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Leaders ; and a proof of this was, that simultantious oseetingldning the two last Administrations in Ireland. 4 bad been suppressed by the force merely of a protlensat lion of tf.e Lord Lieutenant. The Noble Lord ha 3 thought proper, however, to organize, or at least to pa. triminnsether Associations, quite as lawless and uncoa aketioesil as the Catholic Association. He was no Muhl to the Catholic Association; there were few pub. lie men-who bad enjoyed a larger portion of its abuse than Ise had done, but it was vow suppressed, and he omit do it the justice to say, that it contained men of very high talents, who were, he believed, sincerely de. sirens of preserving the public peace. The Noble Lord bad put himself at the head of Associations for the purpose of suppressing all others in Ireland by club law. Bhew him a mad priest of theCatholicAssociation.and he would show a madder parson belonging to the Bruns wick Clubs. In some of these loyal Associations for preserving the peace. the language employed was, that the King bad forfeited his Throne. In what severe censure would the Noble Lord have indulged had the Attorney General and his Majesty's Government over. looked language so violent as this in the Catholic Ass°. elation? The Government were, however, to be com mended for overlooking this language, and not per. twitting themselves to be withdrawn from the steady prosecution of the great measure they had in view by any such ebullitions of individual intemperance. There were not only factious Priests and Rhode. osontaders and sedition-mongers on both sides, but there were•rent-collectors on both sides. The Noble 'Earl himself, he belierred, was a rent payer.—(The Earl of Longford here said " No, only a subscriber.")—Let it be subscriber then. The Catholic Rent was paid by, subscribers. He bad never heard of its collectors as• seating the right to distrain. For all that had been done. however, he thanked the Noble Usti, he thanked the Noble Duke, he thanked the Brunswick Clubs, and he thanked the Catholic Association. If Mr. O'Connell bad any merit. the Noble Lord was fairly entitled to share it with him,with this difference, that Mr.O'Connell Was a very sagacious man, and had succeeded, while the Noble Lord had only contributed to his own defeat. It was much more easy to be a critic than a performer. The Noble Lord had professed his dissatisfaction with the conduct of Government dining the Period when Lord Liverpool was at the head of affairs, and a Noble and Learned Lord f rmerly on the Woolsack, a distin guished Member of the Administration. He should be extremely glad to know what would in the same cir cumstances have been the measures of the Noble Lord. and then they might all be critics in their turn. He would advise the Noble Lord to consult a distinguished Naval Officer, a relative of his own, who would perhaps tell him that he carried too much sail. and that it wiold not be amiss if there was a little more ballast, and some discretion at the beim. He might perhaps say also that it would not be amiss if the Noble Lord kw* to what port be was bound. The Earl of LONGFORD confessed himself enable to answer the able, humourous, and argumentative speech with which they bad been indulged by the Noble Lord, but he repeated, that be was still uncon vinced of the truth of the assertions of the two Noble Lords (Lords Plunkett and Anglesey) with respect to the benefits derived from the Association, and that be thought them still a Joint Stock Company of Treason and Sedition. The Noble Lord then repeated what be bad said on a former evening, with respect to the neg. ligence of the Government of Ireland in not putting to force an Act which the Noble Lord had, when Attorney General, declared to be absolutely necessary to the pre. salvation of the peace of lieland. That Act had beei from the first stigmatised as an Algerine Act. and de nounced by the people; and be thought still, that the Noble Lord. was constitutionally, if not legally. respoor sible for not potting it in force, or calling for new powers if he required them. He was sure that there was no insufficiency on the part of the Noble and Learned Lord; and he (Lord Longford) had merely complained of his inefficiency. He hoped that the Go vernment would be able to carry the new law into effect, but he contended that they bad not carried the old law into execution as they ought to have done. The Noble and Learned Lord had been very free of his ad vice—he had offered it with bountiful liberality ; but as charity began at home. he (Lord