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HOUSE OF COMMONS, MOXDAT, ArniL le.

&larger/ wets not wimitted until after it was untlerstorl thit
the order of the day to: a toll of the Houle bau bow read and die.

avged.
N.OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
A SIR for enabling ;be Royal Evitiwiga Awatrance Company to
/end money on freehold, leasehold, end other property, wan and a
third time and reksed.
rROPOLiTAN FfSH COMPANY.
petitioce against the Metrordi.an Fish Company's Bill were
presented (min Dover and the piece" adjacent, front Margate and
firoadstaira, from Folicatone, from Walworth, sad from handset,.
—C;rdered to he on the table.
WESTERN SHIP CANAL.
Mr. DICKENSON prevented a petitien from the Dean and
Chapter Wee% against the Western Sblp Cane!.
fir. ASTELI. weirse. oted a almilvr petitket from the Carpotation
of the town of Bridgewater. •
They were laid on the table.
COUNTY couaTs DILL
/uwd A LTTIOaP presence:l two peLii.ml Irvin NorthemP'o",
far.;l7 of the County Coons El.

PETITIONS AGAINST THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.
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Petitions against gay farther concessiotis to Roman Catholics
were presented— • .
By Lord CHANDOS. front Buckingham.
By Lord C. MANNERS. from the Dean and Chapter of the
Cathedral Church of Ely, and also from the Chancellor and Clergy
of the diocese of Elr.
By Mr. W. PEEL. from Ternworth.
By Lord LOWTHER. ftom the clergy of Kendal, from the in-
habitants of Kendal, and from Kirkby-Lonralale.
General Al:font/ALL, in rising to present a petition from the
county of Fermanagh against the demands of the Ronan Catho-
lics,• wished to call the attention of the House particularly to the
warding of that petition, and to the substance of its statements,
fee the idea had gone abroad, and was but too prevalent, that the
Protestants of Ireland were indifferent on the subject of concessions
to the Roman Catholics. This he would distinctly negative, and
therefore wished to call attention to the petition he was then about
se present. So far from the Protestants of Ireland bring indifferent
cep this important subject, they felt decidedly adverse to any further
Concession.
Mr. D. BROWN bore testimony to the fact of Teri' opposite
sentiments bring entertained in Inland. He had recently been at
apublic meeting in a county where a great number of Protestant
gentlemen reside, and it was the opinion of that meeting that
nothing like peace or tmoquillity could ever be established in Ire-
until the removal of Catholic disabilities.
General A RCHDALL then presented a petition from the town
of hlaguire's Bridge, in the county of Fermanagh, to the same
effect as the precerhno.
By Mr. M/ NeIfTELD, from the Vicar, Curate, Church.
wardens, and Inhabitants of the palish of Sleeton, in Leicester-
shire.
A similar pelition was also presented from Ripnon, in Yorkshire.
By Mr. PALMER, from t! • Mayor and Burgesses of Wal-
lington.
Mr. T. WILSON presented three petitions, all to the same
effect as the preceding—une from the clergy of London, one from
the archdeaconry of St. Alban's, and the third trout the minister
and congregation of the Surrey-street Chapel.
The petitions presented by Mr. HOLM 6 SUMNER were.
from Aldbury, Surrey ; from the Archdeaconry and' Clergy of
Sudbury ; and front the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark.
By Mr. RfCKYORD, from Albrighton, Salop.
By Mr. CA RTWSIOII T, from the Clergy of the Archdea-
conry of Peterborough ; the parish of St. Giles, Northampton,
IVellingborough, Wilton, and the city of Peterborough.
By Mr. HORROCKS, front Preston.
By Mr. WALLACE, from Weymouth.
By Mr. BAGGS, from the Chancellor and Prebendaries of
Moyle&
By Mr. TULK, from Sudbury.
By Lind R. MANNERS, from the Archdeacon and Clergy of
Leicester.
By Mr. EGERTON, from Xnutaford and Littlewith.
By MLR' HITMORE, from Bridgnorth, Chipnal, Dow:in, and
StoCkton.
By Lord WM. BENTINCK, from the Archdeaconry and
Clergy of Nottingham.
By Mr. B. COOPER. from Melte*: gym.
By Captain PELLE W, front Bridport, A.kton, and Christall.
By Colonel DORKING from Boroughbeidge.

