The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS—THURSDAY.
The business consisted almost entirely of the presentation
of petitions, and discussion on some of them.
The vagrants' removal bill went through committee.
The Earl of WARWICK presented two hundred and three
petitions from Warwickshire, against any alteration in the
corn laws. He supported the petitions, and denounced the
agitation on the subject as mischievous, and calculated to
set the farmers against their landlords.
The Duke of RICHMOND observed, that he was delighted
to find that the farmers of Warwickshire were doing their
duty. He hoped their petitions would operate as a stimulus
to the farmers throughout the country, and that farmers
would not allow themselves to be deluded by a parcel of agi-
tators, who were going about the country disseminating doc-
trines that would be ruinous to the farmers, and to the la=
bourers that obtained a living under .hem. The noble duke
also presented petitions on the subject,
Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Dukes of SUTHERLAND and
RICHMOND, and the Earl of ABERDEEN, presented many
petitions respecting the disturbed state of the Church of
Scotland—a state of disturbance caused by the collision that
has taken place between the civil and ecclesiastical authori-
ties. His lordship remarked, that he knew Lord Melbourne
was much pressed from many quarters to bring forward a
measure upon the subject, and that the government were
much blamed for the delay which had taken place. He was
more afraid of hesitation than of delay. He earnestly called
upon the noble viscount to consider the motion most calmly
—to deliberate maturely upon the nature of the measure he
might bring forward. The government never had a more dif-
ficult subject under consideration, or one deserving and de-
manding more calm deliberation. Above all, it required ho-
nesty of purpose. The measure proposed might not be a
wise one ; but he did trust that it would be an honest one.
From what he saw passing upon the subject, he was perfectly
aware of the immense difficulty of the question, and he most
earnestly called upon the government not to bring in any
bill until it was fully and deliberately considered, and care-
fully prepared.
The Earl of GALLOWAY afterwards presented a petition on
the same subject, from a parish in Scotland, and at the re-
quest of Lord Melbourne read its prayer, which was to the
following effect :—" That their lordships would take mea-
sures for promoting an equitable adjustment of all civil rights,
without encroaching on the principle of non-intrusion, or on
the entire independence of the church in all spiritual mat-
ters." The noble earl then remarked that he perfectly and
conscientiously concurred in this prayer, anxious as he was
for the welfare of the church.
Lord TEYNH AM presented a petition from Newport, signed
by 1500 out of 6000 inhabitants, in favour of Frost, Williams,
and Jones.
Lord MELBOURNE presented a petition, signed by 8000
rate-payers in London, for a reform in the Corporation of
London, on the same principle as the reforms that had already
been effected in all the other corporations in this country.