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s 11 17:. o t on n n b f e ep t g i u t u k : : c• - • .41 tl 4s A. , ".2. 41PPV1 ,- ). / • of potatee • q•_--'l l . -- _ re . fr • .1 (71 - 5 ,0 de a n k! ) . • . cktv.' \, • -1 nn, _.,..., • --b_ ito T . Tois PAS.) ) P. s) M ENT A L L This DAY, N V EDNFSDAT, MARCH 6. la te -- 53 ` lea te total and complete abolition of tithes frit i tm Thepetitionets stated that one guinea per acre was frequently paid as the tithe of potatoe grrtind. Thetii) .tided, that the disappointment the puhlic had experient not having, according to the decletistan of the RiLhWt. lion. Secretary for Ireland, an extinetinti of tithes, ha(' contributed much to the increase of diseontent— a di eons` tent aggravated by a subsequent enactment, the object of which was to render tithes perpetual.—(Hear.) The petitioners t looked u upon the last uniting n gthe power e r Tithe A e fthe Croton as a n andn awful the clergy, the exercise of which had cent' ibuted to widen the breach between the Protestant Establishment and the Catholic occupying tenant of the soil. It was impossible that the tithe system could continue much longer in any shape, consistently with the peace and good order of the country. The Hon. Member begged to bear testimony to the respectability of the petitiontre, and cordialiy sup ported th e prayer of the petition. Mr. BLAKENEY supported the prayer of the petition. lie felt very much interested in this question, believing, as he did in his soul, that no measure to be brought in by his Majesty's Ministers would ever pacify the people of England, until there•sva s an entice abolition of tithes. Mr. COBRETT, in expressing his hearty cemeurrentft with the prayer of this petition, which be did if consonance with all the opinions he had entertained and expressed for: the last 20 year'', would notice, with the leave of the House, the calling to account he. expe rienced the other day from the Member for the University' of Oxford. That Hon. Member had called him to acconnf in a tone and manner which perhaps was not unbecoming in hint, but which, pt.rhape, would be unbecoming in antibody but in the representative of the holy of the clergy of England.--(lfear.) He had contradicted him in fact, and cautioned him in a way, as to how he stated facts iet future, which was not a very insignificant way of aectiein a man of stating falsehoods. He (Mr. C.) had sta. , aid that of 10,000 and odd livings in the Church of England and Wales there were only 4,000 and odd resident incum bencies. He held in his baud the diocesan return on the subject which had been laid before Parliament, the nature of which he would state, and even if he had been in error, if there had been no apology to be allowed for that error, certainly none could be allowed for the Hon. 11Iembei who himself was a Member of Parliament at tha very time the returns were laid before the Hou e. The Hon. Member then stated details from the returns which fully supported all he had formerly alleged. He had observed also, that there were in England and Wales two hundred parishes, in which there were no churches. By the present return it appeared that there were two hundred and fifty-four parishes, M. shoat-d, in which by no possibility could there be any service, but where the incumbents took very good care to enforce their tithes regularly to the last farthing. 1k bad observed, also, that there were five hundred parishes in which they heal neglected to build parsonage houses, notwithstanding the very strict enactment of the law in that respect,. By the present return, he found that there were no less than 753 parishes without parsonage house!, where the clergymen boldly set the law at defiance, and where they not only did not reside themselves, hut left no place for others to live. The statements therefore which he had made, and which had been contradicted by the Hon. Member for Oxford, were perfectly correct, and it now remained for that Hon. Member to contradict him if he could. fresh br eez6 oo. )3ro Two lot, tale'', 13 Ail :astle, ink ut was WarPa:„ s two ciri; lyre to Gran ~~ S " frolo yi f)1 3 .11a, fete Or 40, 5,f; 1,3 4 9 St. J°l"' (No. 12,632.) LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1833. ( PRICE 7D.) ty's Ministers, whom he knew to be inclined to liberal measures, would speedily remedy the evils of which the petitioners complained. Mr. STRICKLAND was anxious to sly a few words upon this subject, and, in his opinion, he could sly nothing stronger that' this, that while this country was sending out nearly three millions a year, our ships were returning home empty, thereby eivin.e a monopoly to the colonists, without at the same time doing any benefit to this country. In his opinion, it would be easy to adopt some means by which Brazilian sugar might be imported into this country, to be refined for exportation, thereby giving employment to the capital and workmen of this country, without in the least intrenching upon the rights which these monopolists at present enjoyed. Mr. POULETT THOMSON said he would detain the House for a very short time ; but he was anxious to say only a very few words upon the subject in consequence of the petition presented by his Nob e Friend. He need scarcely say that the question had received the very anxious consideration of Government for a long time. It was not because the Government were not most anxious to afford the petitioners the relief they prayed for, but because it was at present impossible for the Government to introduce a measure for that purpose. Honourable Gent'emen who were Members of the last Parliament, would remember the anxiety which the Government showed to continue to admit foreign sugar for the pur pose of being refined in this country. Inquiries had been instituted, and experiments tried, but such progress had not been made in them as to allow him at present to give an opinion upon the subject. A considerable bounty was given to the West India sugar by the Refining Act, but he did not believe that it was so much as eight shillings, as mentioned in the petition. He thought it would be utterly impossible for this country—whatever it might do for its own colonies—it was not right that it should be called upon to give a bounty upon foreign sugars, in order that foreigners might be enabled to use refined sugar at the expense of those colonies. A plan might be devised—a plan which le was anxious to see in operation —by which foreign sugar might be allowed to be imported into this country, and refined actually under bond. Unless some such principle as this were adopted, it would be impos sible he feared to afford any relief. Unfortunately, the refiners were of opinion th it such a plan as he now pro posed, would afford them no relief, and that they would reap no advantage from it unless they were allowed to mix the sugars, which could not possibly be done. He could assure his Noble Friend in the House, that if any plan c .uld be suggested, whereby the refining of foreign sugars might tie confined to this country without hurting the re venue, it would receive the utmost attention of Government. He considered that what had been stated about the Brazilian trade ought to be taken into consideration by these who harped ur in the subject of free trade. In Brazil they saw a count.. f which took from them almost all of their mann f ietures, and from which they