The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-14 00:00:00

nridgen, the Covent-garden Vestry Bill, and two
Private Bills.

Mr. DUNCOMBE brought up several Private Bills.
Mr. Danvers brought up an account of the Re-
venue and Pensions granted by the East India
Company.
The Earl of MALMESBURY moved for certain
additional returns respecting corn, to what he had
on a former night moved for.

Lord GODERICH in presenting a petition from
Upper Canada; observed that it was not connected
immediately with the domestic interests of this
country, yet it did not the leSs deserve the
attention of their Lordships. He believed his
Majesty's Government was ready and willing to
give it every attention. The petitioners, it was
true, did not belong to Great Britain, but they were
fellow-subjects—they were inhabitants of Upper
Canada, and complained of a great number of
grievances under which they had laboured for
a series of years. It was not his intention to
enter upon those points of which they considered
they were entitled to complain. The petition was
presented, not with any hostile feeling towards the
individuals against whom it was, but because he
(the Noble Lord) considered it a duty he owed
the petitioners to present it. There were
opinions in the petition with which he did not con-
cur. There was one topic which he wished to
mention. The first complaint related to the recent
removal of Mr. Justice Willis, who, it must be recol-
lected, was not long ago appointed one of the Judges
of that colony. The grounds of his removal were
stated to be his declining to act, unless there were
present the Lord Chief Justice and the other Puisne
Judges of his Court. It was reported to the
Governor that according to the manner in ..hich
justice had always been administered there, it
was not imperative upon the Chief Justice to sit.
' Mr. Justice Willis, however, entertained a different
opinion, and in consequence declined sitting in the
absence of the other Judges. With regard to the law,
he (Lord Goderich) certainly was not competent to
form an opinion, but he understood that there was
no imperative necessity for the Chief Justice
sitting before Mr. Justice Willis went there, and he
should therefore be inclined to say that the law
in that respect did not require any such duty
from the Chief Justice. It would be necessary,
however, to adopt measures for the due ad-
ministration of justice there, and to adopt the
principle of administration as much as possible to
the principle adopted here. The petitioners also
complained of the power of the Crown to remove
Judges, and prayed that the law might be so constituted
as to render Judges immoveable by the Crown, ex-
cept by the concurrence of the two Houses of As-
sembly there. The Government of that country
was managed by two Houses of Assembly similar to
the Houses of Parliament here. The Upper House
was denominated the Council, of which the petitioners
complained. The Noble Lord thought it would be
desirable that some steps should be taken to reform

the principles on which that Council acted. He
thought the functions of that body could never
be satisfactorily performed unless something were
done with respect to it, by which the con-
venience of the public would be more considered.

'he other part of the Legislative body was called
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the Executive Council, in which there were many
Members of the other House, and this the petitioners
objected to. They also prayed that the Judges
might not be allowed to be Members of either
House. They considered that they had no effec•
tive control over the Executive Council, therefore

they prayed that the Lieutenant-Governor and other
Officers might be made responsible to Government.
They asked for an alteration in the law as regarded
Juries; but this the Noble Lord thought they could
best adjust amongst themselves. They alluded to
something that the Secretary for the Colonies
haft last year taken occasion to say in the
other House of Parliament, respecting them,
and which they considered they had reason to com-
plain. It appeared to them, from what they had
been informed was then stated, that they were not

truly represented to his Majesty, whether this
mention of the Honourable Member in the
other House, by name and allusion to what he
had said, would render the petition inadmissible,
or not he did not know, but he felt it his duty to
present it, and hoped that the condition of the

people of Upper Canada would receive every atten-
tion from this Government and Parliament, that was
possible to give.
The Duke of WELLINGT ON was sure that
nothing had fallen from the Noble Lord in which
he so heartily concurred as the necessity of meet-
ing the views of the people of Upper Canada.
Having however seen the petition, and having had
in his hands for a considerable time a copy of the
petition that was presented to his Majesty, he felt
it necessary to say there was but little in the petition
that could be carried into execution by the Govern•
merit or Parliament. Many of the measures alluded to
by the petitioners could be carried into execution
by the Colonial Parliament itself, and the expediency
of the adoption of others of them could not but
lie doubted. The Noble Lord had stated only
a part of the case with respect to Mr. Justice Willis
having disapproved of the absence of the Chief
Justice from the Court of King's Bench, thought
proper to protest against that absence,and to state that
the absence was improper, and to absent himself in
consequence of that absence, but to state that all the
proceedings of that Court were illegal, in conse-
quence of the absence of the Chief Justice. For
this he was suspended in the first instance, and
afterwards discharged by the Lieutenant-Governor,
sir. Justice Willis then presented a petition to his
Majesty against that order. The petition was re-
ferred to the Committee of the Privy Council to
inquir e into,and the result of the inquiry was that his
Majesty approved of the conduct of the Lieutenant-
Governor in the dismissal of that Judge.—
This was the state, and he believed unless their
Lordships were prepared to find fault with the
Committee of the Privy Council, they would ray
this was a proper proceeding. The next subject he
would advert to was the last referred to by
his Noble Friend, namely, the desire which the pe-
titioners :expressed, that the Lieutenant-Governor
should be responsible to the House of Assembly for
the acts of the Government. The persons who
made this demand had altogether forgotten that this
was a colony situated on a foreign frontier, and that
those principles which suited the Government of this
country, might not be exactly suitable to them. Under
these circumstances though it might be expedient
at some future period, under any circumstances to
render the offices of the Government liable to the
House of Assembly. Yet he must say that it
would not do to compare their situation with
that of the servants of the crown in this
country. The executive council probably
was something in the nature of a Privy Council in
this country, and gave advice to the Crown in the
some mariner as many in this House did. He
trusted that their Lordships would be of opinion
that there was nothing in the present application
which deserved the attention of their Lordships.
The measure had already received the serious CPnSir
deration of Government.

(LEFT SITTING.)

HULL MARKET.-May 12.
The supply of Wheat from the farmers diminishes weekly, and
our stock of free Wheat in granary is very materially lessened ;
during the week we have had a moderate demand, and several
parcels have been taken fur consumption on terms fully equalling
those noted in our last. To-day we have again a short supply,
and the prices of last week have been fully maintained, and in
some instances a trifling advance has been realized. We have a
very slender attendance of buyers down, and the business passing
in foreign Wheat is only trifling, but on what is done late prices
are maintained, and the best runs are held for more money.
Bond Wheats still continue in request at our quotations. Oats
are held with more firmness, and lase prices supported. Lock
Oats continue as last noted. The season is nearly over for Bar-
ley, and we scarcely ever meet with an inquiry after it, our prices
are therefore nominal. There are speculation buyers of Bonded
Barley at 14s. to 16s. per quarter, but few sellers at these prices.
In Beans and Pease no alteration, the same may be said of both
Rapeseed and Linseed
Wheat, Old 665. 70s. -s. New -s. 60s. 70e.
I ---.-- Foreign -s. 70s. 725.. ..... In bond... -s. -s.
Oats, Poland ....... -s. 20s. 245. Old -s. 265.
- Small or Feed.... -s. 12s. 18s.
- Foreign -s. t/s. 245.
Barley, Norf. & Sut --s 265. 26e. Linc. & Wold -a. 28s. 30s.
- Foreign
Beans 345. She. 3Ss. F0reign......... -.8. 365. 3Sa,
Pease, White -s. 40s. 425. Grey -s. 325. 345.
Tares --s 345. 365. Foreign 28s. 325. -8.
Rapeseed, in bond none.