The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-31 00:00:00

LICENSING PUBLIC-HOUSES.

Lord STANLEY 'presented a Petition from the ilialister&
of BainstaPle, against the, Licensing. Act.—Ordered to be
printed.

NAVIGATION BIEL

Colonel. LYGON presented a Petition from the•Silk.thr9w-
sters of Blockler, in the county. of Worcester, against-the clause
in the Navigation Act permitting the importation of Foreign
Thrown Silk.
Mr. EGERTON presented a similar petition from .the May-
or and -Burgesses of tongleton.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE held in-his hand two similar peti-
tions, and assured the House that the propiised measure had
excited a considerable sensation throughout the country. He
gave notice that he should: oppOse the 'clause complained of
when the Bill'should be proposed to be read a third time, and
would'take the sense of the House on it.
Mr. LITTLETON understood that it was not likely the
third reading would be pressed that, evening, as a cause, which
he felt it unnecessary to state, would prevent a full attendanee
of Members, and he was sure there was no individual less ca-
pable .of pressing forward a measure so important in a thin
House than hiS Right Hon. Friend thii President of the Board
of Trade (Mr. Wallace.) •
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•111 r. DAVENPORT expressed his wish that the Bill should
not be brougthtforward that day.
M .
r. 'WALLACE saw no reason for postponing the discus-
•sioniroui the circumstance alluded to by his Hon. Friend (Mr.
Littleton). -He had already agreed to postpone it once, but
felt himself hound to.press the. thi;d reading`of the Bill that
evening., . • _

The p, .
etitions were ordered to lie upon the table and to be
printed as was another similar petition, presented by Mr.
EGEiLTON, from the Silk-throwsters of a town, the name of
which could not be heard.
LICENSING PUBLIC HOUSES.

Sir E. KNATCIIBULL presented a petition from Richard
.Thompson, of Ramsgate, brewer, against the Bill for licensing
Public Houses. . .
lONIAN ISLANDS. AND. CEYLON.
Mr. WILMOT presented the Copy of a Letter from Sfr P.
Ross to the Lord High Commissioner, of the lonian IslandS;
and certain papers relative to the Island of Ceylon:
. COVENTRY GAS LIGHT BELL. •

Mr. P. MOORE brought. up the Report of the Committee
on the Coventry Gas-light Bill.. The amendments were agreed
to, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed.
NAVIGATION BILL.

Mr. T. WILSON presented a petition from the silk throw.-
ster,s of the City of London against the Navigation Lill. 'He
hoped the third readirg would not be pressed that evening;
When the presence of many Hon. Members Oidd not-be ex-
pected, in consequence of their attendance in another place,lJr
the benefit of a charitable institution (the Grand Ball for the
relief of the distressed Irish). •
Mr. 'WALLACE 'perceiving. so much anxiety to prevail on
the subject, would accede to the wish so .generally expressed',
and liostpone'the third reading till to-thorrow.—(Hear
feeling the importance of the measure, he should- postpone the
further consideration of the Report on the Warehousing Bill,
which stood for to-morrow, in order to afford room for the ample .
-disdission Onthe Navigation Act, to which it seemed likely it
Would.give rise.
.The Petition was then ordered to be printed. -
FOREIGN BUTTER.

Mr. FITZGI.BI36N presented a Petition-from, the Nobilitf ,
Clergy, Gentry, and Vreeholders•of thecOufity •of
.Limeric
praying for' the imposition of au additional duty on the iinpor.
tation of Dutch butter. . .
• S. RICE supported the Petition; which was ordered to
lie upon the table, and to be printed:-
EXCISE•DUTIES. . „ •

.Sir WILSON requested the attention .of the Honourable
Seeretary;_of the' Treasury to a circumstance respecting the.
Board of L'xcise which had lately, come to . his (Sir. Robert
Wilson's} knowledge. He had been-informed that the Messrs:
Hickson, a most respectable lirm in Welbeck-street, had lately
received a notice from the Board of-Excise. that they had in-
curred Exciselpenalties, to the amount of 400,01101, for'selling
cocoa paste. He thought that a retrospeCtive clause ought to
he introduced into the Bill whiCh the Right Honourable. Gen-
tlenian had brought forward for regulating the sale of roasted
wheat, for the purpose of protecting persons standing in a similar
situation to the Messrs. Hickson , and .he -therefore desired to
know when the Right Hon. Gentleman intended to'move for
the committal of that Bill.

'Mr. LUSAINGTON replied, that it was the. intention to
move that the Bill alluded to by the Hon. Member be nom--
mitted on Monday. • • •
. NAVIGATION BILL, ~.

.
• On the' motion Of. Mr. WALLACE, the- third readin4 .of -the
Navigation -Bill was postponed till to-morrow f as was, like-
wise, the third reading ..of the Ancient Commercial .§latutes
Report Bill. . .
.111 r. -.LITTLETON- presented a • Petition from-the Land-
h,olders and Occupiers of Biadulph; -in the County of : Stafford,
againse,the Corn Importation' Bill.—Ordered to be pririted. •