Star.
London, England, 1827-03-21 00:00:00

This Marquis ef DOWNSHIRE presented a Petition from tile
Committee at Merchants and Manta of Linen In Bans-
bridges rlownshire, praying the House to take their case into con-
sideration. The Petition was most respectably signed by persons
who conducted that business, which was connected with the most
important branch of manufactures in Ireimd, namely, that of WWII.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
Lord COLCHESTER presented a Petition from the Parish of
Yarmouth, In the County of Norfolk, against Roman Catholic

Emancipation.
The Fart of LONGFORD presented a similar Ptddon from a
Parish in Ireland.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, in presenting a Peti-
tion for emancipation from the Catholics of a parish
near Dungarvon, expressed his regret at the decision
lately taken by the other House on the subject of the
Catholic Claims. It was his conviction, from principle,
that their prayer ought to be granted; and if anything
'added to that conviction, it was the events of the last,
year, wl.ich sheaved that the Catholics felt at one man
on that great question. The irritation which prevailed
should not prevent their Lordships from looking at the,
cause which bad created so close an union of the
tholic Body. That cause was Catholic exclusion, which
opposed insuperable obstacles to the improvement of
Ireland, and kept up a state of constant irritation dal
structive to the peace and prosperity of that country.
Nothing remained but for the Protestants to concer
with the Catholic', ere it was too late, in all sorts elf
Constitutional measates which might remedy the evil,
for the sake not of the Catholics only, but of the Pro-
testants, both in the North and the South of Ireland.
He was one of those who had been expesei to censure
on the part of the class to whose cause he had attached
himself, but he had disregarded their unjust conduct
towards him. It had not abated or shaken his zeal for
t'er &dew age. He felt more anxious than ever that
justice should be done, and all his abilities, both in the
House and elsewhere, should be exerted for that pur-
pose. It was theref,re with deep regret that he had
heard the declaration that the Claims of the Catholics
were not even likely to be taken into consideration.
This would weaken the efforts of their friends, whilst a
temperate course on the part of Parliament might have
been useful .to mediate between the parties. It had,'
however, pleased the other House totolllw a different
path, and the Catholics were now rejected by Parlia-
ment, and abandoned by the Government, whose dif-
ferences, he feared, were not less than those of the
heated multitude.
The LORD CHANCELLOR entertained the highest
respect for the Noble Duke, but could not permit the
missal to consider the Catholic Claims at present. to be
,represented in a light inconsistent with facts. When
the question was first agitated twenty years ago, the
motion was to take the petitions of the Catholics into
consideration. The objection made by those who were
as mush attached to the Constitution, and the civil and
religious libel ties of the country, as any Noble Peer who
had since entered the House, turned on the general
nature of the motion, which could have no other ten-
dency than to raise in the minds cliche Protestants some
uneasiness and apprehension respecting the civil and re-
ligious liberties of the country, which might really be
unfounded, and in those of the Catholics, hopes which a
Protestant King and Parliament could sot encourage.
In consequence of this, the coarse was changed. no-

displayed those
threatened to r
country. seemed, accordibg id-the
Learned Earl, that they were to await that dissolution
without considering what those elements were.—But he
conceived, on the contrary, that by not considering the
subject, Government abandoned its duty. lie now
waited with impatience to know the opinion of the
Government ; or in fact to ask whether there really was
a Government ? He should then think it his duty to
'state those circumstances which were unknown to the
Noble and Learned Earl, but known to every one else
who considered future prosperity blund up with the
harmony of all classes of his Majesty's subjects—a har-
mony without which no State could by any possibility
Sourish.

