The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

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Mr. EASTHOPE prezentA a petition from litA-
tering, in Northamptonshire, praying for the Abolition
of Church-rates ; also a petition from the Baptists of
Burton-on Trent. praying far the abolition of Church-
rates, old the extinction of Ecclesiastical Cowt=, and
for the liberat'on of B,inns. Alio petitions from
the Protestait Dissenters of Merienuti:bliire, from the

Inlet eadeots of 11.ilidown,! in the county of Sapp,
from the inhabitants of sever,:l places in Derby-
shire and Devonshire, and from several parishes
in Manchester, praying for the abolition of Church
rates and the extinction of Ecclesiastical Courts.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from
the Mayor, corporation, and inhabitants of Birmingham,
in favourof the removal of religious tests being put to
perscns on ent•ning office.
Mr. BARNABY presented a petition from Groome,
in Staffordshire, in your of Church Extension.

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Mr. BAINES presented a petition pru3ing for the
abolition or Church-rate:,, and of the jurisdiction of Ec-
clesiastical Courts. _ _

Mr. W. DUNCOMBE presented two petitions
from Wiltshire and Yorkshire, against certain provi-
si.rns in the new Poor-law Bill.
Mr. T. DU NCOMBE presented a reCtion from
even thousand inhabiter t 3 of Nottingham, complrining
•of the illegal conviction of Pros', Wi'Lams,
and Jones ; a petition from S. Gordon. of Dublin,
praying for the rele is.) of all political offenders, and
from an individual residing at Doctors'-common, pray-
ing the House to adopt the principles of the People's
Charter.

Mr. HUME resented a retilion from a parish in
MiddleScx arrainzt cer:r.in clauses in the Poor-law
Bill ; from 1-.74-ot Bud!cigh in ll.vonshire againtt
the County Courts B 11; from Ayr praying
for the abolition of Church- retes ; from Bridg-
north, in favour of Mc lical Reforn, and from Mac-
(.ll;field, from the Universal Commun'ty Society of
RAional Religioniits,.ealled Socialists, praying for in-
quiry iltl their principles.
Mr. MORGAN J. O'CONNELL presented peti-
tions from Kerry, and ot"ier puts in Ireland, in favour
of Lard Morpcth's Irish Registration Bid.

Lord notHAm presentee a petition from the
Medical Practitioners of Leinster and Leominster, in

civour of medical reform.

mr. GILLON presented a petition from the Asso-
ciate Church of Auchtermuclity, praying for the aboli-
tion of Clurch-rates, and the abolition of the jurisdic-
tion of the Ecclesiastical Courts ; and a petition from
tl:.e United Seccssior. Church of Edinburgh, to the same
effect.

Mr. MACAULAY presented a petition from the
Subscribers and Directors of tic Edinburgh School of
Arts, praying for the establishment of a Scheel of
Design.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM presentld a petition from
Pcmbzokeshire against the proposed qu.ll4le-stion for
Irish Parliamentary voters in Lord Morptei's
Mr. KELLY presented a petition from fourteen
Chemists aid Druggisti of the Borough of Ipswich
against the 13;11 Lefore the House for Medical Reform. '
Mr. BOLTON CLIVE presented a similar pcti-
Con from a place in Herefordshire.
Tne Henley and Dorchester Road Bill was read a
second time.
Mr. B. WOOD presented a pt titian from a congre-
gation of Protestant Dissenters in Devonshire, praying
for the abohfon of Church-rates.
Mr. R. ALSTON presented a petition against cer-
tain ,Isuit s in the Poor. law Amendraeat
Colonel SIBTHORP presented a petition from a
parish in Linco'n in favour of Church Extension.
Mr. DENISON presented a petition from Farnham,
Surrey, against RlLlAtry in India ; alto a petition from
a place in Surrey, praying that the landlords of small
tenements should be liable for the payment of rates.
Sir J. SEALE presented a petition from Dartmouth,
in favour of the removal of the Wcst India mail sta.
t'en from Falmouth to that place.
Sir J. CAMPBELL preseatel a petition from the
Nord Provost and Council of Edinburgh, on the sub-
ject of the registration of births, marriages, and deaths.
Mr. G. WOOD presented a petition from the che-
mists and druggists against certaia proposed alterations
of the law relating to medical practice.
Sir GEORGE STAUNTON presented a petition
from Portsmouth a.?ainst Church-rates.

Mr. 11. STEWART present2d petitions from llad-
dingtqn and Kincardine apinst Church pitronage in
Scotland.

Mr. I3ARNABY gave not!ee thet on to-morrow lie
woul l movo..for return; of communications between the
Post-office and et,rtain coach-proprictorr•.
Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that he would
take the sense of the House on the appointment of Mr.
Viz ird et the Horne.office.
Oa the motion of Sir THOMAS FREMAN-
TLE, leave of absence, was given t. Mr. Thesiger to
go the circuit.