Star.
London, England, 1829-05-08 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 8; 1829.

Lord F. L. GOWIR brought In a BS ter amending the law
relating to tames against the pent* in Ireland, which was reed a
first time, end ordered to be read a seamed time so Monday nest.
The Irish Fisheries Regulation 11W wee read a first time, and
ordered to be read a second time on Monday peat.
Sir M. S. STUART presented a Paid= frost the Cotton
Weavers of Hamilton, praying to bays their case taken into con.
Abrades. The Hosourable Member also presented a Petition
Seem the Glasgow Emigration Society, praying for assistance ten
emigrate to Canada.
Mr. HUNG presented a Padden from the Magistrates and
Town Council of the Burgh of Wren, in Soothed, against the
Scotch Gaol Ealargeoseat BPI; and a Petition from the Carpenter*
and Joiners of Manchester wine the Corn Laws. The Hon.
Member called the attention of the House to the latter petitiso ....
,He said that the petidossen were willing to work. and could get
no ensplogasern. They were in a starving condition, and they
complained that they were kept es by the laws prohibiting the Iwo
mirtatismai foreign cam. He (Mr. Home) had no hodestliso in'
saying:Nit they were 'added to a free trade is cestos end it was
duly by granting it that matters could be put to rights M the coun-
try. He considered it an set of gross injustice, forth, coseeleences
of which Minioen were responsible, to keep the people in a state
of starvation through a prohibitory law. The Hon. Member pre-
sented another petition against the Corn Laws from the inhabitant'
of Nowtoe.upon•Ayr. Ayrdilre.
Mr. W ELLS •did not conceive that tie sufferings of the people,
bad soy thing at all to-dereddi the Cora Laws.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY wished to know if the Corn Laws did
not woodbine to raise the price of bread; if they did, who could
deny Nat they contributed to aggravate the miseries of the people ?
Though he would net sly that they were the points cause, still be
rrrd thought Oth its a /teat measure contribmiog to the distresses.ned
therefore that they would be shortly repealed.
Mr. W. HITMOR4 would enter ?Aspect's' against the oa
ties that the present distress was attributable to the high price of
corn under the existing laws. He could net be suspected of any
partiality to the Corn Laws; he had opposed, and always would
oppose them ; but be would sot attribute the high price of grain to
the operation of the laws as they now .tend. • It was not attribut-
able to the deficiency of last harvest. With regard to what bad
fallen from the Honourable Member for Lactose (Mr. Wells) as
to free trade, he would ask if there had been any innovation in the
cotton trade, which We, equally depressed with the other branches?
No French cottons bad been introduced, no competition nistrd,
and yet the cotton manufacturers shared the general distress. Ho-
mumble Members ought out hastily to attribute all the Ills of the
country to one cause, and be could not but complain against the,
endeavour to make an impression that the general distress was
owing to the Corn Laws.
Mr. P. Timm PSON disagreed with the Hon. Member who
spoke lass. Ile (Mr. Thompson) conceived that a great pert of
the distress was owing to the Corn Laws.
Mr. IL Fl TZG BRA LD thought that the poor of the sifts-
tattering districts were very much deceived In the prices of Nene
on sustain of the vicious mode of taking the averages. The Eight
Has. Gentleman here read estrum from the Returns lately nude
respecting :he Corn sold in Manchester and its neighbourhood Its
support of his position. • .
Mr. PEEL would be beppy to give instructions to have rte
mode corrected if the defects were pointed out to him., • 1
Mr. HUNK was of opinion that the monopoly which pusoilled
in the trade was a great discouragement to inddstry, and a ass.
Attestation to distress. . .

