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HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tans/way, MAT 4.

NEW MEMBERS.
Several sew Meagher, took the oaths and their seals;
same these were Lod Folkstose, Sir Thaw Mauls, Mr.
Brow/slow. Mr. Coke, Sr Witham de Crispegay, sad Mr.
Moberly, dos.
MISUNDERSTANDING RESPECT..._
El L LS.
The SIMANZIL iedinated that a isissodememidiag respect.
log • Resolution of the Home bad prevailed moos* aphis
for private petitions. They thooght that the buskers istrr-
cepted by the (timbales of the hate Perlimmest, would be
retakes op by the Home is the same stMe is which it was
left, whereas the import of the remiestios wee, that all the
pectic/Awry steps mast be repeated, Aweigh the evidence of
witnesses was sabred to semis in slabs goo, sod those*
the parties were to be somas fresh espouse, still the peels-
snisaryforme muse be gem Armagh seem Perhaps owing
t. this miessdersteadisg, sod ea the time lie receiviog pri-
meepeadeas wouldesgire to-gamete/Oh, Moose would deem
Brigid ea mire, the ported for peahens foe the ipso, of
see Woe*.
The time for rectiviag pathless foe private Bills was ac-
away* enlarged until Fridley the 19th lastest.
DUBLIN GAS PETITION.
Mr. Rem = SNAW pretested • Petition from the inbabi-
IMMO Dahlia, for lightior that city with Ges.—Referred to
a Consitooo.
SCOTCH WHISKEY.
Om the voodoo of Mr. Entg..ov, Accounts were ordered,
Amin the gaudily of Whiskey Distilled is Scotland fur
Howie End Foreign Cossamptioo, distinguidriag the Low-
lead and Highland, from the year, 1790 to ISIS, arid the
jesolity distilled from sager sod psis.
LONDON BRIDGE.
Mr. WHITIIILIAD presented • Petition from the
Watermen on the north side of the River Thames.
against the present state of Loodoo-bridge. They
considered it full of danger.

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The Petition was Weight up and read.
Sir W. CURTI, said, that though he did not
tb:uk the bridge was is as .dangerous a state as it
was by some represented, yet he felt perfectly con-
vinced of the necessity of a proper survey of its
state, for the purpose of allaying any alarm which
may prevail, and taking loch steps as the necessity
of the case may require. It was the intention of
the City of Louden to make every possible inquiry
into the state of the bridge.
Mr. FRANILLAID LZWIS said, that the inquiry
had become absolutely necessary to satisfy the pub..
lic. The most serious damage was likely in be
done to the navigation of the river, if somethi:•g
was not immediately done to repair that structure,
or is such other way as may be deemed advisable.
Sir W. CURTIS expreseed his intention of boring
the fullest inquiry made. Such was the wish 4.f
the Corporation of Loudon.
Mr. Alderman WOOD concurred in what the
worthy Alderman bad stated of the aiieiety of the
Corporation of the City of London to concur nt
any inquiry for the satisfaction of the public.
Mr. C. CALTIRT said that the inquiry ought '4,
lave been made years ago. He hoped that now his
WIN Friend (Mr. M. A. Taylor) bad isdroduced
• node fur consuming the smoke of steam-eugirtes.
the City would apply a larger power to their water-
wheels at the bridge, and render unnecessary that
quantity of water which they required in a particu-
lar spot fur the water-works. Au eolargeuient of
the arches where the current was particularly frit.
might also prove very beneficial.
Mr. Alderman WOOD explained that the Corp'.
ratios had little or no interest in the waver-work..
They received but a rely small rent from the pro.
prieturs, which they would gladly relinquish to fa-
cilitate any proper arrangement.
The Petition was laid on the table.
DRURT.LANE THEATRE.
Mr. CALCZAVT brought in the Bill for eeillrw.
log the powers of the two former Acts fur rebuild-
ing Drury-lane theatre.
It was read the first time.
TAIL ON FOREIGN WOOL.
Mr. THOMAS WIL*OIII presented * Petition from •
the Merchants, Maauticturers, and Traders of the
City of Louden concerned iis the woollen node,

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againett oe tax lain. on the ifttpertation of foreign
wool. The Hon. Member said, that the operation
of the tax was severely felt by the manufacturing
interests, while it produced no benefit whatever to
the wool-grower at home. This was not, he thought,
a moment in which the manufacturing interests,
circumscribed as they unfortunately were in the
emplu3 meat of the labouring classes, should be still
further restricted by so injudicious an enactment
as a tax upon the raw material. At no season bat
one of great manufacturing pro►perity ought such
tax ter tolerated, This as not only repressed the
1,,,10.try of the labouring classes at home, hut also
r.-svicied the foreign commerce of the country—as,
for instance, in the elf.. or, the Ramat contract,
',Hurled to by a Noble Lord (Miltoss) last night.
lie entreated that the House would feel the pro-
priety of repealing a tax 'fraught with so much mis-
chief, and so utterly incapable of realizing any
gond.
On the question that the Petition be brought up,
Mr. BARING did notkuow whether the Petition
was to he followed up by a motion for a Committee
and leave to introduce a Bill, but he thought that
is more important 'question could not come before
the House th in that contained in the Petition. Ile
lead no connexion with the woolen trade himself,
tier any intimacy with any persons who had, He
wag therefore not qualified to give a determinate
opinion on the policy of the tax complained of.
Ile could tint soy whether a tax of 61. per pound
.erti wool was or was not sufficient to actually ruin
the manufacturers of it. But he could say with
wifely, that the House had imposed the tax in the
ingot booty way, and with much les* inquiry and
coessideration than such ■ subject demanded.—
It had been I rill by the Chancellor of the Excite.
shier chiefly to conciliate another ales of persona
who were at the time subjected to a heavy additional
impost ; he alluded to the tlew duty on malt.
There had been nothing like a due deliberation on
the important interests involved in the wool trade
when the new duty was proposed. Ile felt quite
►tire that the various brandies of trade connected
with that article could not continue three years
longer under the oppression of that new tax. In
the mean time woollen manufactories would be
:tablished abroad, the effects of which would be
incurable by any after meatuses. Ile exhorted
the House to consider well what feat Lkely to
be the effect of removing from this country one
of its most ancient and advantageous branches
of commerce. He did not know if the course
he was then about to take was current or
not. He gave notice that lie should, on Monday,
bring up a Petition from the merchants of the City
of Loodou, complaining generally of the effects of
the restrictive and prohibitory regulation,' at we-
lt-sit 'acting trade and commerce, which Petiiiou
Lb would then move to refer to a Committee to
prised thereon. He thought no subject of greater
importance could possibly be submitted to Perlis-
meta.

Mr. in answer to the firrt observation of
the Hon. Member, said, that he meant to follow up
11,e prayer of the Petition, by moving that it be re-
ferred to a Committee previous to the introduction
cf a BM.

The l'etition was laid on the table, and ordered
t• be puitited.