refused to take anything at all. Those Hon. Gentlemen ought to bear in mind, that reciprocity meant an advantage to both sides, and that it was possible the Brazils might at a future day turn the tables upon this country. Mr. GEORGE WILLIAM WOOD would trespass but a very short time upon the House, but lie hoped th as this question was very interesting to that part of the country which he represented, he should be allowed to say a few words. He wis sorry to hear from the Right Hon. Gentleman that there was no present intention of granting the relief prayed for. He trusted that the subject would continue to receive the best attention of his .Majesty's Government, and that in a very short time they would be prepared with a measure such as would give sa tisfaction to all parties. An HON. MEMBER said that he should not have risen had it not been for the importance of the petition to the commercial and the shipping interests of the country. He thought that some of the Noble Lord's observations were very much exaggerated. Instead of an increase of the number o sugar refiners, they had decreased trona 216 to 67. The number of vessels engaged in that trade during the last year had decreased also. Fifty-one vessels which had sailed from Liverpool to Rio Janeiro, could obtain no re turn cargoes. He entreated the earnest and serious atten tion of every Member to the statements of the petition, which embraced points of such vast importance. Another HON. MEMBER said, that he had also several similar petitions to present. It appeared to him that means should be given to facilitate the refining of foreign sugar in the country on fair and equitable terms, both for the sake of the shipping and commercial interests of the country. Means should he given of refining sugars in bond, and if that could not be done, sonic other course ought to he resorted to ; otherwise the interchange between this and foreign countries would be put a stop to, and this country would be unable to preserve those advantages in trade it had hitherto possessed, and which it had lost, by the Bill not having been renewed. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL trusted that Hon. Members would not consider it presumptuous on his part, if he reminded the House of the understanding that ex isted with reference to presenting petitions.—( Hear, hear.) He had attended there morning after morning to present petitions, which his constituents were anxious he should present, but he had not been able to do so in consequence of the discussions that took place on the presentation of al most every'petition. Mr. A. JOHNSTON said, that should Ministers in troduce a Bill for the importation of Brazil sugar, he should, together with several other Members, give them his most hearty support. SOAP DUTIES. applying motives to those petitioners was disorderly. In all those matters a great deal must he left to the good sense, the feeling, the taste, and the propriety of Hon. Members themselves.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. COBBETT said he had sat patiently while one petition of the Noble Lord's bad occupied three-quarters of an hour, but he did not intend to occupy five minutes. With regard to imputing motives to petitioners he im puted none but what were expressed in the pe tition it•elf. Those pious men complained of being injured in their trade, and of getting less money in conse, quence o going to worship, while the poor man was obliged to stay at home. That was avowed by the peti tioners themselves, and indeed as much was avowed in the report of the Committee who were appointed last year. In matters of religion, of all things, men ought to be sin cere, hut those pious men having grown rich. by their im piety when poor, now wished to preserve that, by keeping the Lord's Diy and making others keep it, which they gained by breaking the Lord's D ty. He protested against such interference, for he was convinced that much mis chief would arise from making laws of that kind. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table. Lord SANDON wished to present a petition noon a subject upon which, as it was to come before the House this evening, he should not trouble the House at any great length. It was signed by every member of the Committee who did him the honour to conduct his late election, and they compliined of the gross misstatements which had bee❑ made in a petition presented on a former evening, and upon other occasions, that bribery and corruption had been prac tised at the late election at Liverpool. They stated that they had been active supporters of him (Lord Sandon), and they were anxious to show that no one person had been induced to vote by bribery, treating, or any other than constitutional ineans.—(llear, hear.) The petition afforded a com plete proof that no bribery to any extent—(Hear)—that no bribery of which they were cognizant, had been prac tised to procure his return. Mr. BENETT had not, on any former occasion, made a charge against the gentlemen who signed that petition. --(Hear, hear, hear.) His charge was generally, that bribery had been practised at the elections at Liver pool, even up to the last election. He was anxious that a Committee should be appointed to inquire into the charges that had been made, when it would be seen by whom the system of bribery had been practised.— (Hear, hear.) He had reason to believe that the Com mittee would be granted, for he had certainly made some very strong assertions. leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the Labour of Factory Children, and he (Lord M.) found it not to be consistent with Parliatty , ntary usage, that there should he two notices standing for measures having the same object in view, and consequently he begged leave to withdraw his notice. He hoped that it was a sense of duty, and not any feeling of umpetition, which had induced him to enter into a struggle with his Noble Friend for priority ; and having now found himself the last best man, and con sequently compelled to withdraw his notice, he reserved to himself full liberty to make known hereafter, as he might think fit, his own views, and to express his opinions in any way he might hereafter decide upon. Lord ASHLEY presented a petition from Dewsbury, in Yorkshire, signed by 2,500 individuals in favour of the Ten Hour Factory Bill. His Lordship would take this opportunity of expressing his conviction that his Noble Friend could only have been actuated by the kindest feel ings, in the attempt lie had undertaken to bring for ward a measure on this subject, and from a perfect convic• tion that he should be able to do justice to the subject. Mr. STRICKLAND had so often expressed his opi nion upon this subject, that he would not, on that occa sion, have said a word, had he not been requested to sup port the petiion by the inhabitants of Dewsbury. Whether the Bill was in the hands of the Noble Lord, or in those of his Noble Colleague, did not matter, be would give it his best consideration. His own impression had been for several )ears, that, tinder all the difficulties which surrounded this case—for Hon. Gentlemen were • very much mistaken, if they supposed that this measure was not very much beset with difficulty— the Ten Hours Bill was the best that could 14<, devised at present. He was most happy to give the present petition his most cordial support. Lord ASHLEY then presented petitions to the same effict from Chudley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, signed by 1,071 persons ; from Bailden and Radfield also in Yorkshire ; from the Teach-rs, and others, of Ren frew, in Scotland ; and from the cotton-yarn piecers of Scotland. The Noble Lord also presented a petition, signed by 519 inhabitants of the parish of St. Luke's, Chelsea, praying for the better observance of the Lord's Day. He would only say, in answer to what had fallen from the Hon. Member for Oldham, that the great ma jority of the small shopkeepers were most anxious that some measure upon this subject should receive the sanc tion of the House. constituents to give them an explanation this morning, there were other modes of letting them know his reasons for the course he had adopted, than exphining in that Horse.