House Of Lords, Wednesday...
PARLIAMENTA1RY INTELLIGE 'NCE. The Earl of 31ACCLESFIELD presented a petition in; favour of the abolition of WVest India slavery, from a plhce in Hampshitc. Lord CLII bDEN presented another on the same subject, from a parish in WViltshire, which he stated was signedl b-;all the inba- bitauts, some of the clergy excepted. The noble l(ird concurred in the object of the petition, whichi was to bring about the cultivation of sugar by free labour, and as sugar was gernmane to tea, he took that op ortunity of adverting to the enormouis enhancemnent of the price of the latter necessary of life. The extortion occasioned bv the monopoly of the Ea st India Company was well exposed in the last !iniumber of the Edinburgh Recicwe. and he It -pcd that Mr Hume or some other active memberoof the Hlouse ot Conimons, would speeQlily take up the subject and bring it betbre Parliament. Earl CATH( ART presented a petition from the shipbuilders of Glasgow and Greenock. praving for a redtictiots of the import duties on articlesused in their trade. The noble lord said, that looking at the scale of timber duties as they n w stood, it was not surprising that some relaxation should be desired. Earl BATHiURST laid on the tLble returns of sinecures, offices disciarged by deputies, and offices abolished in the Vest India islatids, and other papers relating to the colonies.-Adjourned. HOLTSE OF l,ORDS. W\nFrqn.v A- )0