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London, England, 1837-05-27 00:00:00

Lord SEGRAVE presented petitions against Church-
rates from Stroud and other places in Gloucestershire.
Lord REDESDALE presented Petitions in favour of
Church-rates from places in the County of Buckingham.
The Marquis of BUTE presented a Petition from ne
General Assembly of Scotland in favour of a Lord's-(iay
Bill, and against travelling on Railways on the Sabbatit ;
also a Petition in favour of Church-rates.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a Petition from Ar-
broath in favour of the Municipal (Scotland) Bill ; also a
Petition from the Synod of the Secession Church of Scot-
land in favour of the abolition of Punishment by Death.
Mr. TooKE and other Members of the House of Com-
mons brought up the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock
Railway Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions against
Church-rates, from Maidenhead, and from several places
in Suffolk, from Winchester, from 1,100 of the inhabitants
of St. Mary Islington, from 91 Dissenting Ministers of
three denominations in the neighbourhood of London, froia
a parish in Durham, from Grantham, front Marsden, frog
places in South Hants, Kent, and Suffolk, from the col,
gregation of Dissenters in Goodman-fields, from the Dis-
senter's congregation of Jamaica-row, from Mitcham, 8.1-
singstoke, from the Protestant Chapel in Shoreditcl.,
from the Baptist congregation of Lymington, from tl-t
Dissenters of Nicholas Chapel, Ipswich, from parishes i
Bedford, Oxford, Suffolk, Essex ; from Kentish-town, and
other places ; amounting, in all, to seventy-four petitions.,
The Noble Lord then remarked that the number of peti-
tions was considerable, and he would call attention to thst
agreed to at a meeting of the Dissenting clergymen. Th
number of names in the petitions he had presented us s
above 30,000 ; many of them were those of members of ti.J
Established Church.
Lord RADNOR presented a petition from Abingdon,
against Church-rates.
Lord HADDINGTON presented a petition in favour
of a Sabbath-dav Bill, from a place in Surrey.
Viscount MELBOURNE presented a number of pe-
titions in favour of the abolition of Church-rates from tho
Mayor and Aldermen of Winchester, and from severs.'
other places. Also petitions in favour of the Poor Last
from Southampton, St. Andrew's Holborn, Winchester,
and other places.
NEWARK ESTATE BILL. •
On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON this Bill was
read a second time.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH then asked whether it was
the intention of his Majesty's. Ministess to introduce any
new measure for the regulation of turnpike trusts in the
present session ?
Viscount DUNCAN NON said he was not then pre-.
pared to answer the question.
The Duke of RICHMOND hoped the matter wcallct
be considered at an early period by his Majesty's Ministers,
as it was a question of great importance.
The Marquis of SALISBURY complained that th©
Government seemed to be so indifferent to the subject.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that if an economical
arrangement were made in reference to turnpike mods,
they would be able to maintain themselves, and stated
that Government was bound to attend to the ciustion.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that the Bill of last, year
was a fraud upon the creditors of roads.
Lord HATHERTON said that Ministers hail en-
deavoured to pass a Bill last year which would, haso
been very beneficial.
The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from
St. Mary's, Islington, in favour of Church-rates, and he
would take the opportunity of contradicting s state meut
which appeared a few days since in the Morning •.Chrc-
nicle, stating that a clergyman in Islington had
signed a petition in favour of Church-rates with tha
name of " Jim Crow?' This had been denied by all tha
clergy of the district, and a letter had since appeared in :t
newspaper, stating that it was the apprentice of the writer
of the letter who had so signed it.
DUBLIN POLICE BILL.
On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the Hou to
went into Committee on this Bill.
The first clause was agreed to.
On the second clause being proposed,
The Earl of WICKLOW objected to it as giving tb 9
power to the Lord Lieutenant to extend the system unde r
the Act eight miles rows,' Dedin, and the taxation for th a
maintenance of that system was different from any othe r
mode of taxation for police ; he thought that two mils
round Dublin would be sufficient.