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Hon. Members were assembled on this occasion for the purpose of pre senting petitions, and it would be very hard on any other Members of that House if they were not to be allowed to explain their motives after the Hon. Gentle man sat down, if they wished to give explanations ; .ind then if they were to be allowed to do so, into what state of confusion would the House get upon a subject upon which there had already been so many days' dis• cussion, and which was likely to occupy yet so many more. Mr. ROBINSON slid, that he should always bow with great respect to the decision of the Chair, although he should certainly have thought that, being a representative of the constituency from which the petition proceeded, be might have been Mowed to make a few observations upon the subject mat ter to which it related. What he meant to say, however, was merely that although he had voted for the first read ing of the Bill, he should in its future course he guided by circumstances, and certainly should not vote for its passing into a law, till it had undergone considerable modifications. Petition laid upon the table. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. 2rt, White, VindrerenV: into th e 1131. 5 0 be Goodwin. of cd )irg's, 9 I° l ma hog 3 r hbe, A this ne'g" tP beach veal en foundse, ig ht o,„ to i ig h er " a Terceira;,'' ail oath• vc. t otol i b o " u t I ° I % e ,at, be g Colonel DAVIES p , esented a petition from Worcester, signed by the Bishop, Mayor, and other respectable inha bitants, in favour of the better observance of the Sabbath. red) wieli) Jain c ( It (taken) Mr. ROBINSON supported the prayer of the petition. Mr. COBBETT regretted the absence of the Hon. Member for the University of Oxford, as he had wished to call his attention to certain returns proving the state ment he had made relative to the non-residence of the Clergy, controverted by that Hon. Gentleman on a former night. •ave (ta l e (t Aeni a ßen) ken) (Considerable laughter was excited by Mr. ESTCOURT informing Mr. Cobbett from behind, that he was present, but too late to allow Mr. Cobbett to speak, the petition having been laid upon the table.) IRISH COERCIVE BILL. a ion) ;rea Ken) astu s (t 3 01) 1) T} (ta c ,"gen) o ch l Mr. VIGORS presented a petition from Carlow against the Irish Coercive Bill. The petitioners submitted, that his Majesty's Ministers could make out no case which would justify the House in arming them with powers so unconstitutional, and never hitherto resorted to, except when the country was in a state of rebellion. , 6 0 1 , o c i s a , t b° r u etil i '' ' eacb• };;, rec daps bsc 01 this d , i ; r Mr. HAWES. in corroboration of what had fallen from the Noble Lord, would merely state that he had a petition in his possession from 4,000 of his constituents in favour of the measure, and they stated that they would most willingly give ❑p any profit they made by the Sunday trading, if a Bill making it general was the law of the land. Mr. COBBETT did not pretend to know any thing about the matter himself, what he had stated was from the petition. The petition from Staines, in plain English, prayed for a more qualified and stricter observance of the Sabbath. To him (Mr. C.) the petitioners appeared to think th t godliness ought to be great gain, and they did not wish the exercise of it to be interrupted on that day. Lord ASHLEY then pr. sented petitions from Wilbra ham, Chalbray, Wychampton, and Axminster, for the better observance of the Lord's Day. Mr. SHELL begged to ask the Noble Lord if the peti tioners courted investigation?—(Hear, hear.) Lord SANDON answered, as far as we could un derstand, that one or more of the petitioners admitted to him that he or they had formerly been en gaged in bribery. They acknowledged themselves as hav ing formerly been sinners, but they denied that any cor s up:ion had been practised during the last election. He had never denied that bribery had formerly been prac tised; his denial solely applied to the but election.—( Hear.) He should like any Hon. G:ntleman to lay his hind upon his heart, and sly whether, under such circumstances, evidence could be given to the allegations against the free men of Liverpool. He would take that opportu nity of presenting another petition, signed, in fifty. three hours, by above seven thousand four hundred persons, comprising most of the wealth and respectability of the place. Wren the petition from Liverpool, signed by 3 300 persons, which charged the freemen of that place with bribery and corruption, was presented by the Hon. Member for Wiltshire, he took occasion to observe that it comprised all the respectable and disinterested par tion of the inhabitants. Now the whole number of freemen did not at present exceed 3,600, which was not one half of the number of names signed to the petition which he (Lord Sandon) held in his hand. He had yet to learn that any charge of extraordinary corruption could he alleged against the freemen of Liverpool. If the proposed measure of the Honourable Member for Wiltshire were carried into effect, the whole amount of disfranchisement would be but between one and two thousand. It had been the practice in that House, for many years, to snake allegations affecting a mode—the mode of obtaining signatures to petitions which were numerously signed. That occasional delinquencies would occur from the intemperate zeal of some parties employed in witnessing the signatures to petitions, he was not prepared to say.