The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Earl FITZWILLIAM presen'.ed seven' petitions
against Papal agp,rrestion.
The Earl of WINCHILSEA. presented several peti-
tions from various places in Englund and Ireland
against Papal aggr,2ssion, and praying that no cardinal
may be auff.,red to reside in this country, that no
person be permitted to publish any bull, that all
monasteries and nunneries be put under inspection,
and that all Jesuit: be banished the realm.
He trusted that some mes.,-.ure would be introduced
to prevent persons being iiiimured in monasteries
against their will. It was impossible to read the ac-
counts of the cases in the newspapers withcut feeling
the necessity of some such measure, and he hoped the
Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack in a case.—
Lord CAMPBELL roce to order. The Noble Earl was
out of order in alluding to a case which was at the pre-
sent moment the subject of an inquiry in a court of

just ice.
- The petitions were then laid on the table.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE prvsented several
petitions against Papal aggression, and praying for
the enactment of an efficient measure against it.
Several of these petitions were presented from cengrega-
tiona of the Free Church of Scotland. Some of them
prayed that measures might be taken by her Ilajest3's
Government to ensure for Protestants the same degree
of toleration in Rome as Catbol cs enjoyed here.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Sir WILLIAM GALLWAY, introduced by Mr. Henry
Herbert and Mr. A. Stafford, took the oaths and his sea'
for Thirsk.

PETITIONS.
A petition was presented by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Carden and Mr. Sheriff Hodgkinson, from the Corpora-
tion of Louden, praying for a revision of the law of
settlement and asses went to the poor-rates, and that
owners and occupiers of property in the City may be
rated according to the value of their holdings.
A great number of petitions were presented by Sir R.
INGLIS and other Members against the Papal aggres-
sion, grounding the complaints chiefly on its being to-
tally imeompatible with the eajoyment of civil and reli-
gious liberty.
Colonel TYNTE presented petitions from Bridgewater
and other places against the v.indow-tax.
Mr. TUFSELL presented petitions from the Wes-
leyan congregations cf Morice-town Chapel, Morice-
street and Kerr-street, in Devonport, in favour of the
E celegiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. J. SMITH presented petitions praying for a revi-
sion of the system adopted in enforcing the income-
tax, and stating that very improper persons were
aPPeinted to collect the duty. Among those in Scotland
'am a boy scarcely fourteen years of age, who was alto-
getherbetween
making incapacitated from the necessary distiec-
Lions the parties assessed.
Mr. MOODY presented sixty petitions, chiefly from
Wesleyan Methodist congregations in different parts of
the country,
against the Papal aggression.
Mr. CAYLEy
presented several petitions from the
North Riding of Yorkshire praying fur the abolition of
the paper duty.
Mr. CAYLEY also
presented several petitions from
the same district, complaining of the distress now expe-
rienced by the farmers and their labourers from the
operation of free trade.
Mr. CHRISTOPLIBR presented petitions from Kir-
ton.in-Lindsey, and from Bartoil.,,.Humbcr, to the
same effect.
Lord BARRINGr and several other Members
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presented petitions again3t the Papal ar.,e4„3zion.
Lord DRUMLANRIG presented petitions from seve-
ral places in Dumfriesshire, in favour:c.)f the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill.
Mr. RICE presented petitione, signed by sou in.
hal.iitants end the Chamber of COMMCTCO of Do,,,tr,
stating several objections to the window tax.
Mr. Alderman 1-11.1MPLIENY presented a petition
from fiermor4ey, praying for the re-int rodeetien Of the
seeond and third clauses into the Ecclesiastical Thies
Bill.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from the mem-
bers of the Apothecaries' Hall in Ireland, signed by
the Governor, and sealed with their common seal, pray-
ing that the Medical Charities Bill may not pass ; and
that if it clo pass that the ter.th clause may be so modi-
fied that it dlould not injure the medical practitioners
who are members et the hall.
1,41:) kir. HL pie presented petitions from places in Norfolk
gm uivcwr of the formation of county financial boards;
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fst; also 4everal petitions n favour of the Bill for the sup-
;7,4 pression of Sunday trading; and several petitions from
differs at parts of Scotland praying for the repeal of the
letereantils Marine Bill of last session.
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES RILL AND PAPAL
AGGRESSION.
A" At number of petitions Were again
presented
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.1 uric' gme subjects.