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London, England, 1833-03-15 00:00:00

SPLENDID GIFT FROM SIR JOAN SOANE TO

THE PUBLIC.

Mr. HUME moved the second reading of the Bill for
settling Sir John Soane's library and collections in
trustees, for the benefit of the public. In moving the
second reading, the Honourable Member took that
opportunity of saying that it afforded an example
which the House would view with great satisfaction,
and he hoped they would mark their approbation
of a measure which would be of so great a public benefit.
--(Hear, hear.) The Bill purported to preserve for the
public use, and for the benefit of the arts and sciences the
whole of the valuable library and collections which had been
made by Sir John Soane during many years of labour
and expense, as that gentleman had been thirty years
collecting them, and had arranged them in the most com-
plete order. He who had derived so touch from science
was willing to contribute to science. He wished that
trustees should be appointed in whom the property was to
be invested ; and, besides that, be had determir.ed to invest
the large sum of 30,000/. 3 per cents., with an additional
2001. a year, for the rent of a house to contain the collec-
tion. Thus proposing to maintain that institution in per-
fection for ever. To show the exertions which that
gentleman had made, he would mention one instance.
He alone had prevented Be'zoni's Sarcophagus from leaving
this country, when neither the Government nor any indi•
vidual was found to take it up, and had paid 2,0001. to
preserve it.—(Hear, hear.) That formed part of the col-
lection, in which there were drawings, books of the Arts,
and indeed every thing to forward the interests of science.
For one single manuscript in the collection he had given
no less than 5001. In short, the list that was now
making out would satisfy every Hon. Member that the
gift would be of incalculable advantage to the public, and
he (Mr. Hume) would afford every facility in passing
the Bill.—( Cheers.)
Sir R. INGLIS said that the instances were so rare in
which persons who were capable of estimating works of
art, were found willing at the same time to confer any
great public advantage similar to the present, that he re•
joiced to see the present Rill. It had been correctly
stated by the Hon. Member for Middlesex, that the collec-
tions had been made at a great sacrifice of labour and ex-
pense. There was no man who had for so many years as
Sir John Soane devoted such a large portion of his fortune
to such a desirable object. Some instances had occurred
in which the possessions of collections of that kind had
been made the matter of bargain and sale. But a late
instance hail occurred in which an individual (whose name
we regret was not audible in the gallery) had bequeathed
a collection worth 60,000/. to the British Museum,
and yet hardly a word had been said about it. Other gifts
had been made to the National Gallery, of which it would
only be just, that a formal notice should be taken. He
trusted that the Hon. Member for Middlesex, or some
one else, would take an opportunity of moving that the
Directors of the National Gallery would be directed to
make annual communications to Parliament, a hich he
knew would have the effect of inducing many persons to
contribute to the public collections. The Bill was then
read a second time and ordered to he committed.

Mr. E. DENISON moved the third reading of the
Brockstowe Damage Compensation Bill. He intended tr,
have called the attention of his Majesty's Ministers and
the Mouse to the state of the laws as respected the liability
of counties to make compensation for damage done by
rioters, but as he saw none of the Ministry in their
places lie would defer that till another time.
The Bill was then read a third time, and passed.

Mr. AIARTIN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
enable the Economic Life Assurance Company to sue
•ind be sued in the name of any one of their Directors.
Mr. CHAPMAN presented petitions against the Irish
Coercive Bill from the parishes of Street, Multifaren,
Killen, Kilrane, and other parishes in the county of
'Westmeath.

AnIoN. MEMBER said, if he understood the arrange-
ment made last night by the Noble Lord (the Paymaster
of the Forces), it was this—that when a single petition
upon that subject was presented, other Hon. Members,
who held petitions to the same effect, were to lay them on
the table without being called upon, and that no question
should be put to the House until they were all brought up.
Lord ALTHORP said a few words, almost inaudibly.
We understood him to corroborate what had fallen from
the previous speaker.
Mr. COBBE FT would only observe, that he was no
party to any such understanding. He looked upon it,
that he had a right to present his petitions to the House,
and it was for it either to receive them or reject them, as
it pleased. He had stated before, and he repeated it now,
that ti .e printing of the whole of the petitions would not
cost more than four thousand pounds per annum. If
that pla❑ were pursued, then the present system of
presenting petitions might be allowed to go on.
When be presented the petitions which were in his pos-
session, he would move for leave to read them ; the
House would decide upon that motion, and if it rejected it,
then there would be an end to the right of petitioning.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, tioe understanding the
House had come to last night was this, that when petitions
were presented on the subject of the Irish Bill, Arena-
hers with petitions with the same prayer were to present
them at the same time, stating the mere prayer of the
petitions ; but that no question should be put till they
were all brought up, when the question that they do lie
an the table should be put.
Mr. COBBETT had no wish even to state the sub-
stance of his petitions, let them but be printed ; the ex-
pense was so very ttiflong, that he again repeated that was
the only course that should be pursued ; besides, he ought
not to be found fault with. He had presented thirty peti-
tions in thirty-five minutes, and if other Hon. Members
would not take longer time, the whole of the petitions
would soon he got rid of.

Mr. AGLIONBY considered that some other course
must be adopted with regard to the presentation of peti-
tions on this subject. His name stood nearly 500 on
the list, and unless some different course were pursued, it
would be impos•ible for him to present his petitions be-
fore the Bill was passed,
Mr. FINN presented a petition from Rosemain, in the
county of Kilkenny, against the Irish Coercive Bills. The
petitioners prayed the House not to enact a law which
might place them at the mercy of any individual, however
exalted his rank or station in life might he.

Major I3EAUCLERK presented petitions against the
Irish Coercive Bill, from St. Mary's, Newington, the
prayer of which was much the same as the petitions al-
ready presented. Ile sincerely supported the prayer of
the petition. The Hon. Member presented another Pe-
from the same parish to the same effect. The
Hon. Member also presented a similar p tition from
Wandsworth and Clapham, praying the House not to
pass these coercive measures, but to give the unfortunate
people of that country redress for their grievances. The
Hon. Member also presented a similar petition from the
town of 1-I,r,hain, and from the P.litical Union of Milton.
Mr. LYNCH presented petitions against the Coercive
Bill from St. Michael's East, Galway ; from the parish
of Kalabroun, from St. Nicholas North ; from the
coopers of Galway, the artificers of Galway, the sawyers,
platers, carpenters, stone cutters, and cabinet-makers of
Galway. The Hon. Member also presented similar
petition. from Killinhard and Deriegal.
Mr. TALBOT presented a similar petition from a
parish in Wexford.

Mr. PERRIN presented similar petitions from Mona-
ghan, Kihnore, and Drumsland. The petitions were
trt:n-d by a great number of persons of all religious per-
suasions, and the petitioners stated that though they were
ardent admirers of his Majesty's Ministers, they deprecated
the introduction of the present mea,ures, considering that
they tended to put rn end to the legislative Act of Union.
The Hort.. MEMBER, also presented a similar petition
from Granard, in the county of Longford.
Mr. WALKER presented a similar petition from Drum-
conner, in the county of Wexford.
Mr. M'LAUGHLIN presented similar petitions from
ti e nailers, tailors, turners, letter-press-printers, tobac-
conists, and barbers, of the town of Galway.
Mr. GUEST presented a petition from Mt rthyr
Tydvil, signed by; 4,900, against the Irish Coer-
cive Bill. The Hon. Member considered that a case had
been made out to justify the adoption of some extraor-
dinary powers, though he would not say that he would
go along with the present Bill to its full extent. The

Mr. COBBETT said, that if the Hon. Member who
had presented those petitions, had refrained from making a
speech, he would not have said a word in reply; but when
a Member, in making a speech against the petitions, took
occasion to express an opinion that a case had been made
out, and that it was proved to Parliament that a
Bill for coercive measures ought to pass, he (Mr.
Cohbett) would take leave to say that there had
been no good ground raised for the Bill, and that nothing
had been proved to show to him that it ought to pass. He
did not pretend to say that no Bill ought to pass, but it
was quite another thing to take away trial by jury. He
remembered a case that occurred in Pennsylvania—
The SPEAKER interposed, and intimated that that
was not the question.
Mr. COBBETT said ke was merely about to illustrate
his argument.
The SPEAKER said the Hon. Member must be aware
that he was not confining himself to the question before
the House. _ _

Mr. COBBETT said he would then do so. The Hon.
Member who presented the petitions had asserted that a
case had been mide out to justify the Bill. He merely
wished to contend that no case whatever had been made out.
The SPEAKER again eaid the Hon. Member was not
spe,kinz to the question before the House.