Lord HATHEItTON considered that eight miles wa et
not too great a distance.
After a few words from Lord ELLENBOROUGH,
FITZGERALD, and Lord DUNCANNON, the House divided,.
when there appeared—
For the clause, Contents l7
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Majority against it _

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The clause was consequently lost.
Viscount DUNCANNON then moved that the Houso
be resumed, as it would be useless to proceed with the 13P1
after this clause had been struck out.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH trusted that the Noble
Lord would not persist in his motion, as he could in the

Report bring up a new clause to inclose by name Kings-
town within the operation of the Bill. He should regret
the loss of the Bill merely because this objectionable clause
was struck out, as it contained some other provisions which
would be useful.

Lord HATHERTON also expressed a hope that th !
Bill should be proceeded with,although he deeply regrette I
the -rejection of the clause.
Viscount DUNCANNON observed that those upon
whom the duty and responsibility would fall of carrying the
Act into effect did not think they could do so with :advan-
tage after this clause had been struck out. He therefore
should persist in his motion.
Lord BROUGHAM stated that the clause struck out
was certainly drawn up in a very loose manner ; and he
should therefore recommend his Noble Friend to bring nit
a new clause on the Report.
Lord FITZGERALD remarked that as the Noble Vie-
count had, as a Minister of the Crown, made the motion,
he would not oppose it ; but, at the same time, if the No-
ble Viscount withdrew the Bill, the responsibility of doing
so would fall upon him. The proposition that he made WAS
not brought forward with a view of obstructing the Bill ;
on the contrary he thought that by striking out th'is clause
and introducing a new one, the declared. intentio, is of the
Government could be carried into effect in a better man-
ner. In conclusion he would only obs,,rve that '.t was not
the best manner of carrying on the public business to adopt
the course which had been pursued. )03. the Noble Lord. with
respect to this measure. The IluElic, however, would un-
derstand that they were indeb...ed to the Noble 'Viscount for
the loss of the Bill.
The motion was then P.greed to, and the House resumed.
Lord LILFORD, in the absence of Lord Holland,
presented forty petitions in favour of the abolition of
Church-rates. The first was from Liverpool, and haiibecn
agreed to at. a public meeting. It was signed by 8,000 per-
sons, who had added their residences and praessions to
their names. Tne other petitions were from several dissio-
ting congregations in Liverpool, from Deptfore., from Ctrs-
ter-le-street, from Lynn, from Nantivich, ',rum Wroxy 0,,
, a.i,l several other places.
The House then adjourned till Tuesday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 26.
The SPEAKER took the Cl'.air at Four o'Clock.
Mr. Campbell, from the India House, presented certain
returns which bad bee•n ordered.
Mr. Scott presented various accounts from the Chi 1.!,
'er of the (iity of London.
On the motion of Sir HENRY PARNELL the Dund ?..e
Water Works Bill was read a second time and en-dered ;o
be committed.
Sir GEO. CLERK presented a petition frontthe Trust tee
of the Edinburgh-road against the Glasgow 112.ilway Bill.
On the motion of Mr. M. PARKER, the Bricks()) ao
Harbour and Market all was read a third. -time and pass d.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHEI-CTON, Mumay's
Estate Bill was read. a second time and ordered to be
committed. •
On the motion of Mr. P. CHALMERS, Carneg ie' s,
Rankine's, and. Lockart's Estates Bills were severally re ad a
second time and ordered to be committed.
Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY brought up the -"tap rt
of the Committee on the Standing Orders with. respect '.O
the Edinburgh Water Works Company Bill, rey,orting th at
the Standing Orders had been complied with.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from St. Joh! !st
Hampstead, against the Northern Cemetery Bill.
On the motion of Dr. BOWRING the. Glasgow, Pr -*-
ley, and Greenock Railway Bill was read. a third time 1, 4
passed. The Hon. Member also presented four petitiora,. :is
favor of the London and Blackwall Commercial Railw: al -
Mr. EWART brought up the Report of the Cooing .Ltee
on the Liverpool Improvement Bill.
On the motion of Mr. TOOKE, the London Necrj rlis
and National Cemetery Bill was read a third time,. and
, passed.
On the motion of the same Hon. Member, the Ls ~ Is'