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HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
Masses of petitions were presented against any alteration
of the corn laws : for instance, 120 by the Duke of BUCK-
INGHAM, and 140 by the Duke Of RICHMOND.
The Earl of CLARENDON presented one from Liverpool,
in favour of a revision of the corn laws, signed by persons
of all parties, and representing capital to the amount of
£30,000,000.
It gave rise to a short but interesting conversation, in
which the Duke of RICHMOND and LordASHBURTON took
part.
Lord MELBOURNE, in answer to a question by Lord ABER-
DEEN, as to the course to be pursued by government regard-
ing the intrusion question, returned an anstver similar to that
which had been previously given in the Commons by Lord
J. Russell, namely, that the government is not prepared to
come to any decision as to what steps it may be advisable to
adopt.
The Bishop of EXETER deferred, till Tuesday, his motion
regarding an address to her Majesty, not to give the royal
assent to the Canada clergy reserves bill.
Their lordships afterwards adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—MoNmor.
Mr. Blissett took the oaths and his seat for Helstone.
Immense numbers of petitions against and for the altera-
tion of the corn laws were presented.
Mr. HEATHCOTE gave notice, that on the motion of Mr.
Villiers, and Mr. Pryme's amendment thereupon (regarding
the corn laws), being put, he should move that both be re-
jected.
Mr. HUME asked the hon. member for Pembroke whether
he was prepared to state the words of his motion, of which
he had given notice with respect to China ?
Sir J. GRAHAM observed that he had only received the
papers that morning, and he understood that it was the in-
tention of the noble lord to submit some further papers ;
therefore it would be impassible for him to state precisely
what the terms of his motion would be, until he knew the
whole case that was to he made by the government ; and, in
answer to further inquiry, he added that it was impossible
he could state the substance of his motion until he had made
up his mind upon the whole case produced by the govern-
ment.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice, that on Thursday se'nnight
he would move for leave to bring in two bills for continuing
and amending the laws relating to the poor. His lordship
added, in answer to an inquiry from Mr. Miles, whether
there would be any remedies for cases of seduction and
breaches of promises to marry, that the remedial measures
would be limited to the objects he had described.
Mr. MILES gave notice that he would introduce a bill on
the subject.
Sir R. PEEL observe..l that it was stated on a former occa-
sion, that about the middle of this month the Government
would be prepared to notify what course it would adopt to-
wards the settlement of the existing differences between the
church of Scotland and the courts of law in that country. He
trusted the noble lord was now prepared to state whether the
mind of the Government had yet been made up upon the
matter, and whether any measure upon the subject would be
proposed.
Lord J. RUSSELL answered, that, anxious as the Govern-
ment had been to bring forward a measure that would tend to
allay the existing disputes between the church and the courts
of law, it was not their intention to propose any measure be-
fore the meeting of the General Assembly of Scotland. The
Government was inclined to the opinion that some legislation
would be requisite, but until after the meeting of the Gene-
ral Assembly there would be no decision in the matter on the
part of the Government.
Mr. GOULBURN asked whether it was intended to bring in
any measure for continuing the composition of the assessed
taxes.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered that it
was intended to bring in a bill to continue the assessed taxes
composition for another year.
Lord J. RUSSELL (in answer to inquiry) said that he in-
tended to move that the time for the attendance of Mr. Sheriff
Evans be enlarged till after Easter.
Mr. PAKINGTON asked what was the opinion of the ivli-
nistry upon the advice of the crown lawyers as to the power
of the Legislature of Upper Canada to pass the Clergy Re-
serves Bill—could they, under the Canadian Constitution
Act, alter the appropriation of those reserves, and apply them
to other than Protestant purposes ?
Lord J. RUSSELL answered, that no doubt had ever been
entertained by former Colonial Secretaries that such a mea-
sure could be adopted.
In arranging the business for the evening,
Lord J. RUSSELL deferred till Tuesday the further consi-
deration of the sergeant-at-arms' evidence, regarding actions
commenced against officers of the house by Mr. Howard
(Stockdale attorney), and intimated that he should move it
before anything else.
Several of the orders of the day, the committee on the
Colonial passengers bill, on the judges and officers (Admi-
ralty) salaries, &c., were then gone through, and reports or-
dered to be received on Tuesday.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved an address (similar to that which
was adopted in the House of Lords) on her Majesty's regard-

ing Lora Seaton.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (in committee on
the public works, Ireland, acts) moved a grant of 1:1,200,000.
in exchequer bills, to be advanced, on the usual securities,
for the building of workhouses, and for the encouragement
of fisheries, and of industry generally, in Ireland.
The resolution, after much desultory conversation, was

