The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(LAST NIGHT.)

At half-past Three o'clock the SPEAKER entered
the House, and there were just a sufficient number
of Members present to enable him to make a House,
in order to receive the communication from the
Lords that the Catholic Relief Bill and the Qualifi-
cation of Freeholders' Bill, were agreed to by their
Lordships without any amendment.
As soon as the Speaker took the Chair a mes-
senger from the Lords required the attendance of
the Commons in the House of Peers, to hear the
Royal Assent given by commission to several Bills.
Upon their return the Speaker announced the
Royal Assent to those Bills, the first of which was
that for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic
Subjects. The moment he announced the Royal
Assent to this Bill two distinct cheers were given
by the Members present, amounting in number to
about one hundred. The enthusiasmovas very con-
siderable in the body of the House.
The gallery was crowded with persons interested
in the Silk Trade.

Mr. EGERTON moved the Order of the Day,
for the second reading of the Bill for the Pre-
vention of Crime in the County of Chester.
Mr. LEYCESTER moved that it be read a se-
cond time on this day six months, as he considered
that it was giving an unconstitutional power to the
Magistrates, and laying a burden on the county.
He afterwards withdrew his amendment, and the
Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com-
mitted.

Sir G. MURRAY presented a petition from
Patrick John M‘Farlane, Sergeant-Major of the
Dumbarton Militia.

Sir H. INNES presented two petitions from
the Heirs of Entail and Magistrates of Ross, praying
that no alteration may be made in the law of Entail
in Scotland.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a petition from
above 3;,tia Silk Weavers of Braintree, Maccles-
field, and Colchester, praying that the case of their
distress may be taken into consideration.
Mr. W. HORTON said he was glad to see the
Hon. Member for Newark in his place, as he could
now request that he would be present on the 7th
of May, when an erder stood for a motion on that
(we believe the Emigration) subject, and when
it was his intention to expose the scandalous
manlier in which he had misrepresented facts—
(Loud cries of Order, order)—l say that—(Cries
of Order, order, Chair, chair.)
The SPEAKER—Order, order. The Hon.
Member must be the first to see that he had been
disord:rly ; for, in the first place, doubting whether
any Hon. Member would be present ; and, secondly,
in alluding to a discussion at which he was not pre-
sent, or if he had been, he might have answered.
Mr. W. HORTON said he had never before
been called to order, and he begged to say that he
meant no offence to the House.

Mr. SADLER, in reply to the allusions of the
Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. W. Horton), begged
to observe that if that Right Hon. Gentleman re-
ferred to what had fallen from him at any former
period, that House was not the place for entering
into the controversy connected with them, The
Right Hon. Gentleman might, however, rest as-
sured of his attendance at the debate which he
mentioned.

The petitions were then laid on the table.
Mr. G. 0. MOORE presented a petition from
the Silk Throwsters of the city of Dublin, com-
plaining of the distressed state of the Silk Trade in
shut city. He requested the.attentioniof theiteuse

to the state of depression to which the Silk Trade
in Ireland was reduced by the measure of that
House in 1824. By that measure they had to con-
tend not only with English but with Foreign com-
petition. The Hon. Member proceeded to call the
notice of the House to the Tabinet Trade, the ma-
nufacture of which in Ireland had arrived to an
eminent degree of perfection. He hoped that in the
plan to be propounded to Parliament that night by
the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the
Board of Trade, some encouragement and aid would
be extended to the depressed state of the silk
manufacture in Ireland.

Mr. V. ZGERALD, on the bringing up of
the petition, admitted the importance of it and the
respectability of the quarter from which it came ;
at the same time he would not now anticipate the
discussion fixed for that evening by adverting to
that petition particularly. In the course of the
evening he should have occasion to refer to it ; but
he suggested that it would be an inconvenient course
to enter into a discussion upon every petition pre-
sented to the House upon this subject.

Mr. H. GRATTAN confirmed the correctness
of the statement of his Honourable Colleague as to
the distress which prevailed in the Silk Manufacture
of Ireland.