Lords Sitting of 26 March 1830

MINUTES.
The Earl of ROSSLYN moved that the Standing Order (No. 210) respecting Private Bills for the establishment of Joint-Stock Companies be read.

The noble Lord said, that certain exceptions had been made in that Order, and he should move on Monday to have them extended to Joint-Stock Companies for making quays or landing places to markets.
Lord ALTHORP brought up from the Commons the Evidence taken on the charge of Bribery against East Retford, which, on the Motion of the Marquis of SALISBURY, was Ordered to be Printed.
Sir A. GRANT brought up from the Commons a Copy of the Report of the Committee to which had been referred the 18th Report of the Commissioners of Judicial Inquiry, and the Depositions of Sir Jonah Harrington, Judge of the Admiralty Court in Ireland, and certain other Papers relating to the discharge of his judicial duties.—To be Printed.
Sir A. GRANT brought up from the Commons the Annual Indemnity Bill—Read a first time.
Petitions Presented. By Lord KING, from Bridport, for a Revision of the Criminal Code, with a view to the Abolition of punishment by Death for Forgery. By the same noble Lord from the Anti-Bread-Tax Association at Kidderminster, complaining of the effects of the Corn-laws upon the Poor.

He believed that the Petitioners somewhat exaggerated the effects of these laws, when they stated that the tax raised by them upon the consumers of bread amounted to 10,500,000l.
By the Earl of RADNOR, complaining of Distress, from the county of Denbigh:—By the Earl of CARNARVON, to the same effect, from Holywell; and by Earl STANHOPE from Heirderwell, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, praying a continuation of the Bounty on Fisheries.
JEWS—PETITION.
The Earl of Limerickpresented a Petition from a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England, Isaac Nicholson, the Vicar of Great Paxton, Huntingdonshire, praying for the removal of all Civil Disabilities affecting the Jews on account of their religion. Such a Petition, said the noble Lord, was rather singular, coming from such a quarter; but though he did not concur with the Petitioner in his prayer, yet the rev. gentleman was so respectable that he could not but lay it before their Lordships. The Petitioner stated, that the Holy Scriptures were full of prophecies concerning the Jews, and he thought that the time was approaching when many of those prophecies were about to be fulfilled, and he thought the Legislature was bound to do every thing to promote their conversion to Christianity.
FOREIGN FLOUR—PETITION.
The Earl of Malmesbury, from Manufacturers of Flour in and near London, praying for better protection against the importation of Foreign Flour. They stated that flour might now be introduced at a much lower rate of duty than foreign corn, and they prayed an alteration of the law in that respect. The noble Earl adverted to a petition presented from Millers on a former occasion, and recently repeated in another place, praying to be allowed to grind foreign wheat in bond for exportation, and hoped that the Government would not permit such an experiment again to be tried, as it would open the door to great frauds.