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ingly brought in and read a first time.
Mr. THORNE LY presented a petition from the Pro-
prietors and Shareholders of the Birmingham Canal against
a clause in the Birmingham and Derby Railway
On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, the
Edinburgh and Leith Gas Bill, and the Edinburgh Market
and Petty Customs' Bill, acre read a third time and passed.
Several reports from the Standing Order Committee
upon Private Bills were brought up by Mr. Greene.
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK, AND

AYR RAILWAY.

Lord JAMES STUART said it was his duty as
Chairman of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Committee,
to bring to the notice of the House the petition of John
Connell, one of the agents, Statham that certain parties
had been debarred from appearing before that Committee
in consequence of not having strictly complied with the
Standing Orders, their petition not having been presented
within three clear days. As an excuse for that neglect he
might mention that the parties lived at some distance;
and as all the other parties interested were anxious that
their petition should be laid before the Committee, he
begged leave to move that the Standing Orders be dis-
pensed with.
Mr. W ALL ACE seconded the motion.
Mr. G REENE was sorry to oppose indulgence, but in
this case he thought the parties had no claim whatever for
it. They stated that they lived at a distance, but if that
was to be an excuse for non-compliance with the Standing
Orders, the rule ought to be general. Distance was only
is comparative term, and every person might think they
were livitng at a sufficient distance to be exempt from the
operation of the Standing Orders.
Mr. BROTHERTON moved that the London and
Croydon Railway Company have leave to bring in a Bill
to lay down additional lines of rails at the London
terminus.—Agreed to.

Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the Thames
Tunnel Company, praying fur leave to bring in a Bill to
amend their present one.
Referred to the Committee on Private Bills.
Lord SANDON moved the third reading of the
Liverpool East India Warchethe Bill.
Road a third time, and passod. . .

Ott the motion of Sir G. GREY, the time limited for
reading Private Bills a first time was extended from the
9th to the 10th March.

Sir EDWARD FILMER presented a petition from
Staplchurst in favour of Church Extension.
Mr. BARING WALL presented a petition f►om
Northampton to the same effect.
Mr. I3ROTHERTON presented a petition from the
Protestant Dissenters of Hope-street Chapel, Salford,
praying for the release of John Thorogood, and that all
exactions for the support of religion should be discon-

tinued.
Mr. G REG presented a petition from the inhabitan's
of an agricultural district in Chester praying for a repeal
of the Corn-laws.
Sir E. WILMOT presented thirty-three petitions from
parishes in Warwick against the repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. LISTER presented a petition from 2,000 inhabi-
tants of Bradford, in Yorkshire, praying for a repeal of the
Corn-laws.
Mr. G. W. WOOD presented a petition from Lan-
caster, in favour of the Copyright of Designs Bill.
- Mr. BROCK LE 11 URST presented a petition from
Macclesfield for the abolition of Church-rates and of eccle-
siastical jurisdiction, and the release of John Thorogood.
Mr. SANFORD presented a petition from Welling-
ton to the same effect.
Mr. ELLIOT presented two petitions for a repeal of
the Corn-laws.
Lord C. LENNOX presented a petition from Ashby-
(l(s-la- Zouch against any further grant to the College of

Maynooth.
Mr. HE ATHCOTE presented a petition from W. B.
Gurney relative to certain improvements in Railways.
Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the manufac-
turers of Leeds, complaining that the navigation of the
River Elbe was interrupted by the Stade duties, which they
prayed might be repealed.
Mr. T. DU NCOM BE presented a petition from
Barking, in Essex, praying for the discharge of John
Thoroaood ; also a petition from,. a person named Dyce,
stating that he was a friend of H.\ incent, who was confined
in Monmouth goal, and who was unwell, and who trusted, in
consequence of the lenity shown to Mr. Sheriff \Vheelton,
and that which the petitioner hoped would be extended to
Mr. Sheriff Evans, that an assembly of British Gentlemen
would not be insensible to the claims of humanityin the case of Vincent, and praying the House to institute
inquiry.
Lord SANDON presented a petition from the Com-
mittee of the Society for the Suppression of the
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Salo and Culture
of Opium British India, and
its illegal introduction into China, praying the House
to take early measures for the suppression of the growth of
opium.
Mr. COLQUHOUN presented petitions from sixteen
parishes in Scotland, against the non-intrusion of Ministers.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Scotland
signed by several thousand persons, praying the House to
take into consideration the case of Frost,
and JoneF, whom they
i considered to be literally and
absolutely acquitted n consequence of the differ-
ence of opinion among the Judges, and stating, in
their opinion, the prisoners would have had the benefit
of it in any other case. Also a number of petitions from
various counties of England, praying for the Repeal of
the Corn-laws. Also three petitions from Fifeshire and the
cotton-spinners of Glasgow, praying for the extension
of the suffrage to every man not tainted by crime, and
protection by ballot. Also a petition from Port Eglintoun,
in Scotland, numerously signed by every man in a large
manufactory there, stating in strong language that their
interests were interfered with by the monopoly which
produced scarcity of work and provisions, and consequently
all the evils which arose from both, and praying for relief.
Also a petition praying for Medical Reform, and a petition
from the parish of St. George's, East, against the Copy-
right Bill.
Mr PALMER present-ii 38 petitions from different