The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-21 00:00:00

IOUSE OF COMMONS.

T 1 le SPEAKER took the chair shortly before Four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
r. LOCKE took the oaths and his seat for the Falkirk
burg hs.
REPORTS.
Ti ie reports that the standing orders bad been complied
with on the Copper Miners of England Bill, the Manchester
and Brixton Railway and several other Bills were
brought up.
ABERDEEN PUBLIC RECORD BILL.

This Bill was read a second time.
DUNDEE POLICE BILL.
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On the motion of Mr. Dl/466A18E this Bill was ordered
co ice read a second time on tie 18th of March.
PETITIONS.
Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Duncombe, Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. Free-
Stun. Mr. Mullings, and several other Members, presented
petitcions against Papal aggrearion.
O'FLanErav and Dr. POWER presented petitions
from several places praying
that the House would not in-
terfere with the exercise of religious liberty in consequence
of the excitement which bad been raised in this country by
the late measures of the Pope.
Alr. LAWLESS presented petitions from Clonmel praying
for the abolition of ministers' money, and complaining that
the petitioners were compelled to support a form of faith of
which they did not approve.
Mr. COBDEN and Mr. ROEBUCK presented petitions pray.
irsg for some alteration in the administration of the poor-law
by the guardians of the poor-law unions.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh, pray-
ing for the remission of the paper duty.
Mr. BRIGHT presented petitions from several Provident
Societies and other bodies to the same effect.
Mr. COBDEN also presented petitions against the paper
duty.
Lord G. MANNERS presented a petition from several
places in Cambridgeshire laws, and praying for ,
eomplainining of the present cur-
rencyr their alteration.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented petitions from several pa-
oriosohnetsy of intteiocooitl)o- of
signedLinC Lincoln, and
ndtrboy the shopkeepers and
m several places in the
labourers in the different towns and neighbourhoods, stating
that they were suffering great distress, and praying for a re-
vision of the national tariff, with a view to impose such duties
on foreign imports, in order to relieve the burdens upon land.
Mr. MOORE presented several petitions praying that the
House would take no measures that would interfere with
civil and religious liberty, and some of them for the aboli-
tion of the Protestant Established Church in Ireland.
Mr. LAWLESS presented a petition from 3,605 butchers
against the removal of Smithfield Market; also a petition
numerously signed by the inhabitants of the parish of St.
groundJames's in N
sVt es
Jame'stmins tepr,acrokm,
andpla praying that before any otherining of the annexation of the
ground is annexed, that the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests may be compelled to make a report of their in-
tended proceedings. He should on the next day's sitting
move that the petition be printed with the votes.
Sir G. GREY presented petitions from North Northum-
berland, praying that the income-tax might be remitted
from tenant farmers and others, in a similar position, who
derived their subsistence from the cultivation of the soil.
The Right Hon. Baronet also presented a petition against
the Papal aggression, as also did Mr. Duncombe, Sir John
Trollope, and several other Aembers.
STATE OF IRELAND.
Sir H. W. BARRON and Sir Lucius li'BrtiErr gave notice,
the former that he should, on the 6th of next month, and
the latter that he should, on an early day, draw the atten-
tion of the House to the state of Ireland, with a view to
the adoption of some measures to relieve the distress in the
southern and western districts of that country.