The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-28 00:00:00

CORN LAWS.

The Earl of. MALMESBURY presented eighteen
petitions from t.ie Owners and Occupiers of Land in the East
Riding of Yorkshire, against any alterations of the Cern Laws.
Also, that an humble Address he presented to his Majesty praying
that he would he pleased to lay before their Lordships such infor-
mation as he may have received, relative to any duties now im-
posed on British Goods, when imported into Russia. Also,
the same information relative to Prussia, France, and the United
States of America.—The Address was agreed to.
Similar petitions to those presented by the Earl of Malmesbury,
were presented by Lord Harborough, from several Parishes in
Lincolnshire ; by Lord Brownlow, also, from several parishes in
Lincolnshire ; by the Earl of Macclesfield, from several parishes
in Oxfordshire, some of which petitions prayed, moreover, that
the Winchester measure might be restored ; by Lord Teynham,
from several parishes in the Eastern part of the County of lieut.
His Lordship said, these petitions were presented because the
Ministers had said they wished to collect the sense of the country.
That sense was, he thought, now collected, and from one end to
the other, was decidedly opposed to any alteration of the Corn
Laws. He called on their Lordships to resist the alteration, for
it had been hatched and brooded by the French Revolution. The

commencement of that Revolution was introduced by calling for
a free trade in corn ; and by a free trade in corn the advocates
for that Revolution hoped to overturn the Altar and annihilate
the Throne. At these sacred institutions their attacks were, in
reality, directed, and he called energetically on their Lordships to
resist them.

Similar petitions were presented by the Earl of Hardwieke,
From several Parisbe3 in Cambridgeshire ; by Lord Grantham,

from Ripon, in Yorkshire ; by the Earl of Darlington, from
the Landowners and Occupiers of Land in the County of Dur-
ham ; and by the Marquess of Camden, from three Parishes
in Kent.

Lord KING rose to present a petition against that
never-ending subject, the Corn Laws. His Lordship then pre-
sented a petition from the Merchants, Householders, and Inhabi-
tants of the Borough of Southwark, praying for a repeal of the
Corn Laws. His Lordship also presented similar petitions from
the Anti-Bread Tax Association, No. S 5, from the Cloth Manu-
facturers of Burley, in Gloucestershire, and from the Weavers of
certain parishes in Forfarshire.
Similar petitions were presented by Lord AUCK-
LAND, for the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lancaster, from
the Clergy, Gentlemen, and Manufacturers of Blackburn, in Lan-
cashire ; and by

The Earl of HARROWBY from Mr. Marmaduke
Martin, an Accountant of Liverpool. The Noble Earl said this
Petition, as containing many curious statements of the quantity of
corn grown in England, and its value, as well as the value of seve-
ral of our manufactures, was well worthy of their Lordships' at-
tention, though he must say he did not agree with the prayer of
the petition, which was for a perfect free trade in corn.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition,
praying for an alteration in the Corn Laws, from some place in
Lancashire.