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London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

ROUSE OF COMMONS, ALUM 22.

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The SPEAKEn took the Chair at the usual time.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON the Man-
chester and Salford Waterworks Bill was read a third
time and passed, and the Mauchrister and Lceds
Railnay Bill was read a second time. The Ho:-.our.
able Member also presented a petition, praying thLt
the liouse• would not accede to the prayer of a

petition, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate the
Imperial Bank of Manchester.

Mr. W. EVANS presented a peCtion from Mary
Booth against the Northern and Eastern Railway Bill.
On the motion of Mr. NEELD, the Church of Eng-
land Life and Fire Assurance Trust and 'Annuity
Company's Bill was read a second time.
The Preston and Longridge Railway Bill, and the
Winwick Rectory Bill, were read a third time and passed.
Mr. C. HAMILTON presented a petitinn from the
Board of Guardians of a place in Oxfords'aire agairst
the continuance in office of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners.

An HON. MEMBER. presented a petit'on from a place
in Buckinghamshire, praying- for more efficient religious
instruction for the entire population.

Mr. PHILIP HOWARD presented a peti-
tion from the Mayor and Aldermen of the city
of Carlisle in favour of the reduction of import duties,
and of the furtherance of the principle laid down in the
speech from the throne, in the year 1825, which was
in part carried out by Mr. Huskiason. Also a petition
from the same place signed by the Mayor on behalf of
the Corporation, in favour of the admission of Jews
into municipal corporations.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition signed
by the Baroughreeve, Constables, Poor-law Guardians,
and Overseers and men of all political parties in South-
wark, against the extension of the powers of the Poor-
law Commissioners ; also a petition from the Mayor and
Council of the Borough of Bolton, praying that the
Import Duties may be revised and reduced.
Mr. E. A. SANFORD presented .a petition from
the county of Somerset, in favour of Church Extension ;
also a petition from the Poor-law Guardians of the town
of Wellington, praying for an alteration in 'the bastardy
clauses of the Poor-law Bill ; also from the Guardians
of the Union of Yeovil, praying that the workhouse
e:ected there, and all other iworkhouses, might be ex-
empted from the payment of parochial taxes.
Mr. TO W NLE Y PARKER preseuted a petition
from Preston against the Poor-1 tw Continuance Bill.
The petitioners st ited that the working of the New
Poor-law was in their judgment calculated to unhinge
society, by setting the poor against the rate-payers,
and prayed that power may be given to the guar.
dians to relieve mothers of bastard children. The
'honorable Member also presented a petition
from the Vice-Chairman and Guardians of a Union in
the counties of Salop and Flint, expressing great disap-
probation of the powers give❑ to the Commissioners ;
also stating that the Ga=irdian.s ought to be entrusf
with the power ef relieving widows having families in the
union, and calling the attention of the House partieulttly
to the:33th and 43d elatises of the Bill, as extremely arbi-
trary and unjustlfiable. The Hon. Member presented
a petition from the county of Lancaster to the same
effect.

Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from an in-
dividual (whose name we did not hear), praying for a
Parliamentary remuneration as the original inventor of
telegraphic communication by railways.
Mr. E. TENNENT presented petitions from se-
veral congregations of Presbyterians in Ireland, against
lay patronage in the Church of Scotland.
Mr. A. WHITE presented a petition from Sunder-
land against the Medical Prefessien Bill.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from
Devonport in favour of Frost, Williams, and Jones ;
also a petition from Dundee, praying for Radical Re-
form, and a petition from Merthyr Tydril against the
New Poor-law system.
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Lord WO RSIEY presented a pct tion from a pl tee
in Lincolnshire, against the New poor-law.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from Derby,
and a petition from a place in Derbyshire, against any
further grant to the College of Maynooth ; also a peti-
t on from a place in Somerset, praying for the exclusion
of Roman Catholics from Maynooth ; and ssveral peti-
tions from places in Cr.oueester, Yolk, Lincoln, Sus-
sex, Was, Suffolk, Simerset, Cumberland, and South-
ampton, praying for Church Extension.
Mr. MILES presented a petition from the parish of
St. George, in Gloucester, complaining generally of the
New Poor-hew Amendment Act, which the pet;tioce:s
stated increased their rates how 4721. to 2,18.5/. a-year.

Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the Corpo-
ration of Leeds praying that the Commercial Code of
the country might be revised, and the principle of free
trade adopted ; and a petition from a Magistrate of
Lancaster, complaining that he had been four tim s
brought Lefore his brother Magistrat?s to establish
Church-rate claims, and raying that the law of Church
rates might be abolished altogether.
General JOHNSON presented a petition from ad-
here, very numerously signed, against the Poor-law
Amendment Bill.

MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham
against the Poor-law Amendment Bile.
Mr. GROTE presented a petition from an individual,
complaining of grievances inflicted on him by the British
Consulate at Meisina. The petitioner stated that he
bad memorialized the Foreign-office on the subject, and
that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had di-
rected that an i. Vestigation into the circumstances
should take place before the British Consul at Palermo.
The petitioner being of opinion that justice could not be
done him by such an investigation, prayed the House to
give him relief.
Jr. LAW HODGES presented a petition from the
chem sts and druggists of Gravesend against the Medi-
cal Reform Bill.

Lord ELIOT presented a petition from the guar-
b C." mane liable to the
poor rates.
Sir E. SUGDEN presented a petition from the So-
licitors of Yorkshire Law Society, praying for alterations
in the County Courts' Bill.
Lord A. LENNOX presented a petition from the
chemists and druggists of Chichester against the Medi-
cal It-form Bill introduced by the Hon. Member for
Lambeth.
Mr. PAKINGTON presented a similar petitin
from Droitwich.

Admiral ADAM presented petitions from Kinross
and another place in Scotland, against Church patronage.
Mr. T. DU NCOISIBE presented a petition, signed
by 736 tennales in the vicinity of Chelmsford, praying
for the liberation of Mr. Baines.
Mr. HAMILTON and Mr. HODGES gave notice
of certain amendments in Committee un the Poor-law
Amendment Bill. _ .

Colonel SIBT.HORP gave notice that in Committee
on the Miscehneaus Estimates he should MJVe a re-
soktion for cancelling the appointment of Sir William

Visard.

Mr. G. W. WOOD gave notice that in Committee
on the Copyright of Designs Bill he should mote cer-
tain amendments. •
Mr. PAKINGTON gave notice of his intention to
move that a Select Committee be appointed to incst:re
into the state of Newfoundland.
Mr. HUME gave notice that on Thursday next he
would move for a copy of the correspondence relative to
the affair of the schooner Caroline.
.Sir ROBERT PEEL gave notice that in Corn-
mace he wouli move certain amendments in the
Poor-law Bill.
Mr. HAWES said that he understood the Hon.
Member for Oxford (Mr. Maclean) had on a previous
occasion stated that the medical col:aerations had some
measure of reform under contemplation. He wished to
ask the lion. Member if such was the
Mr. MACLEAN slid he had stated .Aco, and that
be had the information from two petitions wilich wire
presented to the House on the subject, and lie under-
stood also that the College of Physicians and the Apo,
theearies had had several meetings on the subjoet.
THE GREEN PARK.

Mr. GROTE said, having heard many complaints
respecting the closing of the Green Pa-k, he begged to
as.k. the Hon. Gontlornan the Sec-ectary for the Trea-
sury whether it was temporary or permanent.
Mr. E. J. STANLEY said that the walks were
being repaired, and when that was done it would be re-
opened to the public.
SUPPRESSION OF FAIRS.

Mr. STANLEY said, seeing the Honourable
Member the Under Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment in his place, he begged to ask hire, a question.
He had observed that several fairs in the n eighbourhood
of London have been put down. He wished to know
whether any-attempt had b:eu made to ri2gulate them,
and so to prevent the ahuses which had oec erred, that
they might be attended with no inconveni, ince to the
inhabitants before this step was taken.
Mr. FOX MAULE said his Hon. Fr;iend should
have given him notice of the quchtion ; 'put he was
quite sure that they had not been put dov rn until such
endeavours had been made.
Sir E. WILMOT Legged to ask the It ...ttorney-Ge-
neral, who had brought in a Bill to facilitat e the Admi-
nistration of Justice in boroughs, what prr ,vision would
be made with respect to contracts entered into between,
boroughs and counties which had not been perfected ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said be had no
hesitation in stating that the contracts would be de-
clared invalid ab initio.
MEDICAL REFORM BIL L.
In a short conversation upon the Ma dicai Reform_
Bill, •
Mr. HAWES stated that it was not hi: s intention to
bring forward his Bill to-morrow. He ould take an
early opportunity of stating what court a he should
pursue.

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BUSINESS OF THE HOUS.E.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said the No1:1 L Ird the
cretary of State for the Colonial D,pa
n tment had
r Se.
stated on Friday night that he ai
to occupy the whole of the evening in ds: sussing the
di
s;
Bill. The impression of the House a was, that
the whole night would be consumed in that discussion.
(Hear, hear.) He hoped that the Noble IL lord did not
intend to proceed with the Administration.. of Justice
Bill until a few days notice
had been given ti, the House.
'
Lord JOHN RUSSELL
had stated. on Friday
that he did not expect the
would occupy the whole
°
be was still of the same of Poor-law Amen dment 13:11
the time of the B :ouse ; and
opinion, for reason:: which he
should presently state.
He had not then E toted that
he proposed to
0 go on with the Bill fc it the Ad-
minittrAtion ofJustice; and not bavi pg stated