The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-05 00:00:00

PNEI+TIN'G EDITTON.

Mr. ERLE presented a petition from Oxford, praying for
an alteration of the taxes on corn, sugar. tea, and coffee; also
a petition from London, against the toll levied at the Waterloo
and Soothe ark Bridges.
Lord DUNG Al\l\ ON presented petitions from places in
the Counties of Down, Armagh, and Antrim, signed by
2,350 persons, the owners of .75,000 acres of land, against the
proposed alteration of the Corn-laws. Also a petition from
Wilford in the County of Kent, in favour of Church Extension.
General LYGON presented four petitions from Oxfordshire
against any alteration of the Corn-laws.
Sir JOHN TYRRELL presented various petitions from the
county of Essex against any alteration of the 17.-..,rn-laws.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from lt.4S wood
sawyers of Wolverhampton, praying for a reduction of the
high duty on foreign timber, and for a total abolition of the
Corn-laws.

Mr. EMMERSON TENNENT presented a petition from
certain ship-owners of Belfast, against any alteration in the
duties on foreign timber.
Lord WORSLEY presented a petition from Lincoln against
any fixed duty on corn ; also a petition against any alteration
in the Corn-laws.

Captain GORDON presented petitions from Dundee and
Aberdeen, against any alteratiou in the Corn-laws. •

Mr. W. DUNGO3II3E presented 104 perilion, from laces
in the \Vest Riding of York against any alteration.in the Corn-
laws.

Mr. HOGG presented similar petitions from the -East
Riding of York; also petitions in favour of Church Extension.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD gave notice that he should, on the
15th of the present month, bring torward the mot.on of which
he had given notice, that the House ought not to separate
until it had legislated for the distresses of the people.
On the motion of Sir E. KNATCHHULL, a Return,
showing the method pursued by the Legacy Duty Department
in making app;ication to executors tnd administrators to ren-
der an account of their testator's or intestate's p, reonal estate,
and for the payment of the Legacy Duty, and in collecting the
same ; also, giving a copy of each printed circular used by the
Legacy Deputy Department in making such applications;
also, showing the practice of the Solicitor of Stamps and Taxes
in enforcing payment of the Legacy Duty, by application and
by legal process ; also, giving a copy of each printed circular
used by the Solicitor of Stamps and Taxes in making, such
applications ; also showing the expense of the Legacy Duty
department in England ; and an estimate of al otter expenses,
if any, in collecting the Legacy Duty; was ordered.
Mr. C. WOOD presented a Report from the t. ommittee on
Banking, and gave notice, that on Monday next he would
move for leave to bring in a Bill for better regulating the Banks
of Issue.

Mr. V. SMITH brought in the New &kill Wales Bill and
the Western Australia bill, which were recd a tir.,t time, and
ordered to be read a second time on Monday.
NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.

DUNCOMBE moved that the letition of Samuel
Doubleday, presented on the 2d of June, be.; tinted with the
Votes. tit had- another petition which. he hail received this
morning on the same subj et. It was from Mr. Kilby, of
Mamfleld, near Nottingham, who statt d that he had heard
with ,urprise that a petition had been presented two
days ago from a person named , Coxe, s:adng that
certain parties had offered him a -large sum of
money to bribe the Chartists to vote for the Whigs. The
petitioner believed that the whole of that statement was untrue,
and he prayed the House to institute an immediate and search-
ing inquiry. Be a'so stated that .he was ready to prove that
the said Coxe, who accused the Whigs of bribery-for the next
election, was emplo3ed by the present- Member or his a7.ent, for
the express purpose of bribing voters at the I:st election—(A
laugh)—and which he did to a large extent; and also that he
himself was offered 5/. to vote for the present Member—that he
refused to accept the bribe, but gave his vote in favour of Mr.
Walter. The petitioner wished to be called before the bar of
the House to prove these facts. The Honourable Member
then gave notice that on Thursday next, when the peti-
tion of Edward Coze was brought under the- considera-
tion of the House. he shCuld move that the petilions of Samuel
Doubleday and William Kiiby. be also taken into consideratio .

