House Of Lords, Friday, M...
:PARLIAsMRTARY _INELgLIGBIN CE The bonD UiAiCX1LOR, the M.)arquis ot WIcNCESTESR, and he Earl of SHAF TES8URY sat as commissioners, and notified the loyal assent to. the consolidated fand bill, the law stamps' repeal ujil, the Australasian company bill, the Liverpool pilets' bill, the bee4s tithes' bill, the South wark Gas Company's bill, and several uther bUls. Lr. BROGlEN and others, from the Commons, brought up the uarinie insurance bill, and a number of private bills, which were *ead a first time. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from MIr. Staffordi Cooke, relative to the Stafford Peerage. In presentinz the petition, lhe noble lord made somne obserrations on the petitioner's claim, the, rosecution of which. he thought,would be throwing away money, as X .t was not well founded. Some conversation followed between Ilords RADNOR, HOLLAND, and REDESDALE, which was not heatd be- low the bar. The annual accounts of the East India Companv were presented it the bar by an officer from the India Jlouse. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petitioa from the Presbytery of Avr, against the Scots poor relief bill. Lord HOLLAND held in his hand a pettioin o a very import- mt subject. It was from the city of Chichester against the acts of Charles II., eommonly caUed the Test and Corporation Acts. These ects had been considered as the bulwarks of the church, and as they brmed part of the law of the land, he would not farther descri .vhat he thought of them than to sayj that in his opinion they had .etter be called acts to. restrain the prerogative, and prot'ane the holy macrament. The subject had been before now brought before Par liament, and he thought it incumbent on the cotntsy-n to pet .ion against, and on Parliament to consider seriously, the princi ple of these intolerant acts, which i ere not only cruelly oppressive owards Dissenters, but were not reconcileable to the consciences o muany members of the Established Church. If their lordship warned their attention to the subject, they woaild find tha in general all sincere Christians concurred in wishing a me Wision of those laws. He had another petition to present, fro :ertain Roman Catholics in Ireland, but he sheuld with iold it undl a noble lord (Grey), a friend of his? presented anothe ?etitipn, signed by other members of the Catholic body, ,ehich, h mnderstood, would be on Mlonday next. The petition he had tc )resent was much more temuperate than that intiusted to his noblc friend; the language of which, it would therefore appear, was no hat which was universally held by the Catholics. The Newfoundland marriage bill was read a third time, an assed. The Scots entailed estates bill was reported, and ordered, bc ead a third time on Tuesday.-Adjourned. HOUSE OF LORlS. FEmAY. MAW' 23.