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London, England, 1839-04-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 24.

The SPEAKER took the Chair this day at three
o'clock, agreeably to the notice he had given yesterday,
for the purpose of facilitating the presentation of pe-
titions.

Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a petition from the
Magistrates of the county of Kent against the Districts
Sessions Bill. Also from some place in the same county
in► favour of a uniform rate of Postage. Also petitions
from several parishes in Kent, praying for the support
of the Established Church in the Colonies. Also from
the town of Oswestry against. the transmission of letters
through the Post Office on the Lord's day, and praying
that no delivery of letters be permitted to take place on
that day front any Post Office. Also a petition from
Argyll, and one from some other place in Scotland, pray-
ing for a repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act.
TOLLS ON RAILWAYS.

Mr. LEADER presented a petition from certain
persons, prayirg to be relieved from the tolls levied by
the Corporation of the City of London on goods brought
into the City by railroads. He moved that the petition
be printed, and referred to the Committee now sitting
on the subject of railroads. Also a petition from a
parish in the City of Westminster, in favour of Mr.
Rowland Hill's plan of penny postage.
Mr. FINCH presented a petition in favour of Mr.
R. Hill's plan of penny postage.
Mr. BLAKEMORE presented a petition from
Wells, praying the House to provide means for religious
instruction in the Colonies.

Mr. ELLIOT presented a petition from Hawick,
in favour of the plan of penny postage.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented petitions rom
Bandon, against a repeal of the Corn-laws ; from the
medical practitioners of that place, praying that they
might be paid compensation for attending Coroner's In-
quests ; from Ballyshannon, in favour of Mr. Rowland
Hill's plan for penny postage ; from the Corporation of
Drogheda, against the Irish Municipal Corporations
Bill, denying that that Corporation had been guilty of
any mal-practices, and praying to be heard by Counsel
against the Bill at the bar of the House.
Lord BARRINGTON presented "a petition from
Workingham against the Bill for rating the owners of
small tenements ; also a Bill from Belcome Regis,
against the same measure, and praying that
if it pass into a law tenements occupied by
labourers residing in the parish, and not paying
more than one shilling per annum rent may be ex-
empted from its operation ; also, from Sir Joseph Davis,
Consistor of the Court of Chancery in the County Pa-
latine of Durham, praying that if the Bill should in-
jure his official emoluments a clause might be intro-
duced awarding him compensation.
Lord HOTHAM presented a petition from some
place in Herefordshire, against Sunday trading, and
praying the House to prohibit the sale of intoxicating
liquors on that day.
Mr. CRA WLEY presented a petition from Bedford
in favour of a plan for penny postage.,
Colonel SALWEY presented a petition from
Elsmere to the same effect. Also a petition, signed by
sixty-five freeholders of Herefordshire, many of them
being occupiers of land, praying for a total repeal of
the Corn-laws.

Mr. HAWES presented a petition from the
Reverend Edward Duke, magistrate of the county
of Wiltshire, praying the House to institute an inquiry
into private pauper lunatic asylums, and praying them
to establish public pauper lunatic asylums ; also a pe-
tition in favour of the plan of penny postage ; and
another against the Highways Bill.
Mr. MILDMAY presented a petition from Win-
chester in favour of the plan of penny postage.
Mr. A. WHITE presented a petition from Sunder-
land against the Beer Act ; also another in favour of
the County Courts Bill.
An HON. MEMBER presented petitions from Corn-
wall in favour of the present Corn-laws ; also a petition
in favour of justice to Ireland from the same place.
Mr. HURST presented a petition from some place
in Essex, praying for an increase in the number of the
Established Clergy in the Colonies.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented some petitions in fa-
vour of penny postage.
Mr. BYNGHA M BARING presented several pe-
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titions in favour of Church Extension. Also petitions
in favour of a penny postage ; and a petition from the
Stow Union in favour of an improvement in the law of
settlement.
Mr. TATON EGERTON moved that a petition
which he had presented be referred to the Select Com-
mittees on Turnpikes,
Mr. STANSFIELD presented a petition from
Huddersfield, praying that that place might be made a
place for inland bonding.
Lord INGESTRIE presented petitions praying for
an increase to the Established Church in the colonies ;
also from the licensed victuallers of Radley against
the Beer Act ; also from Bilston, in Staffordshire, in
favour of the Established Church in Canada.
Mr. W A RBURTJ N presented several petitions in
favour of the plan of penny postage.
Mr. LO W T HER presented a petition from the
debtors confined in York Castle, praying that they might
he heard for the purpose of being admitted to bail in the
country.

