House Of Lords, Tuesday M...
The Times, 1824-05-19T00:00:00

PARLIAMENSTARY J.NTTE'LNI,IGE.C'E. . I. TaEMNAYSE, Mtr. CALVERT, and others, fron; the Com. mons, brought up the slave.trade consolidation bill, and the Austral. asian Company bill. TheDukeof BEAUFORT presented a petition against the United C4mpany Gas bill. The place from which it came waS not heard. The barl of WESTAIORLAND presented a petition from the overseers, churchwardens, and other inhabitants of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, azainst the silk bill. The petition was signed by a peat number of persons, and it was evident that the measure against which it was directed had excited great apprehen. sions. He therefore trusted that the noble lord would nostpone his bill till next year, when the eflect of the operation of the new lav should he known. Tne Earl ot LAUDERDALE ctrtainly should not postpone the motion for committing the bill. The noble lord was quite wrong in imagininsg that the etiect of the present measure would be known next year by the operation of the act which haul latelv pass. ed, for that act would not rome into operation until the veir 1826. As to the numbers syhicli hatt signed the petition, that was not the criterion by which their lordships should judge, but by the justice of the request. The noble and learned lord on the woolsack had, the other day, presented a petition which he state(d to be si ned by 24,000 persons. Hedidnot know whether the noble lord had looked at this pedition, buthe had lookedl at that, and he could assure their lordships that many of the names were in the same hand-writing. He could point out many names, but he 'vould not, because lie did not know how far a poor mar, might be affected among his neighi bours by such a disclosure. But lie would just mention, that there were the names of a h.isband, a wife, and a very numerous famiiv, all written in the same clerk-like band. The subscriptions of an- other family were in the same handc; with this diffference, that two more children were given to the husband and wife than they reallv had. Hle never wished to be scrupulous about the signatures of peti- tions,butherememberedcasesin which thenoble andlearnesi lord on the woolsack had seriously objected to petitions in which the names appeared in the same handl-writing. The Ea-l of WESTMORI,AND could not say whether any nanmes were in the same hand-writinz or not. The simple fact fur their lordships to consider appeared to him to be, that his mea- stire had, within these few days, spread alarm in a part of this me- tropolis which was previously tranquil. The Marquis of hANSDOWN presented a petition from Ros- crea, in the county of Tipperary, against negro-slavery; and a peti- tion from the Ro'man Catholics of Carrick-en-Suir, praving for the removal of the disabilities to which they were subject by the law. The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE presented a petition from the ovners of the fishing vessels belonging to the district of Ardglass, in the county of Down, praying that thc bounties on thc Irisli fishery rniht not bc repealed. rd CALTHORPE presented a petition from the magistrates of *he county of Suff'olk, praying for some alteration in the game lavs. e noble lord, in support of the petition, observed that the magis- trates wbo signed it had much experience of the mischievous effcts of the present game laws. They confided in the justice, and he might say in the mercy, of their lordships, to find a rernedy for Lord SUFFIELD intimated that he should now hav^ an opportu. nity of presentinz a petition to the same effect as that just laid on the table, from the magistrates of the county of N'orfolk. Earl GROSVENOR expressed a hope that if no bill on the subject of the game laws sheuld this session come froan the Com. mioos, some measure calculated to alleviate the evil would originate with their loedsbips. The Earl of L 4UDERDALE moved that the silk l ill be now committed. The Earl ofHARBOWBY opposed the motion. Ue wished to know what reason could be assigned for the house adoptinF another opinion on this subject than that which had been expressed last Year, and after re-stating the arguments of Lord Lauderdale in support of the bill, contendeu that none of them aflbrded any ground for pro- ceeding with the measure. He therefore moved byway ot amend.. ment. that the word."now" in themotion be omittedl, intending after- wards to move that the bill be read a second time this day six monthst. The Earl of LAUDERDALE replied, and vindicated the prin- ciple of the bilL The Earlof YESTlIOP,LAND deprecated a measure which in his opinion wsu-calculated to spread alarm,.and disturb. the tran. quillity which at present prevailed In the district of the metropolis which was afected by the rneasue. .their Lordships then divided on the amendment- (Content, 17 1 Not content, 23 1 lsSority, 6. The bill having passed trough a committee, was reperted, and or. dered to be read a third time on Friday next. The passage vessels' relation bill, and the law stamps' repeal bill, were committed.-Adjourned. HOUSE OF J,ORDY, "