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London, England, 1834-06-06 00:00:00

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, FRIDAY, JUNE 6.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SYEAKEU took the chair at twenty minutes past
twelve.

Mr. DIVETT brought up the report of the committee
on the 'West of England Insurance Company Bill.
Mr. EWING presented a petition from the merchants
and others of the city of Glasgow, complaining of the duties
imposed upon goods imported into the harbour of Leith.
The LORD ADVOCATE bore testimony to the re-
spectability of the petitioners, and gave his cordial support
to the prayer of the petition.
Mr. TENNYSON brought up the report of the com-
mittee on the South London Water Works.
THE LINEN TRADE.

Mr. COOPER presented a petition from the town and
neighbourhood of Sligo, praying for the establishment of
local boards of trade. The hon. member complained of
the deterioration of that trade, and of the consequent in-
jury that had resulted to the poorer classes. He begged
to call the earnest attention of the house to the petition,
although he was not prepared to give his sanction to the
establishment of boards of trade.

Mr. JOHN MARTIN gave his cordial support to the
)etition.

Mr. FINN contrasted the former flourishing with the
present depressed state of the linen trade in Ireland. He
trusted that something would be done for the purpose of
reviving a trade which had once given employment to so
large a portion of the poorer classes.
Mr. O'REILLY said the woollen trade of Ireland could
not have been put down by England, if the Irish Parlia-
ment had not lent a suicidal hand to its extinction. He
denied that the re-establishment of Linen Boards would
revive that trade, unless the house was prepared to go back
to the old system of protective duties. The people, it
was said, were formerly enabled to pay their rents by the
linen-trade, and hence the anxiety of some hon. members
upon the subject, but let those hon. members reduce their
rents, and that would be the most just mode of meeting the
evil. He did not wish to push the doctrine of Irish pros-
perity too far, but he contended that the linen trade had
latterly increased in the north of Ireland.
Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR denied that there was any
thing like prosperity in Ireland.
After a few words from Lord MANDEVILLE, Mr.
COOPER, and Mr. D. BROWNE, the petition was laid on
the table. _ _

Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from the
borough of Aberneith, county of Perth, praying for vote by
ballot.

Sir G. MURRAY said that of 70 or 80 signatures to
the petition presented by the noble lord only 18 were
those of electors. He repelled the insinuations atte pted
to be cast upon the agricultural electors of the county of
Perth by the petitioners.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL complained of the delay which
hon. members experienced in the presentation of petitions,
and more especially of the conduct of the noble lord in in-
terfering with a petition of no public interest, when he and
so many other hon. members had petitions relating to bu-
siness before the house to present. Their constituents
were not probably aware of the delay experienced by hon.
members on this point, and might justly find fault with
them for an apparent neglect of duty, and he thought the
noble lord might have dispensed with his privilege as a
member of the government on the present occasion.
Lord J. RUSSELL explained. He had never asked
for the privilege ; it was established by courtesy and cus-
tom, and he availed himself of it in the usual way. This
was a petition affecting the constituency of the hon. mem-
ber for Perth, and. therefore he thought it right that hon.
gentleman should be present when it was presented, for
he was going out of town next week. As to the hour, he
( Lord J. Russell) had to preside the next moment at the
finance committee. As to the subject of the petition, he
was satisfied with the Reform Bill in reference to Scot-
land, and he might say to the country generally ; and he
should never complain of any constituency for returning
such a member as the hon. member for Perth. ( Hear. )
Attention to this subject alone, would prevent the neces-
sity of the ballot.
Mr. GILLON said domination was too frequently exer-
cised over servants by landlords, and that there was an
undue influence in the country which nothing but the bal-
lot could destroy.
Sir G. HURRAY explained.
Col. WILLIAMS presented a petition from the mer-
chants and shipowners in the neighbourhood of the river
Tees, gainst the reciprocity system ; one from Ashton-
under-Lyne in favour of the Dorchester convicts ,• one
from the Dissenters of Little Carter-lane, Doctors' Com-
mons, against church rates, and for the removal of their
disabilities ; and one from the parish of Ashton-under-
Lyne, against the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill.

