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London, England, 1833-03-08 00:00:00

The HON. MEMBER dirt not intend to go into the sub-
ject at any length.__(Cries of " Order, order," and

" Chair, chair.")
Mr. SPEAKER said, that the Hon. Member would
consider for hici,s,lf, whether he was to be in a better
situation than other Members of the House. He was
about to make observations which he might make this

very day, upon the second reading of the Bill,
and as the rule of the House was, that an
Honourable Member should not speak twice on the saint

subject ; if the Hon. Member now made his observations,
and also spoke when the Bill was discussed upon the se-
cond reading, then he would have an advantage which

other Hon. Members had ❑ot.

The lioN. MEMBER. would assure the House that it
was not his intention to occupy much time.—(Order,

order, and confusion.)
Mr. O'CONNELL trusted the Honourable Mem-
ber, as he could not be heard now, would take
the opportunity of making his observations upon
the second reading of the Bill, which he was sure
would be heard with great respect, coining from so high
an authority.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. T. ATTWOOD presented a petition from a great
number of the inhabitants of Birmingham, agreed to at a
public meeting, praying the House not to pass the
Irish Coercive Bill. The petitioners stated that it
was but five months ago since they had defied
all danger, to support liberty and a liberal Parlia-
ment—( Hear, heir)—and that the same people were
now equally determined not to support a Bill for the anni-
illation of all liberty in Ireland. It was impossible, the
petitioners stated, that the psople of England could sup-
port a civil war against Ireland. They had heard with
great anxiety an idea of the repeal of the Union raised, hut
if Irishmen were not to he permitted to enjoy all the bless-
ings of liberty which England partook of, they would feel
it to be their duty to come to a determination, by all the
means in their power, to obtain a repeal of the Union.
The next petition he should present was from 210 inhabi-
tants of Wednesbury, in Staffordshire, with a similar
prayer; also a petition from Walsall, signed by 3,200
persons, being a greater number than had ever before
signed a petition front that place. The peti-
tioners prayed that a rigid inquiry might be instituted
into the state of the sister country, with the view to
redress the innumerable wrongs with which she bad been
so long afflicted. The next petition was from Stoke-
upon-Trent, signed by 2,300 persons, praying the House
to reject every particle of the Irish Coercive Bill,
on the ground of its being subversive of the unalienable
rights of British subjects. The next petition was from
the borough of Marylebone, signed by three hundred
persons to the same effect, as also petitions front Ballydean,
in Ireland, signed by 460 persons ; a parish in Limerick,
signed by 370 persons, and another from Gore, in Lei-
trim, stating the opinion of the petitioners to he, that the
only use of the Coercive Bill could be to accomplish ob•
jests which his Majesty's Ministers did not now avow.
(Hear, hear, hear.) The petitioners deprecated the Bill,
among other reasons, because it rendered their homes no
longer safe, exposed their wives and dauehters to be torn
from their sides, and imprisoned as well as themselves,
not in a public gaol, but in the house perhaps of some
private enemy. Tne Hon. Member concluded the pre-
sentation of his petitions by one from Allaston, in
Warwickshire, signed by 700 persons, and another
from a parish in Worcestershire, both against the Bill
He would not at present make any speech on the subject.
He would merely say that he cordially supported the
prayer of all the petitions and conjured his Majesty's
Ministers to pause before they went farther with a measure
so calculated to plunge Ireland into a scene of confusion
and anarchy.
Mr. HUME said he had six petitions from England
and one from Scotland to present on this subject. The first
was by 1.330 inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood,
and they stated that they viewed with pain and indien
tion, the introduction of a measure to suspend the H ibeas
Corpus Act in Ireland, and to make the officers of the
army, who were not to be expected with any princip'es of
law, substitutes for the judaes of the land. They implored
the House would proceed in the spirit of justice and con-
ciliation towards Ireland, and throw out this Bill. The
next was from the inhabitants of Hounslow ; they stated
their alarm at the measure, and prayed that the
use would throw out the Bill as unconstitutional
and worthy only of an autocrat. The next was from
Stroudwater. The petitioners stated that they viewed
with alarm the disturbed state of Ireland, but they viewed
with abhorrence this measure, which would put an end to
the liberties of Irishmen, who had bled for their country.
They prayed the House to throw out this Bill and pro-
ceed in a spirit of conciliation by the suppression of tithes
and church rates. The next was from the Political
Unionists of Kenilworth, in the county of Warwick. They
stated that they were filled with alarm at the terrible measure
which had so hastily passed the House of Lords, which
had excited them to send that petition, imploring the
House of Commons to spare the distress of unfortunate
Ireland, and throw out that frightful Bill ; and that it the
sword must be drawn on Ireland, it should be the sword of
Justice only. The next was from the Political Unionists
of Leamington ; they prayed that House to spurn a mea-
sure which was so fraught with n,i•chief, and
which was so likely to be subsersive of the Constitution.
The Hon. Member then presented a petition from the
Political Union of Bannockburn. stating that the peti-
tioners viewed with the greatest abhorence the measure
which had been introduced by his Majesty's Government
for the coercion of Ireland at a time when all were in
expectation of kindness and good-will towards Ireland.
—(Hear, bear.) The petitioners prayed that the House
would not pass the Bill, but would grant full re-
dress for the grievances of Ireland, abolish all sine-
cures and adopt some measures for the better distribution
of church property.
Sir WILLIAM FOLKES presented a petition from
Coke in Norfolk, stating that the petitioners had heard
with astonishment the account of the number of murders
and outrages which had 'been committed in Ireland, and