L.) recommended that be should commence by advising himself, and tak ing that advice. The Noble and Learned Lord might have spared all the lectures be had given him (Loa Longford) about theeourse he should steer, the dangers to which he was exposed, and nonsense of that sort, The Noble and Learned Lord had spoken of the u just grievances of the Catholics; but lie seemed to forget that those grievances , such as they were, were sane tiooed by law, and for this reason the word " unjust was sot applicable. To call them unjust grievances, was as much as to oty that unjust wrongs were inflicted on the Roman Catholics, and such language ought net to be addressed to the people of Ireland. In referring to the Bill of 1825, be bad spoken of the Noble and Learned Lord only as the paid public servant of the country, when he filled the office of Irish Attornry. General. and he (Lord Longford) did not profess to be sufficient lawyer_ to be able to decide whether the execution of the law was or was not strictly entrusted to the Noble Lord, bat the common opinion certainly was that it belonged especially to him. He (Lord L) bad also been accused by the Noble and Learned Lord with- being an enemy to free discussion. Ile begged to state that be was as sincerely and warmly the friend of really free discussion as the Noble Lord. It could ferule no greater isjury than from licentiousness, sod the abuse of free discussion bad been well exem plified ix the proceedings of the Catholic Association. The Noble and Learned Lord contended, that in 1825 the Brunswick Associations were as blameable as the, Catholics, in persevering In their meetings; but os referring to the circumstances of that time, it would be feud that the Protestant Associations then in existence ceased to amiable. while the Catholics continued to meet just as if no Bill bad passed for their ruppressitia. He bad also been attacked by the Noble Lord fur being s. peapbat; be was not aware that be had ever pre•endedl to second sight; while the Noble and Learned Lord' had, on the contrary, indulged in many alarming warn ing, which fortunately had sever been fulfilled. • With, ;respect to his Gallant Relative, he must state, that he had' w withdrawn from the represestetion of the county by which he was formerly chosen, because he found Chat those by whom he had been formerly returned wield not ee-elect•hirn, and he would not consent to be obaceed by others. In conclusion, he might fairly admit ti* say time, he was cot able tocope with the abili f the Nob:, and Learned Lord, and be , was coluelytesable to answer a two-days' speech by a two. ashietse• speech. As far as he had gone, he hoped be And tompletely rebutted the assertions of the Noble and Lord. L • of !WELLINGTON had setintended at all taillindorein the present discussiee r and-shoold not sow have risen but for one observation of his Nible and Learned Friend, if he might be permitted to call him so. That observation was, that in Alyea, 1825, when t the BU fat tbs:PPloftsi, cer Calta i e was introduced, it wag lakeideir that a Dill of shtutitecipmpa.OT it. . • 4 Lite PAN LIITT Opened, am & the table, that such bad been Is impressah at the thne. The Duke of WELLINGTON added, that it was M-foundt;al at far as related to any intention on the part of the Government of that day. He remembered a paragraph in a letter written by Noble Relation then at the head of affairs in Ireland, to the Noble Earl who then idled the elks of Prime Minister. io which it was asked, whether there exbted soy such understanding? and the reply bad been in the negative. i Lord PLUNKETT. in explanation, admitted that there bad been no general understanding on the subject, bet be referred to the impression on Woven mind, and his private expectation that such a Bill would be introduced. The Duke of WELLINGTON expressed himself estidied The Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented nine Petitions from fiemereetsitire against further Concession to the ROOM Ca tholics. Lord PLUNKETT presente.l Petition from several parishes hi biked is favour of the Roman Catholic Claims. The Earl of SRA FTESBURY Frescoed a dadlar Padden freak Wootton. in Donet. Adjoutaid at a SWARM PAP? HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir 0. Cssas took the Oaths and big Seat. On the modon of Alderman ATK INS. a Bill was ordered to be hrooght in far Paving, Lighting, and Improving the Precinct of Brbiewell _ _ _ Oo the modes of Mr. LAWLET, a EM was ordered to be brought hi to resider eatra•pareebW a Owe of ground on whish the Dohs of Hotbed Is about to construct a Mausoleum. CATIIIOLIC