The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-13 00:00:00

CORN LAWS.

General GASCOYNE presented a petition from
the Inhabitants of Liverpool, praying for a Repeal of the Corn
Laws, and the Abolition of Places and Pensions.

Sir -JOHN POLLEN presented a petition from
the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the vicinity of Andover,
against the Importation of Foreign Grain.
Mr. CURTEIS presented petitions from York-
shire, and from the Agricultural Society of Norfolk, against any
Alteration of the Corn Laws.—Ordered to be printed.

Sir THOMAS I:ETHBRIDGE presented a pe-
tition from IL Williams, of Devon, praying for certain Altera-
tions in the Corn Laws.—The petition, which was ordered to be
printed, suggested the alterations which the petitioner deemed re.
quisite.
MR. O'CONNELL AND MR. SHEEHAN.

Mr. H. GRATTAN presented petitions from the I,
Parishes of St. Luke, St. Paul, in Dublin, and certain Parishes in
the County of Westmeath, praying for Equal Laws. The prayer
of the petition for equal laws induced him to call the attention
of the House to a matter which had lately occurred in Dublin.
A violent assault was lately committed on a gentleman, Mr.
O'Connell, well known in Ireland and in this country. This as-
sault was committed by a person connected with a portion of
the licentious press in Dublin, which was remarkable for vili-
fying the King's Representative in Ireland, the King's Attor-
ney-General, and other officers connected with his Majesty's
Government in Ireland. This person (Mr: Sheehan) was tried
before the Recorder of Dublin, and sentenced to what the Re-
corder termed a mitigated punishment, imprisonment for three
months. However, his Majesty's Ministers thought proper to
advise that he should be let out after an imprisonment of
only fourteen days, and to add to the irritation which this act
on the part of Ministers must create in Ireland, the order for
his release went over at the very time that the House was dis-
cussing the measure of such vital importance to ,that country--
the Catholic Question. It had been said on the pther side of
the House, " that a triumph should not be given to either
party—(Hear, hear.)"—He wished the House to compare the
professions of Ministers with their actions. The conduct to
which he called the attention of the House, was not a favourable
specimen of their acts being conformable to their declaration—of
their disposition to govern Ireland by what the petitions prayed
for—equal Laws.. The measure, he must say, in the present cir-
cumstances of Ireland, was most injudicious, irritating, and ill-
advised.

The Petitions were then brought up. None of the Ministers
were present whilst the Hon. Member was addressing the House
on this subject. It was then nearly half-past five o'clock.
Mr. J. GRATTAN presented a petition from cer-
tain Persons connected with the Linen Trade in Ireland, praying
for an Encouragement of the Growth of Flax, and for the appoint-
ment of a well-established Linen Board in Ireland.

Mr. MABERLY thought the Linen Board had
been altogether abolished. It was a Board, in his opinion, highly
injurious and prejudicial to the fair interests of the linen trade,
and he understood that there was no further charge to be made
for the maintainance of such a Board.

Mr. 'MAXWELL presented a petition from
Bother-Glen, pra*g for alteration in the existing Corn Laws.
Mr. F. BUXTON moved for the Report made by
Colonel Moody and other Commissioners, respecting the state of
the Slaves condemned to the Crown in his Majesty's Colonies.
Sir G. CLERK obtained leave to bring in a Bill
for Regulating the Weekly Payment of Widows' Pensions.