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I ~' c '%. ~J New Musical Week. Just published, price £1 ls. THE LAYS of a WANDERER : First Series, being Original Melodies, in English and German, with Accompa niments for the Pianoforte or Guitar. By CHARLES WALTHER. Each embellished with a splendid Lithographic Plate by the Author. Johanning and Whatmore, 126, Regent-street. RICHMOND, SURREY. i~ THE CASTLE TAVERN, FAMILY HOTEL, AND POSTING HOUSE. JOHN COCKERELL has the honour to announce to the Nobility, Families, and Parties visiting Richmond, that he has taken the above respectable establishment, which was for many years occupied by the late Mr. Forty. J. 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TO THE FACULTY, and those who take Opium, or its Preparations, is recommended " The LANCASTER SLACK DROP," which many of the most eminent Physicians anJ Surgeons, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, use and prescribe in preference to any other preparation of Opium. Prepared as usual (only) by J. 13rathwalte, Kendal, successor to the late J. A. Brathwaite, Member of the Royal College of Sur. geons, London. And sold wholesale and retail by Savory, 3loore, and Co. Chemists to the Royal Family, 136, New Bond -street, and 220, Regent -street, London ; and retailed by most of the re. ?friable chemists and medicine venders in the kingdom. THE BILIOUS PILLS. PREPARED by F. NEWBERY and SONS, are the discovery of a Physician of the Ant eminence at the present Prue. in an extensive practice for some years be has employed them in the most obstinate Bilious Cases with unvarying success. 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I N THE MORNING OF LIFE, when the blandish 'bents of passion " take the reason prisoner," it is an evil A!,4e to be lamented than wondered In, if, In the vortex of decep tvc pleasure, the unhappy traitor again.t the laws of nature pays Itt Ludy disappointment a tearful exaction for his rebellion, in the Tompromise of his mental as well as bodily powers. To all per -14111 *0 circumstanced as to require the professional aid of men of etperience, whose time has been for twenty years studiously and successfully devoted to the complaints arising from nervous de bilitymarther natural or acquired, GOSS and Co. proffer the most coasuidtory assurances. The youth who has enervated his frame by :he strangely fascinating sin, which the poor victim of folly will tau readily compr e h en d wit hout further description, may find re het irom his misery, and be kindly taught to regain his lost place the kale of creation. The sufferer who, from another extreme of indulgence has, with unbashful forehead, wooed debility, may learn to renovate nature and repair his abused constitution. The !''an of pleasure exposed to and suffering from Lues Venerea, however aggravated by malpractice of the quack, or the conceal ment truni diffidence, may find a certain restoration ; and finally cases where the delay of a connubial pledge has almost extended A i appuilitmen , to dispair, they off e r to the married female those topes which she can reasonably appreciate. Remedies can be forwarded to any part of the woad ; Patients writing for the same, will please to enclose a Bank Note. Atten d.oce at hone for consultation as usual. GOSS and Co. M.E.C. Surgeons. No. 11 , Bouveriootreet, Fleet-street, London. Just p u bli s h e d (Eighteenth Edition), I. The S G ' S o f LIFE, a familiar commentary on the above diseases; 2d, The Si pinusT, a popular treatide on Ines vents**, Sic. sd. - G AN A, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. :%lay be Eat at 20, Paternoster-rove ; 59, Pall-mall ;4, Catherine-street, , trand, London ; of Potter, 72, Grafton.streot, Dublin ; 84, te, Glasgow ; at 9, Carlton-street, Ildiaburgb ; and of an t osksellers. Price ss. c ~. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1830. PRICE 7D. N°. 13,477. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDSMOYDAY. Lord de DUNSTANVILLE presented a petition for removal of civil disabilities from the Jews._ _ _ _ Lord RADNOR, a petition from a Constitutional Society, pray ing for reform in parliament. Sir It. HILL, end other members from the commons, brought up several private bills, which were read the first time. Lord ROLLE presented a petition from Teignmouth, in the county of Devon, for repeal of the law inflicting death in cues. of forgery. The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition, numerously signed by mechanics, artificers, and others, praying for the :adoption of Mr. Owen's plan. Lord DYNEVOR presented petitions from Carnarvon and Car marthen, against the proposed alteration of Welsh Judicature. The Earl of WESTMORLAND presented a petition from Bel fast against the stamp duties, and one from the newspaper proprie tors of Ireland against the proposed duty on newspaper stamps. ?he Duke of RICHMOND presented a petitton from Kent against the poor laws. The Duke of BEAUFORT, a petition from Monmouth, for free trade to India. sure brio effect. The clergy of all denominations were uniting in support of the measure. LAWLEY presented a petition from Birmingham in favour of the Jew Bill; and a petition from the Chamber of Commerce, Birmingham, against the Bill for abolishing arrest for debt under 1001. Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the paper.makers of Northumberland for a repeal of the duty on paper. Sir O. PHILLIPS presented a petition from Manchester in fa vour of the Jew bill. Mr. RUMBOLD presented a similar petition from Great Var. 'tooth. Mr. COOTE presented a petition from Clonmell against the proposed %crease of the tax on newspapers in Ireland. Lori STANLEY presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, against the punishment of death for forgery. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from William .Langston, licensed victualler of Greenwich, for compensation for the injury he skauld sustain in the value of his house by the passing of the beer WI. Sir &WILSON precasted a petition from Southwark In favour of the Jew Bill. Sir R. WILSON presented a petition in favour of the Jews from the irltabitants of Norwood. Si 4. J. SEBRIGHT presented a petition from Royston spinal the increase of duty on spirits. Mr. O'CONNELL presented two petitions in favour of the Jews' Relit. Bill, one from Dublin and the other from Clontarf. 11r. WO )KNELL presented a petition from three individuals, friend of Parliamentary Reform, and members of the London Asso. cloth): for Radical Reform, in favour of that desirable measure. Lord XI LUEN presented a petition in favour of the Jews' Re. lief 11111, from the Catholics of Dublin. Mr. J. MARTIN presented a petition from the Roman Catho. lics of the county of Worcester, expressing their gratitude for the great measure of last Session, and praying that a similar bill may l i be 'based for the relief of the Jews. 11r. PROTHEROE supported the petition. Mr. BARING presented a petition from the merchants, bankers, traders, and other inhabitants of the city of London, signed by 14,000 persons, in favour of the Jews' Relief Bill. This petition he thought of great importance, coming as it did from the very per sons amongst whom the great mass of the Jews reskie.—(Hcar.).— Of those,who had signed the petition, 2,500 were merchants, a great number were bankers, and opwards of 1,000 were professional gen tlemen, principally doctors of medicine.—(Hear.) He trusted the house would show to the Jews the same degree of liberality and jus tice which they had already exhibited to the Catholics.---(Hear.) General GASCOYNE said, that the reason there were no peti- Owls agrinst the Jews Relief Bill, was because the public never foe a moment entertained the idea that that house intended seriously to take the matter into their consideration.—(Hear.) He heard a noble lord say, that he would prove that the admission of the Jews to seats in that house was for the purpose of benstidng the Chris tian religion. He should wait with great anxiety to hear this curious proposition maintained.--(Hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL said, that what was said by the noble lord alluded to was, that their admission to that house would be in ac cordance with the principles of Christianity. The petition was then ordered to be printed. Mr. BROUGHAM presented a petition from the barristers of the different courts in London, signed by members of different reli. gloms persuasions, most of whom ranked very high in their pro. fession. Mr. NICHOLSON CALVERT objected to tbe bill on the of Its being partial. He would not object tea bill ng p. neral emancipation upon all classes. ' --(Hear hear, hear.) He could see no reason why the Quakers , and all others, should not be included. Mr. BROUGHAM said, that he quite agreed with:the hon. member for Hertford; but there was a way of regaining their con sistency, not by excluding the Jews, but by Including the Quakers and othei..--(greet cheers.) Mr. N. CALVERT said he had intended to move, se an amend. meat, the appointment of a committee to inquire bow far oaths might be dispensed with. He should not do that now, for he was usually very unfortunate with his amendments. (Cheers, and a Lugh.) Mr. R. GRANT said that he should support a mote general general measure at any time that the hon. member for Hertford should bring it In. (Hear, hear.)—The petition was then ordered to be printed. Mr. BENETT presented petitions in favour of the Jews relief bill, from Warminster and Woolwich. Mr. 111 A %SHALL presented a similar petition from Leeds, signed by 4,000er Lord E. SOMERSET presented a petition from the parish of Cone, hi Gloucester, against the sale of beer bill. Mr. PENDARVIS presented a petition from Falmouth in fa vour of the Jews relief bill. Mr. 0. CAVE presented a petition from Leicester against the punishment of death for forgery. Also a petition from the same place, praying for an alteration in the law respecting landlords and tenants. Also a petition from Glassingtown, against negro slavery. DISTRESS. Mr. E. DAVENPORT presenteda petition from Birmingham, signed by 25,000 persons. The petition prayed for an effectual and speedy reform in the House of Commons, and went on to complain that the effect expected to result from Mr. Peel's bill of 1819 had not taken place. In answer to the expectations of the people on that head, it had been stated that prices must come down in this country to the level of prices on the continent. If that were the case, however, how came it that at any time since the peace, a rise had taken place in prices, and yet