Star. — London, England, 1831-03-16 00:00:00

tsg ;•• e en.inie.i, by re I. r. 11 r ovk lit r.hip or pois..s,ion of any ffeehold, :easehold, or co., 0.'41, or cu.tomary lands or tenements situate whilst such parish or township, to vote in any election for a hright of the shire to serve for the county wherein such parish or town. ip hr., and shall on or I cube the day if in the present r, and on or before the day of in each suc ceeding year, cause such list to he affixed on the doors of all the churches Of chapels within such p,..rish or township, or if there be no church or chapel, this to l-e fix, LI up Us some public and conspicuous situation wi•hin the .7.mr respectivtly on the first three Sundays in the month of September in each ; and on or before the lwenty-Jifih day of Sepu nber i . s ezch yeas sh .11 send such list to the high constable or high constables an the hundred wherein such parish or township lies, who sba:l forthwith transmit the same to the clerk of the peace of the county. And be it enacted, that the judges named in the last commission of assize for each county, immediately after the l (using of this act, and in each succeeding year the judges of assize for each county when travelling the Summer Circuit, shill nominate and appoint (subject nevertheless to the approbation of the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being) a Barrister to revise such lists, and decide upon all objections to the omission or insertion of the names therein respectively ; and that such b...rrister so appointed as aforesaid shall give public notice by advertisement in the county newspaptrs, that he will make a circuit or the county for which he shall h.: so nominated and appointed, and of the 'Lycral times and places at which he v. ill hold courts for that purpose, :.ad he shall hold au open court for that purpose at the times and places auto be announced; and that such barrister shall be paid for discharging the duty so cast upon him, out of the at the rate of not wore than or less than for every slay that he shall be so employed: Provided always that no barrister so nominated and appointed as aforesaid shall be eligible to serve in parliament for twelve months from the end of such his appoint ment for the county for which he shall be nominated and appointed. A^d he is enacted, that the said barrister shall enquire into and t;etertnine all such objections as aforesaid, and shall expunge the names of all persons who shall not have owned or held the landsur tenements in respect of which he claims to vote for the space of Thirty days at the least before the first day of holding the said caurt, or who shall be inca pacitated by any law or statute from voting in the election of members to serve in parliament, and shall insert the name of any person who may to the satisfaction of such barrister prove himself to have owned or held such land.; and tenements as ;nay entitle him to a vote in the rcxt en suing election, and who shall not be proved incapable by law of voting in the election of Members to serve in Parliament ; provided that no name shall be expunged or inserted without such notice and publication .•S is herein-before required in respect to the lists to be made for Cities and B. roughs. And be it enacted, That such returning officer and such barrister so holding their respective courts as aforesaid, shall have power to ad minister an oath to all persons making objection to the insertion or omission of.tnv LAOIS in such list as aforesaid, and tr all parsons ob. jetted agaisst, and to all witnesses who may be tendered on either side, but that the said bearings shall not be attended by counsel ; and that such returning officer or barrister shall, upon the hearing in open court, finally determine upon the validity of such claims and objections, and sitall its open court write his initials against the names respectively struck nut or inserted, and sign his name to the several lists so settled. And be it enacted, that such lists shall, when so nettled and signed, be tacked together and form one list for the County or Division, City or Borough respectively ; and the list so signed by the said banister shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace of the County for which he shall have been appointed ; and the list so signed by the said returning officer shall be by hint kept and handed over at the expiration of his office to the person succeeding hint in the same; and that the Clerk of the peace and the returning officer respectively shall cause copies of the sante to be printed at the expense of the county (which shall be deli. s