Lord DALMENEY presented 22 petitions from pa-
rishes in the county of Northampton, in support of the
Church, and one against the admission of dissenters into
the universities.

Mr. A TIIERLEY presented a petition from the pro-
;estant Dissenters of Southampton, against the Church
Rate Bill.

Sir R. INGLIS presented about 200 petitions against
the admission of Dissenters to the Universities, and in sup-
port of the church ; for the better observance of the Sab-
bath ; and against the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, from
various places in the counties of Essex, Gloucestershire,
Oxfordshire,. Surrey, Norfolk, and Yorkshire.
Mr. ESTCOURT presented petitions from the clergy
and inhabitants of various rarishes in the counties of Glou-
cester, Hampshire, Berkshire, and Wilts, in support of
the-church.

Sir E. KNATCHBULL supported the petitions.
Mr. OSWALD presented a petition from Kilwillan,
against the union of church and state ; and from Kilmar-
nock, praying for some amendment in the administration
of justice.
Sir J. SEBRIGHT presented a petition from the
farmers and freeholders of the county of Hertford, com-
plaining of agricultural distress, owing, as they stated,
to the importation of corn from the islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, and Man. The petitioners prayed that the
corn laws might be strictly maintained.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL hoped that the inquiry which
was promised upon this subject by the present government
would be carried into effect.

Mr. A. BARING said that it was clear, from the re-
turns of the quantity of flour imported from those islands
into this country, that a continual fraud was carried on to
a very considerable extent. He hoped that the Corn Laws,
while they existed, would be carried into effect.
The Marquis of CHANDOS said that this was a sub-
ject of great importance to the farmers of this county ;
and he was convinced that there was not so much corn
grown in those islands as was exported from them into this
country.
Mr. PARROTT supported the prayer of the petition,
and said that it was remarked that a great number of mills
had been recently erected on those islands, and were con-
stantly at work.
Sir R. PEEL said, that as there was a strong suspicion
of fraud upon this subject, the best way to satisfy the
country would be at once to appoint a select committee
to inquire into it. ( Hear, hear. )
Mr. R. GRANT said that whatever might be the indi-
vidual opinions of members of his Majesty's government,
they would not suffer knowingly any existing law to be
evaded or violated.

The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
It being three o'clock the SPEAKER left the chair.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)

Their lordships took the special paper this morning. No
case of any public interest came before the court.

THE LATE LORD WODEHOUSE.—ThiS
venerable and excellent nobleman died on the 29th of
May, in his 94th year. He had retired since the death
of Lady Wodehouse (ten years ago) to a domestic
circle, and his own ancestral seat, but enjoyed till very
lately full possession of his faculties, in a cheerful and
vigorous old age. Firmly attached to the constitution
in church and state, unaffectedly religious, and by his
own inherent nature a finished gentleman, he probably
passed through his long life without making a single
enemy. or giving pain intentionally to any human being,
dispensing a large income, not in ostentatious display,
but with constant and generous kindness to all within
his sphere. Previous to his elevation to the peerage
in 1797, he represented the county of Norfolk for
several years, as many of his ancestors had done from
the earliest returns to Parliament. His family, in un-
broken male descent, have held knightly rank and fair
estates in that county from a period very little later
than the Conquest, though the greater portion of the
Kimberley estate came in the reign of Henry IV., by
their marriage with an heiress of the Fastolf family,
whose son is known historically as John Wodehouse,
the " beloved esquire, and executor of King Henry
N and
Hislordship
celebrated in
married‘
"
Sophia l)
o Berkeleye mo fA,
gtihne. cC; rt.
last immediate descendant of the Lords Berkeley, of
Stratton, and from her acquired great property in the
town and neighbourhood of Falmouth. He is suc-
ceeded in his title and estate by his eldest son John,
who has been for several years Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Norfolk.

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