The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

,HOUSE OF LORDS; March 22.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The Royal Asient was given
.to-day, at a quarter be-
fore Five o'Clock; to the Three-and-a-Half per Cent.
Annuity Reduction Bin.; the Three-and-a,flalf per
Gent. (1818) Annuity Reduction Bill ; the Consolidated
Fund (8,000,000) Bill ; the Gaining , Transactions.
Witness's Indemnity Bill, and the Teachers of Schools
(Ireland) Bill._ • • -

The Lords Commissioners were the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Duke of
Buceleuch. • "

Their Lordships th en adjourned during. pleasure.

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The LORD CIIANCETION tosik his. seat on the Wool-
sack shortly after Five o'Clock.
Messengers from the • Commons brought up the
Ramsay, Inclosure Bill and other Bills.
- The Duke of BUCCLEUC H presented petitions from
Rye, against any alteration in the.eorn-lagivs-.-
Lori PEUDFIOI4.3 presented similar petitions from
Shillbottle, in Northumberland. • • •
The Earlof RADNOR took that opportunity to explain
that on a former occasion, when he referred to a meet-
ing which had been held in Yorkshire, respecting the
corn-laws, he had not alluded to Lord Feversham, but
Lord Harewood. •
After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND and
the Duke of BUCCLEIIC.II,. the limiter dropped.
The Bishop of EXETER gave notice that he would
move for copies of any communications which had
been made between the Government and the Poor-
law authorities, respecting the case of Mary Miller,
the unfortunate female who committed suicide in a work •
house a short time ago. •

The Marquis of SORMANBY presented a petition
complaining of the operation of the Act under which the
Lambeth Water-works was established.

The Earl of RADNOR said the Noble Earl to whom
he had alluded on a former occasion (the-Earl of Hare-
wood) had stated a fact at the meeting in Yorkshire,
and from that fact he drew an inference; which was that
the Anti-Corn-law League incited to incendiarism. He
(the Earl of Radnor) had called the attention of the
Noble Earl to the paragraph in the newspaper in which
the meeting was reported, and the, Noble Earl admitted
that it was correct.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH said, that within the last
four days he had s'_‘en Lord Harewood, and the conversa-
tion turned on this very subject. The Noble Earl ad-
mitted that the report in the newspapers of whatshe had
stated was correct, but he did not admit that the infer-
ence which was drawn in the leading article of that pa.
per was correct. The Noble Earl never imputed to the
Anti-Corn-law League any attempt to incite to incen-
diarism.

The Earl of RADNOR said, the fact the Noble Earl
(flarewood) had stated was, that a farmer had attended
a pro-corn-law meeting in Norfolk, and the same night
his stacks were burnt. The inference the Noble Earl
meant to draw from that was, that the stacks had been
burnt through the agency of the Anti-Corn-law League.
Lord WHARNCLTFEE denied that such an infer-
ence could be drawn_from the words of the Noble Earl.
Lord BEAUMONT said, he was at the elbow
of the Noble Earl (Harewood) when he -made
the speech to which the Noble Earl (Rad-
nor) had alluded, and he was sure that no
person at the meeting supposed for a moment that
the. Noble Earl intended to impute to the Anti-Corn-
law.League any intention to incite to incendiarism.
The Marquis of NORMANBY said he was neither a.
pro-porn-law man nor an " anti-corn-law man," but he
thought it was to be regretted that Noble Lords should
make speeches from which objectionable inferences
might be drawn.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented several petitions
from parishes in Norfolk, complaining of the Anti-Corn-
law.League He took that opportunity of observing
that he did not know why Lord Harewood did not
answer the letter of the Noble Earl opposite ; yet he
was not surprised that his Noble Friend did not think
the House of Lords ought to be a court of appeal for
what passed at public meetings. He was not sorry for
the explanations that had passed, and he hoped that
they would induce the League to be more guarded in
future. The Noble Earl (Radnor) said that a gentleman
advised the country people at an anti-league meeting to
throw the leaguers over the bridge if they came to Lin-
coln. He did not approve of such advice, for he always
was opposed to violence ; but if the gentleman alluded to
had said se, he would recommend the leaguers not to go
to Lincoln.--(Great laughter on the Tory side.)