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London, England, 1827-02-14 00:00:00

IMitRIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—FEs. 13.
- CATHOLICS:
Lord TORRINGTON presented a petition from
the Clergy, Gentlemen and Inhabitants of East Peckham, in the
County bf Vent, praying that the House would grant no further
Concessions to the Catholics. His Lordship said, he presented the
petition, being connected with the parish, but he decidedly dis-
sented from the views bf the petitioners: The petition com-
plained, among other things, of the secret views of the Catholics.
His LOrdehip said, the petitioners were respectable, and knew what
they were signing. .
The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, if these pe-
titioners knew what they were signing, it was more than shy-body
else did, though he could hot tell how any persons should know
.the see-ret viola of others. His Lordship then presented petitions
hem the Forfar District of Forfarshire ; from the Farmers of
Fife ; from the Banffshire Farmers' Club ; and from the Land-
owners in the vicinity of Preston, against any alteration of the Corn
Laws.

Lord REDESDALE presented a similar petition
from the vicinity of Darlington.--Adjoorned:

hOUSE OF COMMONS.

At four o'clock the House met, and the requisite number of one
hundred Members being present, it proceeded to ballot for a Com-
mittee upon the Leominster Election Petition. At five minutes
to five the Speaker took the Chair.
Papers were brought up from the Insolvent Debtors' Court,
the Court of Common Pleas, and from the Office of the Clerk n.
the King's Silvery.

CORN LAWS.
Mr. MAULE presented a petition from certain
owners and occupiers of land in the county of Forfar, against any
alteration in the Corn Laws.—Laid on the table.
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented nineteen petitions
to the same effect, from various particular places in the county of
York.—Laid on the table.

Mr. WYVILL presented a petition from certain
merchants and bankers of York, praying for an alteration in the
laws relating to the recovery of small debt!.—Laid on the table.
Lord AIOUNTCHARLES presented a petition
from certain Catholics of the county of Donegal, praying for
Emancipation.—Laid on the table.
Sir HENRY PARNELL moved for Returns of
the quantity of Wheat, and of Oats and Oatmeal, imported from
Ireland into Great Britain during the eight years preceding Jan.
1826.—Ordered accordingly.

GAME LAWS.
Mr. CALCRAFT moved a Return of the Con-
victions under the Game Laws during the seven last years.

Ordered accordingly.
CORN LAWS.

Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, in
a petition against any alteration in the Corn Laws, took occasion
to question the Right Hon. Secretary opposite relative to the
mode in which Government intended to proceed in bringing for-
ward the question of the Corn Laws. He also expressed his
deep regret that the consideration of this question had been so
long postponed ; for if the Right Hon. Secretary for Foreign
Affairs was too unwell to bring the subject forward speedily, it
might have been done by the President of the Board of Trade.
The subject was of the greatest importance, and the public mind
was intensely interested in it. If the matter should not, how-
ever, be brought forward at the time announced for (the 26th
first.), he wished now to be informed by the Right Hon. Secretary-
for the Home Department, what was the course which the Go-
vernment meant to adopt ? Did they intend to proceed by Bill?
or was it their intention to refer the matter to a Committee of
the whole House, that the subject might receive that mature con-
sideration which its nature demanded ? He put this question.
that Gentlemen might have an opportunity of coming as well
prepared as possible to the discussion.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that although he must
decline giving any answer as to the nature of the proposed mea-
sure, which Government intended to submit to the Hduse on the
subject of the Corn Laws, he had no objection to answer to the
Honourable Baronet's question, that the mode or course of pro-
ceeding which it was at present intended to adopt, was to move
Resolutions is a Committee of the whole House, which Resolu-
tions would contain the plan in its nature, form, and all its de-
tails. If these Resolutions should be agreed to so far, then the
intention was, that they should be printed, and circulated for the
consideration or the Mentibers- of the House, and that they shouts
be then re-committed on a future day, that gentlemen might have
an opportunity of giving this important subject the fullest possible
consideration.—The petition was laid on the Table.
Mr. DICK presented a petition against any Altera-
tion in the Corn Laws.—Laid on the Table.

Lord BELFAST presented a petition from certain
persons, praying to be allowed the means of emigrating to
Canada.—Laid on the Table.

Mr. HEATHCOTE moved for Returns of the
Number and Tonnage of Ships which cleared out from the Ports
of Great Britain for a certain period, up to January, 1827, dis -
tinguishing the British from the Foreign; also, for an Account,
up to the same period, of the Ships belonging to the several Ports
of Great Britain, and the Persons to whom they belonged.—Or-
dered accordingly.
Mr. MABERLY roved for an Account of the
Net Public Income of Great Britain and Ireland, up to the sth
January, 1827 ; an Account, also, of the Funded and Unfunded
Debt, and of the Money which had been expended towards its re-
demption.—Ordered accordingly.