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GLEBE LANDS BILL.
On the motion of tile Earl of SR
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HOUSE OF COMMONS, Faisal, Faa. 2S.
The Spooker took the Chair at the usual hear.
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he 1.111111141 M Shot the Gelesellienseleelaseded. that they MA tea
juriedicdon stadoelde epee -skr winks of petitions, preying the ea.
torcetneet of the Standen Orders ; or otpetitions, praying that the
Standing Orders should be dispensed with. It seemed that the
ommittee d!ti not feel themselves anthansod to decide upon Mir
merits of lush plat:ma* bat ft would at least be well that it should
be fairly understood, whether the Committee acted after haring
only one side, or after hearing both.
A desultory conversation took place upon the observations of the
Speaker. in which Sir T. Lethbridge, Mr. S. Wortley, Mr. Cripps,
Mr. Lyttleton, Mr. W. Dundao, Mr. I'earae, Lord Stanley,
General Gascoyne. and other Honourable Meinbes, took pan. It
was finally agreed that the further consideration of the subject
should be deferred until Monday next.
ASSESSED TAXES.

Lord STANLEY irtaentedapetitiOnlrtiM Üborley, in Lanca-
shire, praying for the repeal of the Aksessed Taxes.
Sir W. DE CRESPION Y presented a similar petition from
Southampton.
Sir W. GUISE presented a similar petition from the parish of
St. James, county of Gloucester.
The petitions were ordered to lie on the table.
COAL DUTIES.
Sir W. DE CRESPIONY piksented a petition from Portland,
praying for the repeal of the duty on Coals.
Sir C. COLE prevented a similar petition from Olarnorganshire.
Sir W. DE CRESPIGNY presented a similar petition from the
inhabitants of Lineolnvhire.

Mr. MARJORIBA_NKS presented a similar petition from the
Mayor of Hythe.
Sir ELIAII HARVEY presented a similar petition from lbw.
sham (Essex).
Sir J. SEBRIGHT presented a similar petition from Ware
(Hertfordshire).
The Petitions were ordered to lie on the table.
COUNTY COURTS BILL. .

M. CART WRltifir presented a petition from Towne/tee
(Northamptonshire), in favour of the County Courts Bill.
Ordered to be printed.
WINDOW TAX.

Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from the Ward of
Cripplegate, praying for the repeal of the Window Tax.
111 r. T. WILSON presented &similar petition from the Ward of
Coenhill.

The petitions were ordered to lie on the table.
ILLEGAL ASSOC] ATIONe,

Sir H. PARNELL presented a petition from certain Catholic
inhabitants of the county of Dublin. against the Bill for the sup..
preaaion of illegal A moetationa in Ireland.
The Sheriffs of London appeared at the Bar of the House, with
a Petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons. of
the City of London, hi Common Council Assembled, praying
relief from the Assessed Taxes.

The Sherifii having withdrawn,
Mr. Alderman WOOD rose to support the prayer of the peti.
tiun, and was happy to gee the Chancellor of the Exchequer at that
moment entering the House, as he wished to impress upon that
Honourable Gentleman the necessity of making some reduction in
those assessments, more especially as it regarded the House and
Window Taxes, which pressed very heavily on the trading inha-
bitants of the City of London. He was aware of many houses,
which, not paying it very large rent, were rated so high as OM a
year. He could net help thinking this circumstance one worthy
the consideration of the Government, to see hew far the inhabitants
of Londou, and the rest of the kingdom, could be relieved from
the burden of those taxes.
. . .