creel to all persons applying, on payment of Sixpence for each copy,) and that such lists shall be the lists of Electors to vote after the end of this present Parliament, in the choice of knights, citizens and bur gesses for the several counties, and divisions of counties, cities and boroughs for which such lists shall be made respectively at any Election which may be holden after the said day of in the present year, and before the first day of December in the next year, and the lists to be made in each succeeding year shall be the lists of the electors to vote at any election to be holden after the first day of December in each succeeding year respectively. And be it enacted, that in all elections whatever of Members to serve in any future Parliament, no inquiry shall be permitted at the time of polling, except as to whether the person claiming to vote be the same whose name appears in such list, and whether such persons shall have previously voted at the election, and uo such person shall be excluded from voting at any such Election, except by reason of his refusing to take the oaths or make the affirmation required by law. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, that by petition to the House of Commons, complaining of an undue election or return of any Knight, Citizen or Burgess, any petitioner shall be at liberty to question the correctness of the lists which shall have been settled by such barrister or returning officer, and to prove that names were im properly retained, inserted, expunged or omitted at the registration that shall have taken place next before the election or return com plained of; and the Committee before whom the merits of any such petition shall be tried may inquire into the same, and alter the poll taken at such election according to the truth of the case, and direct the TC:11T11 to be amended accordingly ; and in case of corruption, partiality Cr wilful misconduct, may order such costs to be paid to the peti tioner by such barrister or returning officer as such Committee shall think reasonable. And Pe it enacted, that the sheriffs of the counties directed hereby to be divided, shall fix the several days of election for knights of the shire for the several parts, ridings and divisions of their said respective counties, and shall preside at the same by themselves or their lawful deputies. And be it enacted, that at all contested elections of Members to serve in all future Parliaments, except elections for counties and divi sions of counties, the poll shall commence on the day of nomination, or on the day next following, or at the latest on the Third day ; and that the number of hours during which the polling shall proceed shall on the first day of polling be seven, and on the second day eight ; and that the poll shall en no account be kept open later than four o'clock in the afternoon of such second day ; and the final state of the poll shall be declared not later than two o'clock in the afternoon of the third day after the poll shall be opened ; and the returning officer or officers shall return the member or members to serve in Parliament by virtue of such election immediately after the final state of the poll is declared. And be it enacted, that if on the day of election of a knight to serve in any future parliament for any county or division more candidates shall be proposed for the choice of the electors than the number of va vancies to be filled up, and a poll shall be demanded, the polling shall commence at nine o'clock in the forenoon of the next day but one after the day of election, in the several places to be appointed as hereinafter directed by the magistrates for taking polls; and the final state of the poll shall be declared at noon of the firth day after the said day of election. And be it enacted, that the justices of the peace for each county as sembled at the general quarter sessions to be holden nest afrer the pass ing of this Act, and after such proclamations as hereinbtfore men tioned, making known the divisions and incorporations of the said counties for which, after the passing of this act, knights of the shire shall be elected, to serve in all future parliaments, or at some special sessions to be by then: appointed, and of which at lean there shall be givtn tot days public notice, shall consider and shall have full power to appoint convenient places within such counties and divisions for taking the poll at all future elections of knights of the shire to serve in parliament .or the said counties and divisions respectively, in such manner that no person shall have to travel more than fi teen