The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-05 00:00:00

BEER TRADE.

Mr. C. CALVERT presented a petition, not from the
brewers or publicans, but from the Vicar, Curate, Church-
wardens and Overseers of the parish of Isleworth, against
the Bill now in progress to allow the sale of beer in houses
without regard to the character of the occupier, the wants
of the public, or the wishes of the neighbourhood, and
without consideration for the ruin of those who had already
invested their capital in public houses. Some of the
country gentlemen who were now so anxious to support
the measure, would, ere long, rue the day in which they
gave it their assent. The same Hon. Member, at the
same time, presented another petition from three hundred
persons, inhabitants of the parish of Paddington, against
the said Bill ; and a third petition from one Stanley
Gainer, of Seacombe, in the county •of Chester, who
complained, that having laid out the sum of 3,0001. in
building a house intended as a victualling-house, that
he was now in danger of being ruined by a person who,
in anticipation of the change to be occasioned by the Bill
now in progress through the House, had purchased a small
house, where at the expense of 30/. he would be able to
retail beer to all the neighbourhood.
The three petitions were laid on the table.

Mr. BYNG presented a petition, signed by 9,000 per-
sons, against the Bill. The petition was from the pro-
prietors and occupiers of public•houses in London and its

vicinity.

Alderman THONIPSON had heard with regret the
Right Hon. Gentleman state the other night, that it was
the intention of the Government to proceed in strictly en-
forcing the Bill which he had introduced into the House.
After a few words from Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN
awl Mr. BENETT, the petition was brought up, laid upon
the table, and ordered to he printed.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from
Amersham, with the same prayer.

Mr. G. LAMB presented a petition from Dungarvon,
against the renewal of the Charter of the East India Com-
pany.
Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition, with the same
prayer, from the clothing district of Horseforth, Yorkshire.
Mr. G. LAMB presented a petition from the Colliery-
district of Monmouthshire, against the Truck System.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from

the Manufacturers of Tobacco in London, Westminster,
and Southwark, against the alteration of the laws relat-
ing to that commodity.
Lord MILTON presented a petition from Pontefract,
praying that the Yorkshire Assizes might be removed to
Wakefield. Also petitions from Leeds, Halifax, and Hod.
dersfield against the Sale of Beer Bill.
Mr. WARD presented a petition against the Sale of Beer
Bill from the parish of St. Luke.
Mr. A. CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Fa-
culty of Procurators, Glasgow, in favour of the Scottish
Judicature Bill.

Mr. BENETT presented a petition against the Truck
System from Trowbridge.
Mr. F. BUXTON, on presenting petitions from Dar-
lington, Keikby Kendall, and King,bridge, against the se-
verity of the law against Forgery, even as it was proposed
to be amended, read the following extracts of letters on
the subject from highly respectable bankers:—
" Sunderland Bank, April 21st, 1830.
" The inefficacy of the existing law is most glaring, and bank-
ers, who, perhaps, see more infractions of this law than all
others put together, have long and keenly felt upon this sub-
ject. Between 50 and 60 years have elapsed since our first esta-
blishment, and, during the whole of this period, although num-
berless forgeries have passed under our observation, yet in no
instance, excepting one, have we dared to prosecute, because
we should have hazarded the life of a fellow-creature; and, in
that one instance, two individuals, in all probability, would
have forfeited their lives, but for our withholding the fatal evi-
dence."
" Banbury Bank, April 21, 1800.
" If the Home Secretary were made acquainted with the sen-
timents of the banking interests generally on this subject, he
possibly might be induced to propose a less sanguinary punish-
ment for offences of this description."
" Wakefield, Yorkshire, April 23, 1830.
" I am largely interested, as a banker in the West Riding of
this county, in the towns of Wakefield, Doncaster, and Pon-
trefract. After a long experience I can declare that 1 shall re-
joice to see the new law with milder penalties, conceiving my-
self now placed out of the protection of law, as I feel it impos-
sible to prosecute offences where such a penalty is assigned."

Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the news-
paper reporters of Dublin against the proposed increased
duty on newspapers, which would either totally destroy
the Irish press, or deprive it of every vestige of inde-
pendence. The Hon. Member had the honour to be ac-
quainted with nearly all who had signed the petition, and
many of them he was happy to rank among his particular
friends. _ _

The same Hon. MEmsErt presented petitions complain-
ing of being rated by the vestry fur the payment of the
organist, organ-tuner, organ-blower, sexton, sextoness,
&c., to the extent in the whole of 1,7101., from the Ito.
man Catholics of St. Peter's, Dublin. Also a similar pe-
tition from the Protestants and Catholics of St. Andrew's,
Dublin.

Also a petition from Naas, against certain tolls still
collected as for the maintenance of fortifications, when
every vestige of fortification had disappeared. The char-
ter which required the payment of one farthing upon
every sheep had been construed into one penny for every
lamb.—(Laughter.)
Also a petition from Balbriggan against the tax upon
coals.

Also a petition from certain operative spinners of cot-
ton wool in Manchester and its vicinity, complaining that
children of nine years of age, and of both sexes, were
still kept at work in manufactories all night, notwith-
standing the existing law, to the great injury of their
health and morals.
Petitions against the Beer Bill were presented by Mr.
O'Connell, from Kidderminster ; by Mr. Stoney, from
Whitchurch ; by Sir H. Mildmay, from Winchester ; by
Mr. 0. Cave, from Sussex ; by Mr. Coke, from the Nor-
folk Agricultural Society, and the yeomanry of the county I
skf Norfolk ; by Mr. Littleton, from eight places in Stat.-
forth.hire ; by Sir E. Kerri:son, from Ardale ; by Sir T.
Freemantle, from St. Mary, Teddington ; by Mr. Houlds-
worth, from Market Harborough ; by Lord Sandon, from
the Corporation of Tiverton, and the victual'ers of Tiver-
ton ; and by Mr. Wells, from Maidstone and Aylesford.
DUBLIN POLICE ESTABLISHMENT.
On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, a number of ac-
counts were ordered to be laid before the House of the
fines, fees, forfeitures, and other monies, received by the
Divisions of Justices of the Police Establishment in Dub.
lin during the last twenty years, and of their application.