The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

THE CENSUS.

The Bishop of 01:1olil5Pr;s;ted a petition from
some of the clergy, requesting that they might not be
forced to answer certain questions pnt to them in rela-
tion to the census, inasmuch as the answers they should
feel obliged to give would serve to propagate error
rather than truth.

(LEFT SPEARING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took tho Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.

Mr. PONSONBT, the new Member for Dangarvon, took
the oaths and hie seat.
METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMPANY.

Mr. Alexander Greig appeared at the bar of the House,
and presented the accounts of the Metropolitan Sewers
Company.

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were then read a third time:—
Dewsbury Gas—Downham Market, &c., Drainage—
Laird's Patent—Millthrop and Levens Turnpike Road—
Newington St. Mary Parish—Reading Cemetery Com-
pany—Whitby Waterworks—Scarborough Gas.
PETITIONS.

Petitions were presented against thereturns for Ayles-
bury and St. Alban's, which were referred to the Com-
mittee on Elections.

A great number of petitions were presented against
Papal aggression.
Colonel LLOYDIVATKINS presented a petition
from the members of the congregation of Wesleyan
Methodists, in the town of Hay, expressing their indig-
nation at the recent Papal aggression, and praying that
the most stringent measures may be adopted for.repel-
ling it, and that the recovery of penalties to be attached
to such offences may not be dependent on the sole dis-
cretion of the law officers of the Crown.

Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh,
praying that the Bill now before the House, for extend-
ing the franchise in counties, be extended to Scotland.
A number of petitions were also presented against the
Ecclesiastical Titles' Bill.

Mr. AGLIONBY presently petitions from diff4rent
places in Middlesex praying for a compulsive enfran-
chisement of copyholds.

Sir DE LACY EVANS presented several petitions
from Westminster in favour of the Sunday Trading
Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Marylebone
against the same Bill.
NEW WRIT.

Mr. R. PALMER' moved fora new writ for the county
of Somerset, in the place of Sir A. Hood, deceased.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY FOR DEMERARA.

Mr. HUME, in presenting a petition from 6,315 inha-
bitants of Demerara, agreed to on the 9th of November
last, and praying tor an Elective Council and House of
Assembly, with extension of the suffrage to give a full,
free, and direct popular representation, read several 'ex-
tracts from the document in order to show that the peti-
tioners had been arbitrarily deprived of representative
government, and the effect of that deprivation *as
to largely increase the island's expenses. Having
moved that the petition, which was guaranteed as to its
validity by the residents in the several parishes, be
printed, the , Hen.' Gentleman stated that when the
printed copy was in the hands of Members he should
found a motion upon it, which he would bring on on an
early day.
Mr. T. BARING presented a petition, numerously
signed by the shipowners of Great Britain, complaining
of the difference between the duties levied on British
ships in Spanish ports, and Spanish ships in British
ports, and stating that under present circumstances
British vessels were unable to compete with Spanish ves-
sels for freight.
SiDdr, Paeke, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Lockhart, and several
other Members presented a number of petitions against
the Papal aggression.
Mr. W. FAGAN presented petitions from Cork and
Kinsale, praying for the abolition of ministers' money.