wiles from the property in respect of which he claims to vote; provided that no county or division of a county now entitled or by this act empowered to send knights of the shire to serve in parliament shall have more than fi g teen places appointed for taking the poll for the same respectively. And be it enacted, that the said justices of the peace shall have the like authority to appoint different places, at the end of tiro years from the first appointment to he made for that purpose, and that a list of the polling places to be so appointed shall he lodged with the clerk of the peace of each county ; and ►hat the names of such places so ap. pointed shall he inserted on lists to be affixed on the door of the churches and chapels within each county and division immediately after they are so made according to the last appointment, and the polling at election, shall take place according to the list last lodged, in conformity to this enactment, with the said clerk of the peace. And be it enacted, that every election of members to serve in all future parliaments for all cities and boroughs in England shall be held, carried on and concluded in some one place, and under the superintend. rice and controui of the same returning officer or officers ; but there shall be appointed for raking the poll at such election different booths for different pari.hes districts nr places, so divided and allotted as to the returning officer or officers shall seam most convenient, of which diet. sion and allotment public notice shall be given, so that no greater num. bcr than sir hundred shall be required to poll at any one booth. And be it enacted, That, after the end of this present parliament, all booths to be built for the convenience of taking polls shall be erected by contract with the candidates, or if they cannot agree, such booths shall be erected by tlle sheriff or other returning officer or officers at the joint and equal expense of the several candidates; and that the clerks employed in taking the poll shall be paid One guinea by the day by each of the candidates at such election : provided always, that if any person shall be proposed without his consent, then the person so proposing him shall be liable to defray his share of the said szpenses in like manner as if he had been a candidate. And be it enacted, that the number of hours during which the poll for any county or division, than be taken on the first day shall be seven, and on the second day shall be eight; and that no poll shall be kept open later than four o'clock in the afternoon of the mond day. And be it enacted, that the poll-Jerks, at the close of each day's poll of an election for any meaty or division, shall enclose and se a l their several books, and shall its open court deliver them so sealed to the sheriff or to his deputy presidlag at such poll, who shall give a re ceipt for the same; and the sheriff or his deputy who so receives, shall, on the commencement of the poll on the second day, deliver them back so enclosed and sealed to the person from whom he shall have received them ; and on the final close of the pull, the said sheriff or such his deputy shall keep the said poll-books so unopened until the re.assent bling of the court on the sixth day, when he shall openly break the seals thereon and cast up the number of votes as they appear on the said several books, and shall openly declare the state of the poll or polls, and shall make proclamation of the member or members chosen, And be it enacted, that so much of an act passed in the twentieth year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled, " an act to re move certain difficulties relative to voters at county elections," as re quires the names of freeholders to be placed on the land-tax roll, shall be and the same is hereby repealed ; and all laws, statutes and usages now in force respecting the election of members to serve in parliament, for that part of the united kingdom called England and Wales, shall be and remain and are hereby declared to be and remain in full force, except so far as they are repealed or altered by this att. And be it enacted, that if any sheriff, returning officer, barrister, or any person whatsoever, shall wilfully conttavene or disobey the pro visions of this Act or any of them, with respect to any matter or thing which such sheriff, returning officer, barrister or other person is hereby required to do, he shall for such his offence be liable to be sued in an action of debt in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at iVestminster for the penal sum of and the jury before whom such action