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tdfaLIdMEArTARr PROCARDINGI.

HOUSk OF LORDS, MARCH L
A private DUI was brought up from the Commons by Mr.
Lrl•rt.s rat; and'other Members, and read a first time.
Mr. Kingston, from the Raw India Directors, presented Copies
of the Regulasiannof that Coyne for the several Governments in
and also a Copy of the Resolutions of the Court respect-
ing Salaries, Gratuities. and Pensions, granted by the Company,
pursuant to the Act of the 59d of his Majesty. Ordeted to Ile
on the table.

CLERGY RESIDENCE
The Earl of hosodom: mowed the TiTreadiee of the Bill
(souse Pow before the. House) for arithorhiog the Exchange of
Glebe Lands and Parsoosges, for others of more value. with a
view to the more suitable aecommodatitin of Rectors, Vicars, &c.
Th. Noble Earl shortly observed, the ob&ect of the Bill was to
promote and extend the residence of the Clergy in their respec-
tive pariebes—That, the expenses to be incorred.weekt be de.
frayed ctuirely from property in the possession of the Clergy,aild
irons no other source. He would at preterit merely propose the
second. reeding of the Bill, not wishing any detailed discussion of
the measure should take plate till after the holidays.
This Archbishop of CAN ElglitrsUßY thought It unsecemsvy
on the present occasion to say aay *Jog op the subject, after what
had fallen from the Noble Earl, to whom thanks were due for
his thus coming forward. He would anxiously attend the dis-
cest.iun in the Committee, and would be happy to afford every
assistance in his power.
The Bill was then, on the motion of the Noble Earl, read a
second tints.

Their Lordships in a Committee went through the Bank Loan
which was reported wkhout any amendment.

CORN LAWS.-KENTISII MEETING.

the Marquise/ CAMDEN presented Petitions front the City
of Winchester, the towns of Portsmouth, Gosport, Rooney,
Alton, Basingstoke, and certain other places in the County of
Southampton, setdng forth the situation of the occupiers of land,
farmers, Ike. from the present state of the Corn Laws, and praying
fora rerision therein. Ordered to lie on the table.

The Noble M.trquis then presented a Petition from certain
Occupiers, Owners, and Farmers, &c. of the County of Kent, to
the came effect as the foregoing. His Lordship introduced the
Petition by a few woe 4, retain to the nature and respectability
of the meeting who un toirnously agreed to the Petition.
The Earl of DARNLEY said he could not avoid
offering a few observations to the House on the pre-
sent occasion. The petition just presented by the
Noble Marquis was that of a large number of owners"
and occupiers of lawd in the county of Kent, who
thus came forward, ieeling, as be did, for the disc
tressed situation of the laborious husbandman, in
consequence of the farmers not being able to afford
him work. They had thought proper to address the
High Sheriff of the county, requesting him to call a.
meeting of the owners and occupiers of land, that
they msy take their grievances into consideration,
and frame petitions to both Houses of Parlia-
ment, praying relief. He was requested to sign the
Requisition, which he did, which was also signed by
a number of respectable people of property. Several
resolutions on the subject were proposed in the town
of Maidstone, where the meeting was held. But it
had been appointed to be held in the Market-place,
at noon day, and the consequence was exactly what
lie bad anticipated. A very tumultuous assembly
collected, consisting chiefly of manufacturers and
idle servants of the neighbourhood. Their conduct
was such that it was impossible a word could be
heard. Resolutions were moved to no purpose ;in
such circumstances, he endeavoured two or three
times to address the Gentlemen. At length it was
found advisable to adjourn the meeting to an inn, in
tic town, were he had the honour to propose the
Resolutions, which were all carried unanimously.—
He thought it right to state these circumstances, as
a colour had been given to the ptoceedings in some
of the public papers. The Resolutions, he must say,
spoke the sense and feeling of all those numerous classes
in the County, out of which the Meeting was com-
posed. Any other inference he must deny. His
own sense particularly, and that of all those who
were known to him, were so expressed; because they
all knew, even the sensible labouring part of that
community, that their interests and those of the far-
mers could not be opposed. That was not all, he
had to observe that, according to the accounts given
in a number of the public papers, of what purported
to be a speech, delivered by the Chief Magistrate of
the City of London, but which, he should think,
could not be correct, because he was made to utter
sentiments, which may be of the most injurious ten-
dency. The Noble Earl then briefly adverting to
part of what the Noble Magistrate was said to have
asserted, and deprecated its nature and tendency,
either as injurious or unfounded. Those who felt it
their duty to support the measures alluded to, did
not so act with any views of interest separate from
that of the rest of the community, or from a due
want of feeling for the situation of the labouring
classes, they knew and felt that the condition of these
would be eventually ameliorated by the measures
prayed for. Recurring again to the imputed obser-
vations of the Chief Magistrate of a neighbouring
City, his Lordship proceeded to deprecate certain of
his calculations, as unfounded is truth ; which was
the more extraordinary, as be was one who must be
supposed to know the value of florae-.what he was
reported to have said, could not arise from the ope.
ration of the measures now in progress, viz. that
when the price of corn should arrive at eighty shil-
lings, the people of the metropolis would have to pay
.16d. er Iftel. tor the quartern loaf.. This calculation
was very wide of the troth. and he therefore deemed
it almost impossible that tbe Chief Magistrate could
have so stated it. As the quarter would make 104
quarters loaves, which, at eighty shillings the quar-
ter, could not be more than about one shilling the
quarters Pouf. It was also to be consider4ed, that the
primed the quartern loaf in London was considerably
dearer than at several of the provincial towns, Can-
terbury for instance.mity this was so he could not
tell ; bat theoffect of the pending measures would
be very differeet from what it was described in the
daemon"( alluded to. Such statements, especially
when atribeled to mach high authority, be certainly
thought amid not go oneontrathoted ; and under
dame impresions, he felt it to be his duty to make
them iew oieervatiene.

Earl tiThiklfilOPE professed himself not eery)
withae &wird= !ripen by the Noble
Earls of di famish Meeting alluded to &tithe('