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PARLJAMEN 'A It Y PROCEED! .NGb.

HOUSF. OF LOItI)S, APRIL 29.
Counsel were heard fully in the Appeal, Reid v. Hope.
Lord Gtiroan made mane observations on the ease, and deferred
the hrial middy ration of it until another day.:
Mr. Taws% and )Ir. Fett.esertur, for the appellant; and the Loan
Anvocala of Scotland and the Solicitor-Geuend t WYTIIIIRZLL)) for
the respondents, were beard in the appeal, Out hterlotty of Guynd v.
the Officers of State far Scotland. lltis appeal, relates to the right
of the appellant to 'a 'Vomit, or Burying-place, within the ancient
Abbey of Abetbrothwich, or Arbroath, in Scotland,- which Abbey
was ruined at the time ache Reformation. This tight io the Tomb,
the appellant niaint•dns, he and .bia predecessors have inherited fur
upwards of a century, under a grant from the Magistrates of the
day for the place. Such* undistuthed possessiim, even had the_
Crown, as they now maintain they have, the right. to remove the
Tomb, disturb the ashes of the dead and thereby, witat.vniuld,
the appellant argues, he contrary to decorum and mover feeling;
such possession, the appellant insists, Week!, as approval or hump.
Ingation in law beyond years of prescription, bar such right. Ile
denies that thy -Crown has the right to do so. The respondents,
ie answer, maintain that the Crown has the right, and at any time,
to remove this Tomb ; and having the right, ie exercise of it,
evtn were that dor- by disturbing the bones of those who have
long " slept secutelf —by removing the ashes of the ancestors of
the appellant, or of others who may have been consigned within the
ancient ruined, walls of the sten: rable Abbey of Aberhrothwick,
must remain with the Crown, is mere matter of feeling and discre-
tion on their part, with which the appellant, or any other indivi-
dtial, cannot interfere. The respondents crave, upon the whole, an
affirmance of the interlocutors in their favour, of the Court of Session
in Scotland,. approving their action and acknowledging their right.
Mr. Forayers, as one of the Counsel for the appellant, was heard
In part, in. Aitcheson v. the Nlagistrates of Glasgow.
Counsel will be heard farther in the Bargany Appeal Cause on
Thursday next, at ten o'clock. By accident it was omitted to state'
that Mr. ADAM is likewise of Counsel for Sir liew D. Hamilton,'
tart. the respondent.
A Person from the Treasury presented Returns of Superannua-
tions hi the Customs and Excise.— Laid on thetable.
Mr. GAITICELL, from the Privy Council Office, presented a
copy of the Proclamation inserted in the Gazette pursuant to the
6th of George I.—Laid on the table.
Mr. Alderman Woon, tlr. Ccnermtv, and others, brought up
from the CoMmons the London Duck Amendment Bill and seve-
r..l Private Bills, which were read a first time.
Earl FonTrscuß presented a Petition from Bolingbroke,
against the Catholic Claims.—Lald on the table.
Lind REDF.SOA LE presented a Petition from the Town of
Piepon, in Yorkshire. C. the same effect ; and one front the same
pace, against the Unitarian Marriage hill.—Laid on the table.
Petitionsugainst the Catholic Claims were also presented—By
Lord Beameosto, front Carlow ; by the Bishop of Everitt, from
St. German's; and front the Parish of St. Margaret's, in the City
of Exeter ; by the Duke of litcumono, from the Protestant Dissen-
ters of Chichester.
The LOUD CII A NCET.T.OIt, in the absence of a Noble
Friend for whom he entertained the most sincere respect, the Chan-
cellor of the University of Oxford, presented a Petition front the
Vice-Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars, of that University, again*
further cancessions.to the Catholics.—Laid on the table.
The Noble and Learned Eat! then presented similar Petitions,
from the Town of Bingley, in thg West Riding of the County of
York, numerously and respectably signed by the Oert,i of the
Established Church, and by the Ministers of the Methodists; front
the Ministers and Congregation of Baptist's meeting at the Chapel
in Slow Field, in tint County of Suffolk; from the Congregation of
Protestant Dissenters under the pastoral care of Joseph Chamber-
lain of Chester; from the Minister and Inhabitants of Newport
Pagnell, in the County of Buckingham; from the Freemen and
Householders of the Loyal Town of Oxford, and front the Parish
of St. Anne's, Westminster. The latter signed by 360 individuals.—
Laid on the table.
Lord KING inquired whether William Marshal, who had
'signed the Newport Pagnell Petition, as Vicar of that place, was
not the gar k Gentkinan who lately 'touk up two Dissenters tot
going about the country preaching? • -
The LORD CHANCELLOR answers& that although a mis.
take might have taken place, the Vicar being also a Justice of the
Peace, was justified in taking up any one who was charged with
doing wrong.
Earl GROSVENOR presented a Petition from the Officers and
Labourers employed in the East India Docks, in favour of the Equis
table Loan BilL—Laid on the table.
Similar. Petitions were presented:—By Lord Eu.strinaouon
front Stroudwater. in the county of Gioncester.—lay Lord Dunces'
from the Inhabitants of Mile End, and from the Cotton Manufac-
turers and others of Macclesfield and vicinity—Laid on the table.
The Earl of LIMERICK presented Petitions from two po-
dium in Galway, in favour of Joint Stock Companies.—Laid on
• dile table.
• "The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the
Shipowners of Newcastle-ttpoosTyne, praying for the Revision of
the Corn Laws.—Laid on the table.
The Scotch Sheriffs' Courts Regulation Bill, and the Convicts'
Digits Bill, went respectively through Committees, and were re-
• ported.—Adjourned to Monday.