The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that the
Noble Marquis had been pleased to say, that the rejec-
tion of the Catholic Claims had been adopted under his
influence—(Hear from the Marquis of Lansdosen).—
He could only say, Goo forbid that that should be the
fact 1 His opinion, his hope, and indeed his confidence

were, that their Lordships decisions were those of a
Protestant Parliament and Protestant King, and little
influenced by the opinions of an individual. He knew
his own imperfections too well to suppose that their
Lordships would adopt his opinions on a matter of
such consequence. Near the close of his career, he was
determined, as the subject of a Protestant King, with a,
Protestant Legislature, to go down to his grave without
having lessened the security of the civil and religious
liberties of the country. He had made up his mind on
these points, that their Lordships were either to do what
was asked of then without securities, or that they must,
have math better ones than those which had been
offered, and which were most uneffeetive, though pro-
posed by so many able men. He called upon the Noble,
Marquis, for whom he entertained the most sincere re-
spect, to give him credit for a perfect conviction on the
subject. There was not a man in the kingdom who
was * greater friend to toleration than he was, and were
those,the last words which he should have to utter, be
would say :--for GOD's sake, for the sake of the Pro-
testant, for the sake of the Catholic subjects of his Ma-
jesty, preserve that Constitution which, :was earned by
the exertions of your ancestors. Let the Catholics have
everything which the Constitution can gi►e them, save
power in a Protestant State.
The Petition was then laid on the table.
GAMS LAWS.
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Lord SUFFIELD piesented for the fourth year the
Petition of the Magistrates of the County of Norfolk
against the Game Laws. It was signed by the Lord
Lieutenant, the High Sheriff, the two Members, and
fifty-eight Migiorates of the County, and would have
been signed by all the rest had their been time and op-
portunity.—Laid on the table.
The Order of the Day having been read,
Lard WHAIINCLIFFE in moving the second read-
ies of the Gams Laws Amendment Bill, reminded their
Lurrishiiss *tat it was Sounded on the ptinciple of giving
to every Mai power over the game in his own land;

. Measure, end that the .
c tended to create viould give full empinyriient to the
Laviyers, as every petty farmer would have it it
his power to bring twenty actions for trespasses.-L
A great deal of the game stolen was by game-keeper[,
not poachers; and, as two of a trade could never agree,
most of those contests which had taken place were net
for the protection of game, but because the interests of
one set were against those of the others. The Noble
Lord then expressed his intention of voting for the
second reading of the Bill; but said, that in the Com-
mittee he should propose to orn't the first part of the
measure, to make it one for the sale of game, and to
put an end to what was called qualification.

The Marquis of BUTE hoped that there should be
no objection to the second reading of the Bill; and that
if it were thought necessary to divide it or omit a part
of it, that might be done in the Committee. He con-
tended that the new rights intended to be conferred by
the Measure would be more for the advantage of all
classes of his Majesty's subjects than those now enjoyed
by their Lordships.
The Earl of WESTMORLAND opposed the
mra-
sure, as it appeared to him to be subversive of the
rights, and destructive to the amusements of almost
every class of men, without in the least degree dimi-
nishing the evils of the present system. As it stood,
the hunter might go oiler a hare, but the shooter might
not. No one lamented more than he did the state of
the law, as he thought that all the game together was
not worth the punishments inflicted. If all lows mere
to be abolished on the subject, and game were the pro-
perty of anybody, the system might be preferable; but
landed Gentlemen would have their amusement, and
Game Laws must exist, but to make tilt m proper ones
was a hard job. The measure proposed was in his
opinion impracticable.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH urged their Lordships
not to reject the Bill, as if they did, the subject would
shortly be forced upon them by the evils of which the
present laws were the caute. In supporting the princi-
ple and purport of the measure, he did not mean to
deny its imperfections. It would not only be necessary
in the Committee to strike out clauses, but to alter the
language, for it was such that six or seven hundred
words at least were unnecessary, and neither the words
of property or punishment were mentioned.
Lord KING said, that their Lordship were actuated
by many fears; one, that of being too late for dinner ;
and the other, lest a free trade in game should be est.-
Wished. It war, however, their duty to consiJer the
subject, and to contrive to find a safe conductor be-
tween the mouth of an Alderman and the wing of a
pheasant. The Noble Lord then alluded to the state of
the Game Laws in Germany and France, and lamented
that on a question of morality like that, so few of the
Right Rev. Prelates opposite should have attended the
discussion this night.
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The LORD CHANCELLOR though', that ;so
end could be put to poaching, unless an end was also
put to preserves 01 game. One of his greatest de-
lights, in vacation time, was to see that his dogs knew
their points, and when to stop; and-, indeed. they gave
proofs of more ability than the Others with whom be
had to deal during the other ten months of the veer.
The principle of the Bill deserved to be upholder, bet
the difficulty was to carry that principle effectually into.