agreed to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (in committee on
the excise acts) moved a resolution respecting the regulations
of the glass and tobacco duties.
The county -constabulary bill, after extended discussion,
and much opposition, was read the second time.
Other orders of the day were forwarded a stage ; (the se-
cond reading of the sale of beer bill, however, was again de-
ferred). The house then adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
There were again many petitions presented on the subject
of the corn-laws, and which gave rise to much interesting
conversation.
Lord MELBOURNE presented a petition from the General
Assembly, Scotland, representing the state of the church in
that country, in consequence of recent legal decisions, and
urging the necessity of legislation on the subject, in order to
secure the interests of that church.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that legislation was so impera-
tively recfuired, in order to restore peace to the church of
Scotland, that if the Government did not, he would, after
Easter, bring forward some measure with the view of effect-
ing such object.
Lord DUNCANNOY moved for papers illustrative of the
state of the " Clergy Reserves," Canada, from 1819 to 1829,
&c.
The Bishop of EXETER said he was rejoiced that the
government at last appeared to be alive to the importance of
this subject ; and he was only astonished that information
had not before been called for, especially after the despatch
from Mr. P. Thomson, recently presented to parliament,
accompanying the Clergy Reserves Bill. That gentleman in
his despatch, and after having fixed himself in Upper Ca-
nada for about a month only, declared that no one who had
not been upon the spot, and witnessed the working of the
question, could form an opinion; and yet that said Mr. P.
Thomson had ventured to pronounce most decidedly upon
the whole question ! His lordship declared that he was at
a loss to know by what means he could have arrived at his
conclusion, and how he could have felt at liberty to speak so
positively. The Bishop of Exeter afterwards moved for
such part of a despatch from Sir Peregrine Maitland to Mr.
Huskisson, of the 15th of December, 1827, as relates to the
clergy reserves in Canada ; and also, copy of a despatch to
Lord Bathurst, referred to in the above-mentioned despatch,
containing the opinions of the legal advisers of the crown in
Canada on the right of the clergy of the Church of England
in that province to the said reserves.
Agreed to, with the exception of the opinions of the law
officers.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUESDAY.
The order for the call of the house, it was understood, was
discharged.
Many corn law and other petitions were presented, one of
which prayed " for the repeal of the corn laws and all other
taxes."

Mr. GOULBURN stated, that on the 9th April lie would
move for copies of any communications that may have taken
place between the government and the East India Company.
as to the arrangements for paying the army in India.
Mr. HAWES asked whether the negociation with Naples,
relating to the trade in sulphur, had been broken off unex-
pectedly, and without the chance of a favourable result.
Mr. LABOUCHERE answered that despatches had recently
been received by the Secretary of State for the Foreign De-
partment, and that it was not true that that negociation had
been broken off.
Mr. HUME asked when the returns respecting the com-
mercial treaty with Austria might be expected, as they had
been moved for and ordered some time ago ?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that he was not able to answer the
question without first consulting the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Hu rtrE gave notice that he should on Wednesday make
a motion on this subject, as the course now adopted was re-
ally frightful.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL asked the hon. member for Brid-
port, if he could inform the house whether it was the inten-
tion of the bon. member for Wolverhampton (Mr. Villiers)
to bring forward his motion on the subject of the corn laws,
or not ?
Mr. WARDURTOIV answered that the hon. member for
`Wolverhampton regretted exceedingly that,
.owing to indis-
position, he had peen prevented from bringing forward the
motion that night, but it was his intention certainly to bring
it forward on Wednesday night.
Lord SANDON withdrew a notice of motion with respect
to China, upon the assurance of tier Majesty's ministers that
a committee should be appointed on the subject. A notice
for the nomination of a committee had been standing on the
paper from day to day for some time, and yet the committee
was not named. He wished, therefore, to know when thee
government intended to name that committee?
SirJ. HOBHOUSE Said he understood that the committee
was to be appointed this day ; but he begged to remind the
noble lord that the proposition did not originate with the
government, but with the hon. member for London (Mr•
Crawford).

Col. PEncEvAL entered into some explanations as to ap-
plications to the King of Hanover for the apartments held by
his Majesty in St. James's Palace.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the resumption of the
question of " privilege," arising out of what the sergeant-at-
arms stated at the bar, that his assistant and four messengers
had been served with further proceedings in the action com-
menced by Mr. Howard (Stockdale's attorney) for " tres-
pass," in having entered the said Howard's house, and crea-
ting a disturbance therein, the damages being laid at £l,OOO.
He moved that the parties " plead" to such proceedings.—
Motion eventually adopted.
Mr. PAKINGTON moved the second reading of the Sale of
Beer Bill, which led to extended discussion, it having been
moved that it be read the second time this day six months.
The result of the division thereon was—For the second read-
ing 110, against it 30—majority 80 for the second reading.—
Adjourned.