—(Hear, hear.) He was instructed to say that, to the petition praying for the disfranchisement of the freemen of Lives pool, which had been presented by the Honourable Member for Wiltshire some individuals had generally signed five or Six names, and passengers landing out of steam-boats from the sister isle were invited to sign, and did sign, that pe tition upon an assurance that their not being housekeepers was of no consequence. The petition he now presented to the House, be could take upon him to say, repre sented the true feeling of the inhabitants of Liverpool. t t h i e quotl 51r. ESTCOURT was not aware of the return to which the Hon. Member had referred. He, however, must say that he thought he had hardly stated the thine. fairly. In 1827 there were 4,500 b , nefices out of 10,500 parishes. He suspected that these 4,500 were incumbents, resident in parsonage houses, but he thought it would be found that the number of clergymen residing in parishes and not in parsonage houses would greatly exceed that number. The Hon. Member read extracts from a report in support of his opinions, and so far in opposition to the Hon. Member for Oldham, the most prominent of which was, that although there were but 5,700 resident clergy men in parsonage houses, there were 1,900 who were resident in parishes, but not in parsonage houses, making together a total of 7,600. Besides these the returns did not show a fair statement of those parishes in which it might occur that the does Ise or other re moval of the clergyman might leave the place vacant for preferredo fa and endeavouring onlyoTuct: us t g l t i a e lt 7 : a short time only, which, if added to the other, would addedm ake w e awaiting t h e st preferment, a iia t em ordersent dmoerisgeorht,theebrie; by the exercise of morality, and by religious inculcation. As the Hon. Member for Oldham had made an assertion that of 10,000 benefices there were only 4,000 resident incumbents, and as he (Mr. Eatcourt) had shown that there were between 5 and 6,000, he hoped that Hon. Member would admit that he was in error. Mr. GOULBURN deprecated the attack which had been so unjustly made on the clergy upon the presenta tion of the present petition. A desultory discussion took place between Mr. O'CoN NELL. and some other Hon. Members upon a point of or der, upen which Mr. P. THOMSON presented a petition from Bra disburton against the Punishment of Death Bill. The Hon. Member also presented several petitions from different parishes in Yorkshire for the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. SHELL wished to know in what way the peti tioners wished an alteration in the observance of the Sab bath. Mr. P. THONISON said the petitioners prayed for a general revision of the law with respect to the observance of the Sabbath. Further, he did not feel competent to answer the Hon. Member. The How. MEMBER, then presented a petition from Great Duffield for the repeal of the assessed taxes; and also from Thorden, for the abolition of slavery. Mr. C. WOOD presented a petition from Halifax, praying for an extensive modification of the assessed taxes, and a total repeal of those that pressed with undue seve rity on the trading interests of the country. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from the female inhabi tants of Halifax, praying for the abolition of slavery. Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON presented a petition from the Grand Jury assembled at Exeter, praying for divisional assizes. The petitioners stated, that with respect to Devonport, every witness, offender, prosecu•or, or Jury man, was obliged to go to a distance of 46 miles upon any trial. The Hon. Member understood that it was the in tention of his Majesty's Government to make some provi sion to meet the inconvenience experienced by the petitioners. It was a subject well worthy of their consideration, and that of the House especially, with respect to Devon port, which was a most important spot, on account of its commerce. the befor e 1 ,0 ,f tbe e lei °f s cha p 4 , to aol to v eto° or it . n ree be T t er" s dem- • i i irt listing 0 05 to t ile P er oli P ' o ifer e c° 3s o'e r cvlo g uig' o ceJ Je t ga e Jr AtO Di a" Sir G. GREY would feel extremely glad at the intro duction of any measures that would remedy the inconve nience of which th. petitioners complained. Lord DALMENY presented a petition from Stirling, praying for the alteration of the laws relating to Church patronage and property in Scotland ; from the soil) manu facturers of Dumfermlin, praying for the reduction of the duties on soap; from Busby, praying for the abolition of slavery ; and from Kilsytb, praying for the better obser vance of the Sabbath. Mr. SHELL would ask if the petition for the disfran chisement of the freemen of Liverpool did not contain a prayer for inquiry. Mr. DUNCONIBE presented five petitions from parishes in the West Riding of the county of York in favour of the Factories Bill. Lord SANDON presented a petition from the soap manufacturers of Liverpool, praying for the reduction of the duties on soap. The petitioners stated that, in con sequence of the heavy duties on that article, soda had been used in lien of it. Mr. COBBETT would take that opportunity of stating, that he had a petition to present to the same effect from Eecleston. H 0 Mr. H, "j ' 3 E OF CO MON S. l l ° I °N JOLLIFFE took the oaths and his seat or .etersfield, Nl h . s, rh 'a tbe place of Mr. Shaw Lefevre. Cottnit "ICKLAND brought up the report of the Ito d tee an the Y ol k and Scarborough (re-committed) mt. Rill,nmendments read a second time. C mmi ILSON PATTEN b roug h t up t h e repor t o f t h e t'aß,a o t" n ' n the Wendover R oa d Bill .— A men d ments \ele.eitd timelnittse . o '4iRAFIANI brotieht up the report of the Corn 'NH nnittle Congleton Gas Bill.—Amendments real a SANr) of - ON said he had to present a petition on a et the „, nlach importance to the commercial interests arenhcia-al'trY, from the Alerchants of Liverpool. In Phe 81 ,0 4 with the ob'ecti Which lisd been made on Jeet oh Presenting peti , ions, he should no , detain the fo , ° any prefato r y remar k s, b ut he could not per te h ' e lf to present th e pet i t i on without snaking the Th e V I Y acquainted with its contents. fi ille tel. 'Ale Lord then read the petition, which was as .„ 01 Petiti o Of ti v ,, nof the undersigned Merchants and Shipowners n'rPool trading to Bristol, and Members of the As.so tooe'iatc:f British Merchants denominated the Brazilian 1 1, T hat M of Liverpool,' humbly showeth, e pee 1 ,, Your petitioners carry on a very extensive com- Lh3ited k'i-n0,....,130rmazil in the produce and manufactures of the ,7 fr o , ,'„ (1 and are suffering great . inconvenience and th o i r .0 di ffic uitY of obtaining a medium of return ati4g thmerchandise and a back loading for their shipping, h r°l, the operation of the present state of the law, Ait co . thp ; - zoposition of excessive duties on the importation tzkvi MPtion or manufacture of the chief products of Bra ttatitfti'''gar, Coffee cocoa, and rum, prohibits their irn ) e xcept to a 'very ited exten ' ttransitu," and h iees n lY for co nsumption the articles of cotton, tobacco, 4 1'it o,'Z.t,.t.he. trade with Brazil has now become one of the "es th e 7. branches of our foreign commerce, and de_ rexto;sl eclat protection and encouragement of the State. t'zili'lei,io,4,,etuantoiif,:3raintinsuhailnlyanufactures and produce to that em. to the value of upwards of three erling, which manufactures and produce are adit ,i t hat o ' o ' en a , n d on the most favoured terms, for consump To n cl othei lY, and w i th which its people are almost exclu. Th f al, sl ''"-ah l a , f ': t r aztl f not p ossess i ng any extent o f Shi pp i ng, I st etclu U res and p ro d uce are carried out to that country, vely, in British Vessels. Brazil affords ample means of payment for this h ' i n her m any and rich productions, and of oriNtl, P ock t o this kingdom an immense tonnage of tor Netio a' P /3, but th at none of these articles are admissible, li,et"Pt the irb„ef°re-Mentioned articles of Cotton in , Tobacco, and . ;, W hole, for m but a very sma ll port i on o f t h e va l ue of * 4 2 . Th at ts. 4 In consequence of these prohibitory .laws, other ahiw.