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tation copies, could not but express his opinion that the
obligation to present them was a grievous tax upon an
author.
Mr. T. ATTWOOD Was afraid that impressment
could not be altogether abolished. All men were liable to
be impressed for the land service in case of an invasion,
and he thought that in a case of severe and extreme emer-
gency, in which the safety or the honour of the country
was deeply concerned, the right of impressment should
continue, but the compulsory service should be limited to
three months. In other cases he should like to see the
navy manned by other means.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM gave two notices for next
session. The first to repeal the Copyright Acts ; and the
second to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into the
circums'ances of his Expulsion from the Indian territory.
Mr. COBBETT said that he had sent more publica-
tions than almost any man under the Copyright Acts, and
he did not think it an evil. It was often a benefit, for it
sometimes made a work known that otherwise would
never be heard of.—(A laugh.)
The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. MAXWELL asked whether the Committee on the
Cotton Trade and the General State of the Country had
terminated their labours, and when their report would be
laid before the House ?
Mr. WARBURTON, as a Member of that Committee,
answered that they had reported the evidence, but given
no opinion.
TITHES STAY OF SUITS BILL.
Mr. BLAMIRE presented 16 petitions in favour of
this Bill. Six of these Petitions were signed by clergy-
men residing in places where these actions were going
on.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir R. INGLIS observed that these suits were brought
by persons, who, however wilting to give up their own
rights, thought they were not entitled to surrender those
of their successors. As to the case of Kendal, he believed
that the tithe owner there was a lay person.
Mr. BLAMIRE admitted that the motive mentioned
by the Hon. Baronet had, in all probability, influenced
many of the clergy. With respect to the case of Kendal,
the Master and Fellows of Trinity had the rectorial tithes
there, but the Vicar was also proceedieg, it being a matter
of doubt to whom the tithes belonged.
The petitions were laid on the table.
Mr. MACLEOD presented a petition from Cupar, pray-
ing for a disqualification of all those church functionaries
who engaged in political contests.
Mr. HAWES presented three petitions —one from
Kingston-upon-Thames, on the subject of the inquiry
into Municipal Corporations; another from an individual
who had discovered a remedy for the cholera morbus ; and
a third from an architect of the name of Purser, praying
the House to delay its decision regarding the National
Gallery, and to allow a competition of plans.
The same Hots. MrstsEn brought up the report of the
Committee on Coldbath Fields Prison.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL presented a petition
from George Ross, whom he stated to be brother of Capt.
Ross, the Northern navigator, against the conduct of the
Insolvent Debtors' Court. Also a petition from the
Apothecaries of Armagh, against the existing state of the
law as regards their branch of the profession.
Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition with the same
prayer from the College of Surgeons, Edinburgh ; and a
petition from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in favour of the im-
mediate adoption of the vote by ballot.
Mr. YOUNG said that he had been requested to sup-
port the petition, but he had replied that lie could not re-
commend the trial of that experiment until it was'seen that
the present system under the Reform Bill did not secure
purity of election.
Lord ORAIELIE presented a petition frcm Perthshire
relating to the highland distilleries. His Lordship ob.
served, that in accordance with the prayer of the petition
he had called the attention of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer to the subject.
Sir S. WHALLEY presented a petition from certain
electors of the borough of Marylebsne relating to the
case of Hobson, confined in Wakefield gaol. The prisoner's
hair, he was happy to say, had not been entirely cut off.
INDIA BILL.

Sir R. INGLIS asked whether the assent to the Lords'
Amendments to the India Bill would be asked by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, as the first business when the
House met to-morrow ?
Mr. S. RICE could not distinctly answer, as it won't'
mainly depend upon the hour at which his Right Hnn
Friend the President of the Board of Control was able t
attend.
Adjourned till to-morrow.