Star.
London, England, 1827-03-08 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, /deem 7.
Petitions against Catholic Errandpation were presented by the
Archbishop of Cairnissonr. from the' Protestant inhabitants of
Ardagh; by Lord Roux, from a parish to Devon; by the Bishop
of Lamson, from a parish in Oxford; by the Bishop of Emma,
'from Newton Ferris, in Devonshire ; and by Lord Eastuati, from
Milton, Kent.
Petitions in favour of Catholic Emancipation were presented by
tits Earl of Kimonos from vations pari.hes in Cork and Tipperary;
and by Earl Ftnwituan, from a parish in the county of Wexford.
Lord KING had a Petition to present to their Lord-
ships, from a well-known individual, and when he men-
tioned his name to be Mr. Cobbett,•he was quite sure
their Lordships would wish to have it read through.—
The prayer of the Petition was, that their Lordships
would take measures to place the Roman Catholic sub-
jects of his Majesty on the same footing with respect
to political and civil rights as their Pretest 4nt fel-
countrymen. The Petition prayed also for
mother object, and he wished the Minister for
Ecclesiastical Affairs had been present when he stated it.
That object was, that their Lordships might cause the
indigent poor to be maintained in the same way as they
sired formerly to be maintained by the Catholic Esta-
blished Church—namely, out of the tithes and other
revenues of the Church, and merely cause the odious
name of pauper to be as unknown as it was to their
Catholic progenitr rs. He had always understood it to
be the law, that part of the property of the Church
should be appropriated to the maintenance of the poor;
but as th,te were no Poor Laws in Ireland, the Clergy
of that country did not at present contribute one far.
thing to the poor, While the English Clergy paid their
portion in Pool's Rates.

'ward to declare their sentiments against this new mea•'
sure, and denied jo►fise and protection. He had that
day received a letter free a Serf:let who occupied a
'itheat quaotity, of land, arki *ho iitated, that in hls dis-
trict corn could not be grown at a lower price than 70a
Lord ICING, having been appealed to by the Noble
Earl to say whether the people from whom he present-
ed petitVons against the present Corn Laws would be
satisfied, must say that he trusted they would not.
The Noble Earl had talked of justice and protection.
He must say, that he never beard of such a strange alli-
ance on this subject before, he should rather call it injus-
tice inci protection. Their Lordships had just now heard
a specimen et the rraumableness of landlords; they had
lust heard the desire of the tender Lord, founded upon
the opinion of a tender Baronet, for a tender law of
70s. He would ask the Noble Lord what was the use
of agriculture—was it not that the people might have
corn? But the effect of such a law would be to pie-
vent the people gettiag it.
Earl STANHOPE explained. He observed, that
it wculd be very herd to make people sell corn for tiOs.
when it cost them 70s.

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Lord SUFFIELD presented a Petition frost the occupiers of
land in a place in Norfolk, praying for protection.
Lord ElNG.presented a Petition from tie Burgh of Form,
and front the Corporation of Tailors In Glasgow, praying 'for an
altos-Atka la the Caw Laws.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COhllllOl4lS.
The SCSAIrtI took the Chair at four o'clock, and some routine
business was disposed of, which had no public interest. The prin-
cipal orders of the day were disposed of.
Mr. MAURICE FITZGERALD gave notice of a motion for
the let of May next, that the House should take Into considers•
ciao the propriety of realizing the policy upon which the Ualod
between Great Britain and Ireland waa eff.cted.
The House then adjourned.

THE EVENING ►`STAR.