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London, England, 1827-02-10 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, F TT 9
Lords GRAMTLEY and AUCKLAND took the oaths and

their ream
lkdr. F. Wu.strt and ot►er., from the Commrus, brought op

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some Private lsiils, whick were read a first time.
Lord TEYNH AM moved for certain Returns relative to the
Corn Laws, to the production of which he understood the Noble
Earl at the head of hi. Majesty's Treasury would not object.—
Ordered.
The Earl of LA U DER DA LE moved for Returns of the Price
of Wheat in the London Markets, from the lit of Jan. 1824,t0 the
present time.—Ordered.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the Order for the
call of the House which stood for that night, be discharged, and be
fixed for Wednesday next.—Ordered.
The Noble and Learned East then said, that a, the Court of
Chancery would not sit neat week, with their Lordships' permit.
sinn he should go onwith the causes before that Horse on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday neat, and the following Monday.
The Earl of SHAF fESBURY presented a Perition from Hamp-
ton, for s revision of the Corn Laws.—Laid on the table.
Viscount MELVILLE presented a Petition from the Chamber
of Commerce of Edinburgh, praying for an alteration of the Corn
Laws. The Petition, as usual, was signed by only one individual,
and that individual had died since he had subscrihed his name. He
wished to know whether under those circumstances the Petition
could be received, but hoped it could, as it bore the seal of the

Corporation. -
The Earl of LAUDERDALE considered the seal of the Cor•
poration sufficient authority to enable the house to receive the Pe-
tition.—Laid on the table.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a Petition from the
individuals composing the Guild and Corporation of Dundee, for
an alteration in the Corn Laws, and the establishment of such a
system as would make grain cheaper in this country.—Laid on the
table.
The same Nona Mattoon then presented Petitii w for the
Mitigation and Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies, frost Cob-
ham and its vicinity, and from several places in the county of Os.
ford.—Laid on the table.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented Petitions stalest any
alteration in the Corn Laws, from the Landholders of the Dundee
District, in For farsltire, the Districts of Brecon and Arbroath, the
Montrose Corn Market, and from Sherbotne, is Yorkshire.—Laid

on the table.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented Petitions for a revision
of the Corn Laws, from Old and New Lanark, and from the Ma•
gistrates and Council of the Royal Burgh of Arbroath.—Laid on
the table.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that be had a number of
Petitions to present relative to the state of his Majesty's Catholic
subjects in Ireland. It was not material when those should be
brought forward, but it might be convenient that be should state
that as there was to be a call of the House on Wednesday next, on
that day be should present the General Petition of the Roman Ca-
tholics of Iteland, and also one from the Catholic Bishops with
which he bad been entrusted. It was not his intention to go into
the general question on Wednesday, but he should state the course
which he thought it would be most expedient for the House to
take with respect to the discussion of the Catholic Claims.—Adj.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Several new Members took the usual oaths and their seats.
Mr. H A RE said, he held in his hand a Yeti ion, signed
by five hundred of the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of
the Town of Listowel, in the County of Kerry. It was
not his intention at present to go at any length into that
subject of the Petition ; but he should fail in the ditty
he owed to his country, and to his constituents, if he
did not take the earliest oppoitunity of stating benerally
what h s sentiments were on this great question. Hav-
ing frequently witnessed the and heart•burnings
in private life, as well as the animosity in public life,
produced by the present state of the laws affecting
Roman Catholics, he felt convinced that nothing but a
complete removal of them could afford airy well.
grounded hope- for the establishment of permanent
tranquillity. Nothing could remove the existing evils
of It eland but a full and complete emancipation of their
fellow subjects from all those penal statutes which shut
them out from the blessings of the Constitution. Much
had b;:eti said about securities. For his past he felt that
the measure itself would carry its own securities with
it, fot it would be the means of laying the foundation
of that tranquillity, without which it was impossible
that national industry and prosrei ity could advance—