The Sun.
London, England, 1816-05-10 00:00:00

MOUSE OF COMMONS.

Petitions n ere presented from Tanners and Leather-dealers
Of the City and toniityof Glocester, and of the County of
Itent.,of Toweest &a. •
Petitions were presented. from Innkeepers, Victuallers,
Spirit dealers, pie. of Tholio, rLroath, &c.
A Petition wa, received front the Directors of the Poor in
several Parishes of Vi'oreestin.shire, stating the great Inc:yeast,
of l'aiipers,.which .were almost Trintupled, and stating that
!Hoch of the distress :ache from the state of the leather trace.
Papers were presented containing Accounts of exported
leather maimfactures.
The Agricultural Committee was postponed-till to,morroW
sennight.
The lteport of the Rape-seed Committee was brought up,
which recommended ten pounds per last additional.
HOLT INCLOSUItE BILL.

-MI% IVARD'e4lied the attention of the House
• to the proceedings of.the Committee on the Holt
Ins losure Bill, in which he thought such flagrant
injustice had been done to the parties interei,ted
in the Bill, that the Mose would have no hesita-
tion in -consenting to a revision of them. He then
described .the Committee to have abruptly tenm-.
vateti its proceedings in the absence of a witness
of great . impor:auce to the question, who could
have been brought up in another day from Win-
cheSter, though no inconvenience could have been
saitained from waiting for his arrival, as their iii-
quirks into various mutters connected with the•
Bill would have necessarily occupied them till the
individual called for could be in attendance,- lie
moved that the Vote tit the Committee of the Heft
Inclosure Bill should be revised. . •
_Mr. 3. P. GRANT resisted the motion, and, was
surprised the Hon. Gentleman opposite should
call in question the,. decision of a majority. He
vindicated the coures taken by t he Commithe, and
contended they were justified in refusing to whit
WI a witness could he br‘.trght from Wincheter,
who-et-tight previously to have been in attendance.
Mr. Wise supported the motion.
Sir .11.'.NKWPORT defended the Committee.
Mr. S.. 40U111413 was astonished the parties- ag-
.grieved by the vote of the Committee should have.
been treated .so harshly as they .appeared to have
been in this case on _a mere question of form. He
should vote for the motion of his HOn. Friend.
Mr, W, W.Y NNE opposed the motion. • .

The kneiv nothing of the
proceeding's of the Committee but front what he
had heard in this discussion; and be knew -no,
thing of the patties interested in the Bill which,
had been thrown out. The present question was,
whether a Committee of that 'House should .be re—
vived or not ? lu doing this there could be.no
'lustier, and .he should therefore 'Vote for amnia-•
tion, its it would produce no inconvenience, .and
might he the means of causing justice to be done.
Mr. Nootta objected to the revival of the
Colinnittee. •

J, GRAHAM supported the motion, and
maintained the appeal to the House had been pro-
perly made.
The SPRAKRR stated an appeal from the Oeci
C -
:inn of a ommittee might he made to that House,
and it was for the House to consider whether the
decision complained of were or were not consis-
tent with justice.
Mr. R. WARD rrplied. E GRANT ex'.
plained. The House then divided, when the num-
bers were—

Ayes qa
riots ..... . b9
Majority in farour of the Motii)a-39
' Lord G. BERESPOKI/Stated the Address of the House on
ttu~lliareiagC of the, Princess Charlotte, to have heel) pre-'
to ti; Prince Ite-"ent, which his .Itayal Highness had
most graciously reccivd, and was pleased to express his high
satisfaction at receiving the loyal congratulations of the
House on that auspicious event.'
MANUFACTORIES.

Lord STANLEY presented a Petition from Leather-dealers,
&c. at Blackburne. Lord Stanley then' asked atlueition re-
owed ing houses at Manchester, which, having been converted
into shops and ware-morns, had yet been charged with house
and Window duties, He had 'mentioned this before. •
•Tbe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not think.
this way' within the object of the tax, and it had obtained con-
shletation, 'Elie opinion of the Judges, as we understood bins,
had been 1100.41- - - - - - -

Lord STANLEY understood that the Judges had decided
that under the Act, these places were liable.
:Sir NI; W. RIDLEY mentioned similar eases, and said he
had seenthe opinions of two Judges that those houses were
Ile understood that surcharges on this account had
Leers oolitic-rued 1,.y the Judges • .
lite id reading of, the Alien Bill was postponed till to-
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