ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 August 1842, Page 3

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE.

PARLIAMENTARY DIGEST. In the House of Lords, on the 21st of April, the Corn Law was passed in Committee in two hours and a half. Earl Stanhope opposed the bill, and in doing so made a warm attack on Sir Robert Peel and the government; who, he contended, had grossly deceived the agricultural interest, which had placed them in power. The Earl spoke at great length, and concluded by moving that the hill be read a second time that day six months. Earl Hardwicke, declared his perfect conviction that the hill did not touch the substantial protection which the farmer enjoyed, while it satisfied the people by modifying a law on which the country had expressed an irresistible opinion. The Duke of Buckingham viewed the hill with feelings of the greatest alarm. The Earl of Winchelsea supported it as a “ final settlement” of a question which had dangerously agitated the country. Lord Western saw nothing final in it, brought forward, as it had’ been, by a ministry from whom different things had been expected. Similar opinions as to the instability and temporary nature of the hill were expressed in thc : course of the evening by Earl Fitzwilliam, and Lords Brougham and Melbourne. Lord Brougham proposed as an amendment on Lord Stanhope’s that it was inexpedient to lay a duty on the importation of foreign corn 1 . The other speakers were Lord Fitzgerald, who vindicated the government, and Lord Beaumont, who expressed 'iis alarm not only at the Corn Importation Bill, hut at the reductions and alterations of the new tariff. On a division it appeared :- — For Lord Brougham’s amendment 5 Against it 109 For Lord Stanhope’s amendment 17 Against it. 119