The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-27 00:00:00

SUNDAY NF.WSPAPEP.S.

Lord KewroN pcesented a Petition from a con-
siderable number of News Venders and others,
relative to the sale' and circulation of News-
papers on the Sabbath day, and Complaining of
the injurious effects in certain points of view of
the.same. By a calculation to which the Noble
Lord referred, no fewer, he observed, than 43,000
of these publications were circulated on the Lord's
Day, and seemed to intimate that it was intended
to propose some legislative enactment on the sub-
ject for the purpose of repressing tite evil.
Lord HOLLAN,D declared . his intention, if any
such Bill WAS presented, of opposing it in every
sage of its progress. He was utterly at a loss to
conceive upon what ground it was that the prin-
ciples maintained by some of. the Sunday News-
papers was put forward as a reason for preventing
their circulation.--Were not the Sunday Papers
as amenable to the laws as other Journals,
if they published any thing improper ? And
would it not, therefore, be an odious attack
upon the liberty of the press to prevent their cir-
culation ?
The Earl GROsvotiott referred to a motion he
had formerly brought forward upon this sub-
ject in the House of Commons, which had for
its object to prevent the circulation of Sunday
Newspapers, nod stated that he still .adher-
ed to the opinion- he then entertained;- but he
meant it without any reference whatever to the
political principles which those Papers advocated.
The Earl of LAUDIIRDALII•thought it right the
House should be aware that the object sought by
this Petition, of preventing persons being em-
ployed in Newspapers on a Sunday, would not be
answered by preventing the circulation of Sunday
Newspapers ; it applied rather to Monday News-
papers ; all that was requisite for making up a
Sunday Newspaper being done on the Saturday,
whilst a Monday Newspaper necessatily required
the eo.ployment. of the persons connected with it
on a Siinday.

e l'ekition was ordered to lie on the Table.
SLAVE TRADE.

Lord Hot. LAND said, he had one or two queries
to put to Noble Lords opposite, in some degree
connected uith the general subject which would
he discussed by their Lordships that evening
The first rehted to what bad recently taken place
in the way of communication with the new Go-
vernment of Spain, on the subject of the abolition
of the African Iyide. The second respect-
ed some reAulatinhc which were either made, or
Ity the Government of Russia, with re-
spect to ti iriportati,ut of Sugars front the Bri-
tish Colonies, which was like y to be of the
g reitest in►pt:r(ance to those concerned in that
trade. and which also, in some degree, bore upon
the subject of the Abolition of the African Slave
Trade.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL observed, that with re-
spect to the New Government of Sliain, he had
no hesitation in saying that that Government
avowed itself ready to fulfil all the engagements
entered into by their predecessors in that respect.
With respect to the Russian Government, what-
ever may be the effect of the regulation alluded
to reliving to a part of our Colonial produce, the
commercial relations between the two countries
were likely, ere long, to become a matter of par-
ticular discussion.