there was a period when such a rise was going on, though the merchant did not expect that the rise would continue. It was certain, however, that the rise in the value of money occa sioned by that bill, which many people estimated at double its former value, had increased all the burdens of the country. There was no doubt a difficulty in ascertaining precisely the effects of that bill, but the extent of the rise in the value of money had not been estimated by any person at less than 25 per cent. The member for Callington (Mr. Attwood we believe) had, three or four years ago estimated the rise in the value of money, and the fall of the price of commodities at between 30 and 40 per cent. He was disposed to divide the period of the alteration in the currency into two pot. tions—before the bill of 1819, and since that time. He believed, before Mr. Peel's bill passed, that the rise in the value of money had been 15 per ant. and subsequent to that period, and between 1828, that the rise had been 20 per cent. Since then he believed that the rise in the value of money and the fall in the price of commodities since 1828 had been 20 per cent. which ought to be add 1 to the 90 per cent. difference in the value of money between the' termination of the war and 1828. He had received from the petitioners a list of 26 articles, chiefly made at Birmingham, and all hardware, which articles confirmed in a striking manner the view he had just laid before the house. The hon. member stated that he would not read over the list,but he would state the result. The sum of all the list was, that between 1818 and 1828, the price of all these articles on an average had fallen 36 per rent. Since 1828, the petitioners stated, that prices had fallen 22, bearing out, in a remarkable manner, the statement he had just submitted to the house. The general fall in the price of commodities since the period he had alluded to—since 1819, when the right honourable gentleman's bill passed, and since 1828, when the small nous were suppressed—showed the operation of some general cause, and the effeas were such as might be expected from altering the standard of value. There were other circumstance, noticed in the petition. The petitioners complained that nothing had been done to)eliete them of the burden of taxation. The petition, be should observe, had been drawn up and signed before the Beer Bill bad been introduced into Parliament, and before the government bad announced any reduc tion of taxation. The petitioners abeam of the little attention that was paid to the petitions oldie rand nothing. he thought, could be a greater aggravation of their sufferings than to find the Legislature, which had Inflicted those sufferings by its own sets refusing to inquire into the consequences of them. The hon. hart. who had brought forward a motion relative to the Privy Council, the other evening, bad shown that the ministers knew how to take care of themselves. That motion had, indeed, been negatived by the right hon. gentlemen opposite, who had no inclination to have their own emolument, investigated ; but the benontable baronet hod, by his own diligence, eetertained the important fact, that 113 of the members of the Privy Council divided amongst themselves 630,0001. the people's moray per year, or that each one had 5,700 L being more than the salary oldie Bovoreigo of the United states of Ame rica. The petideales stated, that to arable them to wry ea their busbies. there roust be a peat redaction at imolai. They dated tbat at present the rates could set be Wait, and tbat the taxes mid not be collected. Time, the petillsoes. shook were the eottoequeucce of the bill for regulating the currency. To these present calamities was to be added the appreheaslon of scarcity, for we had a corn law which kept the produce of other countries from twining into this country. The petitiaters stated that it was the duty of the house to intend to the grievances of the peopie before it voted away the people's money, and before It ordered taxes to be levied ; for nobody prospered in the country but those who lived. on the taxes. The petitioners not only prayed for a great reduction of taxatioa, but also for a reform of parliament, and they said that they could not expect any attention to their grievances, till there was a retort,, In parliament. The petitioners also noticed one circu pstance, to which the right hon. gent. had referred on a former aces* on. The right hon. gent. had stated that Birmingham was in a state of pre. sperity, and he had quoted as proofs of this, the traffic on the r..asis and canals, and particularly the increase of traffic on the Worers•ee and Birmingham canal. The reason of this was, that the canal had been. as we understood, extended to Olosoester. [The hen...4:1116er stated some other reasons for the increase of the traffic on this canal, which we could not hear ' owing to the noise in the house, and to low tone used by the boo . member.] He next referred to a stated ens of the right hon. gent. that some ground rents had sold in Binning. ham for one hundred years' purchase. But the fact in this case was that by the purchase the ground was converted into freehold, and the purchase its value was considerably augmented. Tile contract price, as we understood, was 3,5001. while