°.raillions of British capital is forced into o tr,,PNOgia,R.,Vlng employment and encouragement to foreign . tv!614,, ',Manufactures paying to foreign European States she°44lfissions, and ' charges, to the great loss of the " i i Of iirlwoer and Merchant, as also to the general inte tha,l6. That co mmerce, co mmerce, manufactures, and revenue. lc,: it is within th e k now l e d ge o f your petitioners, 4; 4 , vi z "'l3or ta nt branch o f th e manu f ac t ure o f this king-phis that of sugar re fi n i ng, h as , f or some ti me pas t, „ 4 . Partially and unprofitably employed, and ica. ti; 4 ' i ty e'MPeting with foreign manufacture, owing to n the at e u ' hi gh . price of the raw material, even with Po belie°tet, age of the b ounty of Ss. per cwt., which your pe- t lat• tha t 1 01 l eto be p a id out o f t h e revenue on the ex_ o ,l o f refilled colonial sugars from this count rytolhy .• ak i r 7 f of the injurious effect and extent of this Too b°rov"igh bounty to the revenue, to the commerce, and 7 1° ,' 4 t , of the people of this kingdom, your petitioners by:th'eagatj'laess's that, although the price of British planta_ been, on an average of the past year, as shown ship °gar, , about 2Ss ficl. per cwt., the price of the re_ to re 4 l 44,14, 'aile d ordinary l umps , d e li vere d f ree on board i~glva, elul Y di ng sever a l c h arges , b es id es th a t o f manu f ac - tion deluding 255. to 275. per cwt. ; the drawback on ex d . beerrcltn,eig 3 65. loch per cwt., and that double refine titt:44„7'ats, having a drawback of 435. 3d per cwt., have tact' thli;e selling, also free on board at 295. to 30s. per to the foreign consumer this impor_ 4. rit o . "Wt ; t he manufactured state, at from Is. to T i .„ .0 1 41 • lest than the cost of the raw material, the whole ex foraollfact . of price being paid by the ry tire and difference Of th the be nefit of the foreign consumer, and to the ~a le of Brazil sugar in foreign markets. - 444114, a°4 b e ffect of this bounty on the exportation of re 4/ of is not only a direct annual loos to the ti nes d rect tax , h, f.t.,„ f , r° M 3 00,000/. to 400,000!., but a ` g eti t ;''' e to the extent of one to two miln.lioinns indirect tax tOci„ttioo to to to the consumer in this conntry is enhanced . the bounty paid on exportation to the foreign t heL k, l f urther tends materially to lessen the con to:, -.Pet, -.thereby, ' also the revenue and the comforts of Bitt ' Tha t deneeitt m@ of Petitioners sincerely lament the distress said ti og t h 4i tl t'oisolthe West India Colonies, but, from the evi. 44 at el4 st S ege a Committee of your Honourable House, du_ 1141 1' 1'4 N P i° o of Parliament, they cannot but attribute ' a an d th°i their distress to the general management of their ft o „ ' Thot. ernb arrassment of the planters. kt o t . ll9 se co l is . not the desire of your petitioners to . . w . i m thd a r s aw a t°ch British that protection which they may claim ernpire but your petitioners humbly submit :thit,slthll,ave tit, a C a ` ii e r, etio n ou gh; not to exceed that afforded to the 'Ma nufacturing interest of the mother country, oij or, :t ° oounty on the exportation of their products,. tei;,, , b e ° P° I Y of the home trade, nor should so serious an 14 1,7; ton,; e ed on other rising and important branches of ID eh 1 „ - , er . ec , for the supposed benefit of any particular, Ofth e , ice, for interests. t 4 k ts ori . h c Ool e ti ‘ t a h r e i. _N.Ves t India . colonies have, besides a monopoly 41,e nisi, , et, the choice of all the European and North 4ticl,'ehas °f their for the sale of their productions, as, also, for their supplies taking from this country those oritah best suit the:r convenience. Wesi-,,the whole population, including slaves, of the li'llt'a:kl'eath,,t.Th(lei,coloniesdoes not . greatly exceed a million stuo„,, .Portation of British manufactures for the ti lt m e of f "'mil of those colonies amounts only to the an_ thr o ?hil. t Mtnne million and a half to two millions stet_ eX POrts to Brazil, as already stated, exceed i ti 'oe t li't o 'ago, '' ° ` l to 'Manilla Java Sincapore, and the Indian rot th; traill4cl other Countries ,° similar Prod.oc cotl'ol'l4Mpatbio°„U_t2ro millions, ' with a population and held ki„tri o , at th e 7of our manufactures of incalculable extent. klit us .‘thole amount of the products of these rich ale l, -s ' h le for the use and consumption of . t . his cha th ' . ll: h t eid;: i t exceed the annual value of one million ly t es ty, of about four millions, being thus forced, io.n te`tltlrictive laws of this country, into foreign the • l a 'P i t' t oa 4 e e mployment and encouragement of foreign th llo o i ; at th„afacture. at , having experienced hW col lo , Of th. t ench Government, and •siitY), have s r estrictive system (also long enforced in ' - ' O ll, laid before the Chambers a project of r -Os 001121t•the exportation of colonial sugar ; all,that sties a %l o to ies h on fa 4ti ole Oct also e r ement of the French 3it e nder France the em g porium of Europe for 'it cou„ 7 Proposes to admit for their use the growth of ' , ha t ..,,`ries Without distinction. 414 1 el , 1 ' the r estrictive laws of this kingdom are longer th „by is oh. ll be greatly ls °nu, Jeet of the French Government wilt . capital. 'Onittotls'ktitlett;,,itsis the confident belief . of your:petitioners, that if ,‘: 1( 1in °the °f L'razil and the Indian Archipelago were . a a d t n t , 44, 4S e arid consumption of this country, on term ß f t i',oei„:°able protection to similar productions of the ri 'irlYk,'Oti kiditional employment would be given to from a ali l kit o „,.. 4 hdrect thousand tons of British shipping, and this c - ,'Me the emporium of Europe for those productions, the , - ,7Pital is now the means by which they are sent to ' ' t e o'te ' n,:'- 1 that it would, also, afford incalculable scope for th l° „ r t . °l the industry, manufactures, commerce, and re. Ur; `oiir 'iogdorn ih Petit- • f - th sty, toners, therefore, most humbly and earnestly , t4, 11 : 1 4 ea ;4' honourable House will take this their petition ;°,44);theo.,rl,,and serious consideration, with the view of at . - lh o ' 4o flo o ' "tat relief and protection which, in your wisdom, a' : ' , l _ 4 li t ,!'°ll;: . ,, bl Reuse shall see fit, and thereby add strength d o g eX tension to the commercial, manufacturing, „clt \;,orpf",,.tetests, as well as additional means of happi ;,' 41 5 . to the people of this great empire." 'hliest,,%ltet',,,"Jee which d served the serious attention he * f 'a hli ::tneat. Indeed he had no doubt that his tt ' ,, al 'ed 4- }, ter 't were already convinced of its necess . ity, e° ,,l, t ett t tts t- „, " , t hey hail not yet made up their minds t>o4 as other subjects with which it was f overt,tn Ws ti the question of negro slavery. He thi s e ttt ei,r, forbear urging on the attention of the ' n al " Me a (ON iMportance of an early consideration uo ta t rt i Ur ktu tt : , b y ' T.` With the view of devising n t tt t l eh such an important portion of the t he Tt this a , ; e 4vih. country might be placed on a proper . n ' t . 'alit 47, tecording to the arrangements made in ' th 4 ' 4 1 ei the hie't, strictly confined himself to the alle e at!itisdhe"ltion, be would con c l u d e by adding that \ b tr ade . everY person in Liverpool connected with L tere, e sAJ,, th e tr) said the C 041,1 to this w a s a su bj ect o f the deepest Pre "" ert, Pio 44j 04 of n 't • nUents It was one which involved w ould / t nehe an e xtension of our foreign trade, and 1, 11 ,. t he peti.