The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-17 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Mr. MACGREGOR presented six petitions, nume-
rously- signed, from the distillers, brewers, landlords,
house factors, and spirit merchants of Glasgow and its
neighbourhood against the Public Houses (Scotland)
Bill. The petitioners set forth that the amount of
spirituous liquors made use of is Scotland was by no
means disproportioned to the population, as the framers
of the present measure erroneothly assumed; nor did it
amount to the quantity of spirituous and fermented
liquor consumed in England, France, and other Euro-
pean states; and therefore that it was " a gross and de-
liberate insult" to the people of Scotland, to assume and
assert that a different system of legislation is necessary
for them to restrain their intemperate habits than is re-
quired for the rest of her Majesty's subjects.
Mr. J. ELLIS presented a petition from Leicester
against church rates.
Mr. J. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Mac-
clesfield, praying for the abolition of the post-horse duty.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from Liver-
pool, praying for the abolition of the Maynooth grant
Mr. B. HUGHES presented a petition from Wales,
praying for the abolition of the post•horse duty.
Sir G. CLERK presented a petition to the same
effect from Dover.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from Dublin,
praying for an amendment of the Irish Poor-law.
Mr. CROWDER presented a petition from a place in
the West of England, complaining of the continuance of
the Kafir war.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from the Society
of British Artists for the grant of part of the National
Gallery for the purpose of exhibition, in the event of the
removal of the national pictures therefrom.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Drog-
heda, in favour of the Tenant Right Bill; and, also a
petition from Rochdale, in favour of national education
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occupants. Lord J. Russell listened to him for a few
minutes, nodding his head by way of assent; but at length,
finding the interruption unpleasant, sought a refuge
the inn
dispatch box which laid on the Among other
Members with whom he shook' ht'ands. were Mi. Spooner,
Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Baines'
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from a public
meeting at Salford iu favour of secular education sup-
ported by local rates.
DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.
Sir GEORGE GREY gave notice of an amendment
to the motion of an Hon. Member opposite in regard to
the disturbed districts in Ireland. The amendment was
to the effect that a Committee be appointed to inquire
into the immediate causes of crime. and outrages in
Armagh, Monaghan, nod Louth, and into the efficiency
of the law for their suppGression.
BYURANTS.
Mr. HUME moved for a return showing the number
with emigrantsonoard, during the last five
of vessels which have sailedb from ports in the United
distinguishing
whether each ports are under the
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superintendence of an emigration officer or not; with a
statement, so far as the same can be made out, of the
number of such ships which have been wrecked or
destroyed at sea, and the number of lives so lost.—
Agreed to.
COLLECTION OF PUBLIC INCOME.
Lord JOHN MANNERS moved for returns of the
annual charge upon the public income for the collection
of the excise duty since 1842, and the number of men
employed in the department on the sth day of January
in each year, together with the names of any article; on
which the deti.,.; I),yq been sane-led, av d the erneur,t of
such dunes; and of the annual charge during the same
period of the expenses connected with the collection of
the Customs revenue, together with the names of aDY