The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-18 00:00:00

DIVIDDNDS.

South Morse, Hatfield Peverel, Essex, silk-throwster,
April '7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
Jain Lewthwaite and William Lewthwaite, Lancashire,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(LAST NIGHT.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat a few
minutes before Five o'clock,

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY pre ted a peti-
tion from a parish in Stiriingshire, again, further con-
cessions.
The Earl of-TANKERVILLE presented a petition from
Wallingford,-iniavour of Emancipation.
The Marquis of ANGLESEA presented a petition from
the Protestants of St. Katharine's, Dublin,—from the
Protestant Dissenters of Burton - upon - Trent, —from
Kingborne Minster, and Wexford, against the Sub-
letting and the Vestry Acts. His Lordship also pre-
sented twenty-six petitions from different parts of
Ireland, praying for the removal of Catholic disabilities.

Sir T. ACKL AND and others brought up three v pri
vate road bills.

The Archbishop, of ARMAGH had several petitions
to present--:one of them was from the diOcese of Armagh,
with the sentiments of which the Right Reverend Prelate
entirely concurred. After what had been passing in Ireland,
the petitioners eutre•ited their Lordships, before they annulled
the laws now existing, which were necessary as safeguards
for the Protestant Church, well to consider the measure.
The Right Rev. Prelate then presented a petition from the
Very Rev. the Dean and Chapter of Littlo St. Patrick's,
Dublin, to the same effect.

The Duke of ATHOL presented a petition from the
procurators practising before the Courts of Law in Perth-
shire, praying for the re.noval of Catholic disabilities.

The Earl of HAREWOOD presented petitions from
Barnsley, Milltown, Clifton, Marston, Shipton, Sutton,
and Tadcaster, and various other places, against eman-
cipation. The Noble Lord thought it right that he
should state what his views of the measure proposed
were. Ever since the measure had been propounded to
Parliament, he had felt himself convinced it was not
proper to grant the Catholics what they required. He was
still of that opinion,
.and if he had not been of that opi-
nion, he should have felt himself fully justified in
being so, from the very nature of the measure pro-
posed. What was that measure ? It was a Bill to place
Catholics in the two Houses of Parliament ; and yet, such
was the Catholic religion as known and practised in this
country, that a clause was introduced into the same Bill to
expel from the kingdom certain parties who belonged to that
religion. If this provision were necessary, why was be called
upon to place in a situation of power persons who would
then have an opportunity of reversing that part of the law
which it was now, considered necessary to pass for our se-
curity ? It was in his recollection that some years ago,
when it was first proposed to provide for the College of
Maynooth, and other establishments of a similar nature, out
of the public money, those who opposed that proposal were
called " illiberals," and other hard names, because they
thought that those institutions would not turn out to the
advantage of the country. What had been the result ? It
was now proposed to make a law to controul, and ulti-
' mately expel, the parties who had established those institu-
tions. The objection he had already stated would alone be
sufficient to induce him to vote against the measure; but
he confessed that when he considered the opportunity that
had been taken for bringing forward the Cabinet measure,
he considered the measure almost unimportant in the light
of a measure of Emancipation, compared with the effect it
would produce, as being a precedent of concession to threat-
ened rebellion. He could not view the matter in any other
light. He felt a high respect for the existing Government,
and was sorry tkat any thing should compel him to differ
from it, but he could not in his conscience go to the extent
of giving up what he conceived to be the best part of the
liberties of this country.—(Hear.)
Lord FARNHAM had a petition from the principal
magistrates, merchants, professors of the universities, and
respectable inhabitants of Glasgow, amounting to no less
than 36,796, which petition had been got up since his Ma-
jesty's speech from the Throne. The petitioners were con-
vinced, as the Noble Lord was, that such a measure as the
one now proposed was in direct violation of the Act of
Union between England and Scotland, in the reign of
Queen Anne ; no persons were more tenacious of their re-
ligious privileges than the Scotch, and if they were satis-
fied that this was a Violation of the compact between Eng-
land and Scotland, and that they were to have Popery
forced upon them, it was not to be expected that they
would tamely submit to it. The Noble Lord then desired
the petition to be read.
Lord ROSEBERY, though he did not wish to follow
the example of some Noble Lords, yet could not hear
the statements of this petition, introduced as it had been by
the Noble Lord, without saying when the proper time came
if no other individual better qualified than himself stepped
forward for the purpose, he would undertake to prove
that the measure now propounded was not calculated
to prejudice the fundamental articles of the Treaty of
Union with Scotland in the slightest degree. If it had
any influence in impairing those fundamental articles, he
should certainly not give it his support.—(Hear, hear.)—
He should be able to prove to the House, as he had been
able to satisfy his own mind, that it had no effect.
Lord FARNHAM presented petitions from seceders in
the county of. Armagh, signed by 4,400 ; from the Pres-
byterian Minister, Elders, and congregation in the county
of Armagh, and from other Dissenting congregations in
this county, as well as in Ireland, all against further Con-
cessions.
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Lord SEAFORD presented a petition from Hastings,
praying for the removal of Catholic disabilities.
Lord SHEFFIELD presented eight petitions from places
in Sussex against further concessions.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition to the
same effect from a parish in Sussex.

The I~larquis Of SLIGO presented a petition from