The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-30 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Sir JAMES DUKE presented a petition from the
city of London in favour of the Chancery Bill.
Mr. ANSTEY presented a petition from the ship.
owners of Youghal, praying for a revision of the exist-
ing navigation-laws.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from the
trustees of a charitable, trust in the county of Lincoln,
praying for a reform in the proceedings of the Court of
Chancery.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland of the
Presbytery of Glasgow, as we understood, against the
admission of Jews into Parliament.

Mr. WILCOX presented; a petition from the chemists
of Southampton in favour of the Pharmaceutical Bill.
Mr. LACY presented a similar petition from a place
in Surrey.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a similar petition
from Rochdale.

Sir B. HALL presented similar petitions from Mary.
lebone.

Mr. AGLIONBY resented a petition from the cor-
poration of Carlisle, playing for an alteration in the
grand jury system.
Mr. MOWATT presented a petition from the inhabi-
tants of the parish of St. Anne's, Westminster, praying
the House not to sanctio n any measure for the supply of
water to the metropolis; which did not place the ma-
nagers under the control of the ratepayers.
The Marquis of GR A.NBY presented a petition from
the attorneys and solicitors of a place in Leicestershire,
praying for the repeal of the certificate duty.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition, from Glasgow
in favour of the Public 'douses (Scotland) Bill. _ _

Mr. .IIUME' presented a petition from the spirit
dealers of Paisley against the Bill.

Mr. B. OSBORNE presented a petition from Totten.
ham against the Health of Towns Bill.
MAYNOOTH.—BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.

Mr. ANSTEY wished to call the attention of the
House to a matter which concerned the privileges of the
House; but before he founded any motion on the sub-
jeot he would move that a certain passage in last Satur-
day's Freeman's Journal be read by the clerk at the table.
(This was done; the passage was a resolution passed at the
Maynooth board contradicting a statement of the Hon.
and Learned Member to the effect that for years past
there had not been an annual assembly of the board at
which a motion was not made against the Maynooth
grant.) The Hon. and Learned Member then moved
that Mr. Duffy, the printer and publisher of the paper,
be called to the bar of the House. The House, he said,
would observe that the resolution contained in the paper
was a formal but not a substantial contradiction of
what he stated in the House the other night. He never
said that a motion had been made against the grant.
What he did say was, that Dr. M'Hale had introduced a
project to the board for the formation of a Roman Ca-
tholic University, to be supported by voluntary contri-
butions and a tax upon the different Roman Catholic
benefices, which would make it possible for
the college to refuse to apply any longer
for the usual grant from Parliament. He
would not press the motion to a division, as he had
merely made it for the purpose of having en opportunity
of giving that explanation to the House.
rae motion not having been seconded, then fell to the
ground.

POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
Mr. G. A. HAMILTON asked the Chief Secretary
ears (Leland), for the year
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stnihd whyoen,the important tables, numbered 2 to
appendices to the report of the Poor-law
1849, and in their
previous reports, containing statements of the financial
condition of each union, with the receipts and payments
in detail, had been omitted in the fourth report, recently
presented?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE was understood to say that
the omission had arisen from the circumstance of the
IRISH CENSUS. boundaries of the unions having
,been changed.

Colonel DUNNE naked the Secretary for Ireland
why the census returns for that country were not pub-
lished; those for England being already given in the
public papers, and it being stated that those for Ireland
were in tho hands of the Lord-Lieutenant?