The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,• JUNE 17.
The Speaker took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock.
Waugh's Divorce Bill was read a second time and or-
dered to be committed.

Mr. STRUTT brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on the Weaver Churches Bill.

Mr. E A STHOPE presented petitions from Yeovil,
Bingley, Grimawold, Loughborough, and several parts of
I Yorkshire, against Church Extension.
Mr. T HORNE LY presented similar petitions from
Wolverhampton, and several other places.
! Mr. HOGG presented a petition from the East India
House, pissed that day, relating to the emigration of
Hill Coolies to the Mauritius, and other Foreign Colonies,
and praying that the Colonial Passengers Bill might not
be allowed to pass into a. law.
Mr. BAINES presented petitions from Essex, Wor-
'eeitershire and Westaiorland, against any grant for
Church Extension. •ro
• Mr. T. DUNC6NIBE presented a petition from Mr.
Thomas Potts, druggist,,Bath, complaining of the prison
treatment of his brother William Potts, imprisoned for a
political offince, which, he stated was calculated to pro-
duce mental derangement, and prayed the House to
ameliorate.

G R E E N E presented a petition from Lancaster, com-
plaining of the sanction given to idolatry in India by the
British residents there, and praying for the interference of
the House.

Mr. D F.NISTOUN presented petitions for the liberation
of Mr. F. O'Connor, for Annual Parliaments, Universal
Suffrage, and Vote ky Ballot.
Lord WORSLEY presented petitions from Stroud and
Painswick, Gloucestershire, against Church Extension.
Lord SA NDON presented a petition from Mr. Hut-
chinson, Chairman ‘f the Steam Navigation Company,
praying the House to take into consideration the duty on
steam-vessels; and the law of pilotage. Also a petition
from the Chairman and others of a
public. meeting, held
at Cheltenham, complaining of the difference in the treat-
ment of persons in the higher and lower ranks of this
country, convicted of political offences—( Hear, hear)—
and praying for the dismissal of the present Ministry; in
which the Noble Lord said he need not say he heartily
concurred.—( Laughter. )
Lord G. SOMERSET presented several petitions from
Monmouthshire, in favour of Church Extension.
Mr. II U M E presented petitions from Stroud and Wall's
End, against Church Extension. Also a petition from the
Manchester Universal Association, complaining of the
treatment of political prisoners in the gaol of Wakefield ;
a petition from the grocers of Kilkenny praying
that other than British Colonial sugar may be imported.
A petition from the planters of Trinidad, praying for
protection against the importation of slave-grown sugar.
A petition from Airdree, praying for Universal Suffrage,
Vote by Ballot, and Annual Parliaments, and three pe-
titions from Paisley, praying for the dismissal of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers—(Opposition cheers)--and for the sub-
stitut'on of those who would make Universal Suffrage a
Cabinet measure.— (Counter cheers.)
he Earl of LINCOLN presented a petition from Not-
tingham, against the continuance of the office of Poor-law
i Commissioners.
Mr. WA KLEY presented petitions from the President
and Members of the British Medical Association ; from
14 physicians and surgeons of London ; from Dr. Sinclair
and six physicians and surgeons of Manchester; from cer-
tain physicians of Stowo.market, Suffolk ; from two sur-
geons of Brcntford, in Middlesex ; from certain surgeons
in Yorkshire ; and from ten physicians and surgeons re-
siding in Stortford, in Essex, against the Vaccination
Extension Bill. .

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON preiented a petition from
certain electors of Dublin, complaining of the needless
and vexatious protraction of the Registry Sessions in