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FAMILIES about to FURNISH, will find, on in- tiocis were made to carry into effect the measures which of preventing trespasses on other persons' land, and of ..
spewing the Ware.rwmts of HENRY L COOPRIt, 93, individuals thought most fit to be adopted. • B•Hs aitei meking it legal to dispose of guile. i
BISHOPS() ATS.-STREET WITHIN, the following Articles, Bills were proposed by the most sensible advocates of l'he Earl of FALMOUTH thought the Noble Baron f
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at Prices decidedly reasonable, fur Fernitura of superior Style and
the Catholics. and rejected by Parliament. And now, at. too sanguine in his expeetations.that the provisions of
UPHOLSTERY-,A rich assortment of Furniture,SUks,Ctintees, 1
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ter every Bill of this nature had failed, a motion had been the Bill would do the country any good, or the sweep- .
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IP Crape Damask% ?thriven., Fringes, &c. announced, which was in fact the same as that made 20 ing away of a branch of laws confirmed by the lapse of .1 i
CABINET WORK—Of the first enemy and Materials; atm Yeats ago, when the question had been first opened. The a century and a half. The Noble Lord had three'ob-
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'wild Furniture fur Foreign canines. state of rhequeition was therefore no longer the same,and jests in view. He first wished to correct the inequalities .
SHIPPING—Cabins hired up with Stresses sad Dispatch, and the iubject instead of being new, had been tried and et- and absurdities of the qualification law; he then gave I '
P.sseasers' requisites provided.': s•• hauited. When the Noble Duke and other Noble Peers to small Proprietors the rights to which be thought -
CHAIRS.— Appropriate for arena, •Drairise Rooms Bed elairfted for themselves the conscientiousness of acting tt ey were entitled ; and lastly, he endeavoured to di- •..
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ight When supporting the claims of the Catholics, he minish, it n• tto prevent, poaching, by taking_ awe/. t ... ,
CARPETS—Briassest, of the first quality, ss. 6d. per yard; Su-
perior Kidderminster, 3s. 61. and others equally lore. might be a.1.t0 •
wed to say that the Piotestants would sa. from p qichers the market for their goods • Flelthe
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cnlce the chit and religious liberties of the country if Earl of F. had no objection wh itever that a Bill should , 1
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LOOSING GLASSES— From the most magnificent to the
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smallest, for Chininlea, Pitts, and. Toilettes. they yielded to those claims. Most happy should he be be brought in to correct the existing qualification!,
e eery heastil-ei vecim,n, in, it concession were in his power; -but it appeared to him some of *bleb wet e vet y unhappy. As to giving OMR
CARVING and OILOING—
Cunsol Tables, Masses, atc., that after what had passed during the last twelvemonth, Proprietors the right of killing and felling gime OR
PAPER-HANGING and FAINTCHG--in the Richest as well: it ii r.s infinitely more difficult to. condede those claims their own land, it bad been said, that it was a privilege .+. '
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as the Plainest Style. than it- hid been three years ego. granted by the law in Scotland ; but he dlet-not
FUNERALS--Attended to the most respectful moaner, and Par- The Marquis of LANSDOWhi did not intend to ad- think that all the peculiarities of the la* of - ..I._.a 4d- . -1
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tillf regard paid to Scooomy. • ; dress the House, had it nat been forthe unexpected ob- could. succeed, if applied tethis emote?. Alr'leMff.ft: : :, 1
:WOW. AOSNOIf-,.1-I•uses and &Win registered Joel/roan( servatlons of the N.able aid Leattied Lord on the Wool- in Scotland worked welt, looked well, And, if *Wed
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of bring Employed and Patronized by sense of the now felt himself bound to state in 'his vindication, thi well upon such food: • With respect to the revel--
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Dist Families in the Kingdom.. !grounds on which he would have called upon the House tion of poaching, he conceived, thatto make game pro- 1
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to convict a person of stealing game when elect
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ' tlieCatholic diiabilities had been repeatedly proposed to it should be made property. The whole Bill was ted- - i
the H(,nie,and as repeatedly rejected,under the influence gatory as to the prevention of crime, and as it would be