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BI Mr. DOWNIE, Iron's Stirling.
By 81r C. PAGET, from Caernarvon.
By Mr. A CAMPBELL, from Glasgow.
By Admiral SOUTHERON, from Mansfield.
By Sir A. HOME, from the Ministry and Pmbytery of Lin-
lithgow.
Ily Lord G. LENNOX, from the Archdeacon and Clergy of
Chichester.
Mr. Secretary PEEL, in rising to present a great number of
petitions against concessions to 'the Roman Catholics which had
been transmitted to him, observed, that not a third oithem came
from members of the Established Church. Though called upon
to present these petitions, and though proud that they had been
confided to his hands, yet he thought it right to say, that they were
altogether unsuggested by him. They were chiefly valuable as
speaking the sentiments of the petitioners, not resulting from any
communication had with others. On being applied to to peel-fa-
them. he r.adily acceded.
The petitions were as follows :—From the Clergy of Manchester,
the Archdeacon and Clergy of the East Riling of Yorkshire, the
Archdeaconry of York, from We .t Beer, from the Mirister and
Congregation of Queen-square. !tom a Congregation of Baptist's,
in Goodman's-fields, also gam a similar Congregation, in Lyon-
street, New-road, Surrey, from Linlithgow, Paisley, the house-
holders of the parish of Lismahago, the Minister and Elders of •
congregation in Glasgow, the Minister and Elders of the Scots
Church in London in connection with the Established Church of
Scotland, the Minister Associated Presbytery of Campbell street,
Glasgow,' from Newcastle.undo-Lyne, Stockby, Barnstaple, NVe-
thr-.11, the Churchwardens and Minister of Saddlehurst, and the
parish of Christchurch, Spitalficlds.
The several petitions presented on this subject were ordered to lie
on the table.

JURIES BILL.
The further consideration of the Juries Bill was postponed to
Monday.
COURT OF RING'S BENCH.
Mr. SCARLETT gave notice, that on Friday he would submit
a motion to the House, on the subject of the building in which the
Court of King's Bench sits.
STEALING OF GRAIN.
Mr. E. HARVEY presented a petition from certain owners of
had in Essex, relative to the Stealing of Grain.
THE BUTTER TRADE.
Sir J. NEWPORT presented two petitions against alteration in
the laws regarding the Butter Trade, one ftomWaterford, the other
from Newry.
DUTY ON FOREIGN LINEN.
Mr. B. COOPER presented a petition from persons concerned
In the Linen Trade, in the town of Perth, and another from certain
individuals in the Port of Dundee, praying that there be no
further reduction made in the duties on Foreign Linen.
MARRIAGES OF UNITARIANS.
Colonel DORKING presented a petition from the Clergy
of Boroughbr.dge, against the Unitarian Marriage Relief Bill.
BUBBLE ACT.
Mr. P. MOORE postponed his motion for leave to bring in a
Bill to amend the 6th Geo. I. cap.lB., but the Honourable Gentle..
man spoke in so low a tone of voice that we were not able to collect
the precise period of the postponement.
OIL DUTIES.
Sir R. FERGUSON presented a Petition from the Owners of
Whale Vessels in Kirksld- against the removal of the Oil Duties.

