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lately occupied their attent!on. the knew there were !tenni
ti:, mitint a in that House, who were friendly to the, expres-
siert of public feeling, on the que,tions of peace and war,
•
ar, a earicty of others, tinnily important—and yet those
%ery pertons would out permit the people to deliver their
sentiments on this subject, which mainly affected them,
Withunt stigmatism.. the expression of (heir opinion, as
Mere clamour. He *lilted to h. ar the opinions am' tretiti.
*tents of the people on all subjects —( (tear, Ator.)-e.
lie teas pleated to see them vent their clamours in petitions
to th it Moamar--'(le sr, hear)—.'inter that the Call m. of
their di• content might he removed, or that the impropriety
of their emophaints iinght be pointed out On the slib.;ect
of the price of bees I, Ann* all others, their sentiments, he
conceived, ought lu he attended to. No mail representing a
great Pity, as he did, could he ignorant of the general wants
and necessities of the poor—and those want.. and necessities
most be evidently inerenerd by any measure which tended to
*ohmic, the price of bread. The feelings of the people were,
therefore, perfectly natural—and be could may with great
confidence, that their selitiments were now precisely the
seine as those they manifested last year. The people of li.istol,
in the Petition he flint had the honour to premmt, ',hewed
that their ideas ~n the 311hil'et remaiiied unchanged -sod. he
was sore, if time were •Ilifsrld by the House, the .riiiri• ..('the
entire population of the country would curiohointe his
me ,
Mr risers stated, that he had received a letter from the
Ilfa)or of Bristol, relative to the Petition then before the
Mum. The Mayor informed him, that it mas nut only
anal nuincronsly lint must respectably sive d—and that it
' sp... . . undivided sense of the people of that eitt. Ile
was 111.1•• t •ii 1,..4 4.1.• Li:ought forward, and thus: who
supporter! the measure, bad lint .1 e ithieet in view, the he.
Befit of the c aaaaaa inanity iii general.—(lferve,hcfr )--Ile in:-
Lived the interest of no particular party wets Ptieriapted to
be inward by this measure—hot that the Hsprewntntivea
attar Country consulted the interests of their Constituents
aw molt as their own--(Neer, Arm( )- —Fur lio, own
part, lie was inclined to favour tire measure ; and, in rot-
log ogainst it, as be had hitherto (11111 C, he spoke ratlwr
the seutoitents of his constituent.. Ilion his own ; and
th;s, perhaps, was the only question on a hirh lie won't' run-
wild to sacrifice his opinion to the sentiments of others.—
(lleur, hear.)
The Petition was laid on the table.
11.nrel 1111:rOX presented a P. titian *gaitd any 'alteration
in the Corn Laws, sigma' by 15,000 persons, inhabitants of
Sheldel.l. Laid on the table.
Sir JAMS MUM presented a Petition from the Ward of
Cripple vie, praying that on alteration .bald lee made in
the existing Laws, respecting Corn, until a sistlicieut time
bad dared to enable the House to judge of the ((Fret
which ileatl would have on the commercial, trading, acid
antvieultural interests of the country. The II oirahle
B tr. .:I e 1 said, he was instructed to state, that the iiillabitonts
. of this d'art were duly sunitunned to consider this rine.-
, Coo. The meeting took place in the parish church, and
r was ntter.!..l by a greater number of inhabitants that was
ever ;mono to have been assembled there, un oily °erasion,
in the memory of man. The 'meting au.: conelsteted in the
most regahor i.iaaner, and the unanimous sense of the pro.
pl., was exper.sed against any iitterfereme vtillt the present
Corn Lows. ;,,;:i previous attempt was made to procure the
' Si:nature of names—lint the moment the IN titbit, was I. n
* ror sizilat ',cry, persons fume ere ry part of the Ward affixed
their mimes to It. There was no ,listinetion of party, of re.
I li gine., or of per ifession, attended to. All the inhabitants of
the IV:er.l united in prayinl the !louse to alietain from
• mak ng the proposes' alterations
The P.M:O i was laid ion the table.
Mr. if e.t.t.istt prenentad a Petition, siznerl by his, per.
MIN intwhitaiits of the parish of St. Luke, Middlesex,
' against any alteration in the Corn Laas.—Laid tin the
table.
. General Woe presented a Petition from certain inleehi-
tatita of Stamford, inlaying a 'seinen of the Corn lam...—
Laid on the table.
INMA-BUILT SHIPPING.

Lori I.►ter.LLEl prise nted a Petition Iron the Ship,
builthri of MD and Whitby, in York...bile, playilin tlmt
ladia-bni It ships in ay,nut be permitted to antis the poet,: a
this eountry--Laid tin the
INSOLVENT IDESTI/RS,

!kir. LOCK !TART prearntill a Petition front the May. r,
Mari awn, and Corporation of the City of Oxford, pi ayiii,l
for the repeal of the• Insolvent Wawa' Act.—Laid on the
table.