The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

110 USE OF COMMONS.

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

A great number of petitions for leave to bring in
private Bills were presented, and referred to the Com-
mittee on Pet►tions.

'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 Delon, iwainst the Poor-law Amendment
Bill, and praying 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 drunkard died every ten minutes—and praying
the House to take steps for the promotion of temperance.
The Hon. Member also presented a petition, praying
for leave to bring in a Bill to allow the assignment of
Taylor's patent for cutting wood to a public Company.
Sir R. 11. INGLIS presented a petition from the
clergy and gentry of a place in Southampton, and a pe-
tition from the deanery of Dunstable praying for bd-
ditional church accommodation.

Mr. COLQUHOUN presented a petition from
Kilmarnock praying 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 an inquiry into the trials of Frost, Williams,
and Jones.

Captain PECHELL presented a petition from Mr
Bennett, a solicitor of Brighton, praying for an amend•
went of the laws relating to notaries. . . _

Sir A. DALRYMPLE presented a petition from
the Guardians of the Union of Brighton against the
new Poor-kw.

Mr. FOX MAULE presented petitions from Glas-
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 Learned Gentleman said he should found a
motion on the petition at some future period.
Mr. F. MAULE 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. SANFORD 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 be 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 far leave to bring in a Bill
to amend the Act of the Irish Parliament relating to
the College of Maynooth.
Capt. PECHEL I, gave notice that in the Committee
on the Poor Law Bill, he should move amendments on
clauses 3,6, and 33, to exempt the Gilberts Unions
from the operation of the law.