CORN-LAWS.. -
Sir F. KNATCHBULL observed that the Noble Lord, the
Secretary for the Colonies, had a motion on the papers for that
night la sating to the imprztation of foreign corn ; but as the
motion would not probably come on that evening,
he begged that some Member of her Majesty's G.vernment,
in the absence of the Noble Lord, would state on what day he
intended to bring the question under the consideration of the
House. It would be a very great convenience that they should
be informed upon the subject. —( 114 ar.)
Lord PALMERSTON said that his NoWe Friend would in-
form the Rouse, More it separated, of the day on which he
would bring fur ward his motion. He (Lord Palmerston) be..
lieved it would he Tuesday next ; but he was not quite sure.
Sir E. KNATCIIBULL said that if the Noble Lord could
not furnish him with more accurate information on the subject,
he must be content. He had not a• ked the question from any
uncourteous motive.but it was a subject on the discussion of which
a great deal of anxiety naturally prevailed, and he feared that
if he had to wait until the Noble Lord the Secretary for the
Colonies cane into the House it might be too late.
POOR-LAW RETURN.

Captain POLHILL wisiedtoaTkti;llOn. Gentleman op-
posite, the Under-Secretary of State far the Home Depart-
ment, what it was likely that certain returns for which he
(Captain Polhill) moved, the number of Deaths of Paupers
in Union Workhouses, would be laid on the table.
Mr. F. MAU'LE stated that he had given oreiers to the
Poor-law Coonnissioners to prepare the returns without delay,
that he 'had not vet. received them, but ki soon as he did so
they should b. laid on the table.

• CANDIA.
Lord TEIGNMOUTH, seeing the Nob!e Lord the Se-
cretary for Foreign Affairs in his place, wished to abk him
whether he had taken any measures in conformity with the
declaration of the Allied Powers to prevent the perpetration by
the Turks of cruelties on the Christian inhabitants of Candia.
Lord PALMERSTON did not know to what declaration
the Noble Lord alluded, but Ito would state that as soon as her
Majesty's' Government had received information o the trou-
bles in Candia they had de,pa,ched instructions to our Am-
bassadcr at Constantino':le, dire etin. him to use his utmost
endeavou, s to prevail on the Turkis%'"Government to enter into
some arrangement with the Greek population of Gandh&
which while on the one hand it 'should be satisfactory to the
Turkish Government, shoaltt on the other give the Greek po-
pulatioa of Cacdia.ful sectuity for their persoos ant properties,
and he had also been &meted to urge the Turki,li Government
nut to have recourse to measures more severe than should be
abso:uteiy necessary.
' Lord TEIGNAIOUTH had allude, to the declaration of the
Allied Powers in IMO. The answer of the Noble Lord had
been perfectly satiqeetorv.
PORTUGUESE CLAIMS.

In answer to a question from Lora SANDON,
":.Lord PALMERSTON stated that the Commissioners for
settling the Portuguese Claims had been busily employed in
laying town a cede of rues -.,nilixinciples which might he ap-
plicable 'to the different spee.fic cases, and that these claims
would vt•ry soon I,)c laid before the Portuguese Government.
Mr. WAITER pr,s.nted a petition from the town of
Dutle::, stating that after• nine years' experience the petitioners
were firmly cortvii:ced that her Majesty's Ministers were ince-
pabie of governing the country to the satisfaction of the people,
and praying the House to address her Maj.'sty for their imme
diate di>mis al.

