The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-03 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

FUNDED DEBT CREATED IN THE YEAR 1896.
An Accouicr of the CAPITAL of FUNDED DEBT created in the
year 182 G, in return for. Money and Exchequer Bills, the
amount of each separately, the price agreed on, and the periods
of payment ; together with the application of the Money that
was received in part of the said Capital created.

s
8,560,000 0

Thc capital created
Viz. : 8
For V 354,350/. in Exchequer Bills
funded, being at the rate of 1071. for
every 1001. of such Exchequer 8i115... 3,589,144 10,
For 4,668,9181. is. paid in cash, being
at the rate of 1071. for every 1001. 10s.

so paid 4,970,80 WI

9,560,000 0

The periods fixed for the above payments in bills
or cash were,
12th April, 1826 lO per cent.
24th May, 1828 lO ditto
14th July, 1826 2O ditto
22d August, 1826 lO ditto
17th October, 1828 2O ditto
21st November, 1826 lO ditto
16th January, 1827
The money received as above was applied,
To make good to aids 1825, the sums issued, there-
out for the discharge of Exchequer Bills charged
on aids 1826
To discharge Exchequer Bills in 1826

Remaining in tin. Exchequer, to pay off bills

Towards the Ways and Means of 1826

Whitehall, Treasury-chambers, March 26.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

953,450 0
2,491,500 0

3,444,950 0
772,350 0

4,217,300 0
451,628 5

4,668,928 5
ERRIES.

The Petition of the Committee of the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland, presented to the House of Com-
mons on the 23d March instant, has produced a great sen-
sation in Scotland. As this petition will probably be often
referred to hereafter, we now transcribe it from the Jour-
nals of the Howe :

" A Petition of a Committee appointed by the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland to attend to the pro-
gress of any proposed alteration on the existing Corn Laws,
was presented and read ; setting forth, that the petitioners
having now seen that such alterations are contemplated, re-
quest permission, in discharge of the duty intrusted to them,
to approach the House on behalf of the Parochial Clergy
of the'Established 'Church of Scotland; than whom no class '
of his Majestyi subjects are more deeply interested in the
decision of this question ; that by Act 48 Geo. 111., c. 138,
their stipends are' made payable in Grain, at the rate of the
fiars or average annual prices of the several Counties, and
by the same Act are, after one augmentation, precluded
from receiving any further increase until after a lapse of
twenty years ; that, for several years previous to the passing
of this Act, the prices of Grain had been unusually high,
and therefore a smaller quantity was assigned as stipend to
each Minister than would have been the case in other cir-
cumstances ; consequently any measure having the effect of
producing a considerable diminution in the money value of
Corn must reduce those stipends below the amount con-
templated by the Legislature, and fixed in each case by the
Court of Teinds ; that the petitioners are further induced
to urge this point upon the attention of the House, from
the consideration' of the proposed rates of duties for regu-
lating the importation' of Barley and Oats, which are mani-
festly too low, and which,. if adopted, must prove highly in-
jurious to the agriculture of Scotland, and, they greatly
fear, most detrimental to the petitiOners„ the amount of
whose stipends almost entirely depends upon the prices of
those descriptions of grain ; that the petitioners, along with
the expression of their entire confidence in the wisdom of
Parliament, do earnestly pray of the House, that nothing
may be done prejudicial to the well being of the various
parties connected With the value of agricultural produce."

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, ArluL 2.

The Lord Chancellor, Earl Bathurst, and the Earl of
Shaftesbury, as his Majesty's Commissioners, gave the
Royal Assent to the Duke of Clarence's Annuity Bill, the
Irish Public Works' Bill, the Mutiny Bill, and several other

Mr. John Smith, and others from the Commons, brought
up the Spring Guns Bill, the Costs on Distress Bill, and
other Bills.

They also came with a Message.from the Commons to
request that their Lordships would permit the Bishop of
Chester to attend a Committee of the Commons.

Their Lordships replied, that an answer should be sent
by messengers of their own.

CORN LAWS.
Lord TEYNHAM presented a petition from the neigh-
bourhood of Southampton, against any alteration in the
Corn Laws, and praying for protection to Agriculture.
Similar petitions were presented by the Earl of Lauder-
dale, from the county of Haddington ; by Lord Viscount
Melville, from the county of Edinburgh ; and by the Mar-
quis of Exeter, from the neighbourhood of Stamford, in the
county of Lincoln.
Lord TEYNHAM also moved for an account of all Hops
imparted from abroad, from 1823 to 1827.