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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF COMMONS, Mar 5.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
Mr. SYDNEY HERBERT presented a number of
petitions without specifying from what places, praying for
Church-extension.
Mr. EA STHOPE presented a petition signed by
11,832 inhabitants of Leicester, against the present
Corn-laws. The petitioners complained of the distress
which they suffered in consequence of those laws, with-
out any compensating, advantage. The Hon. Member
also presented petitions to the same effect from places in
Leicester, and from Bagnigge-wells and Islington ; also a
petition from Horsham, in Sussex, praying that the inmates
of workhouses might be allowed to attend their own
places of worship.
Mr. ALSTON presented a petition from the inhabi-
tants of Bishop- Stortford for the abolition of Church-rates.
Mr. BELL presented a petition from Northumberland
in favour of Church Extension.
Mr. BUSFIELD presented a petition from a congre-
gation of Protestant Dissenters at Bradford, against the
continuance of Church-rates, for the abolition of Ecele.
siastical Courts, and for the liberation of Mr. W. Baines.
Mr. STRUTT presented a petition from the inhabi-
tants of the town of Derby, in favour of the Drainage Im-
provement Bill; also from a Congregation of Protestant
Dissenters, praying for the Abolition of Church Rates and
Ecclesiastical Courts.
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Mr. ALFRED presented a petition from the county of
Leicester, against the Repeal of the Corn-laws ; also 21
petitions from verious places in the same county, in favour
of Church &tension.

Mr. VILLIERS presented sixteen petitions from
Yorkshire, Cheshire, Gray's Inn-lane, (Middlesex,) and
several other places, in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. BAIL LIE presented a petition from Inverness
complaining that the Caledonian Canal had fallen into
disrepair, and praying f9r a further grant beyond the 2,000/.
proposed in the estimates.

Mr. Hr AT H COTE pretentei a petition from certain
medical practitioners in Kent, complaining of the mode in
which medical officers are appointed and remunerated
under the Poor-law Act; also a petition from the Board of
Guardians of Tiverton, praying that union workhouses
might be exempted from taxation.
Mr. THORNEL Y presented a petition from West-
moreland, and from the inhabitants of Bath- street, St.
Luke's, and of Spafields, London, praying for a repeal of the
Corn-laws.

Mr. BLACKBURNE presented a petition from an
agricultural parish, praying the House not to withdraw the
protecting duties from the agricultural interest, or they
would be all ruined.

Mr. HUME presented petitions from Montrose and two
parishes in Forfarshire, praying for a repeal of the Corn-
laws ; also two petitions from Dissenting congregations,
praying for the abolition of Church-rates and Ecclesiasti-
cal Courts ; also from two Chartist Societies, praying for
the release of political offenders.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition complaining
of the arbitrary character of the New Poor-law Bill, Irem
a parish in Devon ; also one from a Board of Guardians,
praying for an exemption from parochial rates and taxes
for all workhouses.

Lord ING E SfRIE presented a petition from Lich-
field, complaining of the hardship of the Bastardy Laws;
everal petitions praying for Church Extension; also from
the boatmen on the Burslem and Liverpool Canal, com-
plaining that they were compelled to labour on Sundays,
and praying that Sunday trading on canals might be put
a stop to.

Dr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the
bankers, planters, and others of Antigua, in which they
stated that they gave emancipation at the earliest possible
moment, giving up six years of apprenticeship in the hope
that they were aiding the great cause of civtlization.—
( Hear, hear.) They were informed that a petition bad
been presented to that House, praying for the introduction
of foreign sugar into England. They stated that such a
step would be ruinous to them and all their interests, and
must put an immediate stop to the great exertions that
they had been making for the education of the labourers
—the prospects of prosperity which had dawned upon them
would be blasted—(Cheers)—they therefore prayed the
House to refuse the prayer of such a reition as incon-
sistent with the honour and character of England. They
prayed that the use of slave.grown sugar from foreign
countries might be prohibited within the limits of English
laws.—(Cheers.) Also a petition from Dr. Pye Smith
and his congregation, praying for the abolition of Church-
rates, and one from a congregation of Baptists, praying for
the abolition of oaths and the substitution of a declaration.
Mr. T. EGERTON presented several petitions pray-
ing for Church Extension.

Mr. C. HAMILTON presented three petitions from
Bucks to the same effect.

Mr. BROTH E RTON presented twelve petitions from
different trades of Manchester praying for a Repeal of
the Corn-laws.