CLAIMS. Colonel POWELL pretested a Pablon from a parish in Car diganshire, against any further concession to the Roman Catholics. Colonel SIBTHORPE presented a Petition, with the ante prayer, from the inhabitants of the parish of &aslby, Lincoln shire. The Petitiocen stated that they were (deeds to religious toleration, but reflecting on the unalterable spirit of the Roman Catholic Religion, they most earnestly entreated the Hoes. not to endanger the Constitution by admitting the Roman Catholics into the Legislature. The Honourable Member denied that this Pe tithe had been got up in a hole and corner. and said that he way not surprised at the alarm of those who had subscribed it. trvol letting that the kliallers,who, they had hoped, would protect the Constitution, had declared themselves the friends of kincuration.••• He felt it his duty, also, to call the attention of the House to a speech he had read with disgust, and which professed to hive been delivered at a meeting of what were termed the friends of the Roman Catholic Claims, held at a public tavern. That speech re quired that Emancipation should be conceded unconditionally, u as that alone would satisfy the people, secure the Crown, and unite together the population of the two kingdoms." Such lan guage he treated with the contempt it merited; it consisted of u words full of sound and fury." but. thank One! " signifying notidng."—The Petition was then brought up and laid upon the table. Sir T. MOSTYN presented a Petition also against further con cession from a Hundred in Flintshire, expressing his regret that he could not support its prayer ; also a Petition of the same kind from Sc. Aleph. Mr. WYNDHAM presented a Petition with the same pnjer from the Clergy of the Archdeacoary of Sarum. He observed, that no Petition from that quarter, and with that prayer, had been more numerou,ly or respectably signed. Mr. BANK KS presented Petitions against the Catholic Claims from the Elders of the Scotch Presbytery in London, and front a parish in Carnarvonshire. A ltuiral SOT ERON presented 14. similar Petitions from pa riches in Northamptonshire. On the motion Of - Sir V. HAMS, the Petition from the Select Vestry of St. Mary-Is bonne was referred to the Select Committee on the Standing Orders. WS IMAM Mr. DAVENPORT piesented Petitions iron, the Mantes sad Silk Tbrowsters of Macclesfield. and from the Retail Trades men of the same town, praying inquiry sad wilding's the eistfog laws relative to the anusofacture and importation of silk. The Hon. Member observed, that distress was daily increasing in fdaededield --that half tse looms were unemployed, that hag the weeklies were subsisting upon precarious charity, and that half the houses were unoccupied. It was absolutely necessary that the present state of the law should be revised ; and unless souse remedy were st s ed a ll discovered, this country would certainly low this valuable nunufacture. Sir G. PHILLIPS denied that the editing stagnation anise est of the recent changes in the law as regarded silk or any ether ma nufactures Those changes In fact had been beaellelal, and the French amalgamate would be very glad if tide country vvoild consent to return to the old system. The great eztasslea of the trade was the real cam of distress, and It operated also upon the cotton manufacture. Mr. EGERTON counted fully the statement of the Hon. Member for Ma** (Kr. Davenport). Mr. BRIGHT earnestly recommended • renewed lost*, before a Committee; further investigation mold not be avoided, sea ought not to be avoided. Whether any fresh investigation bad been undertaken by the Board of Trade he knew net, but the only fit mode of proceeding was to re-appoint a Committee. Sr H. PARNELL admitted the existence of distress, buteadd not admit that the state of the law was the cause of it. The true came bad been pointed out by the Duke of Wellington, in answer to the Memorial of the Silk Trade, when he said that smuggling, prevailed to an Patent which might render it necesiary to lower 1 the present dudes. General GASCOYNE also maintained that a Committee was, necessary. When it wu said that the manufacturers ought to, persevere In the experiment, it seemed to be forgotten that they were the starving.—The Petitions were then brought up. and laid epos tabk. Sic R. KING presented a Petition from Mr. Bryan Lnughnan, a freeholder of flare, praying to be heard by himself or Counsel iA apposition to the Petition against the return of Daniel O'Connell. he. for the county of Clare. Um the motion of Mr. Baena, a New Writ wee ordered for Corte Castle, in the room of W. Peachy, Reg. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. ESTCOUIIi iresented a Petition from West Bromwich, fitatordshlre, against further Concessions to the Roman Catholics. The Hon. Gentleman said, that hitherto be had beard and seen nothing to Induce bins to change his opinion. After a few words from Lord MILTON, the Petition was brought up. read. and ordered to be printed. Mr. ESTCOUKT presented two other Petkions of a dollar nature, from Carnarvou and WeybiU. Lord DUNCANNON presented twenty Petitions from dif ferent parishes iti Tipperary, and four from different parishes in Kilkenny, in favour of unqualified Emancipation; one Petition against the Vestry Act, and another against the Sub-letting Act. BR !VIOL PETITION. Mr. HART DAY'S rose to present the Petition of the Magistrates, C:ergy, Merchants, and other Inlisibik tants of the City of Bristol, praying that no Roman Ca tholic may be admitted to a se.t in either of the Hooves of Legi.latnre, and that noftuther extension of political power be granted to persons professing that religion. He begged to call the attention of the House to this Petition, not only on account of the great number and the respectability of the names attached to it, but also Ixostbe that as one that ever came before Parlia. ment conveyed a more feithful reOresentation of the opinions of the great body whom he had the honour to represent. So mach had been said and pertinaciously repeated as to the manner in whith the petition had been got up, that be should give a short history of its progress. A little previous to the meeting of Palls meat the different parishes of the city of Bristol met in their Vestries, and agreed to petitions which he had the bosom; of resealing to the House. Some, how. ever, thought that the sentiments of the city ought to be declared in a public meriting. where 'both parties would have an opportunity of being heard. A requi sition. most respectably signed, was accordingly pre sented to the Mayor, but be declined presitling at such a Meeting , and it was given up. Wh en the King's Speech was received, the feelings of the inhabitants woe so excited, that another application was made to the Mayor, and he sanctioned the holding of a Meeting in gneen's-square,which was calculated to hold 30,000 per.' sons, and very approprlatery contained a statue of King William. The meeting was the largest that bedevir been held in Bristol. The question was debated, and fairly put, and the. Petition carried by an overwhelining evity: The sigiatuies to the pethiblt irete notnodly thole of the infiabia;istrOf 'Witch; But 11116 Joining 'patihhel,:ah tTiiy "anhountedle ME whUlt:to , 38,894. In consequence of reports which had gone abrkd, it was thought necessary to examine the names, • ' • and icreensoire those which bad Vim, siguestinries. and, thaw of women ; aldrnikb ersilot tow aria what principle the latter werfpreiteetell from signing , if '64 ~trevellbuwholders. He was harmed by tbeJoldest reams in Bristol. thif no paid& ever eimit4Switithatl city before with mote than 15.000 signatures. He hoped that such a petition would have Its just irdluence upon the Government, and mete the same feelings in other parts of the country. He felt a rood satisfaktion in knowing that hit constituents had done their duty. He should endesiour to follow in their footsteps, mid he , called upon the House to do its duty by protecting our glorious Constitution as it was established at the Revo lution—a 4 that era which was the foundation of all the glory and the prospetity to 'which the country bad now arrived. With regard to the course taken by a Hon. Gentleman not now a Member of the House. no one could lament it more than he did. But at the same time he was convinced that the Right Honourable Gen tleman had acted hoar a sense of duty to his Sovereign and his country. Lord MILTON—Amt right in supposing the Hon. Member to say that the 35.000 signatures attached to the petidea are those of inhabitants of Wind alone ? • Air. H. DAVIS—No; of Hrbtol. sad sea miles rowed. Mr. BRLGHT. fully corroborated the stateaseat of Ida Rom Colleague. Ile lould not speak to the entire of the signatures at. tubed to the pith's., but be mold state from a paper which he held in his lava, that 24,712 of the MIMS Abed to the petisien were those Mike inhabitants of Bristol. Mr. TEhiNYSON doubted very finch whether those who had been employed in striking out double signa tures and the names of females, had done their duty; for, by the last census, the population of Bristol was calculated at 87.000, and of these one half were males (his Noble*Friend beside bins bad said), but certainly one half Were children. Of the remaining adults one half only were males. It would consequently require more than one half of the male adults of Bristol to make up the 24,712, of whom the Hon. Member for Bristol had just then spoken. Moreover, his Hen. and Learned Friend the Member for Winchelsea bad the other night presented a Petition in favour of the Catho. lic Claims from 1,700 inhabitants IA Bristol, which number must also be deducted from the amount of male adults. The 24 712 signatures could not. therefore. r have beenthose of male adult inhabitants of Bristol ; and he was quite sure *bat, When he should take these facts into consideration, the Hon. Gentleman himself woaldbe very far from asserting that those were the signatures of inhabitants of Bristol only. So much for numbers. The Petition had also stated that it was that of the Magistrates, Clergy, Merchants. and Inhabitants of Bristol. Now, the Mayor had not signed it; and among the signatures to the Petition presented by his Hon. Friend the Member for Winchelsea were those of several Clergymen and Merchants. Consumed, the Petition in the hands of the Hon. Member opposite could notbe viewed as the Petition of the Magistrates, Cis tgy. and Merchants of Bristol. Sit T. LETHBRIDGE, from his acquaintance with the city of B,istol, could bear testimony to the great espectability of many of the persops whom names were affixed to the Petition of his Honourable Friend. He was surprised, therefore, that the Noble Lord and the Hon. Member opposite should have treated it as they 'had done. Lord ill ELTON, unseat table, denied that be bad Impeached the respectability of the petitioners. Sr r. LETHBRIDGE—WeII, as the Noble Lord disclaims such intention, my observations only apply to the Honourable Member. The Hon. Baronet then pro- ceeded to state his surprise at the observations of the Hun. Gentleman, and would undertake to say that a more respectable, weighty, or important bad not been made to that braneh of the during the present or any former Session of Put Mime, and that never bad there been a more mianimous en' pcession of public opinion than that conveyed in the Petition before the House—(Hear). He could not re lish' from remarking that other Petitions on the same sub*t, respectably, though not so numerously, signed, had been received and treated by Honourable Members on the other side of the House in a manner utterly des rogatory to the usages of Parliament, not creditable to themselves, and at variance with their own expressed sentiments in favour of the free exercise of public opinion—(Hear). He did not pretend to anticipate what would be the result of that great question, but he would take care that respect should be paid to Petitions presented from his as well as the other Lide of Vie House—(Hear, hear). Of the rresent Petition, he would undertake that it was not to be sur passed in weight and respectability by any that would be presented on that important question. That Petition had been agreed to before the retitieners bad been made acquainted with the terms of his Majesty's Speech at the opening of Parliament. What the feelings of the inhabitants of that portion of the empire from whence the Petition emanated now were on the subject in ques tion he did not know. He hoped, however, that they would pause before they gave any angry expression to their sentiments, and that they would meet the discos sion of it with an anxious desire to settle amicably and permanently that great question, keeping in view the safety and integrity of our establishasents—(Hear, bear). Those interests mutt be attended to, and he had no doubt that the Parliament and the Bovitreign, thethree Ecates of the Realm, would arrive at such a result— (Heat). One word with respect to the Right MOTICIOr abIe Gentleman, die Secretary of State lot the Home Depaitment, whose recent conduct; as regarded that question, had been animadverted upon in that House and out of that House in a manner unworthy of Eng. land, and disgraceful to its press. He would venture to say that the Right Honourable Gentleman could Myer have come to the point at which be bad arrived without consideration which would do honour to bine as a man, and reflect credit on bias as a statesman; and that be would be hereafter found to prove that his conduct had been such as to entitle him to the coedited confidence of the country. The Honourable Balkiest concluded by apologizing to the House for hating so long eccu. pied its attention, but be bad felt that be would not have been doing his duty bad be assained' silent on that occasion. Sir R. WILSON denied that any sli ght whatever had been inteaded to b e t h rown upon Pe titions coming from the other by Hon. Members at his side of the House. On the contrary, the object of the seteidny of his Hain. Friend (as it was their duty). was to obtain the free and ontaaaTed expression of labile opition".