Mr. THOMAS WILSON concurred in the propriety M' re-
ducing the Assessed Taxes.
Mr. HOBHOGSE had frequently presented petitions of a si-
milar nature from his constituents, but the uniform neglect with
which they had been treated, was calculated to convey the idea tu
the people that it was hopeless and unnecessary to trouble them.
selves any longer to so little purpose. It would be premature to
demand any information at present from the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. as to hit intention with respect to those taxes, but he
trusted that the honourable Member's expo:e on Monday, would
prose that he had censidered and approved the prayer of this and
similar petition::.
Mr. C. CALVERT made a few observations, which were in-
audible in the gallery.
General GASGON NE, we understood, would support the re-
duction
of the assessed taxes whenever the question should be sub-
mitted to the consideration of the House.
Mr. HART DAVIS said a few words, the purport of which
we could not collect.
Mr. BRIGHT thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer had it
in his power to confer a great and valuable boon on the lower
claims, who were shut tip in unwholesome dwellings, front which
the light and air were excluded, for the purpose of avoiding pay-
ment of the window tax. He trusted the Hon. Member at the
head of the financial department would afford them relief, by the
repeal of the tax.
The petition was then ordered to he printed.
Mr. BYNG presented a petition from the inhabitants of White-
chapel, praying the repeal of the duties on coals carried coastwise.
MACLX)N A I.D presented a petition from the inhabitants
of Bury St. Edmund's. against the assessed taxes. Petitioners
prayed a repeal or modification of the obnoxious taxes, and lugged
the !louse to consider, that the amount of taxes repealed was not
to be estimated as the criterion of the amount of loss to the revenue.
He concurred with the petitioners, and expressed his satisfaction
that the people continued to petition against those most unpopular
assessments. He trusted, after such expressions of feeling, and
after what had just fallen from the lion. Members for London,
Westminster, and Southwark, Ministers would take into con-
sideration the propriety of abolishing what were certainly originally
intended only as war taxes, and should nest now continue to oppress
the country by the continuance of such grievous exactions iu a
time of profound peace.—Laid on the table.
Lord MILTON presented a petition from Whitby Yorkshire,
preying the repeal of the Assessed Taxes. Ile fully concurred
with what had fallen from the Honourable Member for Caine upon

the subjert.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. IV YVILL presented a petition from the inhabitants of the
City of York, against the Assessed Taxes.
Mr. E. WODEHOUSE presented petitions from four parishes
in the county of Norfolk, praying a repeal of the Assessed Taxes.
Ordered to be printed.
Mr. 110BIRDUSE presented a petition from the Roman Ca-
tholic inhabitants of Kinsale, in Ireland, in favour of the Catholic
Association, and against the Bill row in progress for the suppres-
sion of illegal Societies.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. H. DAVIS presented a petition from the inhabitants of the
parish of St. Peter, Bristol, praying the House to pass the Bill
against illegal Associations, and not grant any further concessions
to the Roman Catholics.—Laid on the table.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from certain inhabitants
of Cornwall, against the duty on coals; also a petition from the
inhabitants cf Stokesly, in favour of the County Courts
Ordered :o be printed.
Mr. MACQIJEEN presented a petition from the inhabitants of
Woburn, Bedfordshire, in favour of the County Courts BilL—Laid
on the table.
Sir H. HERON presented a petition from the city of Peter-
borough, in favour of the County Courts MlL—Ordered to be
printed.
Sir J. MACKINTOSH presented a petition from certain in-
habitants of the Borough of Knaresborough, against the existing
expenses attendant upon the recovery of Small Debts, and in favour
of the County Courts Bill. This petition was remarkable, inas-
much as it was signed by several individuals belonging to a class
of persons who would, undoubtedly, he sufferers by an alteration
of the present system--he meant attorneys. Yet, notwithstanding
the loss likely to ensue. these
es gentlemen had in the most disin-
terested manner affixed their signatures to this petition, convinced
as they were of the great mischief arising to the community from
the operation of the existing mode of recovering small debts.
Lord MILTON hoped the noble example of those individuals
would not be lost to the country, and trusted it would be imitated
by other individuals in higher stations, whose interests might be
connected with the Bill.
Ordered to be printed.
Sir J. MACKINTOSH presented a petition from the parish of
St. Illichan' in the city of Dublin, against the Bill for suppression
of Illegal Associations.—Laid on the table.
Mr. D. GILBERT presented a petition from the inhabitants of
Ulverston, optima the Coal Duties.
Mr. T. COURTENAY presented a similar petition from the
inhabitants of Tomes:a, against the duties on Coals.
Ordered to be printed.
Lord PALMLILSTON presented a petition from Sligo, pray-
ing the removal of the restrictions upon Provincial Banking (.bin
panics.—Laid on the table.
Mr. I. LOCKHART presented a petition from the parish of