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METROPOLITAN FISH COMPANY.
A Petition was presented from Milton, against the Metropolitan
Fish Company.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
Mr. M. PITT presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of
Lewes, against futther concession to the Roman Catholics. Also,
Petitions to the same effect from Stockton, r- I several other Pa-
rishes in Dorsetsh;re--Ordered to lie on the sable.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE, in rising to present several Petitions
from various parts of the Kingdom, against the Bill before the
House for yielding further concessions to the Roman Catholics,
was glad to have it in his power to contradict the charge of apathy
and indifference which had been alleged against the Protestant
people of this country, on a question of such vital importance. The
petitions already presented to the House were the best refutation of
List assertion; and he was satisfied, if the Bill before the House
were carried, it would pass in defiance of the feeling cf the great
majority of the Protestant inhabitants of this country. The Ho-
nourable Baronet then presented Petitions from the inhabitants of
the Parish of St. Luke, 31 iddleAe: t the Protestant Dissenters fre-
quenting n Chapel in Red Cross.strect; the Inhabitants of Burk-
ington, Warwickshire; and Yarm, in the County of York; tall
praying that no further concessions be granted to the Roman Ca-
thotics.—Laid on the table. _ .

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Sir E. KNATCII BULL presented a Petition from the Clergy
of Canterbury; also, iron LiHingham, Kelvinden, Peckham,
Chatborne, Ramsgate, Fettervil, Wye. and Ashford, in the
County of Kent. against the Catholic Claims.-Laid on the table.
Lord E. SOMERSET presented several petitions from the M-
b/Mutants of Stoke Newlands, Stonehutst, and the Rural Dean
and Clingy of Stone. in Hlopms'ershire, against the Catholic
Claime.—Laid on the Table.
Sir H. VIVIAN presented a petition from certain persons In
the county of Cornwall, against the Catholic Claims.—Ordered to
lie on the table. _ . -

Mr. KEMP presented a petition from the Protestant dissenters
of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, against fu.-ther concessions
to the Roman Ceihnlica.—Luld on the Table.
Lord NUGENT presented a petition from the Roman C • tholic
inhabitants of Liverpool, in favour of the Catholic Claims. Also
similar petitions from the Roman Cathoiic inhabitants of Wigan
and Preston, in Lau.ashire, to the some effect--Ordeted to lie on
the table.
Mr. 13ROUGHASI rose to present a petition, numerously
signed, ftom the inhabitants of Lancaster, In favour of the Bill
now before the Manse, for removing the civil disabilities of the
Roman Catholics. The Han. Gentleman then proceeded to say—
Sir, there petitioners, in addition to the prayer of their petition, and
without retirring to the Bill now before the House, or the subject
of the Catholic Claims, go on to state their disapprobation of the
unjust, irrational, impolitic, and uncalled-for principle of making
men subject to civil disqualiiicstions on account of their religious
opinions. In presenting this petition I would further say, that I
entirely concur in those sentiments ; indeed it conveys the sentiments
wkichl haverepeatedly avowed here and elsewhere,and which I shall
have often occasion to avow here and elsewhere. And it is not
merely with a view to the situation of the Roman Cathnlies, or the
civil disabilities arising out of their religious belief, that I maintain
these opinions. I hold the same opinion of all testa and qualifLit-
tions (hear, hear); and I hold that chi( and religious tolerance
should apply to the professors of all religions as well as to the
Roman Catholics ; for a man is no more answerable for his religious
tenets than his physical eonstionion. Sir, the consequence of these
tests is, to make men hypocrites. No teat can alter opinion.
I shall now pass to another subject, and I must confers the pain,
the sorrow, and the dissatisfaction with which I here listened to
some petitions against the Roman Catholic Claims, presented from
a respectable, and, by me, most respected body. I allude, Sir, to
the petitions emanating from the Dissenters, and presented by the
Right Hon. the Member for Oxfivi (Mr. Peel), who has been en.
trusted with a number of ptthicr.s en this occasion. I repeat, that
I feel sorrow and shame at the quarter in which those petitions
have originated. It Is without surprise I can fee pYtitions agslost
concessions to the Roman Catholics coining from the Clergy, and
even the members of the Estaidished Church ; that is but in the
amoral course of things s but I cannot SiIr)ASSIS my surprise at the
punt conduct of a respectable class of incr., from whom a very