— He hoped, therefore, that the Hon. Member opp os i te would explaiii why he signatures to the petition per. poriing•to be those of the inhabitants of Bristol had amounted to •such a•nomber. With respect to the Pe tition presented- by his Hon. Friend the Member for Winchelsea, he (Sir It. Wilson) had learned that move th antnethousind seven bemired oaks would haft been subscribed to it bad not the Maybe ibterfeied in conse quence of a tumultuous assemblage of persons. who toieed their way into the Exchange, where the Petition lay for sighatisfe; dexc i tityed Some of the sh eets , an d mok! the tables.. . • IL DAVIS, in reply to as attention so injut out in its tendency, begged leave to state to the House that the petition referred to by the Hon. Member had been torn in consequence of numbers otpeople having signed it supposing it to be that which he now held in hi. hand, end having learned their nsistake sought to correct it by cancehsng the sheers which bore their signature s Of the names attached to that petition he had nev er .spqbas disrespeedellys he believed that it was as se. vectsible a petition as ever was presented to the Howe of Commoos, too& the numbers. Still it bore no com. pisisoo-in point of weight to the petition which had been confided to bilis. The *table Lord had. ht thoogbr; underrated the amount of the population of Bristol..i. His (Mr. H. Davis) had not aseasi to say that an th e Magistrates, all the Clergy, and all the merchants of .1366'01. had of their sigmas** to the petitionshen in his hand, nor did the petition itself contain each saw mint; it only pupated to be the &dela' of "the on designed Magistrates, Clergy, Merchants,' ftc. ;IQ certainly bore the signatures of an immense majetity of those classes—( Hear, hear, bear). Mr. O'NEILL rose to express his most cordial men; to all that had fallen from the Honourable Baronet near him, and he trusted be should have his valoahlsi suppos t when be should bring forward his motion whict stood for that night. Lord JOHN RUSSEL bad taken the trouble to in. quire into the character and (aridity of the persons whose signatures were And to the petition then befori the House, of whom he had beard a long account. He begged leave to state that he held in his hands petition which he should shortly present to the House, free, a most respectable body of the Dissenters of Bristol. in favour of the Catholic Claims. He bad, however, rises. chiefly to deny the assertions of the Hon. Barmen; !thal; Member for Somenstshire, that there was any intention on that side of the House to discountenance sioa of public opinion, and to deciare• that ib l e sr g - Z Members could be .a ssore anxious far the free ozonise of that invaluable sight than those who sat at hie (Lord J. Russell's) side of the Home; but, when faction poi, tions were gotten op, it became the duty of all those who valued the right of recision rigidly to scrutinize sod investigate. Of the petition before the House be should only say,'that he bad beard (and it was not yet COMM. dicted) that it bore a number of signatures of boys under eleven years of age, as, probably, the Hoe. Member himself wen knew. Mr. HART DAVIS—I Mow se seell Wag. Lord JOHN RUSSELL bad seen stated in the Bristol newspapers the names of several boys who had signed the petitioo. Was that not a ground of inquiry? What was the question at issue? Not the taking away the rights of any Protestant ; nor was it proposed to touch the property of the Church or the privileges of the Clergy ; but simply whether Catholics should he admitted to the enjoyment of the Constitution c3nsis. tendy with-the safety. of our establi.husents. All the great geniuses of the past age, Burke. Pitt. Fox,Wyad. ham, &c. had concurred in opinion with the most easi neht Statesmen of the prevent day, that the claims of the Catholics ought to be attended to. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE begged leave to say a few words. He declared be was always ready to do ample justice to the motives of the Noble Lord and hie Honourable Friends; but be must say that on one or two occasions they had attempted to cut down the ad pression of public opinion when in favour of that side of the question to which they were opposed. IS boys' under ten years of age bad been permitted to sip the petition presented this evening by the Hon. Member far Wad, be perfectly agreed with the Noble Lord, that it was an absurd act, incapable of justification. Bet the House had heard the Hon. Member for Bristol did dare, that be did not khow that any such signatures had been permitted. Under any circumstances k was not very credible, at least be (Sir T. Lethbridge) dill not believe that the practice couldhave Wes carded to any extent. But even if a few boys had been allowed to sign the Petition, of what importance was that, as competed with the great fact, that the petition had been signed by 98,894 , persons? Of that somber the incalculably greaterisottion.must have been legitimate signatures. Mr. BRIGHT said the Petition contained the names of many perioos as well educated as soy Members of that House, and it was *ls, signed by the middle and lower classes, who judged by their feelings hew** knowledge of the past—(Hear). When Members ease to that House it was not namely as the representatives of the Learned and the great. but of the common people also—(Hear). And they were bound to pay weaves to their imerests - and their feelings—(Hear). The pre , sent Petition be declared in his conscience e Amen the unanimous opinion of the people of The counter Petition was signed by respectable persoes# but not near so netnernes as thit now presented. Mr. OTWAY CAVE said the converts. to Catholic Emancipation had been deemed miraculous; but the converts to universal suffrage were still more extra.. ordinary. He had a letter from Bristol which stated that the Petition had been sent to the gaol for sigma tams, and received forty.srren signatures of malefutere in prison-4 Hear). Lord MMTON said he did not mean te deny that the feelings of the people of Bristol and the west of England were adverse to the measure of Catiltilia Emancipation, which be attributed to the seag l oway conduct of a Catholic tyrant in that coastry. . Pall. were three classes of opinion on thi s pigsties—those i• favour of it, those opposed to it, and the indifferent— and he was confident that any two of them joined to• gether would greatly outnumber the third. He bad n Petition from Halifax is favour of the =Were, signed by 9.000 persons. Mr. BROUGHAM bad received many ' statements on the subject of the present . petition, but he did not think fit to repeat them, as it was net tight.. isrlth opinion, to examine too setepulously into the manor it which a couple of hundred additional names may havd been procured to a petition. He admitted that the pi , titian tormented the feelings, if not the "ideas, of the inhabitants of Bristol ; and if such a petition bad come from Sheffield. or Birmingham, or Manchester, be would willingly take it for the expression of the opinions tithe inhabitants of these towns; but no such petition bed come from these places, aor would come t be was sure.' Mr. BRIGHT might have admitted, in the beat of debate, that the petition eontained double signatures i but he certainly did not know that each was the fact. The Marquis of CHANDOE ted Petition frees dee fillowig 'ben t to the Cabello+ keel littlegkeena j ; s Dahl item the hameenste of Okege*/ fm. as Mar e% Welbeltiod : the of leaseatee ; 0 0 patio bubo coven ef Dephish ; a In the deem of lie o sew: AIM, Saks ; I. Peter's, W ; St. Asses, Serb / a 4 erd a perkh k Oxford; Road, Bab; Clergy at the dues! of Moho ; the Cen t of the of Wycombe; Own ' Wen*. moo; Clergy of xOM. sobs prated. blr. C. N. PALLMER presented two Petitions hem Cobham, and a Parish in Surrey, against any farther concession to the Catholics. The Petitioners armed their regret that Government should now yield to fear what they would not previously yield to reason; and they urged that the measure of emancipation ought," to be conceded to the tranquillity of Ireland, ask equ ally the Government to cons id er the trawling of England. Mai ENRY MAXWELL presented ',titian ISOM .he Catholic Claims from the Protestants of Lovghelll, Aro 11101 moo of '1 c•bl Nol eoe i tem Aek decl sties, Sots 'toe 'the ik gee ce tint pomi AI Met bpva that 'aloe N Ho wen =or tioa he ti mot Me the V 'it win COMM 1111C011 SOPPC boos. 1 4 11 of Bs diabi Prow am! dos bis stage, and 11 shoal rural Mr sal ie the I ageless Pod ilhe tbe C— rdreti mil fr. Cols ammo et Illas 11111•1/ WS 1 Reim Masa Mr firths •a sts bad d choke acted with i W of Mint lit a 4 ie 11.0111 i in, des tote high 10111111 la the Pia le col They mese; etre Stint' ii 'Met - WM I allow hoped Ithot dime I twits' is. t. 1 4 -1 1 -11 molls! It.ey tt "gots.