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of St. Albans, praying the House not to pass ttie mea-
sure proposed by Government with reference to free
trade.

Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
county of Cork approving of the pre ent measures of
her Majesty's Government. The petitioners stated that
they were engaged in manufactures, and that as they
neither had, nor desired to have, any protection on their
trade, they prayed the House to abolish all protection to
agriculture.

—Mr. W. MILES presented several petitions from
Somersetshire against the present Government scheme.
Ho also presented a petition from distillers in
the southern parts of Scotland, in which the petitioners
stated that they had embarked all their capital,
in their present trade, and that if the present measure
of her Majesty's Government were carried into effect,
not only themselves, but all in their employ would be ine-
vitably ruined, and they therefore prayed the House
not to persist in their present measure.
Lord WORSLEY presented a petition from Notting
ham against the proposal of the Government, and in
favour of protection to native industry. The measure
of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Go-
vernment was in direct contradiction to those
principles which had brought him into office, and the
petitioners prayed that before the measure was passed
into law the country might be appeali d to through the
medium of a general election; they felt confident that
a Ministty would then be formed which would continue
protection to a riculture.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Finiston,
in Staffordshire, in favour of free trade generally ; and
the petitioners prayed that the repeal of the corn-laws
reight be immediate.
An 11014. MEMBER presented petitions from sixty-
i,bree parishes in Herefordshire, against the measures of
her iNiajesty's Government, and in favour of native

industry.
An I-ToisL 7.lEmitEit presented a petition, signed by 920
inhahityn•s of the town of Wellington, praying for the
removal of all restrictions on food.—(Hear.)
Mr. Ott!) presented a petition from the shipowners of
Newcastle in favour of the Government measure.

Mr. FERGUSON presented a petition from Mon-
mouthshire and ether places, praying that the measure
of her Majesty's Goverortemt respecting a repeal of the
corn-laws might not pass into a law.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from several places
in Scutland in favour of the measure now proposed by
her Majesty's Government.
Mr. HU VT presented a petition from one of the
largest ship-owners in Hull, praying that the measures
of her Majesty's Government may pass into a law, as it
would have a salutary effect on the ship building of this
country, which was in a very depressed state at present,
in consequence ef the duty on timber.
Lord J. RUSSELL presented several petitions in
favour of a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from Eastbourne,
to the same effect 4
Mr. BRIGHT presented petitions from places in
Northumberland, Cheshire, 'Worcestershire, Kent, Dor-
setshire, and Staffordshire, to the same effect.
Lord PALMERSTON presented two petitions from
Scotland to the same effeet.
Mr. GISBORNE presented a petition from New-
castle-on-Tyne to the same effect.
Sir R. PEEL presented a petition to a similar effect
1 from Tamworth.—(Hear, hear.) The petitioners con-
sidered that the measure proposed by her Majesty's Go-
vernment would give en . impetus to agriculture
and tend to di ffese plenty throughcut the land, and there-
fore they desired to see it passed. This petition was
signed by the Mayor and several of the Town Council.
The Right Hon. Baronet presented petitions from Dun-
fermline, the rorporation of Glasgow, Renfrewshire,
Pollock, and Boston, in Lincolnshire to the same eiThct.-