The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST s„ 1840.

IJOUsE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes past one
o'clock,

On the motion of Mr KEMBLE, the Lords' Amend.
ments to the London and Greenwich Station Enlargemeni
Bill were agreed to.

.COAT. DUTIES (LONDON.)
Mr. E. J. S 7 ANLEY moved that the standing order,
No. 20, be suspended with regard to the Coal Duties
(London) Bill,
Mr. HA WES opposed the motion, and said he should
take the sense of the House against it.
Mr. WARBURTON said there could be no haste with
regard to the present Bill, which could not coma into ope
satin for several years. He therefore sugges.ed that the
Bill be withdrawn till the next Session of Parliament.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House di.
vided, when there appeared—
For the motion
Against it
Majority
The announcement of the numbers was received with
laughter and cheers.

The 818 was then read a third time and passed.

Mr. HUM E presented five petitions praying for the re-
lease of all political offenders, from places in Norfolk and
Suffolk

Mr WARBURTON presented a petition from certain
farm labourers of Coombe, in Cambridgeshire, complaining
of rctions having been taken against them fur exercising
their rights of common. Also a petition from Mr. Robert
Owen, complaining that his political and social opinion,.
had been grossly misrepresented, and praying to be heard
at the Bar.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a petitior,
from the pri,or,ers confined in York Castle, praying relief.
Mr. HU:VIE gave notice that early next S ssion he
should move the appointment of a Select Committee, to
inquire into the treatme,3 of prisoners confined for poll•
tieal olfenees.

Mr. ENVART inquired whether the Hon Ut.der Se..
ctetary for the fiGme Department had auy objection to
lay on the table the report of Mr. Hickson, one of the lo-
spectors of hand-loom weavets for the Midland Districts?
Mr. FOX MAULS said the repeat would not be ready
fer some da)s.

ECCLESIASTICAL DUTIES AND REVENUES

BILL.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL the Lords'
amendments to the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues
Bill were read.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL then said that as ho did not
consider the Lords' amendments would deteriorate mate-
rially from the , fficiency of the Bill, he proposed general!)
that they should be agreed to.
After a few words from Mr. LAW HODGES,
Sir S. LUSH 1 NG TON objected to the retaining the
honorary canons and giving the Church patronage; and
also to the Lords' amendments relating to the minor canons.
Some other amendments had been made to the Bill whicn
he thought exceedingly inconvenient, but as it was de-
sired that the Bill should pass at once, it would not be-
come him to offer any opposition to them. Whenever the
Bill came to be amended, which it undoubtedly must be,
be booed the claims of the Minor Canons would not be
forgotten.

Mr. HL'ME was of opinion that the amendments had
entirely changed the character of the Bill. As it stood at
present, it merely created a sort of aristocracy or peerag,
in the Church. He thought the better way would be to
rej,et the Bill altogether.
Sir E. SUGDEN regretted that the provision witi
regard to minor canons bad been so much restricted.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not accede to the pro.
position of the Han. Member for Kilkenny to reject the
Bill entirely. He would, however, propose to re-establish
the clause relating to minor canous, as it seemed to be the
desire of Ron. Members on both sides of the House.

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Mr. HUME thought that provision the least exception
able in the Bill.

The amendments were than, with the exception above
alluded to, agreed to with a few verbal alterations.
Messengers from the Lords brought down the Eccle-
siastical Courts Bill, in which their Lordships had made
certain amendments, and a variety et other Bills to which
their Lordships had agreed to.