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London, England, 1831-06-28 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 27.

At Four o'clock the SPEAKER took the Chair. Several
new Members were thee introduced, and took the oaths
and their *seats.
Mr. Robertson appeared at the Bat with the Report of
the Commissioners of Public Turnpike Roads ; and Mr.
Parkhouse with the Report of the seventh award of the
Commissioners of Tanjore, both of which reports were
ordered to he read and to be printed.
Mr. DIXON brought in a Bill for repairing and im-
proving the harbour of Rothsay, in the county of Bute,
which was read a first time.
Mr. STRICKLAND brought in a Bill for draining and
improving the low lands in certain parishes in the county
of York.—Read a first time.

Mr. HOBHOUSE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
establisl► a Chapel of Ease in the parish of St. George,
Hanover-square, and for the maintenance of the same.
Lord STANLEY brought in a Bill for making a rail-
way from Liverpool to Chorlton, in the county of Chester,
which av,:s read a first time.

Mr. SHEIL brought in a Bill for making and main-
taining a rail-road from Dublin to Kingstown, and also a
Bill to enable the Irish Inland Navigation Company to
sue and be sued, which were read a first time.

Mr. EWART brought ;n a Bill for endowing the
Church of St. Bridget iu Liverpool, which was read a first
time.

The SPEAKER, in laying on the table the lists of
Committee•, suggested that it would be exceedingly cor—
venient if the House would agree that the evidence
that was taken before those Committees of the last Session
that were to be again appointed shouNl he taken by the
present Comtnitt. es, without resorting to the inconvenience
of examining the same witnesses again.
SUNIMONING MEMBERS ON JURIES.

The SPEAKER then begged, before the House went
into the public business, to draw attention to a circum-
stance of no inconsiderable importance. Representations
hal been made to him upon the same subject during for-
mer Sessions, and he thought it expedient to refer to it
now that they were commencing a new Parliament. It
was with respect to Members of that House being sum-
moned to serve on Juries in Westrninster-hall, during the
Session. Summonses were frequently sent to Members,
and it was not extraordinary those Members to whom the
forms of the House were new should be in some doubt as
to the course they should pursue. Those summonses were
set only not unfrequently sent, but they had been followed
by notices of distress for non-attendance. It should be
known that the first duty of Members was to attend their
plaees in this House—(Hear, hear)—and for that reason
only was their non-attendance an excuse during the Ses...
sion. The complaint was occasioned by the neglect of
the officers of the Courts, but the Right Hon. Gentleman
hoped that it would not again occur after this notice.
Mr. HENRY HUNT presented petitions from the
inhabitants of Milborne Port, complaining of the tithe
laws, and praying for their repeal ; and from Fife, in
Scot! rod, complaining of the East India monopoly, and
the monopoly in corn, and praying for the abolition of
those monopolies, The Hon. Member then, in presenting
a petition signed by 700 persons, inhabitants of Cullingill,
in Ireland, for the repeal of the Legislative Union, stated
that the petitioners complained that since the Union they
had suaired the greatest privations; they attributed the pre-
sent state of starvation in Ireland to the Union ; that the
Union caused those periods of starvation which Ireland had en
woefully experienzed during many past years, and they
prayed for its repeal. He(Mr. H.) now repeated what he had
before declared, that unless the tithe laws were established
—(Liughter)—he tncant the poor laws, and unless the,
tithes laws were repeated, it would be necessary gravely to
consider the repeal of the Union.—The petition was then
read.

Mr. HUNT then presented a petition from several pa-
rishes in Brecknockshire. He lamented that be did not see
an Hon. Alderman, a Member for the city of London, in
his place; that Hon. Alderman had taken occasion to
complain of what he termed his (Mr. Hunt's) conflicting
spceohes in that House; he had presentei petitions from
various places in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and he
now presented one from the native place of the
Hon. Alderman in Wales. These petitioners complained
.of distress, and prayed an investigation into, and an altera-
tion a, the tithe laws. The Hon. Member next stated,
that after he had left the House on Friday evening, there
had been some discussion on a notice of motion that he
had given for the 15th of July, relative to a repeal of the
Corn Laws, and be regretted that be was not present,
because a Noble Lord (Milton) seemed to have mistaken
the intention of his motion. His intention was to move
for a total repeal of all the existing laws that in any Ivey
affected the free importation of corn. The Hon. Member
then moved for " A return of the number of quarters of
corn imported i,tto Great Britain and Ireland, between the
sth At 1830, and the sth April, 1831, distinguishing
the different sorts of corn, and the amount of duty pay-
able into the Treasury thezean."
Mr. PORTMAN said he thought the required informa-
tion was already printed, and he suggested that the Hon.
Member should make the inquiry before he put the country
to the expense of printing it over again.
Mr. HUNT said he would inquire if it was printed ;
and if he found it was, be would withdraw his motion.
Lord KILLEEN presented a petition from the High
Sheriff, nobility, clergy, and inhabitants of the county of
Meath, in favour of Parliamentary Reform. The Noble
Lord also presented another petition upon the same sub-
ject from another part of the same county.

DI STRESS IN IRELAND.
Mr. QTARRELL presented a petition from the inha-
bitants of the county of Meath, and another from the inha-
bitants of Kildare, setting forth the distress in Irelmd,
which they attributed in a great measure to arise from the
want of means of employment, and praying that, as a
rielmo:sedy: a Eat for a general drainage should pass that

• The same floe. MEMBER gave notice that he should
move, an the 4th of July, for leave to bring in a General
Drainage Bill.
STATE OF NEWFOUNDLAND.
Mr. ROBINSON wished to know from the Noble
Viscount opposite whether any decision had b .en come to
by his Majesty's Government on the subject of a petition
which had been presented to the Government for a local
legislation in Newfoundland ; also whether any instruc-
tions had been given to the proprietors and authorities there
to maintain to British subjects the right of fishing on what
'eh the Frepi.li
coasidered they had an equal right to s;ti
n intended
and next, whether there. was f
was called the French coast, which he (Mr. Robinson)..
eneral protection
im-
mediately to be brought in _
d for
internalth' administration of
the regular fishing
nature. of the replies he might receive to th, e
theby
inquiries: Should Government nut he EFTTL.:I. to
? His subsequent conductsliou!(l go:ailed
that country