House Of Lords, Monday, F...
The Times, 1824-02-10T00:00:00

PARLIAMIV\TARY INTELLTGEIVCD. The Earl of SflAFTESBURY'presented his Milajesty's answer to the address voted on Tnesday last, in which his Ilajesty thanked their lordships for their loyal and patriotic address. The answver was laid on the table, and ordered to be eitered on the journals. TheBishops of LIMXERICK and RAPErOE took the oaths and their seats. HEARING OF APPEALS. In pursuance of an order made last sesCion, for calling over the house to fix by ballot the attendance of three peers du ring the hear- ing of aypeals, an unusual number of their lordshiips were in attend- ance. The call began before four o'clock, and it appeared that there |were iany absentees. some of whomi were excused on account of age and othercircumstances A conversation took place between the Loan CHTANCELLO. afnd Lord HOLLAND, relative to enf'orcins the attendance of the peers who were absent, in the course of whilch the latter observed, that many noble lords were not aware of the present proceeding, or that the call would be begun at so early an hour. It was now concluded half an hour before thie usual time of commnencing public business, and many noble lords might vet enter the house. On the motion of the Eatl of LIVERPO OL, it was ordered that the blallot for the peers who are to attend during the hearing of ap- peals should conimence to-marrow at four o'clock. In'answer to a question from Lord HOLLAND, the LoRa CVrAV- cEzLaOR stated that he had received his rajesty's commission, under the Royal sign manual, authorizing Lord GuFFoaD to sit as Deputy Speaker. SOUTH AMERICA. Thc Itarquis cf LANSDOWN, before the house rose, wished to say afew w ordsona subject to whichtheirlordships' attention had been drawn someulays ago by hisM lajesty'sspeech-he meant that rart ofthe speech whlihl alludes to the independent provinces of South Ameri- ca.It was by no means his wish torun any race with his3iMajesty's lni- risters otl this question; and ifitappeared to be their intention to take that step which goo:l policy seemed to require-namelv, the re- cognition oftimeprovinces whicl have separated themselves from Spain-he would be found most anxious to afford every facility for that purpose; but being imprssed w ith time great importance of the independence of these provinces to the commercial interests of this councry,he must deprecate any thinglike unnecessarv delay.Alith the view, however, which he had taken of this question,he could not now venture to make any motion for promoting the important object to wviich he had referred; but calculating on what he had heard-not so mnrch in their lordships' house as elsewhere-tbat a communica- tion had been made to the Government of Spain, an answer to which I Might in a short time be expected, and also that some communica- tion would probably soon be received from the consuls who hat! been sent out from this country to South America, he thought it could not be long before he should feel hinself at liberty to cubmit some propos:tior. to theirlordships on the subject, if his Alajesty's Uinis. ters didi not. as he wished should be the case, briiig forward sorme measure themselves. He was well aware that in the actual state of afflairs suilicient reasons might exist for preventing his Mlajesty's linisters fromt coming to an immediate decision on this question, and was therefore desirous of aioiding anv thing like precipitation. He would accordingly now give notice, that on some day in the m?onth of March he would, if not anticipated by his Mlajesty's Ali- isters in their lordships', or in the other house of Parliament, move a humble address to his Alaiesty, praying him to take such inea- sures as may be necessary for the recognition ot the Provinces of South America which have separated themselves from Jpain. IRISH TRADE. The Marquis of LANSDOWIN stated, that he wished to move for copies of tWO papers, tie first of whieh wvas calculated to show the state of thie inmercourac betweeii this country and Ireland with rcspecr to the cotton trade, and the increased intercourse, notwith- standing the distress whichi had prevailed in Ireland. He meanit to move for an account of the conton goods imported into, and export- edt from, Ireland, between the 11th ofJuly.1822,and 22d ofFebruiary, 1823. The other paper would exhibit the extraordinary effect which liad been produced by the reduction of the duty on spirits, and to i which he wished to call the attention of all those who doubted the possibility of improving the revenue by taking off taxes. The ac- count lhe mneant to move for was, for the quantity ofspiritswhich had paid duty between the 10th ot October,1822,and thel I th of Februarv. 1823; arid he was informed that it would be found that the sum paid in the last quarter of the account, at only two shillings per gallon, exceeded that which had been paid during the same quarter of the preceding year, wvhen thie duty was five shillings. Thus the effect of taking off three shillings per gallon of duty on spirits had been not only to mncrease the consumption, but to produce an augmentation of the revenue. The noble marquis concluded by moving for the ac- counts he had described, whicb were ordered.-Adjoumred. EhouSE OF LORDS. Mmn-nAv Fru- Q.