MAY 23. MONDAY, MAY 17. Upon the Oder of the Day being read, for taking the Report on the ('Hewes kill into consideration, the Earl of HARROWBY moved several Am oulsoynts which were at7reed LOC, n CHANCELLOR considered the clause • of the Bill, re specting the aplwi: •Acat of the Curate .to live in the • Parsonage House, in case of the incumbent's non-residence, as completely unfit for hey tin:tined purpose. mid( r the provisions of this liteasnr'e, if he held pos. , ession, and were required to give it up ac: cording' to this Bill, lie might refuse, acid it he had au attorney at his back, he would defy any power nuder such an Act to remove him for three years. Lord REtmsnat F. stated, that. the mischiefs which had arisen from two : residence of the lower Clergy, were experienced in all parts of the kingdom. This practices on their part had increased within lute years, and Curates who formerly resided in their parishes, now lived at a distance in a market town to which they were at trameil by their love or card part: 04. On a Sunday he had known i.nstances, when a Citrate would rill. horn parish to parish, and With !Hell precipitancy as to render their etinthiet indecent, and to bring diseriice appit the profession. In an instance of this nature, he knee it to he a fact, that the Cleveyinan so far neglected his duty from a ‘visir to proceed and retinn, that he would asceuel the read. itf.-desk, and. so rapidly di• nose et' the s ea vice, th a t a f arm er s el ilk: N.llo preaait, a ose filen her pew, and insr , ted open re to the deste, him alonl, that he feel oot discliar7,ed Ills doty. The Nook , and Learned Lord %las astonished at the present opne-;liars to tile !!ill ; there seemed au movillnerriess to agree to Inca- ores which were to call upon the orders of the Clergy to see il:Lt - ;es of the !.Nrofessiort %vele perforieed The vehbishop of CA IiTEIz nuv said, if the inference to be dremu ii.om the 'k oble 13,trou's ohscrvatumi were to guide the judie meet of then Lord-hips, it would he wr , ,eg to p:Bs the present Bill --it ..NOli!•i It) pale; a law N%:!i(:1 :•111,4111 Idie the power out et the hands of the Bishops who hail so grossly abused it, and lodeed it io the hands of the Noble Baron, who had this night ac cu•ed the higher orders GI the Clerey with neglect, and the lower orders with gross miscondnet. It such .were the establishment of the Church, it had better not exist, but ;;omit other Church be placed in it- ste•e' He did not agree with the statement of the Noble Bet n, that curates we're now more absent (tom their pa ri.les than they tt , cd to be .20 years ago. indeed-in those dioceses ith which he was acquaintesl, he knew that thoy were more resi slent in their paris,,es now, than they used to be formerly. As to the higher orders, they were not chargeable %vitt& a neglect of duty, and as to the particular observation, he should conclude by saying it was an unfounded slander. 'flue Hi'hops of London, Exeter, and Worcester, also defended the general conduct of the higher and lower orders of the Clergy. Lord lier.E.soonoutut considered the Bill altogether a crude concoction, and thought it %amid he advisable, if the Noble Earl ( Harrow by ) mild accede to ids eeommendatien, that the Bill should stand over to another Sessian, wheo a mereone might be framed' more unobjectionable in its pi otision , . Lord HMI !LO WRY refused to accede to str , :gestion.—The was then ordered to be reprinted.—Adjourutd. TUES9AY, MAY 13. The Smithfield Market Improvement Bill was brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. Earl GnosvENOR moved the second reading of the Siorfrure Abo lition Bill. The Lord Chancellor, Earl Lauderdale, and Lord El lenborough opposed it, from a cohviction that it was utterly im practicable, unwise and contrary to the best principles of the Con .stitution.—The Bill was then rejected without a dilision. • WEDNESDAY, TiIAY 19. The House received several Pctitions in favour of the .propaga thin of Christianity in India, aad agaiwit the Catholic Claims. 'The General Inclnsure Bill was brought tip from the Commons by Mr. Kenrick, and read a first tinie.--Adjiaurned. , THURSDAY, MAY ?O. 'rue Smithfield Market BM was read a &tit time.—Acl;ourned. FRIDAY, MAY 21. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to he, Exchequer Debentures, Irish Militia : Brass Importation, naiins Wilms TPIE NATIONAL REGISTER. Irish Officers" Widou:s, Irish sugar spirits, Bermadaa Tiade Billt s and a great number of private Bills. The Scotch Creditors Bill was read a third time. The Bi , hop of LoNDoN rose, on the order of the day for the third reading of this Bill, and hav►ng objected to it in all its parts, , moved that it be read a third time this day three months. • TIIC LORD CHANCELLOR opposed it. Lord REDESDALE supported the Bill. The Fart of LIVERPOOL also gave it his disapprobation. Lord RADNOR opposed it. 'l'l►e Archbishop ofeANTEßßUuv'eontended that it was a Bill ea% enletted to brim; more poverty among the lower orders of the Clergy than had ever been known to exist. Lord GROsVENOR opposed it. Lord Grenvi!k, Lord,Tienyon, and Lord Ellenborongli severally gave their opinions on t.t Bill, and a division ensued'on the amend ment. Contents, t 2; Non•contents, S 7; Majority for the Bill, 15. The Bill was then read a third time.—Adjourned. .1 MP WA h PARLIAMENT. HOUSL OF LORDS. 325 HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY MAY 17. The Cnimt7 Baker's Bill was read a second time, and referred to a Committee above Stairs. • Mr. CANNING presented n petition from COO:) persons at Liver pool. in tivant• of pvate.—Orderea to lie on the table. On the motion of Mr. GRATTAN, the discussion on the'Catholic Bill was postponed till Mon;lay next —The clauses introduced by Mr. Canning, it was agreed, should be incorporated as part of the Bill. Sir J. C. lIIPPIsLEY moved fur sundry papers of which he had given notice, which were granted.--Alljourned. • TUESDAY; MAY 18. Mr. BENSON rose to make his promised motion on the subject of the Leather Tax. He said. that a most important branch of trade was now labouring under the greatest embarrassment. So great was the distress of the tanners at this time, that their capital was reduced and depresAd as law as one half of its former amount ; and several manufactories of this article were now advertised to be sold. There wa, no export trace, anti the whole trade was con fined to home consmnption. It was unnecessary for him to state the various other grievances of the tanners, became they were all set forth in the printed evidence that was now before the House. The next speCies of safferers were the couriers ; and their grievan ces consisted in the increased price of the article coming from the tanners. The shoemakers were the next sufferers by the tax. There were some wholesale *manufacturers in Staffordshire, who had great capitals einployed in the trade, and tne,, were obliged, not only to leave off work, but give away money to reiievc the distresses of the workmen, w:ou had uo employment, and who , but for these charities, would be starving, together with their families. It did clearly appear by the evidence, that the tamers' trade was ground down to nolhiuc, and that nothing would relieve it from that die. tress but taking off the tax. The question here was not what Go verninent received hy, but what the poor man paid in consequence of; this tax. And it would he ‘vorth while to consider what Gr vermncnt itself actually paid towards the tax. Government had occa , ityl to use immense quantities of leather, and ail the taxes must he paid on it. He hoped the Chaucellor of the Exchequer woehl now confess that he had been most grossly imposed on last year, when lie said that this trade was in a most flourishing state. s He should now conclude, with moving for leave to brim in a Bill to repeal the Act of last year, for layipg an additional Duty on Hides and Skins. Mr. W AUTON aigned at considerable length against the motion, denying that it acted oppressively,' or that the trade had been ed by the tax. The tax produced a revenne of 650,001)1.; he trnst ed, if the Hon. Gentleman was determined to have it repealed, he was prepared to propose another in its stead, which would be equally productiVe, mid no more bnitheusome than this. Lord Compton, Lord Althorpe, Mr. Lockhart, and a number of others opposed the tax, and on the House dividing, there appeared —For the motion, 101 ; against it, 104. The-fitmaxna then gave his casting vote in favour of the motion ; in consequence of which leave was given to bring hi the Bill; and being brought in accordingly, it was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday. The !louse resolved itself into a Coo*iftee enhe Admiralty Registrar's Bill: . . , Pet*: • ,k•sno, Sir W. Seey; proposed a clause, turTridllarl4oo o continue iu the hands of the Relli O atFo t L:, . Mioattrteuti , 1 ..4 1- • 1.1 '4' , V. 1 1 yid 4 4 •