The Sun. — 1844-03-23 (London, England)

ROYAL ASSENT.  The Royal Assent was given to-day, at a quarter before Five o'clock, to the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuity Reduction Bill ; the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. (1818) Annuity Reduction Bill ; the Consolidated Fund (8,000,0001.) Bill ; the Gaming Transactions Witness's Indemnity Bill, and tho Teachers of Schools (Ireland) Bill.  The Lords Commissioners were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Duke of Buccleuch.  Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.  The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after Five o'Clock. Messengers from ' the commons brought up the Ramsay Inclosure Bill and other Bills. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented petitions from Rye, against any alteration in the corn laws. Lord PRUI)HOE presented similar petitions from Shillbottle, in Northumberland. The Earl of RADNOR took that opportunity to explain that on a former occasion, when he referred to a meeting which. had been held in Yorkshire, respecting the corn-laws, he had not alluded to Lord Feversham, but Lord Harewood. After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND and the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, the matter dropped. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice that he would move for copies of any communications which had been made between the Government and the Poorlaw authorities, respecting the case of Mary Miller, the unfortunate female who committed suicide in a work • house a short time ago.  The Marquis of NORMANBY presented a petition complaining of the operation of the Act under which the Lambeth Water-works was established.  The Earl of RADNOR said the Noble Earl to whom he had alluded on.a former occasion (the Earl of Harewood) had stated a fact at the meeting in Yorkshire, and from that fact he drew an inference, which was that the Anti-Corn-law League incited to incendiarism. He (the Earl of Radnor) had called the attention of the Noble Earl to the paragraph in the newspaper in which the meeting was reported, and the Noble Earl admitted that it was correct.  The Duke of BUCCLEUCH said, that within the last four days he had seen Lord Harewood, and the conversation turned on this very subject. The Noble Earl admitted that the report in the newspapers of what he had stated was correct, but he did not admit that the inference which was drawn in the leading article of that pa • per was correct. The Noble Earl never imputed to the ..Anti-Corn-law League any attempt to incite to incendiarism.  The Earl of RADNOR Said, the fact the Noble Earl (llarewood) had stated was, that a farmer had attended a pro-corn-law meeting in Norfolk, and the same night his stacks were burnt. The inference the Noble Earl meant to draw from that was, that the stacks had been burnt through the agency of the Anti-Corn-law League. Lord WHARNCLIFFE denied that such an inference could be drawn from the words of the Noble Earl. Lord BEAUMONT said, he was at the elbow of the Noble Earl (Harewood) when he made the speech to which the Noble Earl (Radnor) had alluded, and he was sure that no person at the meeting supposed for a moment that the Noble Earl intended to impute to the Anti-Cornlaw League any intention to incite to incendiarism. The Marquis of NORMANBY said he was neither a pro-corn-law man nor an " anti-corn-law man," but he thought it was to be regretted that Noble Lords should make speeches from which objectionable inferences might be drawn. The Duke of RICHMOND presented several petitions from parishes in Norfolk, complaining of the Anti-Corn-' law League. He took that opportunity of observing that he did not know why Lord Harewood did not answer the letter of the Noble Earl opposite ; yet he was not surprised that his Noble Friend did not think the House of Lords ought to be a court of appeal for, what passed at public meetings. He was not sorry for. the explanations that had passed, and he hoped that they would induce the League to be more guarded in future. The Noble Earl (Radnor) said that a gentleman advised the country people at an anti-league meeting to throw the leaguers over the bridge if they came to Lincoln. He did not approve of such advice, for he always was opposed to violence ; but if the gentleman alluded to, had said se, he would recommend the leaguers not to go to Lincoln.(Great laughter on the Tory side.)