The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-23 00:00:00

DUTY ON WOOL.

Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the merchants,
manufacturers, and inhabitants of Leeds, signed by 11,636
individuals, praying for the Repeal of certain Duties on
Wool.

Mr. SHEPPARD presented a petition from St. John's,
Hampstead, imploring the House to reject the Ministerial
plan for the abolition of Church-rates.
Mr. HUME—Was that agreed to at a public meeting
Mr. SHEPPARD—It is signed by 100 individuals,
the chief inhabitants of the parish.
Sir ROBERT INGLIS presented a petition from
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's,
Westminster, praying the House not to pass the Ministerial
Church Abolition Bill. The Hon. Baronet presented nu-
merous other petitions to the same effect, one of them
praying the House not to listen to any measure for the abo-
lition of Church-rates, but to make the collection more
easy, and the application more correct.---( Hear, hear.)
Mr. C. W. WYNN presented similar petitions from
parishes in Montgomeryshire, and numerous other places in
Wales, and praying the House, if they did sanction any al-
teration with respect to Church-rates, it would be such as
to facilitate or force the execution of the present system,
and not such as to weaken or alter it.

Sir F. POLLOCK presented several petitions from
parishes in Huntingdon, against the Church-rates regula-
tion Bill.

Mr. L ENNA RD presented a petition from Chelms-
ford, in Essex, agreed to at a public meeting, praying for
the abolition of Church-rates. The petition had been got
up in consequence of a most incorrect and unfounded state-
ment, made by a Noble Lord opposite, that the people of
that town were in favour of the present system.—
(Hear, hear, hear.) The Hon. Member then presented
several petitions from places in Essex to the same effect.
Petitions against the abolition of Church-rates were
then presented by Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Mackinnon, Si:
E. Wilmot, Mr. Searlett, Lord Sandon, and several other
Hon. Members.
Petitions against the abolition of Church-rates were pre-
sented from various places, by Captain Alsager, by Colonel
Lygon, by Mr. T. Gladstone, by Mr. M. Attwood, and by
Sir James Graham, and Mir Greene.
Petitions praying for the total abolition of Church-rates,
were presented by Sir R. Price, by Mr. Villiers, by Mr.
H. Fleetwood, by Mr. Horsman, by Mr. Baines, by Mr.
Brotherton, by Mr. Hastie, and by several other Hon.
Members, whose names we could not learn.
Sir R. PEEL presented thirty petitions against the Mi-
nisterial plan for the abolition of Church-rates, one of them
signed by a Roman Catholic gentleman of great respecta-
bility ; also a petition from the lessees of household pro-
perty in the diocese of Winchester, stating that the
same system was not extended by the proposed enact-
ment to them as to the lessees of landed property.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer having calculated that
the landed property was worth 30 years' purchase, and
having given the lessees power to purchase at 25 years, the
petitioners trusted that a similar principle would be ex-
tended to the lessees of household property.
Mr. W. DUNCOMBE presented six petitions from
the North Riding of Yorkshire, against the abolition of
Church-rates.
Mr. HERRIES presented a petition to the same effect
from Harwich.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the
Churchwardens and seven hundred of the inhabitants of the
borough of Salford, praying for an alteration of the present
Poor-laws. He also presented a petition from Wakefield,
praying for a repeal of the Poor-laws Amendment Act.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from the inhabitants
of Hammersmith against plurality of votes in the Poor-law
Bill.

Mr. LENNARD presented a petition from a place in
Essex, praying that there would be no alteration in the
Poor-law Act.
Mr. BAINES presented petitions from Leeds and se-
veral other places in Yorkshire, praying that the duty upon
wool, and woollen goods, might be removed.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a petition
from the inhabitants of Edinburgh against the duty
upon Fire Insurances. The petitioners stated that
the tax was an impolitic one, that a conflagration had
recently taken place there, and the property of many
individuals had been injured, who were prevented insuring
by the amount of this duty.
Mr. HORSMAN presented a petition from Glasgow,
praying for a Repeal of the Duty upon Tobacco and Cot-
ton Wool.
Mr. STRUTT also presented a petition praying for a
repeal of the duty on Cotton Wool and Soap.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the
Merchants and Traders of Oldham, praying for a repeal of
the duty on Cotton.
Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster, against the reduction of the num-
ber of Prebends.
Mr. GREENE presented a petition from Warrington,
praying for the reduction of the duty on soap.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Staines, praying for
the Vote by Ballot ; also a petition from Leicester, praying
for a Repeal of the Corn-laws ; also a petition from Bath,
for a Reduction of the Duty on Tobacco ; also a petition
from Glasgow, that the Duty on Cotton Wool might be
taken oft'. 'the Hon. Member presented a petition from an
individual, praying for en alteration of the law between
landlord and tenant. The Hon. Member also presented a
petition from an individual in Gloucester, against the law
of ejectment ; also three petitions from Kilmarnock, Red-
ruth, and Barnet, praying for a reduction of the duty on
soap.