Lords Sitting of 9 November 1830

MINUTES.
On the Motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. it was ordered, that no Petitions relative to private Bills, should be received after the 17th of March; nor any Reports from Judges on the subject of private Bills, after the 15th of April.
Petitions presented. For the abolition of Slavery, from Woodstock, by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY:—By the Earl of CARLISLE, from Carlisle, Harrington, Dalston, Brampton, Keswick, Bolton, Chesterfield, Derby, and nine other places in Cumberland, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire:—By Earl SPENCER, from Portsmouth, Portsea, Northampton, Gisborn, Milton, and fire parishes in Northamptonshire: —By the Duke of NORFOLK, from places in Armagh, Nottinghamshire, Gloucestershire, and an individual in Ireland:—By the Bishop of LICHFIELD and COVENTRY, from Bridgenorth, Stafford, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and five places in Derbyshire:.—By the Earl of ABERDEEN, from the Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen:—By the Earl of TANKERVILLE, from three parishes in Yorkshire:—By the Earl of RADNOR, from East and West Grinstead, Sussex, Alderley, Aylesbury, Cowes, and several Parishes in Nottinghamshire:—By the Earl of FALMOLTH, from Truro, South Cove, and Grampound:—By the Marquis of CLEVELAND, from Durham, Middleton, and two other places in Durham:—By the Bishop of BATH and WELLS, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Blackburn, Whitby, Stone, and several places in Lancashire, Somersetshire, and York shire:—By Lord KING, from Guilford, and another place in Surrey:—By Earl GROSVENOR, from a Congregation in Manchester:—By Lord CALTHORPE, from Oxford, a Female Congregation in Eagle-street, London, and several Parishes in the Shires of Derby and Monmouth. For the repeal of the Civil Disabilities under which the Jews labour, by Earl SPENCER, from an individual. For a Revision of the Law of Arrest, by the Duke of RICHMOND, from Henry Thompson.

DISTRESS OF THE MINING INTEREST.
The Marquis of Clevelandpresented a Petition from the Lead-miners of Alston, a district of Cumberland, complaining of Distress, arising from the present state of the law relative to the importation of lead, and praying for relief. The noble Marquis expressed a hope that Government would pay attention to the allegations of the present petitioners, similar to that with which they had already honoured petitions of a like nature presented by him in the course of last Session. He was convinced that the condition of the manufacturers

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was progressively improving, and that the agriculturists were not now suffering such privations as they had experienced at the commencement of last Session, while the deplorable state of the mining interest continued unchanged. He therefore trusted that the promises which had been already conveyed to him by Government, respecting this important question, would ere long be realized.
The Earl of Falmouthobserved, upon the distress sustained by those who were concerned in the iron and copper mines also, which he attributed to the importation of metal from South America. In 1825 companies had been formed to work the mines of that country with English capital, and bring the ore into competition, in the European market, with that raised in England. This was a serious injury to the extensive mining interests of this country. Application had been made to the noble Duke for protection, but he had afforded none to the mining interest. It was to be hoped, however, that he would re-consider this subject, and listen to the prayers of the miners.
The Duke of Wellingtonsaid, he had last Session come to the conclusion, that he should do much more injury to British interests by interfering, than by abstaining from interference. He could only repeat the assurance which he had already given the noble Marquis, that he would not be wanting, during the ensuing year, in attention to this, or to any other subject connected with the welfare of the country.
Petition to lie on the Table.