°:f British capital. It was se fully Lorded tt L ord ed he gr eat , ‘'n that the amount of our foreign trade tit st h "stencled if proper protection fMee. Ile e w ould Wh• Wo, not dwell at any length u p onp thit saiiee4._lo had Nrry that the extent ot the experi a h r , h 'seen hi tt, 1 4 of 4 ti hne h mulcted under the auspices of the hea r , f een such as to liberate so important taking ° and i "reig n er Cteonu,ntitngrg:twheaoautuircie:4,ett.ili:t.,:eviv: Fite,olechfrocti,:vt,lrtenunfe,tntetrowwerlencohrehadacyt Id have the effect of greatly ex -144 b e nlg and he trusted that this healed them, but that his Majes- . 9 S froo l s at A i c .rllo' 100 : r eel' t he 6 " r e , n ref' , man, 40 reP re4 v ;hi Cl' i rtka t '' \ rive tr io 3 11 dr 31 )e s oc. Ville, ~ led they eo tine ) hew , ~or ". , t c a obl i ; e ra de Pa fro' OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. Lord SANDON presented petitions from Chipping Camden, in Gloucestershire; from Stone, in Staffordshire ; from Hoilehton, and from the congregation of St. Andrew's Kirk, in Liverpool, for the better observance of the Sabbath. BEER BILL. The NOBLE. LORD also presented petitions from Stone, Houghton, and Sandon, complaining of tl:e great evils that had arisen from the Beer Act, and praying the House to introduce such measures as would protect the morals of the people. The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from Mr. Georg• Forwood, one of the Churchwardens of Liverpool, complaining of the system adopted by masters in paying the wages of their journeymen in public houses on Satur day nights.—(Hear, hear.) And a petition, signed by 4,000 of the gentry, clergy, merchants, and other inhabi tants of the same town, praying for a better observance of the Lord's Day, and expressing their satisfaction at the expressed intention of the House taking the subject into its early consideration. The latter petition was agreed to at a public meeting. Mr. COBBETT could not let that petition pass with out expressing his opinion of the motives by which all the petitions respecting the Lord's Day were got up. A petition was presented, the day before yesterday, from Staines, and two other parishes in the county of Middlesex, expressing the desire of the petitioners to have a law to protect them against the injury to which they were ex posed in consequence of impious traders trading on the Sunday. It was very much like the reason give❑ by Hudibras why the pious should have all the good things of this world, but the real truth was—and this was the foundation of all those petitions—the rich tradesman living in country towns especially went out in his gig on a Sunday, with his lady and children, " on a :visit to their friends at Vickitam"—(Laughter)—and he could tell them that their friends in many instances, as he knew, would be glad if a law were passed to make them stay at home.—(Laughter.) The rich tradesman could go out on a Sunday to see his chil dren at boarding school, and therefore he wished to prevent the poor tradesman from selling on a Sunday those articles which he, the rich one, would then be able to sell on the Monday. That was the foundation of all those petitions. In that from Staines the petitioners avowed their motive. Lord SANDON rose to order—lt was the understand ing in the House last night, that there should be no debate on the presentation of petitions ; and he thought , hat the Hon. Member for Oldham was very disorderly in imputing motives to the petitioners, whose petition was presented on a former night, and was not now before the House. The SPEAKER did not think the Hon. Member for Oldham was entirely out of order, and with respect to the length of speeches, much must depend on an Hon. Member's sense of propriety.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the reference to a petition presented on a former day, if it were on the same subject as the present petition, he could not say that Lord SANDON admitted that it contained a prayer for inquiry ; but to countenance such a measure, after so long a lapse of time, would be to put every constituency in the country under the influence of dominant factions. Mr EWART, as his election was alluded to in the proposed measure of the Member for Wiltshire, should consider it most consistent with propriety not to take any pact in the discussion. He should leave it in the hands of lion. Members, and to the opinion of the House. Mr. WASON read to the House some statements, by which it would appear that several boys belonging to charity schools had signed the petition presented by the Noble Lord, and had placed the occupations of their fathers against them. Petitions should be valued accord ing to the weight that could be attached to their signatures. The Hon. 111,mbcr then went into some observations relative to alleged corruption in the municipal elections of Liverpool, and read part of a presentment of the Grand Jury on that subject, and on the corruption existing during elections for Members of Parliament. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY called the Hon. Member to order for not confining his observations to the petition before the House, and we understood that the Speaker concurred. Mr. SPEAKER observed, that the petition could not be liable to the observations the Hon. Member was mak ing upon it, as it was not the petition of an individual. WASON still did not understand the House to rule that he was out of order, in stating the circumstances of corruption attending the Mayor of Liverpool's conduct. Mr. SPEAKER certainly considered the Hon. Mem ber out of order, unless the petition contained some ex press charge in that respect. Mr. WASON was not sure whether it did or not, as be had not read the petition. Mr. SPEAKER was not surprised, and it was not un likely, that the Hon. Member should be out of order when he confessed to the House he had not read the petition on which he was commenting. Mr. GLADSTONE stated, that from the letter he bad received be believed the petition to be signed by many respectable individuals, and that it should have his support. _ Colonel WILLIAMS said it was impossible to know what to say upon the petition unless it was read. If it contained an application for an inquiry then he would have no more to say on the subject. This he knew, that it contained the names of many individuals who had been for3o years and upwards, known for corrup tion and bribery in their conduct.