Mr. COBBETT then sat down.
Mr. GUEST denied that in presenting the petitions
he had made any speech upon them.
Mr. COBBETT rose and said that he never wished to
ilo any thing contrary to the forms of the House, or to the
Speaker's intimation. He only desired to say, in contra-
diction to the Hon. Member, that no case had been made
out for passing the Bill.
Mr. GLADSTONE presented a petition from the
borough of Portarlington against the same Bill, and pray-
ing the House to institute an inquiry to ascertain if there
were any grounds to justify it. The Hon. Memb,r,
though he did not concur in the prayer of the petition, was
hound to say that it was numerously and respectably
signed.
Sir RICHARD KEANE presented slmilar petitions
from the parishes of Colbally, Trernorne, and Killeagh,
in the county of Waterford.
Mr. MARSHALL presented a petition from the ope-
ratives and other inhabitants of Leeds, regretting that his
Majesty's Ministers had introduced such a Bill, and ex.
pressing an opin.on that the existing constitutional means
were quite adequate to suppress disturbances in Ireland.
The SPEAKER having twice gone through his list,
asked if any other Hon. Members had petitions to present.
Mr. WARRE presented a petition from Hastings and
St. Leonards ,igainst the Bill.
Mr. GASKELL presented two similar petitions, agreed
to at public meetings at Wakefield, and at Dobcross in
Saddleworth.

An Horr. MEMBER presented a similar petition,
numerously signed, from the town and liberty of Kinsale.
Mr. KINLOCH prevnted petitions also against the
Bill, from the Political Union of Frome ; the Political
Union of Abbotehall ; the Political Union of Edinburgh ;
the Royal Burgh of Irvine; and from Alloa, in Killie-
coultrie.

Mr. FIELDEN (we believe) presented a similar peti-
tion from Blackburn, praying that conciliatory measures
might be adopted in lieu of the coercive me isure.
Mr. HUTT presented a similar petition from the town
of Kingston-upon-Hull, signed by 400 persons.
Mr. FITZSINION presented petitions against the
Irish Coercive Bill, from the parish of St. Margaret's,
the parishes of Lush and Rush, the town of Horne, and
five other parishes hi the county of Dublin. The Hon.
Member said that it was most gratifying to him to see so
many petitions pouring in, not only from Ireland, but
also from all parts of this country, against this iniquitous
Bill.

Colonel WILLIANIS presented a petition from Ashton-
under•Line against the Bill. The petitioners stated that
unless the tithe system was done away with, and the hier-
archy abolished in Ireland, and poor laws introduced
into that ciuntry, die peop!e would be driven to such a
state of suffering, that anarchy and revolution must be
the inevitable result. They also prayed for a reduction
in the taxes on malt, hops, soap, and sugar, the abolitio❑
of the taxes on knowldge, and houses, and windows;
and prayed for the better accommodation of the Members
of that house.

