The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY pre-
sented a petition against the Roman Catholic Trusts
Bill.

Mr. WILLIAMS and other Hun. Members presented
petitions in favour of the claims of the late Raja of
Sattara.

General LYGON presented a petition from a
place in Worcestershire against the admission of Jews
into Parliament.
Mr. WADDINGTON presented a petition to the
same effect from Suffolk.
Mr. .EWART presented two petitions from Van
Dieman's Land, praying the House to abolish the
penal settlements in that colony. The Hon. Member
also presented a petition in favour of the claims of the
late Raja. of Sattara.
Mr. WILLCOX presented a petition praying for
the removal of the civil disabilities affecting the Jews.
Mr. MOORE presented a petition from a parish in
the county of Mayo in which it was stated that the
parish originally contained 8,140 inhabitantg, of whom
650 had recently died of famine ; that the inhabitants,
in consequence of deficiency in the potato crop, were
subsisting •on turnips, and as their stock of food was
gradually diminishing, they have nothing to look for-
ward to t iut famine, if the Legislature did not afford
them relief. The Mon. Member presented a similar
petition f/ .om another parish in the county of Mayo.
Lord A .STILEY presented a petition from Bath in
favour of the claims of the Raja of Sattara. The
Noble Lo re also presented a petition from an associ-
ation in :tr, nchester, complaininz of the spiritual des-
titution of that parish. The Noble Lord intimated
that it was ,his intention to bring the subject-matter
of this pe lition before the House, and therefore he
should mop 'e to-morrow that it be printed with the
votes.

Mr. ST.I LNLEY presented a petition from West-
moreland g ainst the admission of Jews into Par-
liament.
Mr. PRE VIEN presented a petition from Leices-
cestershire, pt ayint the House to pass a law to inflict
the severest pi malties upon all Roman Catholic priests
who denoun ?,( d persons from their altars.
Mr. PA'! J !ISON presented a petition from the
City of Lot: don in favour of the claims of the late
Raja of Satt
LEcTiox PETITIONS.

The SPE. KER. informed the House that he had
received a re port from the Clerk of Elections, stating
that the reco plizlnces in respect of the petitions com-
plaining of uidue returns for the following places
had been co npleted, namely :—Gloucester, Kinsale,
Abingdon, ar d Lyme Regis. The recognizancos were
unobjectional ;le .
DR. HAMPDEN.

Dr. LUSH ] NGTON, seeing the Noble Lord the
First Ministe, of the Crown in his place, wished to
ask hin a qua! t ion. The question related to certain
corresponden( e which appeared in to-day's news-
papers, which ..contained a letter bearing the signature
of certain pr ilsttes of the Established Church, and
related to the prerogative of the Crown, and another
letter, stated 1 Qbe the reply of the Noble Lord. Now,
he begged lea re to ask the Noble Lord whether this
correspondenc ft had been correctly ascribed to the
parties whose as mes it bore ?
Lord J. RL SELL stated, in reply, that the let-

ters which had . teen published were' authentic, with
the exception e f two paragraphs, and the mistakes
were not mater i il. lie wished to state, however, that
he did not inse r them in the newspapers.
DEFEN, CES TUE COUNTRY.

The NOBLE owl) hoped the Hon. Gentleman the
Member or dlesex would withdraw his motion
on this subiec% until after the recess, after which
period the Goya nment intended to state what they
had done, and vsl at they proposed to do.
Mr. OS BO t.tl iE consented to the request of the
Noble Lord.

ASSURING THE LIVES OF PERSONS
L r TING IN IRELAND.

Mr. WAK' 1:J: EY presented a petition from Mr.
Harper, the cl is irman of the Crown Life Assurance
Company, at. its ,ng that assurance companies objected
to assure the I k res of persons living in Ireland, though
unwilling to iivio so i that the life of the Rev. Mr.
Lloyd had ly fern assured in London offices for 7,000/. ;
and that the! e companies had come to a resolution not
to assure the lives Of persons living in Ireland, unless
the Governn lent would guarantee that the counties
in which pe) tons so assured were assassinated should
indemnify tl lem from loss,
:,SS GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
Mr. \VA K ILEY moved that the petition of the
electors, con luining of the conduct of Earl Fita-
hardinge, be p: -inted with the votes.
Captain B ?TELLY could not but view the
presentation of the petition by a stranger to the lo-
cality as some what suspicious. On the part of the
Noble Lord, hi had been requested to state that he
did not fear al ,y investigation into his conduct, and
that if the Main a should think fit to print the petition
with the votps, that he entertained no objection to
,such a, prose ig.—Agrevd to.
THE B. IC OF ENGLAND AND THE

GOVERNMENT.

Mr. PAT 'Tt 3 Co&' called upon the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ex-
plain who we the authorities that informed him
that the Bank had suggested the rate of interest
mentioned in th a letter of the Government, and that a
portion of the I profits of their transactions, in accord.
ance with it, nould be carried to the public credit.
As the authoriti es of the Bank had been much blamed
in consequence of the statement recently made
by the Right H on. Gentleman, he thought that some
explanation ot* ht to be given:
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