All Saints Oxford, praying the raped of the House and Window
Tax.—Ordered to be printed.
HUTCHINSON
to rose to • petition from the Mita-
' bitants of the town of Cloys% . As favour of the Giulio-
lie Associailem. The prayer r . .., that the House
woad pates pressious to . • 'hew in progress against
Riegel genneistlant. T e r that the best nndtr-
etandiettasid awmtairdiel f 7,.....2- between the Protestant
and isittliestele of liffr2.,„. proceeded to refute
an assertion wilt* ...... —7..100 surprise had beet,
' made by an Hea.lleishee —1 --1,;„,,,,... " to" the Protest-
ant inhabissals While , - r- ... of alarm, as to
sit up *tidy Waren io _,... . of repelling
the expected metaahe of the Ihnine t --, - .. Petitioners stated,
and he wished to coil the attention , the to their statement,
that no such occurrence had taken place., were enabled to
er, thee meat positive contradiction to the Mutton of the Hon.
Umber kir Loath (Mr. L. Forster), and he (Mr. Hutchinson)
I mitertalowl Do doubt that were the opportunity afforded, other
3olit...orays ansaationsauld be Iran and refuted in a manner as
t setae peened. He was happy to inform the House
that--tgi-reaaest irameay existed beterese the Protestant and Ro-
w CatWlies of belead—a beeihoey which was a: tributable to
dee aweettwee of the Association, aid which, he had so doubt.
Nil andieve to exit, were it not distatieed by the proposed
thlnitthent. Be had also to submit to tin &use soother petition
ad the same subject, fiom the 1A11614030 of Mallow, winch had
eirodred upon him through the abesoce of the Idernbet for Mallow
MT. W. W. Becbery, who weer meth fp= indisposition to at-
send, bat wises anuannots, be jqst esibtadeed to state, were in
accerdamee with the poper of tisiFtktiftweire wished the Hama
to be made aerate of the sumation bed gethliesoas of eh, -Homo
Catholics of Ireland. They had been waiting patiently during the
quarter of a century which had elapsed since the Union, expecting
from, and relying on, the justice of Parliament, for the concession
of their claims. Disappointed in their expectations. they were
compelled to look up to the Association, and express their appro.
behest of their exertions, for tie purpose of proving to the country
that they still deserved the attainment of Catholic Emancipation.
This was the moat anxious wish of the Catholics ; and if the Hon.
Member for Westuduster should be unsiteceseful in his motion
fixed for Tuesday next. connecting that failure with the suppression
of the Association, who could blame the Catholic, for imagaung no
relief was intended for them, anti that an attack was made by the
obnoxious Bill on privileges which they considered as their birth-
right ? With regard to the measure of Catholic relief, his stnti-
MelltS were well known, and he could net avoid deprecating the
intended Bill, as one likely to impede thc progress of that measure
far msny years. The object of thc petitions he was about to pre-
sent to the House was, to obtain for the Association a hearing at the
bar, and an opportunity of vindicating their conduct and their aims.
Gentlemen who opposed this proposition appeared to be Ignorant of
the character and the history of Ireland. lie would take leave to
submit • few facts from that history to the consideration of the
House. (Here the Hon. Alember paused fora few memento, in
consequence of considerable noise and interruption in the House.)
He felt that the subject had been already exhausted, and that his
situation was consequently a very painful one, when he had to de-
mand the farther attention of the flame; but he also felt that there
existed a solemn duty, which he would not discharge if he did not
state his sincere conviction of the effects likely to arise from the
course which the House appeared disposed tomlopt. In 1792 it
was held by Government an act impertinent and presumptive in
the Catholics to petition for the extension of the elective frarchise
to their body. And the Protestant gentry, joining in the opinion
of Government, entered their Grand Jury-rooms, and almost uni-
versally adopted Resolutions condemnatory of the conduct of the
Catholics, and offering to stand by blinisters with their lives and
fortunes, to the last, in their endeavours to resist the claims of the
Roman Catholics. But what was done in the very next year? In
1793, the very same Administration which had felt indignant at the
presumption of the Catholics, brought in a Bill to grant them more
than they had required. This was precisely the same line in. po-
licy which had been adopted by this country toward. America, and
every one was aware of the results. If the House proceeded to in-
sult the Roman Catholics, it would be too late to expect gratitude
from them for the tardy justice which finally they would be com-
pelled to accord to their demands. The Catholics had 'recently
proved their reliance upon the justice of the Government; titter
object had been to secure to this country tranquillity, and to them-
selves the redress of their grievances, and, in asking for unqualified
emancipation, they. had only asked for what they considered as
their inalienable privilege and birthright. The late President 'of
the Board of Control, whose services had been moat valuable to the
Catholic cause, had told the House some years ago that the treat.
ment received by Ireland had been invariably severe. Whenever
the country became disturbed by the agitations consequent upon
misgovernment, it was to be visited with the suspension of the or-
dinary and constitutional privileges of the people; and when it was
In estate of tranquillity and repose, It was asserted to be only a de-
ceitfel calm before an explosion. lie would cooclude with caution-
iog the Howse to take mire how they rejected the prayer of those
petitions, and proceeded to pass a law calculated to injure the best
interests of the country, and destroy the tranquillity which at pre-
sent pervaded it.
The petitions were then read.
BRITISH MUSEUM.

