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Mr. JONES presented; petition from Carmarthen, against the
Ship Canal.
ST. KATHARINE'S DOCK. _ _

On this Bill, which was not,aswas sup passed on Tues-
day evening, being proposed to be read a third time,
Mr. CALVERT said, that he should, in accordance with the
wishes of his constituents, oppose this Bill ; but be hoped that his
Honourable Friend (3k. Grenkll) would consent to its postpone-
ment, as it would be of the greatest inconvenience to divide this
evening.
After some conversation between Mr. CALVERT and Mr.
GREN FELL, it was finally agreed that it should be postponed
till to-morrow evening.
COLLIER DOCK.

111 r. CA INERT presented a petition from St. George's-in-the-
East, against the Collier Dock Bill.
' Alderman 11-0(111 presented a petition from the Thames Water-
men and Lightennen, praying to be beard by Counsel against the
MlL—Referred to the Committee.

DER3IONDSEY DOCK.

Mr. Aldermni similar petition against the
Bermondsey Dock.
THAMES QUAY.
A petition WVI presented sexinst the Thames Quay, from the
Inhabitants of Ficet.street and neighbourhood.
ASSESSED TAND.4.
Lord STANLEY Itresente3 a petition praying for the repeal of
the Assessed Taxes. from Preston. - .

Mr. MAST DAPIS presented a similar petition from Saint
Mary's.
BEER DUTIES. - .

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Mr. 3IABCRLY announced the postponement of his motion for
the repeal of the Duty on Beer, till the sth play.
A petition from the University of Edinburgh was presented, in
favour of the Apothecaries' Bill.—Ordercd to lie on the table.
A petition from certain persons in Scotland concerned in the
whale trade was presented, and laid on the table.
J. P. URANT withdrew his notice on the subject of
wrongoua Imprisonment, and the delay of trials, in Scotland.
Mr. 1111.1NDAV presented two petitions against alterations in
the Corn Laws, one from the hundred of Itepburgh, and the other
from the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
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Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the Protestant Ir.-
habitants of Rochthill, in favour of Catholic Emancipation. After
the presentation of this petition,
SirJOHN NEWPORT wished to take this opportunity of
making some explanation relative to the fairicated petition he pre-
sented to the Pot= the other night from Ratlinesloc. He had then
in his hand a declaration from a person who had a principal share
in the fabrication of tie petition, and who asserted that not one
Catholic was engaged in it. He shouldl put the documents lie had
in his possession into the hands of the Committee, and he hoped
that the persons who had so flagrantly iniposcd on the House would
not go =punished.
Mr. PEEL fully concurred in the propriety of the course taken
by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He begged at the same time to
state, that the impression on his mind had never been, that it was
fabricated by the Catholics : but Protestant or Catholic, he should
be equally desirous to see such impositions repressed and punished.
Atter some further discussion between Sir J. NEWPORT and
Mr. C. WiLsOw, the subject was dropped.
Mr. DAVENPORT presented a petition from Nantwich,
against any further conuasions being made to the Catholics.
/dr. H. SUMNER presented a petition from the landowners in
the county of Surrey, praying that no further concessions be made
to the Roman Catholics.
Mr. T. WILSON presented a petition from the parish of St.
Swithin to the same effect.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented two petitions from certain Ito.',
man Catholics of the counties of Northumberland and Durham,
and of the town of Newmatle.opon-Tyne, praying for a repeal of
the penal laws affecting members of their Church.
Colonel LESLIE presented a petition from the parish of Doonoth,
in the county of Monaghan, in Ireland, against the Roman Ca-
tholic Claims.
Petitions were also presented to the same effect from the hundred
of Repburgh, in the county of Derby, and from the town of
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Sr J. MACKINTOSH then rose, saying, that he held In his
hand a petition from a considerable number of the Bankers, Mer-
chants, Manufacturer', and other respectable inhabitants of the
city of Glasgow, in favour of the Catholic Claims. He hoped the
House would give him credit for unwillingness to occupy their time
under present circumstances; but when it was perceived that a more
than ordinary show of attention was due to the petition which
he was then shoal to present, they would feel that he was not
unduly trespassing. He could not better state the claims which
the petition had upon the attentive consideration of the House than
in the words of the late Member for Glasgow (Mr. Finlay), a
Gentleman too well known to the hlestibers of that House to
require from him any eulogium, or to make it necessary that he
should enlarge upon the intellectual power or extensive information
of that highly respectable person. In a letter which he had re-
ceived from Mr. Finlay, and which he would then read to the
House, it was stated, that the petitioners had requested the writer
to place the petition in the hands of Sir James Mackintosh, having
attached to it the signatures of many most respectable individuals
who were desirous of submitting to Parliament their deliberate
opinion on the subject of the Catholic claims. He could hear testi-
mony to the fact, that the petitioners were of different and opposite
opinions on many political subjects, and were therefore not ob-
noxious to any imputation of party bias. Ile (5ir.1.31.) believed, and
was informed, that If selection had not been attended to more than
accumulation the number of the signatures might have been increased
tenfold. Amongst the names of these petitioners he saw many who
were in the habit of supporting his Majesty's Ministers, and of
differing in this respect and in others from several of their fellow.
petitioners. To show the House the just views which the peti-
tioners entertained, he would read an extract from the petition,
which was to the effect that the petitioners had seen with much sa-
tisfaction the announcement of there having been introduced into
that Ham a Bill for the Removal of the Disabilities under which
their Roman Catholic brethren laboured ; that they considered the
measure then before the House proceeded upon grounds of wisdom
end just policy, as well upon the true principles of civil and rat-