HOUSE- OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY.
The House of Lords did not meet to-day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
Lord ELIOT presented the report of the Ipswich Election
Committee, declaring that Sir T. Cochrane had been duly
elected and returned, and that 'Mr. T. Gibson had not been
duly elected.
Masses of petitions were again presented for and against
the corn laws.
Captain A'COURT inquired whether despatches had yet
been received relative to the attack on the Volage, &C., in
China ; and if so, whether there would be any objection to
produce them ?
Admiral ADAM answered that they had been received, and
that there would be no objection to present them.
The second reading of the Vaccination Bill was deferred
till Thursday, several members expressing their determina-
tion to oppose it, on the ground of its Containing objection-
able provisions.
Sir. J. GRAHAM, in answer to Mr. Hume's inquiry, said
that the terms of his motion regarding China would be to
the effect, " That, upon considering the papers relating to
the affairs of China, presented to the house, it appears that
the interruption in our commercial and friendly intercourse
with that country, and the hostilities that have since taken
place, are mainly to be attributed to the want of foresight
and precaution on the part of her Majesty's present rdvisers,
in respect to our relations with China, and especially to their
neglect in not furnishing the superintendent at Canton with
proper instructions as to the contraband traffic in opium, and

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adapted to the novel and difficult situation in which the su -
perintendent was placed."
Mr. VILLIERS (after apologising for the delay that his in-
disposition had caused) brought forward his motion on the
subject of the corn laws, and, after a long speech, moved,
" That the house resolve itself into a committee of the whole
house, to take into consideration the act of 9 George IV.,
regulating the importation of foreign grain."
Sir G. STRICKLAND seconded the motion, submitting that
it was most desirable that there should be an end to agitation
on this subject.
Mr. GROTE, Mr. D'ISRAELI, and Mr. LABOUCLIERE took
part in the debate, after whom the debate was adjourned un-
til Thursday.

ADDRESS OF THE CONSERVATIVES OF WAR-
RINGTON TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

We have much pleasure in inserting a copy of this docu-
ment, with his Majesty's reply, which will be read with in-
terest.

" TO lIIS MAJESTY THE XING OF PRUSSIA.
" May it please your Majesty,
" We, the undersigned, being subjects of her Majesty the
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, inhabitants of the town
and neighbourhood of Warrington, in the county of Lan-
caster, and members of the Protestant Association of that
place, beg most respectfully to approach your Majesty with
feelings of sincere and heartfelt gratitude for the firm and
Christian part which your Majesty has lately taken in up-
holding, within your Majesty's dominions, the sacred cause
of Protestantism.

" It is delightful to us, in common with all lovers of truth,
to see those, who, with your Majesty, have been called by
Almighty God to be the rulers of nations, exercising the
power so entrusted to them in the cause of the Lord, in up-
holding his blessed word, and in opposing the machinations
of an apostate church, which is again putting forth all her
strength to subject Christendom once more to her temporal
and spiritual bondage.
" The Christian solicitude evinced by your Majesty to
succour the persecuted inhabitants of the Ziller Valleys, the
promptitude with which your majesty acted in their behalf,
when the cry of oppression and distress entered your ma-
jesty's royal ear, and the happy homes provided for those
who were rendered outcasts and destitute for their attach-
ment to God's word, demanded from us expressions of un-
measured praise and thankfulness.
" Experiencing, as we now do, even in this protestant
country, the pressure of the fearful power of Rome, we are
the more sensible of the difficulties with which your majesty
is surrounded, and can the more fully appreciate the heroic
and Christian firmness with which your majesty has opposed
her encroachments.
" Having observed, with intense interest, the noble stand
which your majesty has made in resisting the usurpations of
the papal see, and believing that the strength, with which
such a formidable power can be effectually resisted, must
come from above, we beg leave, most respectfully, to assure
your majesty that our prayers shall be offered up to God,
that your majesty may long be spared to throw the shield of
your majestys protection around his truth and his people ;
and that your majesty may not only be a father to your ma-
jesty's faithful subjects, but a father in Israel among those
who honour and adore that name at which every name shall
bow."

THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S ANSWER.
" I have received, through my Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, the address forwarded to me by the Protestant Associa-
tion of Warrington, expressing their thanks for my protection
of the evangelical faith against the arrogance of those who,
disregarding the laws and constitution, endeavour to disturb
established peace and Christian unity.
"The praiseworthy sentiments and wishes expressed in
that address cannot but be in the highest degree acceptable
to me, as they can be suggested only by a sense of justice,
and have their origin in genuine Christian feeling.
"To the Protestant Association I hereby present my
thanks and best wishes. It is to be hoped that the minds of
all will soon be restored to that peaceful state, which, not-
withstanding a difference of opinion on certain subjects,
amongst the professors of different modes of faith, may be
looked for in all those who follow the precepts of the gospel
as the fruit of Christian love.
(Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM.
" Berlin, March 12, 1840.
" To the Protestant Association of Warrington,
in the county of Lancaster, England."