable Gentle-
man spoke in the highest terms of-the respectability of the peti-
tioners • and expressed the gitat pain which he felt hi differing
from them on this subject.
Mr. SYKES also admitted the great respectability of the Pe-
titioners, but could not bow to their authority, wholly unsup-
ported as it was by argument., -
Mr. J. SMITH challenged any one to show the period of
modern times, .in which religious liberty had been found' dan-
gerous to the public peace.
Sir T. LET BRI DGE deprecated mistaken liberality of sen-
timent, and dwelt on the bigotry and intolerance of the Catho-
lic RAigion. At the same time, -if the Bill for the Emancipa-
tion of 'the Catholics should rims into a law, he would do all he
could to reconcile the mind of the country to it. .
Mr. WARRE spoke in favour of the Catholic Claims.
Sir C; BURRELL expressed hid hostility to them. The in-
tolerance of the Catholics was so notorio\ss, that he could not
reconcile it'to himself to give them the privileges proposed in
the Bill.

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Mr. BENNET asserted, that all sects were intolerant; and
maintained, that our own establishment had become tokrant
rather from the character of the times, than from any change
in its principles. In some of the Petitions presented against
the Bill, sentiments might be found quite inconsistent wish the
true spirit of toleration, and which did as little credit to the
candour'as to the knowledge of the Petitioners.
Sir.A. WILSON said, that the general sense of the Metro-
polis might be gathered from the following fact :----He had been
twice elected for Southwark, and he had on both occasions de-
eared to his, constituents, that when the claims of the Catho,
lies cams to be considered, he should refer to their opinion, de-
terniined, however, to give up 'his seat in that House, rather
than vote against those claims. Having, on the present Occa-
sion, communicated the nature of the Bill now in progress, not
only to his own friends in the Borough, but to the opposite
party, he found that the general impression was a perfect re-
liance on the wisdom of Parliament on the subject.
Lord NUGENT said, that in no part of the service of the
Roman Church was there any thing of an exclusiVe nature.—
There was no such damnatory creed to be found in it as the St.
Athanasian.

Mr. J. SMITH, in ex'lanation, observed, that the Petition
was diaivn up in terms' o/ moderation, highly creditable to the
Petitioners.

Mr. S. WORTLEY remarked that this was the only Peti-
tion from the county of York hostile to the Catholics. In no
other communicztion which he had received from his Consti-
tuents, was there a single word on the subject.—The Petition
was then brought up, read, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. CURWENpresented a Petition from the Owners and
Occupiers
complaining of Agricultural Distress, and praying relief.—Re.
ferred to the Committee on the State of Agriculture.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.

Mr. CURWES7 presented a Petition froM certain Occupiers
of Lard in the county of Leicester, complaining of the distress
of Agriculturists.—Referred to the Agricultural Committee,
THE CATHOLICS.

Mr. HART DAVIS presented a Petition from the Mini-
sters, Churchwardens, and certain Inhabitants of the Parish of
St. Augustine, in Bristol.---Ordered to lie on the table.
BANK FORGERIES.
Mr. HOBHOUSE said he had a Petition, which, though
but from one individual, Dlr. G. W. Gibson, of the Strand,