Star.
London, England, 1830-02-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, Vin. 15.

Mr. CRAFER, from the Treasury, presented at the bar certain
accounts, pursuant to act of Parliament, relative to toads and bridges
in the Highlands of Scotland.

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Earl STANHOPE said he held in his hand a petition from the
owners and occupiers of land at Chipping-Norton and vicinity,
complaining of the distress under which they laboured, and suggest.
ing, as a partial relief, the repeal of the laws imposing taxes on
malt and beer. The petition, he said, was most respectably signed.
lie begged to put a question to the noble duke at the head of his
Majesty's Government relating to a document from which the noble
duke had read a statement to the house on the first night of the ses-
sion, as to the circulation of the currency and Bank of England
Paper. The noble earl wished to know whether there would be any
objection to the production of that paper. He was inclined to be-
lieve that the statement contained in the paper was founded on a
fallacy.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the paper with hr
road to the haws. as the first night of tholsaalas.ott the sub4ret te-
ll:reed to, war a paper drawn up by himself, from information he
had derived in communications with some gentlemen, and he did
not think it such a paper that he could properly lay it on their lord-
ships' table. This he would, however, say, that the information on
that subject which Government possessed should be sift:tided to die
noble earl.
Viscount DODERICH said, that he was about moving for some
returns which would assist the noble earl, and to which no difficulty
in producing them existed. The first was the quantity of gold
coined, with the value thereof, distinguishing the quantity in each
year, from 1819 to the present time, as nearly as could be made up.
The second return was for the quantity of silver coined during the
same period, also distinguishing the quantity coined in each year;
and the third return was for the quantity of foreign coin and bul-
lion exported during the same period, as accurately as could be
obtained.
The petition which the noble earl had presented was then read,
and laid on the table.

The Duke of WELLINGTON thought that the return, taken
together, would give every information which the noble earl de.
sired. If, however, any additional light could be thrown on the
subject, every facility with that view would be afforded by govern-
ment. _

Earl STANHOPE said, that he knew it was the opinion of the
late Lord Liverpool to be impossible to have en accurate return of
the quantity of gold and silver in circulation. All returns on that
subject were extremely imperfect.
The motion of the noble viscount was then put and carried.
The Earl of RADNOR moved for a return of the amotutt of
stamps for 61. notes and upwards, issued since the let of January,
1826, to the present time.—Ordeied.
COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH AUSTRIA.

Earl STANHOPE said—arcing the noble earl opposite (the
Earl of Aberdeen)—l beg leave to ask one question. I wish to
know whether& commercial treaty, which by a misnomer is called a
reciprocity treaty, has been entered into between this country„,and
Austria ? _ _

The Earl of ABERDEEN said that ►t was perfectly true that a
commercial treaty had been signed, and he hoped that it was also
ratified. •

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Lord VERNON presented s petition from Bath, signed by 16
magistrates, praying for a revision of the game laws.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from Leeds on the
subject of the trade to India, which was referred to the select com-
mittee.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that he had been requested
to present a petWoa from the nobility and gooey of the county psv
Lune of Cheater, by the lord lieutenant of that county, complaining
of the distress under which the population was auffentig, and pray-
ing relief.
Mr. Tierney, from the Tax-office, presented at the bar certain
copies of the cases decided by the commissioners, at the assessed
tax-uifice.
Mr. Danvers, from the India House, presented at the bar the re-
gulations of the India government for the year 1820.
A person from the Imperial Gas Association presented at the bar
accounts of their contingent fund.
Adjourned at Half-past Five.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY.

The SPEAKER took the Chair M four o'clock precisely.
Mr. J. MacauLEl., the new member for Caine, took the oaths
and his seat.

A gentleman from the British Museum presented certain returns
relating to that establishment.
Mr. Danvers, front the East India House, presented paper rela-
tive to the government of Fort George, Bombay.
Mr. Marshall, from the Bunk of England, prevented an account
of the number of sovereigns and halt sovereigns at present in cir-
culation.