House Of Lords, Wednesday...
I PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. .Mr. B]io GDEw, accompanied by severaI other gentlemen of the House of Commons, brought up the following bills, which were laid upon the table,and subsequently read a first time :-The sugar bous- ties bill, the rum iniportation bill, the county courts bill, the mili- tia pay bill, and the British Aluseum bill. The M1arquis of IsANSDOWN presented a petition from a class of persons in Dublin called " Separatista," who embraced a great number of the religioos tenets of Quakers, and praying to be relieved from the disabilities under which they laboured. The Earl of GOSFORD presented a similar petition from the same elass of persons residing in Belfast, Armagh, and E?ortadown. Both petitions were ordered to be laid on the table. ENOILISH CATHOLICS. The AMarquis of li,ANSDOWN brought in a bill to render the English Roman Catholics eligible to certain offices. The effect of the bill, his lordship said, was (togetler with the bill which he had laid on their lordslhps' table before the recess, both of which formed but one measure) to place the Roman Catholics of Great Britain on the same footing as the Roman Catholics oflreland. As soon as they were printed, it was his intention to move the second reading of boh the bills on the same day, for which purpose he moved that the house should be sumzmoned for Menday se'nnight, The bill was then read the first dime.-Adjourned. I TNOTT.R. OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5.