the profit de. rived from the purchase was 5001. a year. The right Iron. gectle. man had also quoted the number of four-wheeled carriages in use in Birmingham, but he believed that the four-wheel carriages refer red to by the right honoerable gentleman were only pony-chaises, which the people had taken to use instead of gigs. The real four. wheeled carriages, such a gentlemen use, and such as arc renerilly understood by the term, had increased, he believed, in Ilirmitsg. ham since 1818 about one.fortieth. In 1818 there were thirty.eight such carriages in Birmingham, and in ins there were twenty-ni1.... But a different sort of proof might be derived from the state of ti:c poor in Birmingham. In the last year the out-door poor had in. creased 445, and since 1818 they had increased full I,4oo.—Sumo impatience being here manifested by the house, the hon. member observed, however impatient the members were to give relief to th,.. Jews, perhaps they ought to think that tome attention was due to the complaints and sufferings of 23,000 Christians. The honourable member then adverted to the state of the iron trade, and stated that of the Staffordshire and Worcestendlire furnaces no less than 43 out of 107 (we understood) had been blown out ; while of the 43 fur naces in Shropshire 14 had been blown out. Mr. THANT here rose to order. The lion. member objec:ed to the hon. member entering into so many statements on prescntirg a Petition [cries of " Order!" and . 4 Chair, chair r . ] The lion. member might content himself with an impromptu speech on such a, subject. . _ _ Mr. E. DAVENPORT, in continuation, said he did not know whether the lion. member's interruption was au imptemptu sugges tion or not, but a more disorderly one he had never witnessed in that house. The Petitioners prayed for Reform in Parliament, a:al in that he cordially concurred. He had been a Reformer since the ti:ge of the disgraceful expedition to Walt-heron. The Parliament a :is not • fair representation of the people. (Hear.) As it was R Se. lection from the mass, it ought to be better than the mass of the people; but it was not. He did not think it was a fair men of the ge talent of England. If he threw a net acro-s th• Strand, he believed that the first 658 men he caught would const:- tute a House of Cotnmomi which would obtain the confidence or the people,and be more worthy of it than the presentliouse of Conimuns. A reform might be obtained on constitutional principles, which would satisfy him. He would have the septennial act repealed, and he cordially concurred with the petitioners in desiring to see the ex penses of elections diminished, so that talents and character might haves fairer chance than at present against money. If any person should propose the vote by ballot, it should have his consent—u:g that he thought that mode of voting good in Itself, but it would operate, in the mascot state of society, to check corruptive intiu ence. Property ought, indeed, to have its legitimate influence ; but at present it had a very unjust end improper influence, tend to controul everything like freedom, and this influence migh., probably, be corrected by the ballot. It was a statement of the petitioners that all the industrious classes were suffering greatly, because the money was taken out of their pockets to go into the pockets of the receivers of taxes, and they stated that for all these evils there was no remedy but a reform of par. Bement; and he called on the house to attend to the prayers of the petitioners in time, before the house lost the eon& dame of the people altogether, and before they took the means of reform, and, perhaps, of avenging their own wrong into their own hands. The Reform Meeting at Birmingham 'had been followed by similar meetings all over the countryeand reform was becoming a favourite topic with the people. For the rest he had never been slow to express his opinion either in that house at elsewhere, and be should still have the courage to do ao without entertaining as y apprehension that the societies he had 'alluded to could meet the fate of other societies across the water, or that he should be afflicted with the " Sennett" fever. The hon. member concluded by moving that the petition be brought up. Mr. Secretary PEEL said that he understood the hon. member had gone to Birmingham for the purpose of getting information, to contradict 'the statement made by him (Mr. Secretary Peel) that Birmingham was not in the distressed state represented in that house by himself, during a discussion upon a former evening. How had the bon. member succeeded ? He had not disproved a single statement made by him on that occasion. He (Mr. Se. Weary Peel) had adverted to the increase of gigs and o her two-wheeled carriages, in order to show the increased cornfon of the middling classes of society, knowing, that if he quoted the four-wheeled carriages, he might be met by the argument that the wealth of the higher classes was no proof o f gem's ! prosperity. The hon. member, however, adverted to the four. wheeled carriages, and said, that since the year 1819, there was en imam of only one four-wheeled carriage. Now he could not toll ka• what source the boo. member drew his information; but bkhad OD objection whatever to tell the hon. member the source from whence his (Mr. Secretary Peel's) information was derived. He was aware that an increase of taxes was no proof of increasing peeperity generally, but he did think that the increase from a tax spa amides of luxury, such as gigs, which were principally used by drooling desses, did afford a fair specimen of increasing ann. feet in that shoe of the community.