The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY pre-
sented a petition against the Roman Catholic Trusts
Bill.
Mr. WILLIAMS and other Hon. Members presented
petitions in favour of the claims of the late Raja of
Sattara.

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General LYGON presented a petition from a
place in Worcestershire against the admission of Jews
into Parliament.
Mr. WADDINGTON presented a petition to the
same effect from Suffolk.
Mr. EWART presented two petitions from Van
Dieman's Land, praying the House to abolish the
penal settlements in that colony. The Hon. Member
also presented a petition in favour of the claims of the
late Raja of Sattara.
Air. WILLCOX presented a petition praying for
the removal of the civil disabilities affecting the Jews.
Mr. MOORE presented a petition from a parish in
the county of Mayo in which it was stated that the
parish originally contained 8,140 inhabitants of whom

650 had recently died of famine; that the inhabitants
in consequence of deficiency in the potato crop, were
subsisting on turnips, and as their stock of food was
gradually diminishing, they have nothing to look for-
ward to but famine, if the Legislature did not afford
them relief. The Hon. Member presented a similar
petition from another parish in the county of Mayo.
Lord ASHLEY presented a petition from Bath in
favour of the claims of the Raja of Sattara. The
Noble Lord also presented a petition from an associ-
ation in Manchester, complaining of the spiritual des-
titution of that parish. The Noble Lord intimated
that it was his intention to bring the subject matter
of this petition before the House, and therefore he
should move tomorrow that it be printed with the
votes.

Mr. STANLEY presented a petition from West-
moreland against the admission of Jews into Par-
liament.

Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from Leices-
cestershire, praying the House to pass a law to inflict
the severest penalties upon all Roman Catholic priests
who denounced persons from their altars.
Mr. PATTISON presented a petition from the
City of London in favour of the claims of the late
Raja of Sattara.
ELECTION PETITIONS.

The SPEAKER informed the House that he had
received a report from the Clerk of Elections, stating
that the recognizances in respect of the petitions com-
plaining of undue returns for the following places
had been completed, namely :—Gloucester, Kinsale,
Abingdon, and Lyme Regis. The recognisances were
unobjectionable.
DR. HAMPDEN.

Dr. LUSHINGTON, seeing the Noble Lord the
First Minister of the Crown in his place, wished to,
ask htn a question. The question related to certain
correspondence which appeared in to-day's news-
papers, which contained a letter bearing the signature
of certain prelates of the Established Church, and
related to the prerogative of the Crown, and another
letter, stated to he the reply of the Noble Lord. Now,
he begged leave to ask the Noble Lord whether this
correspondence had been correctly ascribed to the
parties whose names it bore ?
Lord J. RUSSE LL stated, in reply, that the let-
ters which had teen published were authentic, with
the exception of two paragraphs, and the mistakes
were not material. He wished to state, however, that
he did not insert them in the newspapers.
DEFENCES OF THE COUNTRY.

The NOBLE LORD hoped the Hon. Gentleman the
Member for Middlesex would withdraw his motion
on this subject until after the recess, after which
period the Government intended to state what they
had done, and what they proposed to do.
Mr. OSBORNE consented to the request of the
Noble Lord.

ASSURING THE LIVES OF PERSONS
LIVING IN IRELAND.

Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Mr.
Harper, the chairman of the Crown Life Assurance
Company, stating that assurance companies objected
to assure the lives of persons living in Ireland, though
unwilling to do so; that the life of the Rev. Mr.
Lloyd hail been assured in London offices for 7,000/. ;
and that these companies had come to a resolution not
to assure the lives of persons living in Ireland, unless
the Government would guarantee that the counties
in which persons so assured were assassinated should
indemnify them from loss.
WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
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Mr. WAKLEY moved that the petition of the
electors, complaining of the conduct of Earl Fitz•
hardinge, be printed with the votes.
Captain BERKELE I could not but view the
presentation of the petition by a stranger to the lo-
cality as somewhat suspicious. On the part of the
Noble Lord, he had been requested to state that he
did not fear any investigation into his conduct, and
that if the House should think fit to print the petition
with the votes, that he entertained no objection to
such a proceeding.—Agreed to.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE