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PARLIAMENTARY

HOUSE OF LORDS, DICHIEBER L
The Justine Administration BM was read a third time, passed,
tad sent to the Commons.
Lord REDESDALE presented a Petition praying for the ad-
gancemeit of an Appeal Case now depending, on the groandli
that. in consequence of the delay, enereechinentaweremakinten
Portsmouth harbour, to-whkh the case related. It was of public
consequence, therefore, that the cue should be heard, and de-
cided upon without delay.—Petition laid on the table.
On the motion of Lord WALSINOHAM, it was ordered,
that ne Petition fur private Bills be received. after the Bth of
February; and no reports on such Bills from the Judges, after
the 11th of April.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a
. Petition from the Dean and Chapter of the Metropo-
litan Church of Canterbury, against the Catholic
Claims. The Petition being read by the Clerk,
The Duke of NORFOLK expressed his regret that
• there should' still be Petitions, and especially from
such a quarter, against removing the disabilities un-
der which the Catholics, both English and Irish, now
laboured, and restoring to them those civil rights to
which they were entitled. He was sorry to hear the
often refuted argument, of danger to the establish-
ment and the Protestant religion still resorted to. He
declared himself a firm friend to the Protestant esta-
blishment, but he thought it would be rather of ad-
vantage to that establishment that every class in the
.community slwuld be in full possession of their civil
rights. One of the objections stated in the Petition
was, that the granting these privileges to the Catho-
lics would be the means of putting an end to these
tests which had long been the security of the Protes-
.tant establishment,—a notable security ! which no
Minister, however foolish or bigotted, had dared to
put fi:rce, but permitted annual acts to be passed
to indemnify such as did not comply with the tests.
But whether these Petitions were the result of the vo-
luntary meeting of those who signed them, or whether
they were encouraged and promoted by the higher
authorities, and the Government,—which he hoped
they were not,—it was desirable that they should all
come as soon as possible, that they might all be to ken
into consideration immediately, after the holidays,
when. the subject of the Catholic Claims was again to
Conte under discussion. He hid no objection, there-
fore, to the motion that the Petition should lie on the
table.—The Petition was ordered to remain on the
table.—Adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. MARTIN gave notice of a motion for Mondsirt of s Bill
for regulating the office of the Deputy Remembrances' of the
ExchequLr.
The slant to the Marquis of Wellington was read a second
ant ordered to be reported to-morrow.
The report on the ConsnlidationAct was brought up and read.
The Pll mouth Bill was read a first time.
'I he resolutions of the Committee of Supply• were read a se-.
cond time.
In the
_Committee of Ways and Means, the CIIANCILLOR of
the haoutou Ell moved the renewal of the ordinal.) cases on
malt, sugar, and tobacco; and that £10,500,000 should be raised
.by way of hschNuer Bills.—Agreed to.
A message &Jill the, Lords brought down the Bill for radii-
tatir,g the administration of justice, and desired the concurrence
of the Howe.-

• . REGENCY.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose and said, that
be should, at an early day, make a motion for a Bill
for devolving the powers of the Regency of this
'Kingdom upon the Princess Charlotte of Wales, in
case of the demise of the Regent during the present
illness of the K►ng.

BANK TOKENS.

Mr. MANNING moved for an account of the total
amount of all silver tokens issued by the Bank from.
July 9, 1811, to the latest date, distinguishing the
three shillings and eighteen penny pieces.
Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON wanted fur-
ther information. As he wished to know the proba-
bility of the tokens remaining in circulation, he should
move, as an amendment, to specify the intrinsic value
of the tokens at the time they were issued. It had
been stated that the three shilling tokens, at their
issue, were of the value of two shillings and nine-
pence halfpenny.
Mr.7OSE objected to the Amendment—that any
one could inform himself of the value of silver at the
time in the market ; it was not an account so easy to
. be produced officially.
Mr. MARTIN supported the Amendment.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
•bserved, that the tokens were composed of dollar sil-
ver, which was inferior to the standard coin. It con-
tained 44.dwts of alloy, making.about fed. in the ounce.
lie had no objection to brin4ing down the account
of the current price of silver in the market.
Mr. MANNING believed his former answer in the
House was, din the tokens were of thevalue of 9.6 90.
but did not precisely recollect. He had never de-
clined giving any information on the subject. If the
Nobie Lord consented to withdraw his amendment,
the information could be gained in another way.
Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON consented
to withdraw it, if any' more satisfactory mode could
be adopted.
. Mr. ROSE said, his objection was only to the im-
practicability of giving the information officially:
The original motion was then carried.
GOLD COIN BILL.
The House wentinto a Committeeenthis Bill, when
• Lord FOLKSTONE expressed- his wish that the
duration of the Bill should be only for a few months,
that time might be givers to confider it fully. He pro-
tested against its renewal, and was convinced he was
right in opposing it. Some had thought it necessary,
as a consequence of a bad step ; and others had de-
claired their sense of the merits of it to be adverse to
it, though they supported it by their votes. The im-
mediatecperation of the Bill was to expel thecoin,and
w increase the thetemptation to commit what the Act
had created a crime. In the mode of its execution.
no offence was punished by it but what the Act itself
bad created, and the offenders had been absolutely
entrapped into their offences. He thought the Chan-
iellor of the Exchequer to blame for net accepting
Ilse offer made to him, of guineas ; nor did he think
the statute made it an offence, if the consideration
was country bank notes. He had heard that Govern.
ment wanted money, not only for Portugal, but for
Canada, whither they had shipped off £lOO,OOO in
Bank-notes, which was a hoaas to the Bank. The
Bill, he also thought, took away from the property of
widowi end wards in Chancery, who were almost all
1141111italati• Whether it led to a masimuoi-or a mi-