l'he Petition was then ordered to be priated.
Colonel 8111 THORPE begged to pet a question 'to,
the Right Honourable Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment, relative to an advertisement which be bad seen
in an Irish paper. The advettisessent appeared in the
Dublin Amiss: Post of the 30th April, 1829. The
Honourable Member proceeded to read . the advertise.
mem, which was as !nib:mai
*44:raireallos or ites CIVIXOLIC '
conseeradess'of the 'Weedlike will sake place en We 4
nearby. the 6.b of Noy stem. rte mammies proscribed by the
**also( the Cadmic Church on stub set *cession will be perforated
by the Most Rev. Doctor Curtis, R.C. Primate of ail Ireland. as-
aimed by the Most Rev. Doctor Murray, R.C. Archbishop al
Dublin, and all the other Catholic Bishops of Ulster.
4, The sermon will be preached by the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle.'
B.C. Bishop of Kildare and Leightin. •
fit The service will continence at twalve o'clock"—(A laugh).
That was all pretty plain,. and in the teeth of
the late detestable Bill—(Hear, bear, and a laugh).
Yes,-he would. whenever speaking of that Bill. up to
the boor of his death, call it a detestable Bill. In page
9. that was, in the 24th section of an Act of the pre.
sent Session cf Parliament, entitled " An Act for the
Relief of his Roman Catholic Subjects," the
following passage occurred—
" And whereas the Premium Reiscepal Church of Wad and
Ireland, and Medea:ins. diecipliae. and gmeninteat thereof, and
likewise she Protestant Presbyterian Church of Sostioad. and the
doctrine. discipline. ad gomenineet thereof, are, by the reepoetha
Acts of Unless of Ifogiaorland Seeded, and of Great Drink and
Ireland, established permasently and inviolably : And wirings the
right and title of Archbishop to the's respective proolneeket
Bishops to their Bees, and of Mims to their Deaneries, se Well IS
Eashotd Ireland, have been settled and established by law.—'
Be it therefore enacted, that if any penes, abet tie ostemeneemeat
of this Act. other than the pens& ebereiumis•aushadosel by law,
shall assume or use the same. style. or title et Archbishop of any
Province, Bishop of any Bishoprielt. or Dean of any Deanery, in
Angled or Ireland, he siaM fee every such offence forfeit and pay
the sons of toot."
He therefuee felt justified is calling upon his Majesty's
Ministers, lot the satisfaction of that House. for the satis-
faction of the country, and particularly fur the satisfac-
tion of the Protestants, to inquire by whom the insertion
of that advertisement had. been authorized ? It was a
public advertisement in a public newspaper, and might
therefore be easily traced. That he trusted would be
done, for he was sure the matter would go on unless
checked ; and be for one would be ready at all times to
lend his humble hand to suppress that which was ies..l
tended aian insult to those excellent 160 Members of
that House who formed the minority by which the Ca-
tholic Bill had been opposed, and to the Protestants of
this country. •
A message from the lards acquainted the House that their
• ate Lord ships had agreed to the Southend Pier Bell, and several pet.

Mr. V. o from the Society for the
Encouragement of STUARTry, la favour of the extension of the Poor
Law system to Ireland. .
Mr. H. GRATTAN presented a Petition from an individoel
(L P. C. Fairman), a pri.ouer confined for debt in Castle Ruben,
Isis of Man. praying for an alteration of the laws of that island.
The same Hoe. Member presented Petitions from the Roman Ca-
tholic inhabitants of Lean, and See other parishes in Ireland,
against the Vestry Acts; also Petitions from the inhabitants of
Kilbeggan, and twesty other parishes in Ireland, against the Sub.
letting Act.—ThiseTetitions were severally ordered to be printed.
SUPPLY OP wATilt TO TU ASSTSOPOLIS.
Mr. S. WORTLEY ruse to call trio attention of the
House to a most important subject—the supply of water
to the metropolis. A Committee to inquire into that
subject had last Session been appointed by that House,
and on *hie) Committeihe had had the honour to sit.
chat Committee made a Repoit, which,was all that
they could• do; but as the evil original complained
of had continued, he thought that Hon. Members, pat-
ticularly those who represehte4 this great metropolis,
should hot allow this Session to pass without bringing
the subject under the notice of Parliament. He knew
not what measures to suggest, but he thought that that
House ought, by attending to the subject. to show to
those who had undertaken to supply a sufficient quan-
tity of good and whoiesonie water to the metropolis,
, that their neglect of their contract would nut go tan•
puma bed.
SPKA K ER hett.aelittl, what did the Hon. Member mean
70 r.l.3ve
Mc. S. wontLEr—l rose to ask a question. of the Hun. Pa.

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mist die' Weber for Watadasser, wbetber be mast se Mogi
the subject spin before the Hasse/
The SPIL4I(2II-4 thought Ilia beard the Hen. Slatiar
proceeding to argee thejleettlea.
Sir F. BURDE rr said, that he had felt the import.'
once of the subject, and had had frequent communica-
tions on it with the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
(Mr. Peel), who bad evinced the utmost readiness to
forward the views of the Committee. It appeared to
him (Sir F. Burdett) that no further steps remained to
be taken by Parliament, and that the only other b,vt
thing that could be now done would be (as recoils
mended by the Committee in their B-port), that hi.
Majesty's Government should send competent person,
to sir vey, and report from what points a better supply
could be obtained. Indeed, he understood that it had
been already ascertained that a better supply could be
bad from two points—from the river Thames, above
Teddington, on one side, and tram the river Colne on
the other. He thought that smasething °right to be
,done to show to the water companie,, who had at pre.
sent the supply in their hands, that they would nct be
suffered to continue in the course they had hitherto fol-
lowed. Although the supply had been insulfici..nt and
impure, those companies had already levied upon the
inhabitants of the metropolis no le.: a sum than 44,00 W.
beyond what they bad been empowered to do by their