Lord JAMES STUART presented a petition from
Argyle against lay patronage in the Church of Scotland.
Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from Renfrew
in favour of the abolition cf Church Extension.
Mr. JONES presented a petition from Carnarvon
against the grant to the Cullege of Maynooth.
Colonel SAL WEY presented a petition from Sir W.
Downey, one of the coroners of Shropshire praying for
further remuneration to county coroners.
Mr. W. DUNCOMBE presented nineteen petitions
from the North Riding of Yorkshire, against any alteration
in the Corn-laws.

Mr. HANDLEY presented a petition, signed by 4,000
persons, praying for a repeal of the union between Great
Britvin and Ireland.

Mr. A. WHITE presented a petition from South
Shields, praying for the extinction of Church-rates.
Mr. M. PHILLIPS presented a petition from Man
heater, against the Corn-laws. -

Mr. O. GORE presented a petition against the union
of the two Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.
Mr. J. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
parish of St. George, in Southwark, complaining of the
violation of the Anatomy Act, and praying an inquiry into
the subject. Also a petition from Glasgow, praying for
the extension of the franchise.

Mr. CARTWRIGHT presented two petitions from
places in the county of Northampton, praying for Church
Extension.

Mr. GREG presented petitions from the parishes of
Aberdalgie and Tibbermuir, Perthshire, praying for the
abolition of Church patronage in Scotland. Also a peti-
tion from the B tvtist cong,egation of Perth. for the
abolition cf Church-rates in England, and the liberation
of Mr. Baines.

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition in
favour of Mr. Colquhoun's Bill respecting Maynouth
College.

Sir ROBERT INGLIS presented 33 petitions from
places in the counties of Cambridge, Wilts, York, North-
ampton, Somerset, Warwick, Salop, Worcester, GiOUCCf..
ter, and Dorset, and from the Isle of Wight in favour of
Church Extension.

Mr. BAINES presented petitions from various places
in Yorkshire, in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws;
also from the Congregation of some Chapel at Leeds,
praying for the abolition of Church-rates; also petitions
to the same effect from Bradford, Halifax, Calverly, and
some other place in Yorkshire.
Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petit:on from
Westminster (as we understood) signed by 240,000
.per_
sons, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. ASHTON YATES presented a petition praying
kr a repeal of the Corn-laws.

Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE presented a petition
from some place in Buckinghamshire, praying for Church
Extension.

Mr. R. CLIVE presented a petition from some place in
Shropshire, praying that an adequa.e remuneration might
be afforded to county coroners.
Mr. BRO A DLEY presented a petition from some
place in Yorkshire against a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. H 0 DG SON presea:ed a petition from some place,
the name of which we could not catch, prating for Church
Extension.

NOTICES OF MOTION-CHURCH EX-
TENSION.

Sir R. INGLIS gave notice that on Tuesday, the 18:6
inst., he hoped to be able to call the attention of the House
to the question of Church Extensi Hear, hear.)
LORD CARDIGAN.
Mr. MUNTZ gave notice that on Thursday, the 13th
imt, he should move that an humble address be pro-
sented to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to be graciously
pleased to remove the Right Hon. the Earl of Cardigan
from the commission which he now held in her Majesty's
service.—( Hear, hear.)

DUTY ON SUGAR.
Sir G. CLERK said that be had been requested by his
Noble Friend the Member for Liverpool to state to the
House, in his absence, the form of the resolution of which
he had given notice of his intention to move, before the
House went into a Committee of Ways and Means on the
Sugar Duties, on Friday :—" Resolved, that considering
the efforts and sacrifices which Parliament and the coup..
try had made for the abolition of the slave-trade and of
slavery, with the earnest hope that by our exertions
and example, we might he able to lead to a mitigation
and final extinction of this evil in other countries, this
House is not prepared, especially with the present prospect
of the supply of sugar from the British possessions, to
adopt the measure proposed by her Majesty's Government,
for the reduction of the duty on foreign sugar."—( Cheers
from the Opposition Benches.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said he wished to state that in the
event of the House not going into Committ, e on the
Sugar Duties, and the resolution which had been just
read being put from the Chair, he would move an amend-
ment, the terms of which be would be able to state more
correctly to-morrow, to the following effect, ‘. Tbat it is
the opinion of this House that it is practicable to supply
the the present inadequacy of the revenue, and to.
expenses of the country by a judicious alterattemmneaeotfertila)el
protecting and differential duties, without
the samea time to
increase of the public burdens, and
considers such a
industrious classes; and that this House
for
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promote the interests of trade, and toaelafferd relief to the
course as the best calculated to provideneral welfare of the
Ministerial
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Church
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country."—(Cheers from the Mind'
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