The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-08 00:00:00

LOTTERIES.

Mr. F. BUXTON moved for Returns of the number of
Lotteries drawn since March, 1816, with the amount of the
revenue obtained, and the sums pant by the contractors ; also
the number of tickets sold, distinguishing shares, and the
names and salaries of the Commissioners, Oct &c. The
number of prosecutions and convictions in ircland, under the
Little Go Act, was included.

SCOTCH BURGHS.
The LORD ADVOCATE .of SCOTLAND brought in a
Bill for Regulating the Revenues of the Royal Burghs in
Scotland.—Read a first and ordered to be read a second illie
on Monday the 46th April.

COLONIAL LAWS.
On the motion of Mr. GOULBURN, Copies of all. Laws
passed in the British Colonies since .18le, not before pre-
sented, relative to the Condition, Treament, &c. of Slates,
and of the Coloured'Population, were ordered to be laid be-
fore the House. .

The LORD ADVOCATE have notice, that he would more
to• uuvrrvw for leave to -brit/. 10 a Bill to.assituilate the law of

to Cot sii:e or i.rcfcatAt ions to a::TC*3orts,'
to that of England.

Mr. DENNi AN gave notice, that on the 428th •f April he
would sobrat a motion to the House on the subject of facili-
tating business in t. units of

EXCISE OPPRESSION IN IRELAND.
A petition was presented from Wm. Sharp, a prisoner in
the jail of Omagh, in theconnty of Tyrone. 'Hie petitioner
complained that having been tried and acquitted upon an in•
diet ment prf, cried against him on the part of the Excise in
Ireland, in the• year 1815, he wat committed to prison by a
warrant from the Suh-Commisthiners of Excise, in 1818, *fir
the sau►e offence as that of which he had been previously ac-
quitted, and that he now languished in prison. He therefore
prayed redress.
The Petition being ordered to lie or the table,
Mr. STEWART, who presented the Petition, moved, that
Copies of the Record of the Petitioner's Acquittal in 1815,
and of the Warrant for his Arrest in 1818, should be laid be-
fore the House.

Mr. LUSHINGTON suggested, that from the pature of
this motion it ought to he postponed until the Secretary for
Ireland was in his place.
Mt'. STEWART said, that he had shown the motion itself
to the Right Hon. Gentle►oan alluded to, and that the Right
Honourable Gentleman had stated he had no objection to it
whatever:

After Ft. few words from Lord Mountcharles and Mr. him,
tin, of Galway, in favour of the motion,
,and Mr. Callaghan
and Mr. V'. Blake against it, the motion was agreed to.

IRISH CATHOLICS.

Mr. V. BLAKE presented it petition from the Catholic In-
habitants,Of the Town of Oalway, praying for a repeal of the
Penal La‘fs tiffecting thoSe who professed their religion.—
Ordered to he on the ta6les, and to he printed.
The other' Orders of the Day were disposed ofi and the
House adjourned.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Arm'. 7.

In consequence of an expectation which
entertained of a Motion, relative to Lord and
La►ly E, V. Stewart, being brOtight befOre the
Court this day, a considerable number of persons
attended. No such Motion, however, took
place, The Court was occupied during the Jay
in attending "to - Petitions in Bankrupt cases,
which weseof little interest except to the. parties.