—(hear, bear.) Wi t h this ins. he applied to the excise, or ratha•tax.office of C Birmingham , ia whenee be got the following returns, commencing lha w i th a trie year 1819, before the passing of the bill, which was called by his name, and tenshsating with the year 1828. The number of four. wheeled carriages in Bhmingham in the year 1819 was 1820....... 1821 1822 1823 • • 55 1824 1825 1826. 1827 ... 1828 .... Thus the number bad risen pogrtssively from the passing of this bill, which was to have reduced the country to a state of insolvency from 38 to 167.—((drat cheering.) The hon. member, in order to account foe this increase, says, that the people converted their gigs into four-wheeled pony chaises. If so, there ought to have been a dame use in the number of two-wheeled carriages; but the facts would not bear out the argument of the hon. member, for, by the re turn which he held in his hand, it appeared that the number of two wheeled carriages was, in 1819 . .... 361 1818 leaving an increase of 108. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Secretary Peel) had stated, on the occasion alluded to, that Birmingham war not in the depressed state io which it was represented to be ; and he then begged leave to reiterate that assertion, and to state that since the year 1819 that town had been, up to the present moment, in a progressive state of improvement. (Hear, hear.) Property had increased in 1830, as compared with 1819, in a ratio of 30 per cent. and taxes and poor-rates bad never been collected with less diffi culty than in the last and present year. Mr. DAVENPOKT.—The petition means generally collected with great difficulty. Mr. Secretary PEEL said he was then to assume from t h e h on . member that Birmingham was the exception which completely proved his argument.—((treat cheering.) The pans-rates' arrears were, in the year 1819, 3,9001. They subsequently rose to 5,0001. but in the last year there was an arrear of only 1,0311. and this in the absence of any thing like rigour in their collection. Neither had there been any increase of rigour in the collection of the taxes, for in the whole of last year %berthed been only ail cases in which they were levied in Birmingham by distress, and yet the returns stood thus :—ln 1819, out of 18,000'. due, only 7,0001 was paid, leaving for the year an arrest of In 1820 the arrear 10,000 1891 • ••••••••••••••••••••Mai• NO 10,324 1823 1821 7,899 lab 1828 5,871 1828 ... . 1829 And for these last years he might thy, that them nevenwas &peeled when the taxes were paid with less of pressure en the labsbter. In the saving banks of Biniiingbisni also, there waver, no km a sum than 30,1801. and there were 3,547 acesents opined. In the last mouth, there bad both days est if these leeks the stun of 1,11921. and there bad bows* in 2,1031. leaving an increase paid in of 1.1301. l one irleilli-'4Cheers.) Then bad eke been an increase from wintlitiik ssstaiti, urns* Iron, dogs,— 'in fact, with two exceptiebs, every . dthig, bad, *leased, and 4 .11` b ‘, . dim 4 /fiwr rz o Jr oil NO nays, OP THING i SLAVIRT. The Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented a petition from the inhabitants of Procne, in Somerset, fur the abolition of slavery. The right reverend prelate felt himself upon to say, that sla very, so long established by chriatiant, was hostile to the law of Gon. It was continued in the 19th century, to the great disgrace of the Christian world, and every feeling of Christianity would be outraged if they allowed the offspring of negrom to be slaves. Lord DARNLEY presented a petition for removing the disabili ties of the Jews. Lord OLENGALL presented a petition from Carrick against the additional duty on spirits. EAST IETFOID DULL. On the motion of the Marquis of SALISBURY, counsel and witnesses were called in, and the inquiry respecting the corrupt con duct of the voters of Ea st Retford was renewed. On this occasion their lordships adopted a new mode of examin ing the witnesses. A box was made for the purpose of raising them so that the evidence of each witness might be distinctly heard. William Barton, one of the electors who had an itching palm at the election, was the first who occupied the box. The examination having extended to the usual hour, further pro ceedings were adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS--MONDAY. Shakerly's Divorce Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be commited on the 25th of May. RYE ELECTION. Lord PALMERSTON brought up the report of the Committee on the Rye Election. The Committee decided that all persons pay ing scot and lot in the borough are entitled to vote for Representa tives in Parliament ; and that Mr. Pusey was not duly elected, and ought not to have been returned, and that Mr. Delaney lumens was duly elected, and ought to have been returned, and that neither the petition nor the defence was frivolous or vexatious. Mr. O'CONNELL moved the second reading of