The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, EBB: 9.-

The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'Ciock.

A great number of petitions for leave to bring in
private Bills tv ere presented, and referred to the Com-
mittee on Petitions.

Mr. DON presented a petition from Manchester, in
favour of the, Copyright in Designs Bill.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition from a
Union in Devon, against the Poor-law Amendment
Bill, and pr eying the House to revise the whole law
relating to the relief of the poor.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from an
individual of the medical profession in Southwark, com-
plaining of the evil effects and destructive tendency of
drunkenness.—he said, from his own experience he knew
that a drun'aard died every ten minutes—and praying
the House to take steps for the promotion of temperance.
The Hort.. MEMBER also presented a petition for a
Bill to assign Taylor's patents for his extraordinary
mode of steaming and cutting wood to a public Com-
pany.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
clergy and gentry of a plaee in Southampton, and a pe-
tition from the deanery of Dunstable praying for ad-
ditional church accommodation.
Mr. COLQUHOUN presented a petition from
Kilmarnock pr aying for the abolition of lay patronage.
Mr. HENRY BERKELEY presented a petition
from Bristol against the equalization of duties on
articles of East and West India produce.
Mr. GREG presented a petition from Manchester
praying for au inquiry into the trials of Frost, Williams,
and Jones.
Captain FECHELL presented a petition from Mr.
Bennett, a solicitor of Brighton, praying for an amend-
ment of the laws relating to notaries.
Sir A. DA.LRYMPLE presented a petition from
the Guardians: of the Union of Brighton against tha
new Poor-law.
Mr. FOX MAULE presented petitions from Glai-
gow, Nairn, And several parishes in the county of Fife,
praying for the abolition of patronage in the Church
of Scotland.

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from
Henry Cole, a clerk in the Adjutant-General's Office in
Ireland, complaining of a reduction of salary, and pray-
ing the House to take his case into consideration. The
Hon. and Lear ned Gentleman said he should found a
motion on the ;petition at some future period.
Mr. F. MA. ULE presented petitions from Elgin and
four other places in Scotland, praying for the abolition
of Church patronage in that country.
NOTICES OF MOTION.—POOR-LAW.

Mr. SAN F 01.113 gave notice, that in the Committee
on the Poor-law Bill he should move an addition to
clause 21, for the purpose of preventing parish appren-
tices from gaining a settlement by their apprenticeship ;
also an amendment on clause 30, for the purpose
of giving overseers, bound over to prosecute by
Magistrates, the expenses which they may incur in
consequence, and also ordering the costs of Magis-
trates' clerks to be paid out of the Poor-rates ; also
that suspended orders of removal be abolished. Also,
a clause suspending the execution of orders of removal
until the removing parish should have given notice to
the parish to which the pauper was to he removed,
stating the circumstances of the application. Also,
that in page 1, line '24, the words forty-six should be
substituted for the words fifty-one. [The effect of this
will be to limit the operation of the Bill to five years
instead of ten.]
MAYNOOTH. _ _

Mr. COLQUHOUN gave notice that on the 23d
February, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill
to amend the Act of the Irish Parliament relating to
the College of Maynooth.
Capt. PEC HELL gave notice that in the Committee
on the Poor Law Bill, he should move amendments on
clauses 5,6, and 33, to exempt the Gilbert Unions
from the operation of the law.
HULL DOCKS.

Mr. HUTT gave notice that he should move that
the evidence taken before the Committee of last Ses-
sion on the Hull Docks Bill should be printed and
laid before the House.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON moved for returns of the
Clerk of the Peace of the Counties of Cork, Carlow,
Longford, Queen's County, and Tipperary ; of all
notices of intention to register votes for those
counties ; and also for the returns of its several
sessions held in and for those counties within the
year 1840 ; and the number of persons admitted
to be registered pursuant to such notice ; specifying
the days on which each sessions commenced, and the
place at which they were held respectively ; also like
returns for the County of the City of Dublin, and the
City of Cork, specifying the several days on which the
registering barrister sat tor the registry of voters during
the year 1841.—Agreed to.
Mr. FRESHFIELD moved for a copy of the Ap-
pendix to the first. Report of the Committee appointed
by the Lords of the Admiralty to inquire as to the
comparative advantages afforded by different Ports in
the Channel as Ports for the departure and arrival of
the West Indian Mails ; such Report was ordered by
the House on the 11th of August, 1810, to be printed.
—Ordered.
Mr. MARK PHILLIPS 2avc. nc.z:co of his
inten-
tion on a future day to move for certain returns rela-
tive to the exportatioa of maim y.