' ROUSE OF LOEOS. Moses so. of the Noble .nd Learned Lord. Nay, they had not only imprullent and unwise to venture on aft experiment of .
Lord MELVlLLgpresented a Petition from Ministers of the been rejected, but although most constitutional in their that ao. t, he would oppo,se its second reading.
Mach of dcottand,aeainst any alteration in the Corn Laws, shape and wise in their provisions, they had been treated The Earl of ROSEI3ERY had never felt greater
• . NAVIGATION LAWS. with contempt under that influence. He hoped that the satisfaction than he now did in voting for the .*cad
Noble and Learned Lord would hot one day have to te- • • ding of the Bill, as any *hinge in the Game Laws
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY in presenting a - •
I/cities from the Shipowners of
Sunderland for an al- gist his triumph. What could 'be safer, what could be must be an improvement-WI-the ate of those Laws.— ,
more proper,' What could be snore caostitutional, The Noble Earl then took n general view of I.l„rww-
teration in the Navigation Laws, remarked on the great than, to tell Pailiament, " You see the state of ciples and details of the Measure; adverted ao thew change which had been made a year ago in the pm- Ireland; you see her deep agitation and the dangers which it was intended to remove, in order to show its t.
ciple of those laws, as well as in our principles of mute which it produces; we have proposed remedies, necessity,
and foreign policy, and hoped that the system of es- and called upon their Lordship: not ta.sup-
• fl which you leave sejected with scorn, telt cis now,
periments would not be carried too far. He also hoped or consider what remedy you have to proposer-:- port a system equally odious, impolitic, and unjust.
Ths Earl of FALMOUTH explained.
that the tame was not far distant when it toeld he (Hear, hear I)—When, time after time, propositions had The Earl of HARDWICKE supported the principle
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known who was at the head of his Majesty's Govern- been brought lot ward and rejetted, and the state-of the of the Bill, and thought that any objections to its details A
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await; and on what principle it was to proceed; for count: y grew worse under that system of lawS which might be removed to a Committee. . p
there now existed a. schism which ought to he remedied: the Noble and Learned Lord thought to be perfect (or
He should advise the Petitioivers to) oak with patience else he Would consent to alter it), and the fruits of which The Marquis of SALISBURY wOuTd not Oppose the
sale of game antler certain regulations, but could not
till a cominiree-abould be granted in another place, or were every day revealing themselves, was the Noble
some sneasute proposed on the subject in which theyapprove of the other parts of the 811, which Was gene-
Lard to be Allowed to say that nothing hid arisen rally inapplicable to the resent.p state.4.things. It
were so deeply intetestecL. It was lamentable that afterl
during the year to render a change necessary ? If the
the catastrophe which they all sincerely regretted, other Noble and Learned Earl .believed that no danger to would be impossible, for instance, under its roe. sion, to
convict a poacher unless caught in the fact, or even to .
individuals belonging to the Government should not be Church, State, and the prosperity of the Empire, had inflict punishment for tree saes. -The Bill proposeaPto i IL',
able to be at th it. posts. He hoped that the illnesses of not manifested itself since last summer, he believed that A' Ir.
• the Secietary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Pre- which every man of a reflecting mind knew, not to be repeal all laws, and Substituted nothing effective in-
stead. He wished the Bill to be divi,ted, and the pert A
silent of the Board of Trade would not be of long the fact. And, if he was prepared to say that it was
• duration, and that a Government would soon be formed, the duty of the House not to take the Catholic Claims by itim
regarding the sale of game to be brought forward
• the nature and Friociples of which would become intel- into consideration, that could only be ascribed to the The Earl of ROSEBERY explained.
- ligible ; and bumble as were his abilities, if something
Lard REDESDALE contended, that the Noble
Learned East's ignorance of circumstances known of
was not soon done or determined respecting his Ma-
Atinhow of the Bill • did net understand the probable
every one else, and which displayed those elemeots of
- jetty's Government, he should think it hiss:Huy to pot
distinct questions.—Laid oh the table. confusion which threatened to clisaohre snelmyin the elibets of his own Measure, and that the rights which
country. But it seemed, accordibg id*, Noble end it eluded lb create Would Rive full employment to the