The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-25 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

Pmts PETITIONS.—The seventh report of the committe
on public petitions has been delivered; it brings the resist er
of petitions presented to the House of Commons down to
the 17th hart. On constitutional points scarcely any /. ,ace
been presented: there are only three petitions with a total
a 317 signatures for repeal of wino. Under the head
" ecclesiastical " two petiuons are reported with 17,0 at sig-
natures from Ireland for the abolition of ministers' money.
The pctitkos relating to taxes are:—For repeal stamp
I duties on attorney's certificates 10 petitions, wit} ; 115 sig.
, natures; against use of grain in breweries and di Ileries 4
with 494 ; for repeal of excise duty on hon. 1,
with 1 ; for reduction of tolls and dues on lighth Asses
24, with 1,617 ; for reduction of duty on tea If ,; with 3;462;
for repeal of window duty 1, with 93. The petitions for a
Ten Hours Factories Bill are 602, with 170
.261 signature.;
the petitions against it 3, with 84 signature 4. There are 13
ispc.rtiticiansw,
;wanithd
58 1,89.3ith signatures
2 forures rental , r alterationforalteretio
n of the
of t
/rilhe
Poor Removal Act, In favour of Lord Georg. Bentineh..
Railway Bill, there were presented 8 petitions, with 320
signatures ; against it 1 with I.

Friday
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nese. We will notice one or two in the Oficial
Dirertory. Here we find nothing said of the new rail-
way board established in the last session, of which Mr.
. .
Great George-
months,
board

