The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 20.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock.
On the motion of Mr. HECTOR, the South Moulton
Roads Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed.

On the motion of Mr. WALKER, the Bury Market
Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed.
SALE OF BEER BILL.

Mr. GRIMSDITCH presented a petition from Maccles-
field against the Beer Bill.
Mr. FENTON presented petitions to the same effect
from Rochdale.

Mr. D'ISRAELI presented similar petitions from
Maidstone.

Mr. BROADLEY presented a petition from Selby,
Yorkshire, against the Beer Act, and a petition to the
same effect from Ripon.
Mr. M. PIIILLIPS presented a petition from Sal-
ford, from upwards of 600 beer sellers, praying the House
to institute an inquiry before they legislated on the subject.
Mr. EASTHOPE presented a petition (we believe)
from Leicester, in favour of a penny posta,o.
Mr. GREENA\VAY presented a similar petition.
Mr. BAILEY presented a petition front Sudbury
against any further grant to Maynooth College.
Sir C. STYLE presented a petition from the county
of Donegal, for an equalization of political privileges be-
tween Ireland and England.
Mr. SCARLETT presented a petition from some place
in Lancashire, complaining of the operation of the Beer Act.
Mr. PLUM PT RE presented a petition from some place
in the county of Chester against the 13( er Act. Also a
petition front some place in Sussex, praying the House not
to sanction any system of Public Education which was not
under the superintendence of the clergy of the Established
Church ; also a petition, praying for the repeal of the Ro-
man Catholic Emancipation Act.
REPEAL OF THE UNION.

Mr. O'CONNELL presented nine petitions from pa-
rishes
in the counties of Kerry, Tipperary, Cavan, Long-
ford, and Donegal, calling on the House either to make
the Union a real one, by identifying the Irish with the
English, or to restore to Ireland her domestic Legislature.
The Hon. Gentleman also presented a petition from the
Rev. Henry Edwards, who w s the .Minister of an Inde-
pendent Chapel at Long Sutton, in Lincolnshire. The peti-
tioner stated that he was a hater of popery—(A laugh)
—but that he hated still more the enormous temporalities
of the present Established Church in Ireland,and praying the
House not to grant the prayer of the petitions for abrogat-
ing the grant to Marnooth, as he did not believe the peti-
tioners were actuated by any sincere love for religion, from
which sentiment he (Mr. O'Connell) did not widely differ.
The petitioner prayed that the House would take the tem-
poralities of the Established Church and apply them to
public purposes, and would resist any attempt to take the
grant from Maynooth, without at the same time lessening
the temporalities of the Established Church in Ireland.
The Hon. and Learned Member also presented a petition
from Newfoundland, signed by the Speaker of the House
of i_ssembly, a great number of merchants, and 2,600
other individuals, complaining of the calumnious charges
which had been made against the popular party in that
country, and praying the House to examine into the facts
before making any alteration in the constitution of the
colony.
Mr. ESTCOU RT brought up the Report of the
Standing Orders Committee.
Mr. MILES presented a petition from Glastonbury
against any alteration in the Corn-laws.
Mr. HOD G SON presented a petition from the county
of Northumberland complaining of spiritual destitution in
Canada. _

Mr. AI. J. O'CONNELL presented a petition from
the county of Kerry in favour of the Government plan for
establishing railroads in Ireland.
Mr. MUS KErr presented a petition from St. Albans
against any alteration in the Beer Bill.
Mr. W. DUNCOMBF, presented three petitions
from the North Riding of Yorkshire against any altera-
tion in the Corn.laws ; also a petition from Dewsbury,
praying fir an alteration in the Beer Act.
Sir JAMES DUKE presented a petition from Boston,
signed by 3,000 persons, against any alteration in the
Beer Bill, and eight other petitions from places in Lincoln-
shire to the same effact.
Petitions were presented complaining of the evil working
of the Beer Bill, by Mr. Milnes, from six parishes in York-
shire ; by Mr. Baines, from five places in the West Riding
of the county of York ; by Mr. Parker from Sheffield ;
by Mr. Marsland from Saddlewortb, Chapel-le-Firth, and
other places.
Mr. BRA MSTON presented a petition from Essex
in favour of the County Courts Bill.

Mr. POWER presented a petition from Waterford
praying for Corporate Reform.
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CORN-LAWS.

Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from an nidivi-
dual named Thomas Winter, an agriculturist, complaining
that his name had been adhibited to a petition in favour of
the Corn-laws, against his wish, and without hiscom
sent. He knew no way of snaking his opinions
known, except by presenting a petition, praying for
the total and immediate repeal of these laws. The
Honourable Member said he had also to present a petition,
which had been got up in consequence of a misrepresenta-
tion of their interests in the late debate upon the Corn-
laws. It was from the squire, agriculturists and labourers of
the parish of Brandon, in the counties of Suffolk and Nor-
folk, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws.--( Cheers.)