—(Hear.) The Noble Lord who ;presented the petition had known Liverpool for twenty-eight years, he (Colonel W.) had known it for thirty years, and lie had been s good deal concerned there in election business—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—and he could assure the House that for the last thirty years there had been a greater system of bribery and corruption carried on in Liverpool than had ever disgraced any rotten borough. It was very proper that this system of corruption should be taken notice of before the general Committee now appointed to inquire into the state of Corporations ; and when the Corporation of Liverpool came before the Committee, he was confident it would meet with full ju'tice. LABOURING CHILDREN'S FACTORY BILL. Lord ASHLEY was unwilling to occupy the time of the House, but in consequen,:e of petitions having ac cumulated very much, he felt bound now to lay some of them befor e the House. The first he had to pre.ent was a petition from Huddersfield, signed by 1,500 indivi duals, in the short space of a day and a half, in favour of t h e Ten Hour Lal.ouring Children's Factory Bill. Lord MORPETH took this opportunity of consulting the convenience of the House respecting a notice which stood under his name this evening. The House was aware that the Noble Lord, the Member for Dorsetabire, had obtained Mr. DUNCOMBE then presented a petition from Pickering, for the better observance of the Sabbath ; in doing which he begged to inform the Honourable Mem ber opposite (Mr. Shell), that the petitioners in that petition, suggested as a mode for insuring the better observance of the Sabbath, the better regulation of public houses, and eating-houses, and also that the election of Cor porations should not take place on Saturday. Mr. MORGAN O'CONNELL presented a petition from Ballyrobe, in the county of Mayo, praying the House not to pass the Coercive Bill for Ireland. Mr. COBBETT said that he had several petitions from Mayo to the same effect, in which the petitioners stated that they were afraid a great part of the information on which his Majesty's Ministers had relied, had been given by a person who was an inhabitant of Newgate at the same time as himself. That individual had been, how ever, sent there for telling a falsehood, while he (Mr. Cob bett) bad been imprisoned for telling the truth...-.(A laugh.) Mr. MORGAN O'CONNELL then presented a petition from a parish in the county of Meath, to the same effect. Also a petition from a parish in the county of Meath for the repeal of the legislative Union. Likewise petitions from various parishes in the same county against the Irish Disturbance Bill. A petition from a parish in the county of Armagh to the same effect ; and a petition from a parish in the county of Mayo, praying for a repeal of the Union, for the repeal of the Septennial Act, and for vote by ballot. An How. MEmnEa took this opportunity of stating that ke had numerous petitions from the city of Dublin against the Irish Disturbance Bill. C lonel DAVIES presented a petition from the Po litical Union of Worcester against the Irish Coercive Bill, and praying that it, might not pass into a law. Mr. ROBINSON had been requested by the petitioners to support the prayer of this petition. He felt bound to say that the petition came from a very inconsiderable number of his constituents, and as there had been no ge neral meeting of the other part of his constituents, he could not say what their opinions were ; but as he had voted for the first reading of this Bill early this morning, he hoped the House would allow him to explain in a few words what he had not had the opportunity of doing when he gave his vote—his feelings during the very extraordinary discussion the House had been so long em ployed in hearing.—(Cries of " No, no," and " Hear, :tear.") He had given his vote in favour of the first reading, as a mark of his confidence in his Majesty's Ministers, and out of respect to that branch of the Le gislature from whence the Bill had been sent into that House, but he did not think a sufficient case, after all that had been said, had been made out to warrant the Government to call upon the Legisla ture to pass such a Bill as the present, inflicting such a wrong on the whole people of Ireland, as this measure was calculated to inflict.—(Hear, hear, and cries of Order.") Mr. SPEAKER was quite confident that no Member of that House would he more ready to consider such state ments as this out of order than the Hon. Member who had now been addressing the House, if those statements had proceeded from any other Hon. Member._—(Cheers•) However satisfactory it might be to the Hon. Gentleman's Mr. BLAKENEY supported the prayer of the petition with all his heart. He had the honour of representing the county of Carlow, and was in possession of some pe. time from that county of a similar nature to the one now before the House ; which he feared he would have no op. portunity of presenting before the measures of Ministers were completed,—(Hear.) Nothing during the debate on those important measures had given him so much pain as the speech of the N ,ble Member for Nottingham, the Lord Lieutenant of Carlow (Lord Duncannon). That Noble Lord had stated that he had not yet received from the po lice officer the report for the last month. Now be (Mr. B.) would take leave to say that at this time the county of Carlow was in a perfectly tranquil state. This he said with the utmost confidence, and without fear of contra diction, for there was no Member of that House who could be so intimately acquainted with the state of Carlow as himself. He had, during the recess, made every inquiry throughout that county. He had been, and was still eceiving daily communications from every part of that county, and he could not describe to the House how much he had been shocked by the representations made by the Hon. Member for Nottingham, to whose statemen a every person knowing the worth of his public and private character, would give great weight. Last evening he (Mr. B.) felt himself called upon to remark upon the statements of that Noble Lord, but this his courtesy to wards the Noble Lord, aed his feelings as a gentleman, had prevented him doing in the absence of the Noble Lord. The Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin had risen last evening before the Noble Member for No`tingham came in, and thus circumstanced, he (Mr. B.) could only have a private communica tion with the Noble Lord, in which he learnt from him that this day the report for the last month would he received. But from whom would it be received ?—From a police officer ! And he was able to prove to the House, that all the other reports upon which the measures of Mi nisters ware founded, cams also from police oflicere.— (Hear, hear.) He would take upon him to say, that the number of outrages mentioned by the Noble Lord could not possibly have taken place in the county of Carlow without his (Mr. B.'s) cog nizance, and this he said as a magistrate, who gave more attenti..n to what was going on in that county than any other magistrate. It was with these feelings that he took the liberty to address the House at more length than perhaps he ought to have done. He would only further say, that be had five or six petitions to present to the House from every part of the county which he had the honour to reoresent against this measure. There were few in that House who knew Ireland better than he did, and he would venture to affirm that among the whole 32 counties of Ireland there was not a more peaceable one than the county of Carlow. In looking over the list of outragee that had been instanced by the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland, he found that that list had been made up to the end of March, and it had been most grossly exaggerated. He knew the county well, and could positively state that in the month of January there had been only one outrage that deserved the name ; the others that were pressed into the service were mere trivial affairs. If he had an opportunity before this ques. tion was settled, he would show that the state of Ireland was not at all in the state in which it had been repre sented. He would show that the contents of the " Red Box" had been most grossly exaggerated. It was too much for the patience of an Irishman to believe that that House would legislate upon such flimsy materials. His election, and that of his Noble Colleague, was con ducted without a single outrage. Indeed there was no outrage either before or after the election, nor had there been a single case of murder in the coun y which he re presented for several years. If there had been any outrage at all, it was committed by the Whitefeet of King's County, Queen's County, and Kilkenny, who had been permitted to creep into the county, with out at all being checked by the authorities. If the proper authorities had exercised the powers with which they were invested, Whitefootissu would have been suppressed the instant it appeared. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. VIGERS presented a similar petition from the landowners and other inhabitants of the parish of Raphoe, in the county of Carlow. Mr. lOLAKENEY supported the prayer of it. Mr. VIGORS next presented tour petitions of the same nature, from various parishes in the county of Wex ford, and one that was signed by a number of the inhabi tants of the town of Wexford. The latter stated that the pe titioners viewed with alarm and indignation the measure of coercion which had been introduced into the House, and which, if it were allowed to pass into a law, would greatly harass and paralyse the trade of that town. They deprecated the intention of vesting such powers in the hands of any individual whatever, without previously in stituting a Parliamentary inquiry to show its necessity. They felt confident, if such an inquiry were granted, it would appear that there were no grounds for requiring extraor dinary powers; but that the present law, if vigorously acted upon, would be found quite adequate to preserve the public 'peace without resorting to any unconstitutional measures. Mr. WALKER, in supporting the prayer of the peti tion, would refrain from making any observations on the Bill ; and would merely state that the petitioners were both numerous and respectable. Mr. VIGORS next presented a similar petition from New Ross, in the county of Wexford, and begged to say, that he fully concurred in its prayer, as well as in that of all the other petitions he had presented upon that subject. Mr. J. H. TALBOT said, that as Member for New Roes, he had taken advantage of the Honourable Gentleman opposite having petitions to present on the same subject, to place the petition in his bands, in order that it might be laid at the earliest period before the House. He felt it his duty to say that the coercive measure, as far as regarded t h e county of Wexford, was quite unnecessary. Mr. SHEIL said that he had been requested to sup port the petition, and in doing so begged to call the at tention of the House to the fact that the Lord Lieutenant for the county of Wexford, had declared it to be his opinion that such a measure was not necessary to preserve the.tranquillity of that county. As his name was low down in the list he would also mention ; though, perhaps, rather irregularly, that he had received a petition from South Shields, signed by 1,000 persons against the Bill. The petition was laid upon the table. Mr. VIGORS presented a petition praying for the The SPEAKER said he was sure the House would concur with him, that complaints had been frequently made by every Honourable Member of the House, that they made no progress in presenting petitions by the pre sent management—(Hear, hear)—becinse there was so 'ouch discussion, and from nine-tenths of those gentlemen who made the complaint, he found a deviation from the rule that bad been laid down.—(Laugh e , and hear, 1 e tr.) If, as some gentlemen said, the House sat from sunrise to sunset, the whole of that time would be occupied with pe titions if they proceeded as they did at present.—(Hear.) Mr. LITTLETON said the very gross irregularity arose with the Hon. Member for Oldham, who last night proposed that the old system should be again resorted to. Mr. H GRATTAN, to show the bid working of the present system, would only state, that in the book which he then held in his hand, there were 415 names down, while the Speaker had only got to the eightieth. Mr. FRYER presented a petition from Wolverhampton against the Irish Coercive Bill. He said lie perfectly agreed with his Majesty's Ministers—that this was a most unconstitutional measure. He did not attribute it ro barbarity on their part, but to an etror of judg ment. The Bill had peen read a first time in that House, it would be read a second time in Ireland, when the French or other foreign) Powers were in Ire land, and a third time when the British were expelled, tnd then it would be passed nen; eon. The SPEAKICIL then left the chair. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of most kinds of Grain this week arc moderate, and the return of Flour not large. The Wheat trade is dull for all sorts, except superfine, for which there is a pretty good de.. mandat Monday's prices, Barley, Beans, Pease, and Oats, zre unaltered. Flour unvaried. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. English 2,650 qrs. I 3,780 qrs. Iris - Foreign - - Oats. I our. 1,630 qrs. I 3,610 sacks 5,660 I I - CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. COUN I'HY Per Quarter. Boston _ Gainsborough Grantham Grimsby Lincoln ipilsby Stamford York— Oats. Beans. S. to .... I. to s. --, '24 S 6 41 24 Sti 25 33 30 39 23 35 30 36 21 32 8. to I. 14 17 25 14 22. 12 16 10 21 14 18 21 23 1t 22 8. to 8. 29 37 :30 25 40 40 42 36 40 32 38 33 36 23 36 NORWICH, March 2. 1 Wheat (per qr.) .. 40s, 555. 575. Beans (per qr.) ............ 255. 295. 13ar1ey—......—.—...... 168. 265. 295. Pease, Grey' 265. 263. 29e. oats ...........,.............. 18s. 20s. 235. Flour, fine (per sack) 395. 41s. CANTERBURY, March 9. Wheat, white 525. to 596.....,. Old —6. to —s. 4fis. to 556........ Old— —s. to —6. Barley, Malting 266. to 356.....,. Only:ling.-246. to 2.50. Oats 17s. to 246. Old—. 6 206. to 295. Beans 346 to 386. Old-- 27a. to 30s. 355. to 375...... Gre7 32a. to 346. Pease We understand that the Rev. EDWARD the in Irish the coereivelavlNG has gone to Scotland to take his trial before the Presbytery of Annan. PUBLIC MEETING AT Lyceum rooms,GLASGOW.--Thurs- d Sir D. K. SANDFORD in the Chair, for th e pur poseay night ofo ; r e p s u s i h n l g i c disapprobation meet i ng was held o Bill submitted to Parliament by Ministers. The room was crowded to excess. Sir DANIEL SANDFORD called on them boldly and manfully to come forward, and, by pe tition, prevent the Irish Coercive Bill being carried into a law. A resolution, d e n ounc i ng as tyrann i ca l an d un j ust the Irish Coercive Bill, and expressive of the belief that the existing laws were sufficient for the preservation of good order, was then moved by Mr. A. DoNcax. Mr. IPCovrax seconded the resolution. Mr. D. WALKER moved a resolution to the effect that it was the doty of the country to repel the present attempt to introduce mi litary despotism into Ireland, which was seconded b) Mr. THOMAS STEELE. Mr. D. M'AULAV moved the next re solution, to the effect that the Members of Parliament who pledged themse lv es, they support th e present mea sure, will have broken their promi.el, and lost th e eon ridenee of the country; which was Pecondeil by Mr. Cuultx, Mr. W. BRNNYT p roposed a petition to Par liament; seconded by Mr. G. ALLAN. Thanks were then voted to Sir DANIEL, and the meeting stated.