the Irish Steam Navigation Company Bill. Mr. MOORE said the Dublin Steam Company already in exist ence had subscribed the whole capital before they were incorporated ; those who sought to have the present bill passed had not subscribed any capital. He moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. HUSK ISSON said the bill was founded In monopoly. He, would much rather see the present Company dissolved, than a new one formed; they might combine together against the public. The whole should be left to individual industry and enterprise. Mr. SPRING RICE would oppose the bill, if its rejection would repeal the act forming the present company ; but as that could not be done he should support the bill, to create a rival company ; and even if they should combine the public would not be worse off than at present in the hands of a single company. Sir H. PARNELL supported the bill. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the bill. He had seen so much of the inconveniences arising from such bills, that he thought he should never support any such measure.—He had seen the ca pital of thousands in the middle ranks of life destroyed by such schemes. Sir GEORGE HILL opposed the bill. Mr. BROWNLOW supported it. Mr. COURTENAY proposed that the bill should be postponed till Friday. Mr. O'CONNELL concurred, and the second reading was post poned to Friday next. Mr. HUTCHINSON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Cork, against the proposed duty on stamps, and on spirits ; and a petition from the Letterpress Printers of Cork, against the pro posed increase in the duty on newspaper stamps. Mr. P. THOMPSON presented a similar petition from the Newspaper Proprietors of Ireland. 111 r. O'CONNELL said, if revenue was the object it would be defeated by an increase of the tax ; he believed the object was to stifle the public voice. ---(hear, hear.) Mr. MOORE and Mr. GItATTAN said no tax could be more unpopular in Ireland, nor more injurious to its interests. Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought the tax on newspapers ought to be reduced ; and when the bill was brought before the house, he would move that the duty on newspapers and advertisements should be reduced one-half. Mr. P. THOMSON presented a petition from Margate in favour of the Jews. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition from the Attorneys of Liverpool, against the abolition of the separate jurisdiction of the county palatine of Lancaster • and a petition from the letter-press printers of Liverpool, for a reduction of the tax on newspapers, and a petition from the tobacconists of Liverpool, for a reduction of duty ; and a petition from the merchants of London, complaining of the high charge for the conveyance of gold and silver by the King's ships, which was at present two per cent. Lord BELFAST presented a petition from Belfast against the proposed increase in the duty on newspapers. Sir H. PARNELL presented • petition from Jews resident in Canterbury, for the repeal of the penal laws, and a similar petition from the inhabitants of Canterbury. Mr. HUbIE presented a similar petition front Uxbridge. Lord M ILTON presented a similar petition from the Christians of Sheffield. Mr. CARTER presented a similar petition from Portsmouth. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition, unanimously agreed to at a Common Hall in London, complaining of distress, and praying for parliamentary reform u the only means of Wording relief. Mr. Aldetman THOMPSON supported the prayer of the petition. Mr. HUME concurred in the recommendation of the petitioners for parliamentary reform, and he hoped they would set the example by reforming their own representation. Mr. HEATHCOTE said, they ought also to reform their pries; though wholesale prices had fallen considerably, retail prices were kept up in a manner that was quite abominable. Mr. Aid. WOOD said, the corporation was reforming itself; and in the Court of Common Council on Friday, they had admitted the Jews to the freedom of the city, by a majority of tie to 27. The shopkeepers in London were actually selling at a loss, and be was ready to take the hon. gentleman to as many cheap shops as be could desire. Mr. WEMYSS presented a petition from Forfar, spinet any increase of the duty on corn spirits, and against any increase of the stamp duties. Mr. CAVENAOH presented a petition from certain clergymen of the established church, members of the University of Cambridge, in favour of the Jews BilL Alr. FRENCH presented a petition from the county of Ramo. mon, against the introduction of poor laws into Ireland. Mr. ORATTAN said it was an important subject, and ou gh t to be seriously and fully considered. He thought the Introdu ctio n of poor laws into Ireland was absolutely necessary. A greet elmoithad taken place In the public opinion in Ireland upon the mug. " Mr. O'CONNELL said, nothing could be more or horrible than the state of the poor in Ireland . In Da alone, there were 8,000 persons actually starving, many of them reoriving a subsistence of no mote than twopence haltenny • day. To the principles of poor laws in Ireland he was blandly, though be wee aware there would be difficulty in the Freedom; but he hoped a ma. c hiney was growing up in Ireland, capable of carrying the OW"