The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-30 00:00:00

CORN LAWS.

Mr. C. GRANT, in bringing in a Bill founded upon
the late Resolutions with respect to the Corn Laws,
said he wished shortly to state what it was intended
this Bill should do. It was a measure which had
grown out of the Resolutions lately adopted by the House
upon this subject. It was intended to divide the new re-
gulations upon the Corn Question into two Bills—the one
having for its object the regulation of the importation duties ;
and the other to direct the mode of taking the avera-
and the internal machinery of the measure. He now pro-
posed to introduce the first Bill, founded, as he had already
said, upon the Resolutions, and he hoped in a few days to
be able to introduce the other Bill, which was meant to com-
pass the objects which he had already described. This Bill
enacted, that the averages by the Imperial measure were
to be struck weekly, and that the end of every month they
should be published in the Gazette, and Also an account of
the quantity of corn entered and warehoused in each year.
It was intended, with respect to time, that this Act should
take effect from the period of its passing into a law ; but
not to affect any importations allowable under the present
Act, if any such should be allowable, upon taking the ave-
rages on the 15th of May. But those species of corn not
admissable by the existing law are to be subject to the pto-
visions of the new Bill.

The Bill was then brought in and read atirst time.

Sir T. LEI'HBRIDGE said a few words, which were
inaudible in the Gallery. After which the Bill was ordered
to be read a second time on Monday next, and to be printed,

BANK RETURNS•

Sir H. PARNELL moved fora variety of Returns re-
lative to the Debt due by Government to the Bank ; the
Balance IA Public Winne., in the liande`critit,lSault oral,
the sum paid in 1825 to the Bank for the management of
the National Debt ; including the sum of 4,0001. for House
Expences, and 18901, for the management of the South Sea
Debt.

After a few words from Mr. MANNING, which were
inaudible in the gallery,
Mr. HUME expressed l.is regret that the motion of his
Hon. Friend had not been of a more extensive nature; of
such a nature, in fact, as would at once bring the question
before the public view—the precise nature of the connec-
tion between the Bank and the Government. The Charter
of that Company would expire in a few years, and yet the
House and the country were left in the dark eti to the
future intentions of Government. It was highly necessary
to the financial, commercial, and trading interests of the
,country, that the public should have timely notice of the
intentions of Government upon this important subject. It
was the duty of his Majesty's Ministers to see that any
change—if change there was to be—in the intercourse be-
tween the Bank of England and Government, should be
made gradually and in time. Unless some immediate step
was taken upon this subject, Ministers might come down to
the House and say, " We have made such and such ar-
rangements with the Bank, and we call upon you to sup-
port us in carrying them into effect." Unless some step
was taken to prevent this, the country would be again sad-
dled with this odious monopoly, for in his view all mono-
polies were odious. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman
opposite would be induced at once to state his views upon
the subject.
After a few words from Sir H. PARNELL, the motion
was agreed to.
MAGISTRATES OF LISBURNE.

Mr. BROWNLOW then rose, in pursuance of his no-
tice, to move for certain correspondence which had passed
between the Irish Government and the Magistrates of Lie-
burns. He commenced his observations by declaring that
one of his reasons for bringing forward his present motion,
was to furnish the House with a sample of that had ar-
ticle, called Government in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.)—
After several declamatory remarks on the division and irri-
tation which had so long prevailed in Ireland, the Hon.
Member called the attention of the House to the Bill that
was introduced two years ago for the suppression of illegal
associations in Ireland. Various grounds hail been taken
in the debate upon that Bill. Many members thought
that it had emanated from what was called the Popish
part of the Cabinet ; others, that it had emanated from
what was called the anti-liberal party, for the mere purpose
of putting down their respective political partisans. A
third party apprehended—and he confeseed that he belong-
ed to that party—that the Bill was passed with the honest
intention of putting down all political agitators, without
any regard to the faction to which they belonged. Now,
what had been the practical effect of that Bill ? He appre-
hended that he was not called upon to prove that that
Bill had not suppressed the Catholic Association.—
Every man who heard him knew that the Catholic
Association exercised throughout Ireland the power of
taxing and governing the Catholic,. Let no man, there-
fore, ridicule that Association, because the speeches made
in it did not usually square with the rules of good taste ; for
he would tell the House, that every word which issued
from the speakers of that Aseoeiation found an echo in tho
bosom of every Catholic in Ireland, and that every order
which came from them was either executed to the letter,
or if it failed, only failed becaitee those to whom it was
addressed lacked the ability, not the inclination, to execute
it. There was a time when the Catholic aristocracy and
prelacy stood aloof from such conventions ; but now all
classes of Catholics looked up to the Catholic Association,
and from the highest to the lowest received its orders with
a degree of implicit obedience which had never been ren-
dered in any country to any government that be was ac-
quainted with.—He contended that such a state of things
ought to attract the eeriotse attention of every gentleman in
the House, and also of his Majesty's Ministers, whilst there
was yet time for measures of deliberation. Ile said that
the Catholic Association ought to he put down ; but then it
could not be by Acts of Parliament and legal penalties, as
the House well knew from long experience ; it must be put
down by the wisdom of concession, and by consolidating the
interests of those who composed it with those of the commu-
nity at large. Having said so much with regard to the Ca-
tholic Association, he would next consider whether the
Orange Associations had been suppressed by the bi of
whirls he bad before spoken, and the consideration of that
point would bring him at once to the subject matter of his
present motion. In the beginning of July, 1826, the ma-
gistrates of Lisburne were called upon by the Irish Go-
vernment to take measures to prevent the usual parade
made on the 12th of July by the Orange Societies, and to
consider the opinions which the law officers of the Crown
had given upon that subject. On the 11th of July five of
these magistrates met. Four of them agreed with the law
officer e, that the Orange processions were illegal ; the fifth
(the Rev. Mr. Johnson) expressed himself opposed to the
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