shall be tried may find their verdict for the full sum of or for any less sum not less than which the said jury shall think _ . . . itnust that he should pay for such his offence ; and the defendant in such action, being convicted, shall pay such penal sum so awarded, with full costs of suit, to any party who may sue for the same, without prejudice however to the right of any party grieved by the same mis conduct of such sheriff, returning officer, barrister or other person, to recover such damage in an action on the case, for a false return, or any other grievance, as he may be entitled to at common law, or by virtue of any statute now in force, And be it enacted that if any person named in any of the lists so as aforesaid required to be made, but who at the time of any election shall be in the enjoyment of any office now by law disqualifying him trout giving his vote at the election of members to serve in parliament, shall presume to vote at such election, he shall be liable to all ;Lt:ldes and forfeitures to which he would have been subject for the said effence by any law in force at the time of the passing of this act, any thing herein contained notwithstanding; and In case of a petition to the HOUR! of Commons, for altering the return or setting aside the election in which such person shall have voted, his vote shall be struck cif by the com. mime, with such costs to be by him paid to any petitioner as to such committee shall seem just. And be it enacted and provided, that nothing in this act contained shall extend to or in any wise affect the election for members to serve in Parliament for the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. And be it enacted, that throughout this act wherever the words city or borough, cities or boroughs, may occur, those wards eball extend to and include all towns corporate. cinque ports, districts, or places within England and Wales which shall be entitled, after this act shall have passed, to return members to serve in Parliament, other than counties and divisions of counties, and also to the town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the words returning officer shall apply to every person or persons who by virtue of his or their office, either under the present act or under any former law, custom, or statute, has, or have had, and shall have, the right of returning writs or precepts for the election of mem bers to serve in Parliament, by whatever name such person or persons may have been called ; and the words " parish or township" shall ex tend to every parish, township, vill, hamlet, district, or place maintain ing its own poor; and the words " churchwardens and overseers of the poor" shall extend to all overseers of the poor in the several parishes, townships or chapeiries, villa, districts or places, by whatever name or title they may be called, and whether appointed under the act for the relief of the poor passed iu the forty-third year of her Alajesty Queen I Elizabeth, or tinder any local act, or according to any peculiar custom, or in any other manner whatever. _ SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS. SCHEDULE (A.) DISFRANCHISED BOROUGHS. - - -- - - - Aldborough, YoriiAideb;gl;,guffoik; Appleby, Westmoreland; Bedwin (Great), Wilts; Berealston, Devonshire; Bishop's Castle, Salop; Blechingley, Surrey; Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; Bossiney, Cornwall; Brackley, Northampton ; Bramber, Sussex ; Buckingham, Buckinghamshire; Callington, and Camelford, Cornwall; Castle Rising, Norfolk; Corfe Castle, Doisetshirc Dunwich, and Eye, Suffolk; Fowey, Cornwall; Gatton, and Haslcmcre, Surrey; Hedon, York ; Heytesbury, Wilts ; Higham Ferree, Northampton ; Hindon, Wilts; Ilchester, Somersetshire; East Lout, West Looe, and Lost withiel, Cornwall; Ludgershall, and Ifialmesbury, Wilts; Blidhurst, Sussex ; Pililborne Port, and Blinehead, Somerstuhire; Newport, Cornwall; Newton, Lancashire; Newtown (Hants), Isle of Wight; Okehampton, Devonshire; Orford, Suffolk; Petersfield, Hants; Plympton, Devonshire ; Queenborough, Kent ; Reigate, Surrey ; Romney (New), Kent ; St. Move's, St. Michael's or lidlidshall, and Saltash, Cornwall ; Old Sarum, Wilts ; Seaford, and Steyning, Sussex ; Stockbridge, Hants ; Tregony, Cornwall ; Wareham, Dorsetshire ; Wendover, Bucks ; Weobly, Herefordshire; Whitchurch, Hants ; Winchelsea, Sussex ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire; Wootton Bassett, Wilts; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Hants. SCHEDULE (B.) Amasharn, Bucks; Arundel. Sussex; Ashburton, Devon; Bod min, Cornwall ; Bridport, Dorset-hire; Chippenham, Wiltshire; Clitheros, Lancashire; ockermouth, Cumberland; Dorchester, Dorsetshire; Downton, Wiltshire; Droltwich, Worcestenhire ; Evesham, Worcestembire• Grimsby, Great, Lincolnshire ; Grinstead, East, Sussex ; Guildford, Surrey; Heiman, teornwall ; Moulton, Devonshire; Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire; Hythe. Kent; Laun ceston, Cornwall; Leominster, H e r e f o rdshire ; Liskeard, Cornwall; Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire; Lymington, Hans; Maldon, Essex; Marlborough, Wilt, ; Marlow, Great, Bucks; blorpeth, North umberland; Northallerton York ; Peoryn, Cornwall ; Richmond, York ; Rye, Sussex ; bermain's, Cornwall ; St. Ives, Cornwall; Sandwich, Kent; Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire; Sudbury, Suffolk; Tsmworth, Staffordshire and Warwick; Thetford, .Norfolk ; Think, York; Totness, Devonshire; Truro, Cornwall; Wallingford, Berk shire; Westbury, Wilts; Wilton, Wilts; Wycombe, Bucks. Manchester SCHZDITLE (C.) Parish or Township. Township of Manchester Township of Salford Townships of— Chorlton Bow Ardwicke Be tlrne wick H Cheetham, and Pendleton, Lancashire Parishes of— St. Philip and St. Mary, in Birmingham Aston, Warwickshire The Borough and Liberty of Leeds, 'Yorkshire Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire Parishes of ; St. Nicholas and St. Paul's, Deptford; Woolwich, Kent Townships of— Sheffield Ecelesall Brightside Nether Hallam Halifax Greenwich Rchuning Officer. The Boroughreeve of Manchester The two Banff. of the Town ofßirmingham The Mayor of Leeda Devonport Wolvahampton The Muter Cutler Tower Hamitts Upper Hallam &stemliffe, Yorkshire Parishes of— Sunderland Bishopwearmouth and Monkswearmouth, Durham The Town of Devonport Parish of Stoke Damerel & Township of Stonehouse Devon Parishes of Wolverhampton Mason, and Sedgley, Staffordshire Parishes of the Tower Alary.k.booe Division Ossulston Hundred, Middlsex. Parishes of the Finsbury Division, Ossuiston Hun dred, Middlesex. Parishes of— St. Andrew Holborn and St. George the Martyr Saffron Hill Hatton Garden Ely Rents St. Giles in the Fields & St. George M Bloornsburf, iddlesex Parish of— St. Mary.le.hone St. Pancras, and Pad hltMneic Constable of the Ma. nor of the Deanery of Wolverhampton. St. Mary, Lambeth B St. Mary, Newington ermondsey Rotherbitim Surrey. Borough. Brighton Bolton-le-Moor Blackburn - Bradford Cheltenham Huddersfield Kendal . Stockport South Shields Tyncmouth . Warrington .. Whitehaven Walfiall Scum:our-a (E.). Cities and Borough*. Placn Annexed. Portsmouth ... • . Potties, County of Southampton Rochester • • ... Chatham and Stroud, Kent Kingston upon Hull ... ... Scukoates, Yorkshire. Places sharing the Election Burgesses Holyhead Aberyatwith Lampeter, and Adpar Lionelly Pwllheli . Newin . Conway . . Bangor . . . Ruthin . . . Holt Wrexham . . Rhyddlan . Overton . Carwis Caergonly . Holywell Mold Llandaff Cowbridge Merthyr Tydvil Aberdare Llantrissent Llanidloes Webb Pool Machynleth Llanfylling Newtown Narberth St. David's . Fiahguard . Milford Haven Tenby Wiston . Knighton . Ryador . Kevinleece . Knucklu . Presteigne . Counties of Cider or Towns. Bristol Canterbury Chester Coventry Exeter Gloucester Kingston-upon-Hull • Litchfield . . Newcastle-upon-Tyne Norwich • Nottlagbam . . Poole • • Southampton . • Worcester • . York • SCHEDU: Counties to Return 1 Chestcr Cornwall Cumberland Derby Devon Durham Essex Gloucester Kent Lancaster Leicester Norfolk SCHEDULE (F)• Shire, Town, Counties in which or such Boroughs are Principal Borough. situated 1 Cardigan Caermarthen Caertnarthen Anglesey Cardigan Caernarvon . Caernarvon Denbigh . . Denbigh I Flint . . Cardiff . Montgomery Film Glamorgan. hiontgcnnery Haverfordwat Pembroke t A Pembroke Radnor , Radnor Seamus (CO. Counties for which the Free holders. Copyholders. and Leaseholders are to Vote. Somerset Kent Cheshire Warwick Devon Yorkshire But Riding Staffordshire Norfolk Nottinghamshire Dorset Southampton Woreestershin Yorkshire, North Riding (H). tt Four Members. Northampton . Nottingham Salop Somerset Southampton Stafford Suffolk Surrey Sussex 1 Warwick Wilts ' Worcester ' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF lA)tr. 111Aacx 13. ROYAL Anita. The royal•aasent was given, by commission, tq the marine mutiny bill ; the early° duties drawback repeal bill; the scotch creditors bill ; and three private bills. The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Durham. Petitions were presented by Lord King against the tithe system ; the Earl of Radnor, from Lanark, for parliamentary reform; Lord Rosalyn, from Dysart, to the same effect; the Duke of Norfolk, from Leslie and Roxburg, to the same effect. Lord SUFFIELD, presenting a petition from Norfolk for reform, expressed his unqualified approbation of the bill before the other Rouse of Parliament for that purpose. He thought his MaOuy's ministers entitled not only to the gratitude of the country, but the especial grail• code of those interested in borough influence for rescuing them from the obloquy of that influence. Lad BUTE presented a petition from theinhabitants of Swansea in support of the plan of reform, and expressing joy at the prospect of be. ing represented in Parliament. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. The Earl of CHICHESTER presented the petition of the nobility and gentry of Sussex, praying for some measure to relieve agricultural distress. The noble earl described in strong terms the distress of the peasantry and farmers, and adverted to emigration and the allotment of small gardens as the means of affording relief to the poor. It was ne cessary, under existing circumstances, that no time s hou ld be lost by Parliament in considering this most pressing evil. The noble earl pre. seated a similar petition from Brighton. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition oa the sub ject of Parliamentary Reform, and observed that he was not disposed to apply himself to the details of the measure, but there was one point on which he was desirous of saying a few words. The petition was from the Borough of Caine. The petitioners prayed their Lordships would be pleased to extend the right of voting to householders paying 101. rent, as proposed in the bill. It might not be proper for Ida to allude to any thing like corrupt influence In boroughs, but be could not avoid saying, that the influence exerted In the borough of Caine bad never been paid for. (Hear, hear.) For the satisfied*a of those who took a narrow view of the conduct of borough proprietors, !be could say he was not proprietor of more than four houses in Caine which paid 10L a-year rent. PRISCLIPTVIS MORT KU. Lord TENTERDEN rose, pursuant to notice, to introduce his bill for legal improvement in matters relating to prescriptive right, where the lapse of time renders uncertain the origia of title claimed by suitors. The object of the bill war to limit within narrower ;stand, than the law at present allows the period necessary to establish the validity or ancient customs and contracts. In ecclesiastical courts pre. sceiptive right was limited to fotty years. At common law I; mu extend beyond the memory of man, or to the reign of Richard 11. Ti.e Noble and Learned Lord described the difficulty winch couto. 'l4t juries had long experienced in their endeavour to trace back prekvip. Lion ; and it appeared to him to be better to fix the lhuit which d.c j aw ought to require. The bill provided that where a custom .01 pr eecT i o . tive right had been enjoyed for a period of 30 years, it shall Lot I, destroyed. The bill applied to several objects, embracing right, blished upon custom and enjoyment of advantages, but .core p..tticu• laxly to composition by modus ckcinuend i, and customs, to pay a rt , by pecuniary composition, and other special modes of tititink 11 a understood the Noble and Learned Lord to limit such cumnots to thirty years, but his Lordship was heard indistinctly below the bar, and con. sequcntly the details could not be understood. His object was to read the bill the first time, print it, and leave it some time for 5 ;' , : considers. tion of the Reverend and Learned Lords. He accorditlly movol bill be read the first dine. The Bishop of BRISTOL expressed a hope that sufficient tit x would be allowed the clergy to consider the effect this Bill would produce, and enforce the claims which they then had to dispoko rights. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY also urger! the necessity of allowing the clergy time to prepare their claims. The most revert,' prelate adverted to the unhappy disputes existing on the subject i_ tithes, and observed that much gratitude would be due ro the nobie and learned lord if he could propose a nets and satisfactory mode o f taking tithe. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, he had turned his ann. don to the best mode of tithing, but had not been able to taa pose any better mode. If, however, any better plan could b; proposed by the Ryht Reverend Bench, It should hare his support. The LORD C A NCELLOR said, the Laity and Clergy ought to be grateful to his noble and learned friend for the luminous statement made on this subject, and for the learning and industry bestowed on the question. Noble lords in that house might not be acquainted with the difficulties arising in courts upon questions of prescription. He convinced that the noble and learned lord's bill would be a valuabie legal improvement. The bill was then read the first time, and ordered to be printed. Lord MELBOURNE gave notice, that on Tuesday next he should bring in a bill to repeal the sub-letting act. The Earl of FIFE took occasion to address their lordships. in oppo. anion to the principles of a bill, which had been introduced by a noble and learned Lord (Wynford), for the prevention of frauds upon cue. ditois. The noble earl considered that bill to have a most oppressive tendency. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it hardly fair in the noble earl to come down with remarks in opposition to a measure not then before the house. It would have been better, as it would have been regular, had the noble earl brought forward some specific motion on di: snbject. The EARL of FIFE said, such was certainly his intention; h, should, however, defer making his motion for the prevent. Lord CARBERY inquired if ilia Majesty's Ministers intended to repeal the whole of the Sub-letting Act? Viscount IIELBOURNE answered in the affirmative, although the principle of the present Bill should, in a great measure be retained. Adjourned at Seven9'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being three Election Committee ballots fixed for to-day; namely, to try the merits of petitions complaining of undue returns for Pontefract, Peters&ld and Maidstone, the Gallery was not opened till after five o'clock. Mr. ORMSBY GORE, in presenting several petitions front Car. marthen, in support of the ministerial reform measure, said that lie we. a reformer, but he could not support that measure, he believing that it would render the safety of the constitution more immure. (Hear and some laughter.) He should consider himself et liberty to examine tbr details of the Bill. He admitted that the representation was susceptible of improvement, but he must declam, that its principles had been lire. violated by the " healing measure" of 1688. (Hear !) Petitions from Carmarthen, Brecon, &c. ordered to be printed. Mr. B. CARTER presented various reform petitions from Ports. mouth, &c. they seeking no new rights, as most of them were already freeholders and voters, but desiring to have the constitution in reality not in name. Petitions ordered to lie on the table. Mr. HODGES presented a petition from Cranbrook, Kent, is fa. your of Kefonu ; the petitioners viewing the measure proposal by th.. Ministers t one of renovation, not of revolution. liear.—Ordered to lie on the table. The O'CONNOR DON, by the name of " Mr. O'Connor, " was called on to present petitions. (All eyes were directed towards the descendant of Milesian renown, and were gratified with beholding a moat respectable elderly gentleman with powdered hair, and well tied queue, doubling in length that lately worn by Lord Kenyon. and equalling in admeasurement that of the memorable George Rose.) — The petitions he presented were (five) from Roscommon, and (two) from the county of Meath, against the grant to the Kildare-street Society. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented petitions from the parishes of Saint George, Hanover-squaw, and St. Margaret, Westminster, in favour of the government plan of parliamentary reform. The latter was signed by Mr. Jeremy Bentham, and DUO other parishioners. A ll , even Mr. Bentham, who was supposed to go beyond most people on this ques tion, conceived that the plan now proposed would secure an efficient representation of the people. Sir F. BURDETT spoke highly of the great merits and integrity of Mr. Bentham, and said that such names sanctioning the plan put to flight those slanders about wild and visionary reformers. That gentle. man bad devoted his life to the study of constitutional knowledge; and such support, and the feeling of all England, would, he trusted, give the country a constitution that would be worthy of paaegyric on other accounts than that of its name. The sanction of such a name was of the greatest advantage the name was known to rite whole civilized world, and he doubted not the estimable value and efficient character of a measure that was supported by a Bentham. (Hear.) Petitions ordered to be printed. Air. HOBHOUSE then presented a petition from cotton.factorsand silk-factors of Alaeelesfield, against the employment of children for an unreasonable duration of hours in succession. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. ELLICE presented a petition from weavers, in Coventry, in favour of the reform bill, signed by between 5,000 and 6,000 weavers, in the course of about six hours— an answer to the allegation that the proposed measure would injure their interests. He had another poi. tion front masters and apprentices, praying that their interests might be protected in the proposed measure. Air. FYLER supported the petitions. They were sufficient answers to those who held that the measure would affect the petitioners' inte. rests; if that were so, they chewed their devotion to their country, by sacrificing their interests or feelings to what was calculated to promote the general welfare of the country. Mr. HUNT sup the first petition ; and said a similar peti don had been p in his hands, also praying for the ballot; but it was judiciously withdrawn, after learning the measure of ministers for reform. He had heretofore attended a meeting at Coventry, where the whole town attended; they all agreed to the necessity of having the protection of the ballot. They now, most properly, supported the measure of ministers. _ _ . -- Mr. FYLER said this was an aspersion on Coventry ;—.( bear)—bad It not been market . day the hon. member would not have had 40 per. sons present: Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. LITTLITON posited petitions from Burnley, &c. against t o ls= duty on cotton. And several petitions from places in , in favour of the reform measure. Mr. KR3IP presented a petition from Lewes, in favour of the mea sure of reform—which measure he should most cheerfully support. Sir J. SHELLY said, he had told his constituents, be should do his utmost to support this measure. (Hear.) Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. EGERTON prawn ed a petition from Stockport in favour of the plan of reform. REFORM (SCOTLAND) DILL. The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a bill to amend the repte. sentatiou in Scotland. The Hon. C. DOUGLAS was understood to say, that he fully agreed in the principle of the bill. Mr. HUAIE hoped it was not the intention of Ministers to move the second reading on Monday next, as it would be impossible by t hat night to receive all the petitions on the subject. He and other MM• hers bad received a great number, expressing their satisfaction of the plan ; he, therefore, hoped a day would be set apart to afford en opportunity of presenting them. He thought Saturday would be a convenient day. Cola SIBTHORP had a number of petitions to present, and he cordially agreed with the hon. member fel Middlesex en the neceulty era day beilappointed for receiving them. Lord ALI HORP was of opinion that it would be better to receive petitions until a later hour—say seven o'clock—as on that evening. ,rather than sit on a Saturday, as sitting on that day was attended with considerable inconvenience. Mr. HUNT said, he thought it would be better to receive petitions until seven o'clock. After some further discussion, The LORD ADVOCATE said, be should postpone the second reading of the bill be has just brought in until Friday se'nnight.(hen. l a ieartas he was anxious that gentlemen connected with Sconn im should be fully aware, end make themselves acquainted with its demi& The bill was then read a first time, and or d ere d to b e read a word time on Friday se'nnight. The SPEAKER said perhaps the House would excuse him in !up gating tha propriety of allowing a longer time for presenting pennon' , India than to sit on a Saturday. He did not suggest this for his own convenience, be had no right or pretension to any such arrangem ent was thankful for the indulgence that the house had always shown towards him. But if Saturday was to be sit apart, only those monk" SCHEDULE (D.) Parish or Township. Parish of Brighthelmstone, Sustex Townships of Great and Little Bolton, Lancashire Parish of Blackburn, Lan cashire Parish of Bradford, York shire Town of Cheltenham, Parishes of St. Edmund and Saint Thomas, Dud ley, Worcestershire Town of Frome, Somer. set Parish of Gateshead, Dur ham Parish of Huddersfield Yorkshire Town of Kidderminster, IVorcestershire Town of Kendal, Westmor land Town of Macclesfield, Che. she Town of Stockport, Lanes. shire The Town of South Shields, Township of Westoe, Co. Durham Parish of Tynemouth, Township of North shields, NOT thutnber. land. Town of Warrington, Lan cashire Town of Whitchaven, Town and Parish of Work- ington, Parish of Harrington, Cum. berland Borough and Foreign of IValsall Returning Officer. The Constable The Constables Constables of the Manor. Mayor High Constable. I FL Mayor Mayor