The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-11 00:00:00

anxious to give them their support to protect life and pro-
perty in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) He should have been
happy, for his own part, to have given his support
in passing any IR;31 to accomplish that ohj.et. but he cer-
t,,inly should not give his assent to the enactments of the
measure before them. He could assure his Majesty's Mi.
nisters, that it was matter of regret awl sorrow to many
of their most sincere friends and supporters, that upon this
Bill they could not act in conjunction with them.
Mr. O'DWYER said that this petition had been
adopted at the public meeting, and thereby disproved an
assertion made by an Hon. Gentleman as to the feeling
or the people upon this subject. An at►ewpt had been
made in Liverpool by handing about papers to obtain
siznatures to a petition in favour of the Bill, but it had
completely failed. These two facts, the o, ,e negative and
the other affirma ive, might be taken as a true criterion
of the state of public opinion in this important town,
which he trusted would be thought entitled to weight in
that House.

Sr JOHN MAXWELL presented a petition from the
members of the Renfrewshire Political Union, against
the Bill, and praying for the abolition of tithes and the
introduction of a system of poor laws into Tr...land,
Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR presented a petition from
K nru,k, in the county of Cork, against the Bill. The
petitioners stated that the disturbances which had
been complained of were not got up by the people in
many instances—that in July last a policeman was found
in coloured clothes throwing stones at a party of
soldiers in order to induce them to fire upon the
people. After a long investigation informations were taken
against the policeman by a bench of 16 Magistrates. but
that the Bill against him was thrown out by the Grand
Jury, though four of the identical Magistrates who re-
ciived the informations were upon it, and it was proved
that the policeman was dressed in the clothes of the
chief constable. _

Mr. BLAKNEY presented a petition from Gallen
against the Bill. They complained that the measure
had been passed in another place, and prayed the House
would not give it their sanction without a full inquiry.
Sir ROBERT BATESON, in the absence of
the Honourable Member for Londonderry, pre-
sented a petition in favour of the Bill from that city.
The petitioners declared that the ordinary power of the
law was not sufficient to check the outrage which prevailed,
prayed the House to pass the Bill as speedily as possible.
The petition was signed by the Mayor
and Sheriff of Londonderry, and by all the
Magistrites, by several D-putv Lieutenants, by the Cham-
ber of Commerce, by the Reformers, and by every re-
spectable inhabitant of the city.
Mr. O'CONNELL hee,-ed to say that he had a petition
from the same place, which he had not had an opportu-
nity to present aeainst the Bill—(Hear, hear)—which
had been got up not privately but at a public meeting.
Captain JONES supported the prayer of the petition,
and was proceeding to address the House, when he was
interrupted by cries of " Question."
An Hotq. Memsr.a, whose name, from the confusion
which prevailed, it being now past three o'clock, we could
not hear, brought in a Bill for a railway from London to
Greenwich, which was read a first time.
The House then adjourned.