Mr. F. MAULE begged to ask by how many persons the
petition was signed.—( Cries of " Hear, hear," from the Liberal
wenches, and " Order, order," from the Tory.)
Mr. FOX 'MA ULE proposed that the petition should be read.
The Clerk then read the petition, Ulich was signed " Win.
Taylor, on behalf of the meeting."
ADJOURNED DEBATE.
.On the Order of the Day for the adjourned debate on the
No-Conlidence Resolution beitig real,
Mr. SHELL rose end said that the resolution proposed
by the Right Honourable Baronet the Member for Tainworthy
might be, he ventured to say, the resolution which the Right
Hon. Gentleman had been persuaded to propose—( Laughter)
--by sonic of thoe addresses in which he thought the expe-
rience of the Right Hon. Baronet might teach him that no
very implicit confidence could be reposed ; that resolution did
not contain any condemnation of measures; there was nothing to
preclude the Right lion. Baronet, whenever the interests of the
country or of his party might require it, from reducing the duties
upon slave-groan sugar, or from bringinghis views on the Corn.-
law. question into conformity with those of Sir George
Murray or the flight Hon. George Dawson, who, in
better times, was, he believed, Financial Secretary under him.
The Right Hon. Baronet, in bringing forward his reso-
. lution, took care, with the caution which was characteristic
hint, not to involve himself in any engagements which here.
after might he found embarrassing by him. They were
not now called upon to decide on the policy of the
Government with respict to the Corn-laws, or the
sugar duties, but on the general policy of that Govern-
ment, in whose wisdom and just feeling towards Ireland their
confidence had been universally plaeed. The hitht Horn.
Baronet had no doubt calealated on the detection of some of
the English Members, but he (Jr. Shell) thought that this
Right Honourable Gentleman -would find his calculations
were erroneous. This resolution of necessity involved a com-
parison between the relative merits of the two great parties.
and whoever voted for it would give expression to the opinion
that not only the flight Honourable Baronet, the Mem-
ber for Taroworth, hut also the Honourable Member for
Kent, who had to his (Mr. Shell's) surprise put some quer.,
tions to him at the opening of this debate i as also the Noble
Lord the Member for North Lancashire, and the Right Hon.
Baronet tt.e Member fur Pembroke, (5... jr J.. Graham), were more
de erring of the confidence of Coe ri formed House of Commons
than the Nol.le Lord the 'o:eeretary fur the Colonies, and the
rest of those by whom Reform was never abandoned. The
rg.' the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies.
tlhlieghdterelaltosn. wet the Mt tither for Tarnworth had, said that
-were rendered more signal by the
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cepaerilatie)u‘i:hteiiocnhofohfa6tde:g moitdw, to which be
should
r,oiet Invited the House of Commons to place his policy and
that of the Wh:,os in the balance. Look back troth
to the Ist At.arel,' 'lB3l, I'm year the Reform Bill was intro-
duced that House, amid,t those nianiFestations of ri-
dicule to which they were, perhaps, too prone, and
in that iotortol what a vast series of events ?--(The Hon.
curable Gentleman then made some allusions to the
Nelee Lord the Member for North Lanca hire and the Right
Hon. Member for Pembroke, but in consequence of his
dropping his voice at the end of his sentences, they
were not understood in the gallery.) The Right Honour..
able Baronet (Sir J. Graham) was more than miStoken in
attributing to the Government experiments in Parliathent for
the irtitation of the public mind, and of resorting to measures
which the most distinguished of the members of the Govern-
ment had distinctly repudiated. He held in his hand
a letter from the Noble Lord the Secretary • for
the Colonies, dated July 31, 1831, addressed to James
Watts. Esq., a gentleman resident at Stroud, in which fhe
Noble Lord set forth opinions on the Corn-laws exactly similar
to those which he now entertained. The Noble Lord in that
letter (alluding to the Corn-laws) said that he gave his support
to the Bill of 1829, considering it an improvement on the pro-
hibitory system; but at the same time in his( Lord J. Russell's)
opinion, a moderate fixed duty would be more advantageous to the
agriculturist, and also to the manufacturer ; that it was desirable
not to alter too frequently the law by which capital and
great interests were affected; but it was also desirable not to
maintain a system of ditties which experience had shown, had.
a tendency VI raise the price of food ; that he gave this as hits
individual opinion, but that it was one which he was ready tt
support by his vote in . the House of Commons.--
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established the fact that these opinions were not taken
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Perahroke (Sir James Graham)
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