Sir R, INGLIS complained that the hon. and learned Silt() to the other part. His non. menu nee lain that, as tohead THE er : xt ...
member had commenced his speech with an attack on the civil disabilities, they were all abolished by the act of last 'Tnhe"gl've'rn'meolart 71E723.;Tb1;e41;;;Tay Y;;471;;;;;a's a 317 signatures for repeal of union. cutter too
31 ee eiarquis of WESTMEATH moved, on Friday editor. In this medley of rights and wrongs, it will
hon, member fir Birmingham, a :quench ecpporter of the year. What was really abolished was an act of the 13th and surrender at discretion; and this clause, so far from being " ecelesiaitical +• two petitions are reported with 17,0
sag•
night last, for returns respecting the management of be useful to see what the worth of the book really
The
which he (Sir It. Inglis) had always advocated, of the same queen which imposed the punishment of death agreed to, was protested against by Lord Sendon, the then natures from Ireland for the abolition of ministers' mone
The petitisns relating to taxes are:—For repeal e f stamp the crown estate in the county of Roscommon, with is, and whether the public itself has not some clear
The lion. and learned member complained that the hon. on the introduction of bulls, writings, or instruments con- Secretary for Ireland, end other members, as being mice-
-9 f .. , . . e
_„ . 11: sig- the object of proving that for 15 years it had paid no and intelligible rights of its own in this matter.
member for Birmingham and his constituents were ignorant nected with the Church of Rome, into this country ; but the listed to east a stain on the Roman Catholics of Ireland, duties on atterne 's certificates 10 petitions wit). ' -
stilleriee 4, rent, and thaticgal possession of it having been obtained
of certain oiniseions which had been me•:e in this year's bill. bill of last year did not make it lawful to introduce such which was unworthy of a Christian people. natures; Against use o grain an oreweries and us
with 484 ; far repeal of excise duty on homes l Whether we regard the book under its official or
. about a year since, by the crown exercising its rights private aspect, its merits, or rather demerits, are the
The mistake which th y had made was very easily accounted bulls, writings, or instruments, and, except as to the penalty, Sir R. PEEL said the bill which now stood fora second
with I ;for reduction of tolls and dues on l' htheu
for, as the p. hits now omitted were to be found in all the law remained the same as before. But no man reading, contemplated a double object. In the first instance,, Zth 3 4871. as a landlord, the tenants re-possessed themselves same ; and, to speak plainly, it is literally a
former bills, and no entice of their omission had been given. would now hold, as the hon. member for Birmingham it contemplated the repeal of many of the enactments of the 2ro1
r, with
acall ,05 17 e for
dreduet i a n of.due e, on
Tteli,se 1 f , . .
win ow duty I, . . • petitions tar a
' ' of the lauds the next day by fraud' and violence,— disgrace to its tage be Iwhat it A
paren , 1
Tne him. and learned member had claims upon the attention held last year,that the introduction of an Agnus Del or Cru• bill of 1829, which relieved the Roman Catholics from al-
Ten Hours Factories Bill aro 402, with 170 eel eienetwese;
aplemetinng,cowmemperesncedum.e, the game of litigation to be cursory glance through the last eon (dated
of the house as amend lawyer, bet he thought he could lay eifix, was a crime for which the offender should be hanged, most all political disabilities ; and it else proposed to carry the .. ~ t • •
petitio ',genie tt.3, with 84f sigaitiature a, There are 15
no claims to the character of an accurate historian. He drawn, and quartered--(a laugh)--or seriously meant that into effect certain act:idlest emotion, and one of the year 1841 Lord WESTMEATH does not November, 1846) brought to light an error in almost
petmone, 1,893 signatures Or alt lion of the Irish
asserted that Penal loses arose with the reformation, it should continue to be an offence in this country punish- for the abolition of statutes which were Practically obsolete, p I wand 58 with eeeee f„ al state enough of the case to enable us to form every page—quite inexcusable. The errors are of
but h.: forgot that is was not till long alter the revolution able as a miademeannur for a man to go and hear mass. which implied doubts of the loyalty of the Roman Catholic oor. jaw ,_ _ _r., r alteration of the
a judgment on the matter. Of such a ease it is all kinds--omission--commission—ignorance—stale-
Poor Removal Act. In favour of Lore George Bentinck's
teat many of these laws pissed. but the hon. and learned Then, ae it appeared to him, until they come to that part of community, and which, if put into practical operation,
petitiuus, with 320 quite plain that the facts ought to be most distinctly ness. We will notice one or two in the Official
member was alma incoreastent with himself, for, by the the bill which his hon. and learned friend had stated he W" would enbn'ct them Weever. and disproportionate penalties. Railway Bill, there were presented 8
it 1 with I. stated, as rho introduction of the word " fraud" into Directory. Here we find nothing said of the new me-
ter= of the act of Elizabeth, if the supremacy of the willing to modify, they were dealing with that which ought So fares the tatter object was concerned, the bill would have l'ornatUg"; against
crown over matters ecclesiastical were base lon the common not fora moment to become a matter of contest amongst his cordial support. He had taken an active part in further-
law of the country, the Protestant as well as Catholic sub• rational men, and it would surely be an unprecedented ins the measures of 1841 and 1846, which had that for their
—Continued ire rove- colourable pretext of law for the conduct of the Snturr is the head. The office is 29, Great George-
feet' of the cn.n•n would be equally liable to their operation. course to throw out a bill at 42 second reading, because of a object. He th
ally it moat unwiara to continue statutes PHOTOORA. PHIC Ponva&rrs.
._
P tenants. In a case of Lord WEsTME.trlt's own, in street, and was so for some weeks, if not months,
The hon. end ler:lied member was ohliged to go beck to the claws which the mover WS, Within to modify, so as to which were wholly out of coneonance and agreement with ments are being made tie Poehogr sphy. The latest which which he was put to a good deal of expense, our re- before November last. Mr. Seiturr and the board
early part of the reign or Eliztheth for an instance in which Werth. views of its objector., To that part of the bill the spirit of the times, and which inflicted penalties which we have to recordls the work of Mr. Kilburn, who het
the rigour of this law was preee'd
.against a Roman Catholic which dealt with Roman Catholic processions he we. op• could not be enforced without revolting the Christian feel- opened an establishment se Regent.street, where the
specimens on view are minor g the mist perfect that we against him, in an ejt•etment brought
collection is, that the courts of law decided itself had been appointed long antecedently to the
*teem: end he wee very certain that if the hon. and posed. There wax n•s intolerance in preventing them. intr. even of these who did not agree with the Roman Catho- against a location of the office. But under the Boatel of
learned na Leber heel had a la'er illustration he would have That was a question of the preservation of the public peace. lice, be thought them discredit►ble to the statute-book, sod, have yet seen. Theii Winch. ..al improvement is in colour, tenan+, on the ground of his having sublet Trade, p. 51, the late railway department is men-
kren it. The hon. and learned member bad greatly dcpre- If there was a tolerant form of government on earth, it was therefore, he gave his conlicil anent to their removal. which, in Mr. R burn e portraits, has not the pre• a part of Isis farm, contrary to a covenant in the lease tioned, which had been swept away months ago,
elated the securities which were given to the Established that of the British government in India, yet that inter- The knit part of the hill professed to supply the veiling defect of faintness. ' ,at possesses the depth and body under which he held. 'The marquis was unreasonably Another office omitted, which is at least two years
Church fa the Aet of Emancipation, but, however slightly feted with religious processions which might endanger emissions of the acts of 1844 and 1846. The hon. gentleman of a finished Painting. '..his quality renders a portrait
even be (Sir R. H. Inglis) might view them, they were ten- the peace of the country, end he should not ob. whn had the conduct of the bill said that now by law, and valuable IS a work of art-. which is otherwise rarely the ease angry with the law and tho lawyers, for his proof of old, is that of the registrar of metropolitan surveys—
derca ant accepted as meerite., and therefore the hon. and jest to the application of stringent measures for notwithstanding the statute of 1844 and 1816, a Roman '—the likeness being ge•aerally the only recommendation. the covenants having been broken consisted in his a department subject to the office of Woods, and
learned member sh mld not have alluded to them in terms preventing the celebration of such Roman Catholic rites and Catholic maliciouslyand advisedly maintaining the authority, Indeed, the process of colouring requires the same rare and showing, that his tenant let the land to some located with its staff at No. 3, Trafalgar-square. The -4
SO unfitting, lie (Sir R. bulls) mute: vied that there was ceremonies as were ealmslited to endanger the public ton- spiritual and ecielesuaetical, of any foreign potentate, , skill as in as ivory miniature. Nor is this attention ill• personsfor what is called a conacre crop, omissions an errors inthe personne of government
no comet" in Christian Isar• into which the Jesuits were quality ; therefore be meld not support the clause as it prelate, or power, if he was poesessed of goods of the of bestowed, ibr the die tincinees thin given to the subject has
and that this, however contrary it might officers are numerous ; but we pretermit these to
admitted without 'direct law being passed subjecting themin stood, neither did he starts with all that had been said 20e, forfeited them all, and if he was notpomesoeillsof eh hitherto been a r.est desideratum, the polished surface of
Awe
be to the spirit of the contract,
nuiobers, residences, and objects, to the powers at the time against it. It wax certainly neither just nor right that a he forfeited all he had, and was subject to a yeses Impel. the picture in mrct CaM3 requiring a poculiar direction of the was not opposed pass to the next portion of the work, the Street
being. Tho Jesuits had greatly inexemed in this country Britian ambled, being a Franciscan, should be driven front soement. ' light in order /I'o distinguish its details, to the letter, such conacre hiring of the land Directory. Here we observe that although the