Sir C. LONG rose to present a petition front the Trustees of the
British Museum, praying that the House would appoint a Com-
mittee to consider the propriety of purchrsing for that body the col-
leetion of scarce manuscripts and medals formed by the late Mr.
Rich. He wished to inform the House, that Mr. Itich had, during
his residence in India, accumulated a very rare and valuable collec-
tion of manuscripts, medals, and antiquities, which it had been the
desire of the deceased should be made over to the British Museum,
his widow receiving what might appear a fair remuneration. The
rustees of the British Museum had referred the matter to the eon-
ideration of Messrs. Bride, Young, and several of the most end-
nent Professors of Oxford and Cambridge, and their concurrent
opinion goes to represent the collection as one which would form a
most valuable and important acquisition to the British Museum.
The collection consisted of about titto volumes of manuscripts, prin-
cipally in the Persian, Chaltlee, and Syriac languages, many of
which were early copies of the Bible and commentaries thereon,
and (as was thought) cxtretnel7 likely to afford much and oew va-
Webb matter for the illustration of the Scriptures. The second
part If the collection was composed of very rare and curious ori-
ental medals; and the third of various antiquities, collected prin-
cipally in the vicinity of Babylon and Nineveh. Many of diesel
articles were inscribed with ancient characters, which had not as
yet been deciphered, and the most probable way. to effect that
object would be by bringing together as many various specimens
of ancient characters as possible. It was a singular feet, that long
as this country had been connected with her Asiatic dominions,
the library of the British Museum was extremely deficient in the
deparunent of Oriental literature. This circumstance was one
which made the purchase of the present collection extremely de-
sirable, as affording an opportunity to supply that deficiency.
There was another advantage in this collection, that it was com-
plete; there were no duplicates of the specimens, and it would on
that account constitute a new and valuable addition to the Mu-
seum. On the occasion of the munificent gift of the royal
library, lie had taken the liberty of anticipating a very great ad-
dition to the library. of the British Museum front the private col-
lections of many individuals, who, he thought, would be found
anxious to imitate the splendid example of ids Majesty's dons.
tion. The fact had turned out in accordance with his anticipation.
He understood the library was shortly to be enriched by the very
choice and extensive collection of Sir R. Hoare, consisting of 1,700
or 1,860 volumes, principally upon Italian history and topography.
He understood the probable price of the present collection would be
about 11,0001.; and would conclude by moving, that the petition be
received, anda Committee appointed fur the purpose of considering
the propriety of purchasing the collection, in compliance with the
prayer of the petition.
The petition was then read, and referred to a Committee (ap-
pointed accordingly) to report thereon.
IRISH RETURNS.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT renewed a motion made by him last
year, for certain Returns, setting forth the number of parishes in
Ireland, (distinguishing their names ; also the number of baronies,
and half baronies, distinguishing the quantity of land in each, and
an tar as could be ascertained, its quality ; also distinguishing the
number of houses in each, and the names and number of the pro-
prietors of the land.—Orderal.
ARMY ESTIMATES. . .

Lord PA LM ERSTON ;aid, that in order to afford time for the
third reading of the Irish Illegal Association Bill, he wankl defer
the Army Estimates until that day week. lie would, however,
then take the vote of account ; and move that the House rcaolve
itself into a Committee of Supply for that purpose.
The Speaker having left the Chair,
Lord PALMERSTON moved that a sum not exceeding one
million sterling be granted to his Majesty. to defray the expenses
of the Army for the current year.
(In the question being put from the Chair.
Colonel DAVIS tnis:eti that the Noble Lord would be abie to
make out a strong case; and lie was sure that the House would
arsons liberal system, and by their unanimous vote show to the
Holy Alliance that they were prepared to support the Government.
whenever it was necessary, for the maintenance of our respect-
ability, (Haar, hear,) or for holding that high station which this
country 'away' should maintain. (Hear, hear.)--Ordered.