The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

Colonel SA LWEY presented a petition from York-
shire, praying for the abolition of Church- rates and the
release of John Thorogood.

Lord SANDON - presented a petition from the
County of Gloucester, praying for Church Extension.
Also from the East India Association of Liverpool, pray-
ing for the equalization of the duties on East and West
India produce.

Mr. FOX MA ULE presented petitions from Scot-
land against the intrusion of unacceptable Ministers
into parishes in Scotland.
Mr. LITTON presented a petition from 31 persons
holding office under tbc Corporation of Dublin, pray-
ink for compensation in the event of their being deprived
of their offices by the present Bill.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition
from the ward of Dowgate, praying for the release of
Mr. Sheriff Evans.

Mr. Alderman COPELAND presented a similar
petition from the ward of Bishopsgate.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented thirty petitions from
parishes in the King's County, Nicklow, Lon.
donderry, Down, Tyrone, Cavan, Longford;
Galway, Wexford, Tipperary, Clare, Kerry, Limerick,
Cork, Armagh, Meath, and 'Westmeath, praying for an
extension of the franchise, and for Corporate Reform.
The Hon. and Learned Member also presented a peti-
tion from a person named Ebenezer Shackelton, a mil-
ler in Kildare, in favour of the Flour Importation (Ire-
land) Bill.

SHORT-HAND MONOPOLY.
The HON. and LEARNED MEMBER also presented a
petition from Messrs. Morton and Walsh, short-hand
writers, complaining of the present system of short-hand
writing carried on by Messrs. Gurney, showing an enor-•
moos increase of expenditure in consequence of the:
monopoly of those gentlemen, and proposing that:
the business of short-hand writing to the Houses oS
Parliament shoulr' be thrown open to the profession.
generally. The Hon. and Learned Member moved
that the petition should be printed with the votes, and
it was his intv,ntion on Wednesday next to move for a
Select Com•mnittee to take the matter of the petition
into consideration.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM presented a petition from
Glasgow against the intrusion of ministers into th,.t
Scottish churches.

Mr. COLQUHOUN presented sixteen petitions
from different parts of Scotland to the same effect.
On the motion of Lord SANDON, Liv,,fp 37,1
East India ~Varehouse Company's Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed.
On the mc,tion of Mr. WALLACE, the Green( )elc
Improvement Bill was read a second time, and order •ed
to be committed.

Mr. WALLACE presented a petition signed by
certain carriers against the Chester Railivay Bill.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from the Pro-
testant Disenters of a parish in the County of Cot
praying for abolition of Church-rates and the reform of
the Ecclesiastical Court ; also, petitions from Hudders-
field, and various parishes in Yorkshire, to the same effe
The Hon. Member presented petitions from sevt: ral
parishes in Lancashire, and one from the town of H ull,
in favour of the immediate abolition of the Corn-lal vs ;
also, three petitions from Hull, against the Inl and
Warehousing Bill, and a petition from the same town,
praying for the pardon of Frost, Williams, and Jones.
Sir It. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
Corporation and citizens of Dublin, against the Ir.ish
Municipal Corporation Bill.
Mr. T. DLINCOMBE presented a petition fr om
Huddersfield for the abolition of Church-rates.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented petitions to the
same effect from the Society of Friends and a eon! ;ro-
gation of Dissenters, Huddersfield ; and a congrega .:ion
of Dissenters at Buckleigh.
RAILWAYS.

Mr. LAI3OUCHERE presented a petition :from
some Railway Company, complaining of the pre sent
unequal system of taxation on Railways.—Referre d to
the Committee.

Mr. BROTHERTON moved for Returns of the
Duties o❑ British Manufactures exported to the East
and West Indian Colonies, for the years 1836; and

Mr. LAMBTON gave notice that in the C om-
mittee of the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenuer .bill,
he would move an instruction that the revenues c ,f the
Cathedral preferments be applied to the religious ] minis-
trations of the Established Church, in the fin ,t in-
stance.

INLAND BONDING.
Mr. GOULBURN gave notice that on the I nland
Bonding Bill, second reading, he should move for a
Committee to inquire into the expediency of ex tend-
ing to inland ports the privileges of warehousing; and
the regulations advisable for the due security o. f the
revenue and the protection of the trading interest s.

Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Bill would not
come on to-night.
Mr. DENISON moved for returns of the :ships
which had cleared out from the port of Lond;o a in
1838 and 1839, for the British Colonies, recent \lf es-
tablished in Swan river, New Zealand, and so on , dis-
tinguishing the number to each.
DUTY ON MAHOGANY.
Lord SANDON wished to ask the President of the
Board of Trade whether there was any intend, )n of
making any alteration in the duty on the importation
of mahogany, as considerable anxiety was at p 1 •,3sent
entertained on the subject ?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said it never had beer, I the
practice of persons in the situation he held to ex press
any intention to propose an alteration of the duty until
they were prepared to ask the House to make that altera-
tion ; and he was sure his Hon. Friend would be th z last
person who would wish him to deviate from the re ;alai.
practice. The subject had been brought uncle, • the
consideration of the Board of Trade ; but what ; the
determination of that Board would be, he was i not
cepable of stating.
BOTANIC PLANTS.
Mr. HUME said, seeing the Lord Steward in the
House(Earl Surrey), begged to give notice that he Ishould
to-morrow ask that Noble Lord whether it was the :in-
tention of Government to remove the collectica i of bo-
tanic plants from Kew.
TITHE COMPOSITION.

Lord STANLEY moved for certain rettirms, to
which there was no objection on the part of the C govern-
meet, setting forth a list of the incumbents enti fled to
arrears of tithes in Ireland, with the sums due, a end the
amount paid on account thereof to the several 'incum-
bents, on account of composition.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IREL. AND)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the Order •of the
Day for the House going into Committee on the , Muni-
cipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill.
Mr. LYNCH presented a petition from th a inha-
bitants of Galway, complaining of the bounder'', is fixed
by the Bill, which would deprive a large numlw rof the
freemen of their franchise.
Mr. SHAW presented a petition from an is i iividual
in favour of the Bill.
Colonel VERNER did not rise for the pr enose of
prolonging a discussion upon the merits of the Bill, but '
he wished to say a few words in explanation of the vote
he had given a few nights since, because he s hould be
sorry to have it supposed that ho obstinately pre-
ferred- his own opinion to that of many 3 (Lafleur-
able Members with whom he had always acted.
He felt, however, he should not lower himse If in the
estimation of his friends, by giving his vine . its sup-
port of those principles which he consci ei a tiously
believed to be correct, notwithstanding t k‘o: it op-
position. Ho would not now go into tli e argu-
ments on the question, which had alreati ly been.
so frequently discussed, but ho could not under-
stand why they were now called upon to devil ate from
the course which had been pursued on former o ccasions.
He could not see why they should deprive them of
those rights and privileges which they had posit ,essed for
a great number of years, to give them to °the rs, more
especially when they recollected that those ti ghts and
privileges were originally given to them for idle pur-
pose of curbing those into whose bands it was : r row pro-
posed to transfer them. He would state the reasons
why he had voted against the second reading ; of this
Bill, and why he was now prepared to vote ' against
going into Committee. The House would recollect
the time that and been taken up during the last
two Sessions i n discussing this Bill. Every cr. sposition
had been manifested by that side of the Hous a to give
a Biel to which they could conscientiously , assent.
Amendmeo is had been proposed with a view of
effecting this, and how had they been met by the
Noble Lod—with the most decided opposition.
The Hon. and Learned Member for Bandon, upon the
second reading of the Bill, said that the present Bill
was a much more mischievous Bill than any for Tiler
one, and he called upon the House narrowly to w. itch
its progress. He for one would attend to that warn in.
It was some consolation to him and those who thot tght
pith him that, when the Bill passed through that
House, it did not become the law of the land —it
must go to another place, where the suggestions I iorn
that side of the House would meet with some re-
spect, and where those suggestions would be em-
bodied in the Bill—that those alterations would be
made he had no doubt, and he had as little doubt t bat
they would be unacceptable to the Hon. Gentlen ten
opposite, and that if they were made it would, as befo re,
be rejected. His firm conviction was, that the Will
would greatly tend to the advancement of Popery,
though ho did not charge that intention upon all those
who supported it. He would have been better pleased
with the former proposition, which bad emanated fr om. this
side of the House. He thought that the totat I.bolition
of corporations would have been greatly for the. benefit
of the country.
Captain POLHILL gave notice of his.. o
inte..nit.iloen_txo_-
morrow to put a question.to the Chancellor t
_t. h
chequer relative to the transmission of the Parliamen-
tary papers by the post.
The House then went into Committee on the
MAI
Municipal Biil.
Clauses 1,2, 3,4,
and 5 were agreed
On clause 6 being proposed, to.
Mr. SHAW rose to move an amendment. He
should
not accompany his 'motion with any arguments,
I as the subject had been so frequently discussed, but