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London, England, 1831-09-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, SEPTEMBER 6.

The Gallery was not opened until Half-past Three
o'clock, and it was some time before there were forty Mem-
bers present.
Mr. LEADER presented a petition from the town of
Clara, in the King's County, praying for an -assessment of
property in Ireland for the relief of the poor, and for a
double assessment on absentee landlords, as the only means
of restoring peace and happiness to that country. The ;
petitioners stated their conviction that the disturbances in
the counties of Galway and ROSCOMMOII, and ohos in the
south of Ireland, procece,ea solely from the discontent
of the labouring_ pool'. The HonottrAle Member per-
fectly coincided with the almcst general opinion, that
the property of a country should be made available to
support the poverty of it ; and he knew no way by
which the people of England could he an much relieved in
the poor-rates as by affording comforts to the poor of Ire-
land in their own country.—(Hear.) The Hon. Member
then presented petitions from the Roman Catholics of the
town of Newmarket, in the county of Cork, and from a
parish in the same county, praying that all grants for edu-
cation in Ireland might be equally distt ibuted, and not
confie.ed to the support of the Kildare-street Society. By
fiat Act of the 28th of Henry the Eighth, every clergyman
upon his induction to a living in Ireland was compelled
to take an oath that be would establish in his parish a
school for the poor, and by the 12th of Elisabeth, the.
Bishop of each diocese was ordered to establish a Latin
school. ff these Acts had been always complied with, there
would have been no need of these annual grants.—(Hear.)
Looking at these Acts, which showed the wisdom of our
ancestors, and seeing that they ha I no reference whatever
to any particular creed, he (Mr. Leader) honed that the
grants would in future be so distributed as net to refer to
any one creed to the exclusion of others.—(Hear.) The
Hon. Member also presented a petition from the freemen of
Galway, relative to the Galway franchise.
At this stage of the proceedings, Lord Ingestrie, Member
for Dublin, and Sir John Bridges, Member for Armagh,
were introduced, and took the oaths and their seats.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

The Deputy Usber of the Black Rod appeared at the
Bar, and summoned the House to the Bar of the Hare
of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission
to some Bills. On his return he informed the House that
the Royal Assent bad been given to the Duchess of Kent's
Annuity Bill, and two Private Bills.
Mr. Danvers, from the East India House, appeared at
the Bar with copies of warrants, granting pensions to the
Officers in the Company's service.
Mr. H. ROSS presented a petition from the merchants,
altip-ownets, and others, of Montrose, complaining of the
quarantine laws, and praying for relief. The Hon. Member
said he was quite aware of the difficulties which surrounded
this question, but he could declare that some ship-owners
had lost three-fourths of the amount of freight by the d 1 .
tention of their vessels. The petition was ordered to be
printed,
Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for returns of the numb r
of gallons of spirits imported from Guernsey and Jersey,
and which had paid the duty, since the sth January last.
—Ordered.

Sir J. ASTLEY presented a petition from 60 resident
Clergymen, including two Archdeacons, in the county he
represented (Wiltshire), praying for an alteration in the
Beer Bill. During the fall of last year, there were many
unfortunate disturbances in the south of England, and also
in Wiltshire; and although be did not mean to say the
beer-shops gave rise to any of them, still he thought the
disturbances were aided by those places.
Mr. BENETT differed from the petitioners. He had
no reason to believe that the disturbances either emanated
from, or were encouraged by, the beer-shops. Ile was an ad-
vocate for the clause allowing beer to be drank on the pre-
mises, as bring, in his opinion, highly conducive to the
comforts of the labcuring poor—(Hear)—and he would
never consent that those comforts should be taken from
them.—( Hear, hear.) Any disposition to exceed the pro-
visions of the Act could, in his (Mr. Benett's) opinion, he
entirely and efficiently remedied by police regulations.
The petition was read and ordered to be printed.
Mr. JAMES presented a petition fiom the metropolis
against the law allowing punishment for the expres.
eion of religious opinions, and praying the House to
address his Majesty, praying that his Majesty will be
pleased, as an act of grace at the Coronation, to release
the Rev. Robert Taylor. ~The Hon. Member said he was
not acquainted with any of the petitioners, but he per-
ceived at the head of them the name of a highly philan-
thropic gentleman, Mr. Owen, of Lanark.
The petition was read and ordered to be printed.
Mr. DIXON presented a I.etition from the Reform As-
sociation of Glasgow, complaining of the delays that hail
taken place in the discussion of the Reform Bill, and pray-
ing the House to piss it without delay. The petitioners
placed the greatest reliance on his Majesty's Ministers, and
felt perfectly certain that any delay that had occurred was
not attributable to them.

Sir J. M. DOYLE presented a petition from Carlow,
for the disarming of the yeomanry.
Mr. O'CONNELL had been requested to support the
prayer of the petition, but he saw very little prospect of
its succeeding. He considered a more serious grievance
never occurred to Ireland than the arming of the yeomanry
irps-

Mr. BLACKNEY also supported tha prayer of the
petition, and presented a similar one signed by the Catho-
lics and Disssenters. •

Mr. SHAW trusted that Government would not upon
this petition take any steps to disband the yeomanry.