The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-14 00:00:00

CHURCH-RATES.

Mr. CHALMERS presented a petition from Inverbervie,
praying for the abolition of Church-rates.
Mr. WILKS presented petitions from Ayr and other
places to the same effect.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM presented a similar petition from
Frome in Somerset.

Mr. F. MAULE presented a petition from Dumblane to
the same effect.

Mr. HANDLEY presented &petition from Lincoln, pray-
ing for the total abolition of Church-rates.

DUTY ON SOAP.

Mr. ORD presented a petition from Newcastle, praying
for a repeal of the duty on Soap.
POOR LAWS (IRELAND).
Mr. WEST presented a petition from the parish of St.
Michael's, Dublin, praying for the introduction of Poor Laws
into Ireland. The petition was signed by the Churchwardens
and Clergymen of the parish, by five Roman Catholic Clergy-
men, and by a great number of Protestants and Roman Catho-
lics.—( Hear, hoar, hear.) Ho entirely concurred in the
prayer of the petition.
Sir ROBERT PEEL presented a petition from Tam-
worth, praying for the introduction of a modified system of
Poor Laws into Ireland.

MUNICIPAL REFORM (IRELAND).
Mr. BARRY presented a petition from Cork, praying for
Municipal Reform. Also a petition for the abolition of Tithes,
and Vote by Ballot.
MUNICIPAL REFORM—TITHES.

Mr. LUKE WHITE presented petitions from parishes in
the county of Longford, praying for a measure of Municipal
Reform for Ireland, for the total abolition of tithes, in favour
of the ballot, and for a modified system of Poor Laws for
Ireland.

FIRE INSURANCES.
Mr. SANFORD presented a petition from Kiddermin-
ster, praying for a reduction of the duties on fire insurances.
Dr. BO WRING gave notice of his intention to move to-
morrow for a return of the amounts in the various departments
of the revenue abstracted in their progress to the Exchequer,
for the officers engaged in their collection; also for a return
relative to the Home Department.
FICTITIOUS VOTES (SCOTLAND).
Mr. FOX MAULE presented a petition, numerously
signed by the electors of Perthshire, praying for an inquiry
into the system of registering fictitious votes in Scotland, by
which the intentions of the Reform Bill had been frustrated.—
Referred to the Committee.

DR. MULHOLLAND'S CASE.
Mr MACLEAN, in pursuance of his notice, presented a
petition from the Rev. Dr. Mulholland, complaining of the
grievances suffered by the second order of the Roman
Catholic clergy from the control exercised by the hier-
archy of that persuasion. The petition was brought to
him (Mr. Maclean) with a request that he should present
it, in order to have an inquiry instituted, by which the
second order of the Catholic Clergy would be protected from
the grievances arising from the unjustifiable interference in
their temporal affairs. Perhaps it would be better for him, as
the subject was an important one, to read the prayer of the
petition, which was that the House should cause an inquiry to
be instituted into the case of Dr. Mulholland, not merely
with a view to a remedy in his own individual instance,
anxious though ho was to verify all the assertions made by him,
with reference to the condition of the second order of the Ro-
man Catholic clergy, but to ascertain the effects produced by
the system complained of, in perpetuating disaffection and dis-
order, and extinguishing religion in his native country. It