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t;;tliY PROCEEDINGS

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HOUSE OF,LORDS, FEBRUARY 9.
VOA a Mind In/ heard' inn-thi Scotch Appeal, Gordon su Min-
ton ; alter which the House adjourned to Monday.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
tr.= "The &mem took the Chair 'Achim a quarter to four, and
the House was engaged for nearly an bane with Petition; and
' • Private Bills.
= The Sheriffs of the Qty of London^ appeared. it tie For of
the House, and Mr. Sheriff Wiltimus being asked by the
Sraaxxa hathe held in his hand? replied, " A Petition from
the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City
of London, which we are ordered to present to this House."
After the Sheriffs retired, the Petition was read. him'
".3`. that leave be giVen !Avg in a BIN for Amending • the
friars Bridge Act..
•. Mr. WYNN presented a Petition for Lighting with Gas
Waterloo Bridge.
Another of a like niture was presented from Whitechapel.—
a Both Petitions were ordered to lie on the table.
• Mr. CURTEIS presented two Petitions from the Farmers
, of the County of Susan; complaining of the depressed state of
• the prices of Agricultural produce, and praying the House to in-
stitute an inquiry into the same.—Ordered to lie on tie table.
Mr. MARRYATT presented a „redden 'from tie Men-
• chants, Ship-owners, and Magistrates, of the Town of Mimed-
• chi, in the Province of New Brunswick, in North Anserkisti
The Honourable. Member stated, that in consequence of a SW.
port' made last Session ,by a. Select Colnmittee .of the other
House of Parliament on the subject of the Shipping and Timber
Trade, the Petitioners were apprehensive that it emirs contem-
plation of Parliament to make in the laws regulating the Tim-
ber Trade, some alterations which might prove injurious not
only to themselves, but to• this country also. They therefore
prayed that no legislative enactment might be made until they
had an opportunity of being lint heard at the Bar of that Ho-
nourable House. The Honourable Member referred •to some
calculations which he had made• on paper, and pressed at some
length the arguments used ti the the Petitioners.
I. COFFIN supporteiDie PetitiOn. •
Mr. .1. P. GRANT defended the Report of the Lords' Com-
mittee fr.,m the observationi of the Honourable Member who
presented the Petition.'
Mr. T. WILSON; presented a siiuilar Petition from the
Merchants and Ship-owners of the Town of Montreal.
Mr. RICA I? 1)0 did not think proper at present to take up
the time of the I louse, but he could not help expressing his sur-
prise at seeing 'boss; Gentlemen, from whom the Petitions pro-
ceeded, coming forward stud protesting against those doctrines
of free trade and honourible competition, which it was the ob-
ject of the Lords Committee to r-Lornmend, and which those
same Gehtlemen hid always advocated, whenever they seemed
' to have a tendency to promote their own intcretts.—Both Peti-
tionrwere laid on the table.
Mr. J. P. GRANT, on the part of Lord John Russell, post-
poned, until the 22d instant, the notice which that Noble Lord
bad given of a motion complaining of Military outrage at a
County Meeting holden at Kilmainham, County of Dublin.—
• The Honourable Member said this postponement became ne-
ces.ary, in consequence of the absence of the Right Honourable
, the Secretary for Ireland.
Mr. LAMBTON, seeing the President of the Board of
Trade in his place, wished to ask that Right Honourable Gen-
tleman a question. It was known that the Marquis of Hast-
ings had removed the restrictions on the Press in India; but
the report had been very prevalent in this country, that a Cen-
sorship had been again imposed on it, and he wished to know
from that Right Hon. Gentleman if the report was true?
Mr. ROBINSON said, he was not aware of any such orders
sent out from this country, but he believed the regulations of the
Marquis of Hastings continued in full force.
Lord G. CAVENDISH presented a Petition, which was
signed by .500 Land-occupiers, in and about Scarsdale, who oc.
cupied between them 47,000 acres of land. The Petitioners com-
plained of the reduced prices of all sorts of Agricultural produce,
and prayed the House to inquire into the causes and gram them
sell:C.—Laid on the table.
• lilt. Alderman WOOD gave notice, that on Monday he
would move for a Select Committee on the present state of
London Bridge. •
On the motion of Mr. WALLACE, it was ordered that the
House do request a Copy of the Report of the Lords' Qum!
mittee on Foreign Trade, after the usual manner.
On the motion of Sir J. NEWPORT, returns were ordered,
of the amount of all payments for Stationery, &c. made to Mr..
A. B. King, fur Palk Offices in Ireland.
On the motion of Mr. G. BENNETT, a Return was °Morel
of all the Informations filed, and Convictions had on them, ter
• Blasphemous Libels for one year.
On the motion of tie CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, it was ordered that the House, at its rising, do adjourn

until Monday.
Mr. CURTEIS gave notice that, an Wednesday, he would
move for a Return of the •Amount of all the Corn that was
Contracted for by the British Government for the use of the
Colonies for a limited period.
RESTORATION OF THE QUEEN'S NAME TO THE
LITURGY.

Sir ROBERT WILSON rose, and commenced,
by observing, that, after the proceedings of that'
Hotise in approbation of the recent conduct of
Ministers—the presentation of Petitions by a repre-
sentative of the many, and not by a delegate of cor-
porative bodies, was but a cheerless duty—(Hear).
It was a duty, however, that he should perform, in
the most formal manner, in order that the People of
England might become acquainted with the senti-
ments of their fellow-countrymen, and might be ena-
bled to judge of the way in which that House was
constituted—(Hear). In spite of the late decision of
that House, it was the duty of the People to per-
severe in addressing it by Petitions, and to try whe-
ther they could not, by repeatedly addressing it, bat-
ter down those formidable ramparts which prevented
them from having access to the Throne—(Hear,
hear). It was right, before he presented the Petition
which he held in his hand, for him to notice the ca-
lumnies which had been industriously circulated
against the Queen, and the parties whose Petition he
was then presenting. It was said that the Queen had
lavished large sums of money on the processions
which, during the last six months, had proceeded to
the Royalresidence—(Loud cheers from both sides of
the House). He was authorized by the operative
Brassfounders in the Metropolis to state, that the
capital expended in preparing the insignia, the ar-
mour, and the other decorations of their procession,
which was got up with so much taste and ingenuity,
amounted to no less a sum than £7,000; and that
the extra charges on the last day were more than
£loo—(Hear). All this sum was provided for by the
master brass-manufacturers and their workmen, each
workman subscribing '2s. for each procession, and are
master manufacturers giving them the materials out
of which the emblems, armour, &c. were manufac-
tut:ed—(Hothr). They had desired him to state, that
they should, have thonght themselves disgraced for
ever, if they liaa received money from any quarter
to get up their procession, which- they declared to
have been a spontaneous tribute of affection to their
insulted and persecuted Queen. Their loyalty, they
informed him, was not confined to her Majesty alone ;
Kbut wauivell to the Laws, to the Constitution, to the
g,,and to every member of the Royal Family,
Haring stated thus much on behalf of the Petitioners,
who assured him they would come forward in a simi-
lar manner, in case any attempt should be made to,
render any_otherincilyidual of the Royal Family the
victim of umilir hpprnssion, ht should now proceed
to say, that the Petition whichle had to,Present .was
signed by 1184 persons connected with the brass-
trade of the Metropolis. The Petitioners declared,