The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-18 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the
Penryn Witnesses Indemnity Bill, and to several private
Bills.

The Commissioners were the Lonn ICHaNcur.Loa, the
Earl of SHAFTESBURY, and Earl BATHURST.
The Stamps and Insurances Bill was read a third time
and passed. _

Lord COLCHESTER presented a petition from the
proprietors efa Lunatic Asylum in Oxford, against the
Lunatic Asylums Bill.
The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition from
the Provost and Corporation of Linlithgow, praying for the
Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.

RUMFORD MARKET.—ApriI 16.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. toe. d.
leef 3 8 4 8 Veal
tutton 3 8 4 8 Pork 4 4 - 5 6
Lamb 6,,. 8,1. to Os. Bd.

Suckling Calves from 12s. to 40s. ; Quarter old Pigsl6s. to 201. each.
Supply limited, and trade dull.

• LEEDS CORN AIARKET.—ApriIIS.
We had a good supply of Wheat, and having a thin at-
tendance of buyers, but few sales were made in any de-
scription. parley much the same as last week. Oats and
Shelling were very dull sale, but prices are unaltered.
For Beans the demand was limited, but no alteration in
their value. Rapeseed was dull, and 1/. to 2/. per last

cheaper.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b.
-- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 565253.. to 6a4t..} ~,,,,,
Barley, Norfolk and Sutfblk
C I
Yorkshire and Lincolnsltire
---- Grinding
Beans 63lb. -
38s to 525.
Oats, Potatoc
—Healing, Foreign 11d. to 12d....English lltL to 121,4 d. per at..
Shelling 2Ss. to Ws. per load.
Rapeseed, English, 211. to 261.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
WORCESTER, APRIL. 16.—1 n our market on Saturday
72 pockets were weighed; the trade is very dull.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 17.

Earl GREY presented petitions against the re- ,
peal of the Corporation and Test Acts, from
Charlesford, in Gloucestershire; Northallerton, in
Yorkshire ; and other places.
Lord DACRE presented a similar petition from
the Protestant Dissenters meeting at a Chapel in
Fetter-lane, London; from Huntingdon, from Bath,
and from various denominations meeting at South-
wark Chapel, Blackfriars-road.
Several similar petitions were also presented.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had a number of pe-
titions to present to their Lordships on the question which
was about to form the subject of an important discussion
in their Lordships' House to-night ; and he certaialy was
but ill-disposed to occupy their Lordships' attention in any
way which could anticipate the arguments which might be
brought forward in the course of that discussion ; but
upon two of the petitions which had been sent to them, he
had been particularly requested to say a few words. The
first petition he should present was from one of those
learned and respectable bodies, which had been alluded to
in the course of conversation to-night, the Presbytery of
Annan, and was headed by its most learned and respectable
Minister. The petitioners were most anxious for the pre-
servation of the established religions in Great Britain,—
not only of the Church of England, but also of that
Church with which they were so intimately connected,
and which they humbly conceived to be in the character of
an established church, and to form as much a part of the
state of this country as the Church of England itself.
The petitioners did not, however, conceive that the
Church of England requireda degree of support, which the
Scottish Church, also an established one, had never enjoyed,
nor ever desired to possess. They conceived that the
species of sacramental test which it was the object of the
Bill in their Lordships' House to repeal, to be, religiously
speaking, a profimatiou, and, politically speaking, a source
of weakness to the Established Church, which it was in-
tended to support. They prayed their Lordships to remove
that stigma, and to grant that religious toleration which
they conceived to be true religion ; and they were anxious
to represent to their Lordships that which was perfectly
consistent with history,—that they had experienced the
utmost degree of safety and prosperity under their present
form of Government, and felt no apprehension of insecurity
to their Church. His Lordship made that statement the
more willingly, because he thought that, looking
on the
Church of Scotland as the Established Church of that
country, if either of the churches of England or Scotland re-
quired artificial defence and support, it would be the Church
of Scotland, more than that of England ; for the latter en-
joyed a privilege which the former could not,—that of
having the Sovereign of the kingdom at its head, while the
Church of Scotland remained exposed to danger, were it
not for the wisdom which bad always distinguished the
sovereigns of Great Britain. He had another petition, to
which he also desired to call their Lordships' attention,
signed by 4,000 Episcopalians and others, inhabitants of
Glasgow. He was requested to state, that it was the opi-
nion of the petitioners that the Bill should pass without
substituting any declaration. They were advocates, not