The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-22 00:00:00

IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL.

Mr. LITTON presented a petition from the Corporo-
tion of Shoemakers in the City of Dublin, against the
Irish Municipal Bill. The Hon. Member also presented
other petitions to the same effect, but from whom they
came we could not hear.
CONDEMNED CHARTISTS.
Mr. WAKLEY presented petitions praying for a free
pardon to Frost, Jones, and Williams, from the inhabitants
of Finstmry. from the parish of St. Luke's, from Bolton,
in Lancashire, signed by :2000 persons, from the female
inhabitants of the Borough of Brighton, signed by 1700,

and fro:n the inhabitants of Newton-Chards, in Clack-
mannansbire.

SOCIALISM.
The HoN. MEMBER also presented two petitions praying
that the House would appoint a Committee to inquire into
the plans of Robert Owen for new modelling society in
this country. The petitioners state they were dissati,fied
with the arrangements of the old world, ar.d that they
were anxious to create a new mcral world, in which they
might have new enjoyments.

EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE.
The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition from Ste-
phen Sankey, M. A., praying for the extension of the suf.
frage to the working classes.
Mr. HUME presented petitions praying for a free
pardon for Frost, Jones, and 'Williams, from Shuttle-
stone, in Lanarkshire, signed by 700 persons, from the
parish of Whitechapel and St. George's in the East,
signed by 350 ; from Vest Chillingden, it, Sussex ; and
one from the female inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets,
signed by 430.

-The fioN. MEMBER then presented a petition from Whit-
burn, in Linlithgow, praying for the total repeal
of the Corn-law—from the parish of Rothwell, Northamp-
tonshire, pra.)ing for the disr barge of J.;lin Thorogood, and
the abolition of ecclesi tstical jurisdiction in criminal cases_
also the following petition from John Childs, of Bungay,
relative to Church-rates

" Your petitioner informs your Honourable House that
his goods have, this 18th day of February, 1840, been dis-
trained for Church•rates, and he again complains that by
the operation of a law which your Honourable House had
resolved, for its injustice, to abolish. he has been despo'led
of his property, for the support of a sect which ought to
support itself.

Your petitioner urges upon your Honourable House a
consideration not only of the injury thus inflictcd upon a
large portion of the people of this country, but of the ten-
dency which such proceedings have to weaken the public
attachment to the law, by impairing the public confidence
in its justice.

" Wherefore your petitioner'prays your Honourable House
to uholish all laws which empower any one religious sect
to violate the laws of Christian mo►:.lity;, by levying from
any but its owl' members the cost of its own public ser-
vices."

Petitions in favour of Church Extension were presented
by:Mr.BAGGS and Lord STANLEY.

Mr. WALLACE presented three petitions praying for
a free pardon for Frost, Jones, and Williams.
Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN presented two petitions from
Limerick praying for Municipal Reform : also a petition
from Galway complaining of the vexatious regulations of
the fishermen, which prevented fishing at certain seasons in
the bay.