Star.
London, England, 1828-03-26 00:00:00

MESSAGE /ROM TNt COMMONS.

Sir Janes Games's, Mr. Benue, Mr. Guam, and other Hems
ben, btought up the Bristol Improvement Bill, and other primate
Bills which were severally lead a first time.
Tie Annual Duties Bill, and the Annual Indemnity Bill were
severally read a third time and passed.
The Manchester and Liverpool Railway Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The other private Bills before the House were forwarded in
their respective stages.
Lord HOLLA N Wised many Petitions to present from Proteas
tent Dissenters, and other friends of is:igloos litwrty, fur the lie.
peal of the Test and Corporation Acts. The former class were
well aware that they were not the persons aimed at by these laws,
but they were not on this account the kss, but rather the inure men.
sible bow deeply they were in fact affected by them. Some of the
Petitions were from conscientious members of the Church of Eng.
land, who declared themselves to be as much aggriesird by the
present state of the law as the Dissenters, although for a differeni
reason. They felt that they had a right to complain so long as the
law requited and enforced the profanation of one of the most acre
rites of their The Petitions presented by the Noble Lori.
were from tbe Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of Nret:ligham; the
l'rotestant Dissenters of Ozendelf street Chapel, Haymarket; of '
Mosley-sttect Chapel,
.Matichester ; of the Itorough of Tewite:.
'
bury - of Middle place, Lower road, Deptford ; of Surr.lane,
Leicestvr ; .of Castle Carry, Sumersetthire; and of Burion-upori.
Trent.

Lord CA WDOR presented a similar Petition from the Pro-
testant Dissenters of two Parishes iu Wars.

Lord MELVILLE presented from the Lord
Provost and Corporation of the City of Edinburgh; and from twb
of the Incorporated Trades of that City.
The Marquis of SALISiIURY moved to discharge the Order
for the Committe nn the Sale of Game bill, which swim.' fur Thurs.
day nest, on account of the magnitude -of the business which was
bird for that night, and that their Lordships be et:gummed ou
Monday. the Slat in-t.—Ordered.

The Marquio of LA NSI3O W N bad a Petition to present, signed
by a considerable number of the opulent Itilighitants of C-Icuttao
They prayed fur an alteration of the Law ot Heal and Personal
Psoperty in India. He was not qualified to offer an opiiima upon
the subject, but be understood that a measure was likely to be sub-
mitted so the Legislature which b.d been framed by a GllalteMaa
of consideroble legal attainments. The Petitioners did mint wish
shot the law of India should be assimilated to that of Great Bri-
toil'. The Peri:ion was, upon the request ot the Noble Alarquis,
then read at length.
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The Duke of RICHMOND had a Petition to present from a
considerable body of Wool-growers, praying for Legislative pro-
tection. In the year 1825, the duty on the imFortatinit of Foreign
Wool was considerably reduced, and as a set off, freedom of ex.
pupation was granted to British Wool. Of the adequacy of this
set off the House might judge, when he stated as a tact, resting
upon the authority of efficient Returns now on the table, that fur
every pound of British Wool exported since the time he had men-
tioned, fifty five pounds of Foreign Wool had been imported. This
class of Agriculturists had the same claim to the protection of the
Legislature as every other clan who were the producers of staple
articles. He did nut know whether he could regularly refer to Rs
but Mr. Canning, in introducing he Corn Laws in another place,
bed stated it to be his intention to give the home grower of corn a
protection by duty to the extent of thirty three per cent. But the
woolgrowers were left entirely without protection. In this state
*of things the persons they employed were reduced to so low a soak
of wages as to become chargeable upon the Poor Rates. It was
idle to talk of a system of free trade so long as the charges upon all
kinds of produce in England were upon their present scale. The
Noble Rohe then presented a Petitiou from the Owners and Oc-
copiers of the South Down Farms, against the Importation of
Foreign Wool.
The above Petitions were severally ordered to neon the table.
RUIIBIA AND TUISKEY.

Earl GREY, seeing the Noble Earl the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs in his place, would, with the
permission of the House, put a question to him upon
the present state of the Foreign Relations of the coon•
try. He had hitherto abstained front saying a word
upon this subject, not because he was without a deep
feeling of anxiety, but because he was apprehensi•ebf
adding to the difficulties by which his Majesty's Goa
veinntent was surrounded—difficulties which involve!

the sisk of a general war, whit he was not by any
means prepared to say that the utmost possible exertion
of caution and prudence would suffice to avert such a
calamity. Such had been the feelings which had ct.n.
strained him to silence. He was most desirous chat
Ministers should be left full time to deliber.te. and so
choose the wisest course in order to extricate the coun-
try from its appalling difficulties, subject as 'key would
be to future responsibility, and to an increa,ed resph-
sibility in proportion as they had been left to deli.
berate undisturbed. He should have Persevered in
this course, had not a statement gone forth, which
put ported to proceed from the highest authority. and
which was of so much importance that no ambiguity
' should be suffered to rest upon it. There might be
some misapprehension or some inaccuracy in the rq on,
but be would read the words to which he alluded. and
in a case where delusive hopes might week so much
public and private mischief. be trusted the Noble Earl
would not hesitate to say whether these words conveyed
an accurate description of the existing state of our
foreign relations. They were as follows: " That no
change had taken place in the state of the relations of
this country with Russia or Turkey." That no declara-
tion of war had actually reached his Majesty's Govet n-
meat he readily believed, but it was plasm that without
such a declaration there -might be trebange, evidenily
leading to a result not less material than war. If
changes bad taken
place in the language of Russia, if
large bodies of troops bad been drawn together—if an
intimation bad been made on the pan of Russia to his
Majesty's Ministers, that she was determined to prom('