Sir H. FERGUSON presented petitions from Kirk-
caldy, against any further Church Extension : also a pe-
tition in favour of the Prisoners' Bill.
Mr. FAZAKERLEY presented a petition from the
Board of Guardians of Tiverton Union, against the
present law of settlement.
The HoN. MEMBER then presented a petition which
he said was of great importance. It was signed by 100
of the principal merchants and traders of Glasgow,
praying that Coffee, the growth of Foreign States, and
produced by free labour, might be admitted at a re-
duced duty. Also a petition from the Chamber of Com-
merce of Greenock, against the London, Liverpool, and
Brazil Steam-packet Company Bill.
Mr. WYNNE presented a petition from the county
of Montgomeryshire, praying that the surplus revenues
derived from the Union of the Bishoprics of Bangor
and St. Asaph might be expended in the Dioceses from
which they were derived. Also a petition to the same
effect from the town of L'anelly.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from
Salford praying for a reduction of the postage to one
penny.

Mr. BARNARD presented a petition from Green-
wich against the Metropolitan Police Bill.
Sir A. DALRYMPLE presented a petition from
Brighton against the appointment of Roman Catholic
Chaplains to prisons ; also petitidns from Southesk,
Rottendean, and another parish in Sussex, praying for
support to the Established Church in Canada.
Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Co-
ventry against the Beer Act Amendment Bill.
Mr. MILES presented petitions from certain news-
paper proprietors complaining of a clause in the Act for
the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt, which com-
pelled newspaper proprietors to insert insolvents' adver-
tisments at a reduced price.
Mr. CRESWELL presented a petition from Liver-
pool to the same effect..
Mr. HURST presented a petition from the proprie-
tors of the Essex Standard to the same effect.

Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from
Bristol against the Rating of &L ail Tenements' Bill.
Mr. SIIANy LEFEVRE presented petitions from
Basingstoke and New Alford in faeotir of a general sys-
tem of penny postage ; also a petition from certain land
agents, praying that no tenements under the value of 31.
should be rated.

Lord STANLEY presented a petition from Lan-
caster, praying that no system of National Education
be established, not founded upon the doctrines of the
Establ;shed Church, and superintended by the Paro-
chial Clergy. Also one from the debtors in Lancaster
Gaol, praying that they might be allowed to justify
Bail by affidavit.
Mr. H. JOHNSTONE presented a petition from
the Presbytery of Annan, praying for further endow.
usents to the Church in Scotland. Also petitions to
the same effect from several parishes in the county of
Dumfries

Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from the
Mayor and Corporation of Glasgow, praying that Mr.
Hill's plan of penny postage might be carried into
effect. Also one to the same effect from the Students
of the University of Glasgow.
Colonel DAVIES presented a petition to the same
effect from the Mayor and Corporation of the city of
Worcester.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions with a
similar prdyer, from several parishes in the county of

Devon.
Mr. CRESWELL presented a petition from the
Society of Guardians for the Protection of Trade to
the same effect.
Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from the
late Moderator of the General Assembly, and many
of the inhabitants of the Barony parish in Glasgow,
complaining of the want of the means of worship i❑
Scotland.
Sir J. Y. BULLET presented a petition praying
for protection and encouragement to the Church in
Canada and our other colonies.

Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the Arch-
deacon and Clergy of the county of Durham, praying
that the House would greatly extend the means of reli-
gious instruction in Canada.
Mr. J. HOPE presented a petition from the county
of Fife, praying that no alteration might be made in