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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(LAST NIGHT.)

General GASCOYNE, Mr. EGERTON, and others, brought
up five Private Bills.
Mr. Scott presented papers from the Court of Exche-
quer in Ireland.
Several Private Bills were read a second time, others a
third time, and passed.
The Duke of WELLINGTON brought down the copy
of- the 19th Report of the Commissioners of Charities,
agreeable to the address to his Majesty.
Lord ROSEBERY presented a petition from tie
Royal Borough of Stirling, praying for the removal of
Catholic disabilities.

Lord CALTUORPE presented petitions from:Birming-
ham and Hatfield in favour of the Catholics.

Earl GREY presented two petitions from Colchester to
the same effect.

Lord HOLLAND. Ta) came into the House supported
on crutches, considered the regulation come to, not to ad-
dress the House on presenting petitions, as objectionable,
and such as would interfere, if universally adopted, with
all the ancient privileges of petitioners. Though he
felt it unnecessary to enter into a full description on
this subject, yet he thought it his duty to detail the
nature of the petitions he (Lord Holland) had to present,
on this as well as on any other occasion. The peti-
tioners were nearly all Protestants, or Protestant Dis-
senters, and therefore they did not consider the measure
about to be brought into the House, al affecting :their
rights in the slightest degree, and no persons would be
more likely, were there any grounds for supposing that it
would he the means of subjecting his Majesty's subjects
to the thraldom of Popery, than themselves to oppose it.
One of the petitions was from the Protestant Di'senters
of three denominations within twelve miles of London, a
society which had been established for nearly a century.
Its members were experienced and intelligent persons ;
a meeting was held to consider the propriety of a peti-
tion to this House, at which there was a Majority
of nearly three to one in favour of presenting the petition,
which prayed for the removal of Catholic disabilities.
The Noble Lord then presented a petition from the south
Presbytery of Dublin, from the Presbyterian denomina-
tion of Carter-lane, Doctors' Commons, together with
about 60 or 70 others, all praying that their Lordships
would grant Emancipation. One of t,le petitions was
from Nottingham ; the Noble Lord stated that another
petition had been presented from that place much more
numerously signed. He was instructed that that petition
had been signed by every person in the gaol of that
place, and wkat was much more singular, it was against
emancipation. The Noble Lord thought that those per-
sons, of all others, would not have been expected to
have signed against emancipation.—(Great laughter.)—
The Noble Lord then presented a petition from Glasgow
in favour of Emancipation.

EDINBURGH PETITION.

The Earl of HADDING TON rose with feelings of
great satisfaction to present a petition from certain most
respectable inhabitants of the City of Edinburgh in favour
of Emancipation. He was sure that no petition which
had been laid on their Lordships' table was deserving of
more attention, whether with reference to the place from
which it came, or the great learning, talent, and acquire-
ments of those whose signatures were affixed to it. The
place from which it came was, it would be admitted, the
most Protestant of any of this Protestant empire—the
capital of the most Protestant of all the countries which
had embraced the principles of the Refurmation,e—which,
next to the Metropolis of England, had been most distin-
guished for its enlightened and liberal views. This peti-
tion had been agreed to at a meeting convened by public
advertisement, and at which from 1,800 to 2,000 persons
were present. Many of their Lordships bad no doubt
seen, in the public papers, an account of that meeting,
and had read some of the admirable speeches which were
there delivered. If he mentioned the names of many who
attended that meeting, it would show that it was not one
which originated in any party feeling, for it would appear
that men of all denominations, and of different parties,
joined on that occasion in praying the Legislature to
abolish the civil disabilities affecting their Roman Catholic
fellow-subjects. The chair at the meeting was filled by a
worthy Baronet who had filled the civic chair as Chief
Magistrate when his Majesty honoured the Northern Me-
tropolis with his presence; and he (Lord Haddington)
was sure that all who hail the pleasure of knowing Sir
William Arbuthnot would admit that a more amiable or
respectable man, whether in public or private life, did
not exist. The first resolution of the meeting was
moved by a moat distinguished man, who had the
honour of being at the head of the bar of Scotland.
—When he mentioned the name of Sir James Mon-
crieff he named one who was distinguished not only
by his own great talents and acquirements, but dis-
tinguished by his inheritance, not merely of the
name and rank of his father, but for that of his
enlightened principles, and his devoted attachment
to the Church of Scotland, of which he was one of
the greatest ornaments. The name and principles of Sir
Henry Moncrieff, and of his worthy descendant, the Dean
of Faculty, should be in themselves a guarantee that the
measure which they supported was not one which would
tend to subvert the Protestant religion. Those who saw
the next names attached to the petition, would readily be-
lieve it possible that the great measure which they advo-
cated might be carried through without any danger to the
Constitution or the Protestant establishments of the coun-
try. Those were the names of Jeffrey, Colborne,
Murray, and, he might add, those of his relation the Soli-
citor-General Hope. The most distinguished speech made
on that occasion was that of the venerable Dr. Chalmers,
which most certainly was one of the most eloquent ad-
dresses be had ever read. That great Divine saw well the
props and defences which had been placed round the Pro-
testant worship in the penal code ; yet, for the sake of the
advaucetnent of that religion, he implored their Lordships
to remove those props. He (Dr. Chalmers) had con-
tended in a strain of unrivalled eloquence, that the Pro-
testant religion had made its way through all difficulties
by the force of naked unassisted truth—(Hear, hear)—
that at a time when real difficulties were opposed to its
progress, it triumphed over them, and spread itself over the
land by the force of truth alone; and he went on to prove
that the greatest obstacles which the principles of the re-
formation had to encounter in the Sister Island were those
props and fences which the law had placed about them
in that code of exclusion. He (Lord Haddington) was of
the same opinion ; for, however strange it might sound in
the ears of those who thought that the Protestant reli-
eion was best supported by such props, the Reverend
Divine had proved unanswerably that those props
were its greatest obstacles, because they enlisted the
best passions of men against it. The petition was
also signed by another distinguished man— one who
had contributed more to the delight of his felli4-ntor-
tals, for his readers and admirers were not limited to his
own country, or the empire to which he belonged, than,
he might almost say, any other writer—certainly more
than any other writer of the present day. It eras, the
opinion of this celebrated individual, which he (the Earl
of Haddington) had many opportunities of know*, that
in passing the measure now Lefere Parlianeatt, wore
would be dine for the peace, tranquillity, and prosperity
of the country than by any other which bad been passe:.).
for more than w century. He meat, also, /I:alice the sig-
nature to this petition of a most venerable en m, who, in
the evening of an active life, when most men d. sired rest
and retirement, was still energetically engaged in spievel-
ing the blessings of religious instruction it; rise Westeeit
Islands and meat remote parts a c.eotLlnd. The'indivi-
dual to whom he Wai'the .Rev. Dr. Baird, the
yeinerabie Pri:ecipid of the University of Edinburgh. The
very names of such men as Dr. Baird and Dr. Chalmers
otight to be a guarantee to all who feared any danger to,
the Protestant :rem concession to, the Roman Ca-
tholics. The petition was signed by 155 private gentle.
men, hY the Principal and Iti of the Profs reus n. the