Star.
London, England, 1819-03-04 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH S.

The Lord Cuter Baaosr officiated again as Speaker this day,
acrd no judiciat business was transacted. •
The Duke of Newcasmi took the oaths and his seat.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY reported the names of the
Lords choSen as Commissioners on the part of the House to
compose the tribunal for the trial of offences committed in the
East Indies, pursuant to the Act of the 24thof his Majesty.
An Officer from the Ecclesiastical Court presented at the Bar
a copy of the proceedings, before the Faculty of Peculiars and
the Court of Delegates, relative to the divorce case of " Donne
v. Donne;' which was laid upon the table.
The Bishop of SALISBURY presented $ Petition from the
City of New Sarum, and Lord KENYON one from the town
of Wrexham, in Denbighshire, against the revival of the Insol-
vent Debtors' Act.—Ordered tale on the table.
The further consideration of Trelawney's Divorce Bill was
postponed until Monday se'rmight.
Lord KENYON presented Bill to amend and extend cer-
tain provisions of the Act of ttse 44d of the King, for tke better
preservation of the health and morals of Children employed
Cotton Manufactories. Hls Lordship observed, his intention,
in the present instance, was to propose that, the Bill should be
printed and Ue on the table for ulterior consideration, when the
Lords' Committee on the subject should make their report.—
The Bill was then read the first time, and ordered to be printed
as moved by his Lordship.—Adjourned till tounorrow.

110 USE OF COMMONS.
Mr. Hurameos, from, the Bank of England; presented an
Account of all Bank Notes and Bank Post Bills issued each day
from the 25th January to the Ist Mirth, 1819.-.-Ordered to lie
on the table and to be printed. '
Sir J. COFFIN presented a Petition from the inhabitants of
several parishes in the County of Monmouth, praying that no
alteration might be made in the Duty on Coals carried coast-
wise.—Read, ordered to lie on the table and to be printed..
On the motion of Mr. P. MOORE. the several Petitions pre-
sented to the House, relative to the Poor Laws, were ordered
to. be referred to the Committees on that subject.
The order for referring to a Committee the Petition of D.
E. Dalo, F.st . complaining of an undue Election for the County
c' Gal A•ay, presented on the 2d February, was Ordered to be
di.chargedd the time allowed for entering into the recognizance,
having expired.
Sir W. GUISE presented a Petition from thd Agriculturalists
or Gloucestershire, praying that some higher duties niight be
Lid on the importation of Foreign Corn.—Re .id, and ordered to
lie on the table.

Colonel PALMER presented a Petition from. certain Inha-
bitants of Bath, praying that the Insolvent Debtors' Act might
nut be continued.—Read, and ordered to lie on the table.
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Mr. TOMS presented the Report of the Committee of the
Penitentiary at Millbank, pursuaitt to the Act 56, Gco. lII.
Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed.
Mr. BR AND presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of
the town and neighbourhood of Hitehen, in the county of Hert-
ford, praying for a revision of the Criminal Law.—Read, and
orderod to lie on the table.