The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-20 00:00:00

SNUFF MANUFACTURERS.

Mr. MARSL AND presented a petition from the Snuff
manufacturers of Newcastle-on. Tyne, complaining of frauds
committed on the revenue to their detriment.

SALT DUTIES.

Mr.KEMP presented a petition from the borough of Lowe!,
praying fors repeal of the Duties on Salt. Also petitions for
the repeal .., the additional duties on spirit licenses. Also a
petition for the total repeal of the duty on Newspapers.
'4ITHE COMMUTATION BILL.
Sir JO ..N BULLER presented a petition from Harbc-
rough against this Bill.
Major REAUCLERK had been requested to support the
prayer of the petition, but from the rebuke which had been
given by the Speaker he (lid not know what course to pursue ;
lie Legged to know how he was to comply with the request of
his co-astituen , if he was not allowed to speak in support of
the prayer of the petition.
The SPEAKER said there was a Bill pas:,ing throngh that
Mouse on the subject to which the petition referred. The best
-way for the lion. Member to comply with the request of h's
constituents would be to attend in his place, and when the Bia
was under discussion support the prayer of the petition. The
observation which he (the Speaker) felt it his duty to make
was not intended as a rebuke to the Hon. Member to whom
they were addressed.

Major BE A UCL ERK would always maintain his right as
a Member of that House to make any observations on present
ing 'petitions, which he felt it necessary to offer.
Mr. PARROTT said he did not regard the observations of
IV* Speaker in the light of a rebuke. He conceived it to be
:a suggestion with a view to facilitate the public business.
Mr. PLUM PTRE presented a petition from the Licensed
Victuallers of Margate, praying for an alteration of the law
with respect to Spirit Licenses. The Hon. Member also pre-
sented petitions from the same place, praying for the abolition,
of punishment of death in certain cases.

Mr. CALEY presented several petitions fro -n Des'xr
and different parts of Yorkshire, praying for an inquiry into
the rause of agricultural distress.

Sir W. GE ARY presented petitions from Wateringberry
;Ind other places, praying for the repeal of the Malt Tax
The lion. Member also presented petitions from Holbeach
and other places, complaining of agricPitural distress.

Mr. P: [IOWA lib presented petitions from Carlisle,
prnying for an alteration in the ?acv with respect to the mate-
riais used for the construction of churches and chapels.
Mr. F. lAUI.E prps,:nted petitions from Peril, CCM:-
LC.R9 of Scotland.
Captain BA RCLA Y thought the whole of the co:nplaints
con:tined in the petitird were to be attributed to absentee
landlords.
Yr. FE ItCiFF,SO N thought tha injury complained of wils
to be attributed not to the increase of game, but of vermin.
lIANOI,EY wished to know whether it was the in-
tention of'~reGovernment to intoduce any measures• on th
subject ?

Mr• F. MAULE said, that it was not the intention of the
Ge:vernment to bring forward any measure on the subject a:'tcr
the discussion of last year.
Mr. BROT HE RTON presented several petitions from the
Radicals of Manchester, complaining of Agricultural distress.
Mr. TOOKE presented petitions from St. Andrew's
Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, complaining of the
inadequate manner in which the land tax had been levied.
He .nad also a petition from the incorporated society of attar-
nies and solicitors throughout the United Kingdom, stating,
that having observed the destruction of the Houses of Parlia
meat by fire, and the necessity thereby of rebuilding them,
they were anxious that the courts of law should be removed to
a more central situation in the neighbourhood of the Inns of
Court, where moat of the professional men live, and where the
courts at Guildhall and the city courts could be incorporated,
thus saving considerable time to the witnesses and suitor,
great trouble to the pr,actitioners, and affording more spac,-; fur
the new Houses of Parliament and the committee rooms ad-
joining.

Major BEAUCLERK supported the prayer of the peti.
tion relating to the land-tax, and hoped that the Hon. Member
for Truro would move for a Felea committee on the subject.

CASE OF JANE CAMPION.

Captain PECHEL presented the petition of which he had
given notice, on the subject of this case ; and, as the Attorney-
General was not in his place, he trusted the Government
would order the allowance of this poor woman to be restored.
He would not have presented this petition if there had been
any remedy at law ; but this woman could not sue ; she would
be thrown overboard as a married woman if she attempted to sue.
She waaq a femme covert and not a
,femme sole, and she was
entitled to all the privileges of other married women. She
pmyed that her petition might be referred to the Ecclesiasti-
cal Judges, and that, in the meantime, directions might be sent
to the magistrates to suspend the proceedings against her. If
this were not done, on Monday next this unfortunate woman
would be sent to the House of Correction.

Mr. F. NIA UL E thought it was not a case in which the
House could interfere. The Magistrates in this particular
vase consulted the law officers of the Crown, and had
acted on their opinion, and he thought that the Magistrates
were justified in acting upon that opinion. He did not
know that that House could send directions to the Magistrates
to suspend these proceedings.
Mr. T. R. KEMP thought that this was a case of great
distress, and that the prayer of the petition ought to be granted.
The petition was then laid on the table.
The same HON. MEMBER also presented a petition from the
fishers of Brighton, praying for a better regulation of the
fisheries.

Sir G. CREWE presented a petition from Derbyshire.
praying for better protection to the British fisheries.
Mr. KEMP begged to call the attention of the House
to the adjourned debate to the question of the right
of the Members for Greenwich to attend the Brighton
Railway Committee. He moved that the Members for Green-
wich and Kent be allowed to attend the Committee.

Lord G. LENNOX would not be doing his duty to the
supporters of the Bill if he allowed volunteer members to be
put upon the Committee, who were strongly prejudiced against
the line which he advocated. If, however, the Speaker
was of opinion that the present motion was in order, he
(Lord G. Lennox) should waive his objection.—( Cries of
" Chair.")
Captain AL SAGER was also opposed to the introduction
of the name of the Hon. Member upon the Committee.
Dr. BO WRING presented petitions from Kilmainack
against the Tipling Act; also from a certain body of Dissent-
ers, praying to be allowed to celebrate their own marriages.
Mr. BARNARD had never wished that any substantive
motion should be made to the House for the purpose of putting
his name upon the Committee. All he should say was, that
if he was put upn the Committee he should do his duty impar-
tially and independently.—( Hear. )
Mr. DENISON thought it would be very unfair to the
promoters of the Bill if new names were now to be added
to the Committee.—( Hear, hear.) They had been sitting
daily for the last three weeks and was it to be supposed
that all the evidence that had been gone through should
now be commenced de novo ? One of the parties was under
an expense of 5001. a day, and it would be a serious expense
to him, as well as an injustice to the other promoters of the
Bill, if these new names were now to be added.
The SPEAKER had expressed an opinion upon facts that
had not turned out to be so. The Members for Kent were not
members of the Committee, unless the Nouse thought that
there was some sufficient reason for their being so. The ques-
tion for the House was whether it would depart from its usual
course.

Mr. KEMP said, that after the opinion that had been ex-
pressed from the Chair he should withdraw his motion.