Mr. FIELDEN presented a petition from Colne
against the Bill.
Mr. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Bandon,
which he begged leave to read, as it came from a town
almost exclusively a Protestant town. The petitioners
stated their indignation' and alarm at the measures intro-
duced by his Majesty's Ministers for that country, and
denied that there existed any serious political disturbances
in their county, adding that the issue of the late elec-
tions bad given great offence to a party in their neigh-
bourhood, who were waiting with anxiety full the
passing of the Bill to wreak their vengeance on the people,
because they had dared to exercise the privileges, which
were given them by reform. The Hon. Member then
presented petitions to the same effect from Acton, in the
county of Cork; Charleville. Maccroome, Agnesborough,
Ruthfilly, in the county of Carlow, and Alichaelatown
Mr. O'CONNELL present--d petitions against the Bill
from Burr, in L (ncashire, Rochdale, Political Unionists
and other inhabitants of Kidderminster. This petition
was signed by 6,329 persons. All these petitioners stated
their indignation and horror at the introduction of the
Bill. Alsw petitions to the same effect from the borough of
l'reston. The petitioners, in this instance, viewed the
Bill with indignation and contempt, and stated that as
Englishmen they never would consent to the establishment
of tyranny anywhere. Similar petitions from Keightley,
in Yorkshire, Chichester, parishes of St. Margaret and
St. John, Dublin. Also one from the city of Dub-
lin, signed by upwards of 20,000 persons, and he was
informed all those signatures were put to it in oue day.
The petitioners expressed their sorrow and regret at the
introduction of such a measure, and thought it would de
monstrate to the Irish people, not only that repeal was
necessary, but that the still worse measure of separation
from England must be the result of such a course of legis-
lation. Among the signatures attached to this petition
were men of the first wealth, moral habits, and tempers
almost passive. Alany of them had hitherto resisted all
agitation, and others were attached by the ties of hope to
the Anglesea and Stanley Government, but they had now
changed their opinion, and had attached their names to
this petition. He had similar petitions from Wingham, in
Kant, the journeymen butchers of Dublin, Mr. 0. Br alley,
of Wm csster, the inhabitants of Watling-street, Dublin.
Wexford, the 'Frad s' Political Union of Dublin, the volun-
teers of Ireland, parish of Dunamore, in Me oh, cons plainins
of the calumnies propagated in Ireland respecting that
country, which was perfectly tranquil ; also from the pa-
rishes of St. Audeon, St. Mary,D )nnybrook, St. Michael,
and St. James, Dublin ; front Baiiyn tgh, in the county
Cavan, stating that that county was in a state of tran-
quillity ; also from the roaster butchers of Dublin, frosu
Ballybay, in Monaghan, from Athlone, from Strathmore,
and other parishes in Wexford, and also from the city of
Londonderry. He did nut see the Hon. 'Wernher
for that city in the House, who had on a former
evening presented a petition from it in favour of
the Bill, but lie begged to state that the petition now pre-
rated had been adopted at a public meeting properly con-
vened by the Mayor, and the petitioners had informed him,
in the letter they had addressed to him, that the petition
in favour of the Bill had been principally signed by
Scotch traders, who had resided but a short time in the
town. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from
the youths of Dublin, complaining of the introduction of
the Coercive Bill, and stating that it would subject then;
to more tyranny than ever their forefathers had suffered,
and also stating that they would rather die in their youth
than be slaves. The Hon. Member also presented a nuns
ner of petitions from the Carron Iron Works, signed
by
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Wo'seley, stating that be had heard w:th feelings of alarm
of the in troduetion of a B;11 which would alienate seven
millions of his M ijesty's subjects from this country. The
petitioner stated that he considered the Bill of a terrific
and sanguinary nature, and prayed the House not to pass
it into a law. The Hon. Member also presented
petitions from the commercial clerks of Dublin,
and from the parishes of St. James and St. Catherine in
that city, complaining of the conduct of the present Ad-
ministration, declaring that they had lost the confidence of
the country, and praying the House not to pass the Bill
they had introduced. Also petitions from St. Mark's,
Dublin, from Dundalk, and Grangegorman. Also a peti-
tion from the parish of St. Andrew's, stating that Ireland
had been overtaxed since the Union_tracing the miseries

under which that country laboured from that source,
and praying that the House, instead of sanctioning coercive
measures, would take into consideration the repeal of th,
Union. Also petitions from the members of the National
Trades' Political Union, and from the operative
carpenters of Dublin, praying his Majesty to
remove from his councils the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
and entreating the House not to sanction the coercive
measures. Also petitions from a parish in Wexford, from
Bow Lone in the city of Dublin, and front Eccles, against
the Bill, and praying for a repeal of the Union.
Also a petition from Newry against the Bill. Ti e
Honourable Member also presented petitions from New-
port, two parishes in the county of Kildare, from the
Political Union of Ruthengall, from the town of Naas,
from the Independent Political Club of the city of Lon-
donderry, and from the town of Callan, in the county of
Kilkenny.—All the petitions were ordered to lie on the
table.

Mr, FITZGERALD presented a similar petition from
the parish of Killarney.

Mr. CHRISTMAS presented similar petitions from
the parishes of Carolly and Capper, in the county of
Waterford, and one from ae town of Dungarvan, signed
by 1,150 persons, who stated their opinion, that the Bill
now before the House was likely to cause more disturb-
ance in Ireland than had yet taken prace.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM presented similar petitions
which had been agreed to at public meetings, held in
Halifax and Sheffield. The latter petition expressed the
regret of the petitioners that conciliatory measures had not
been adopted instead of coercive measures, which they were
confident would incresee the had feeling which now pre-
vail, d in some parts of Ireland.
Mr. M. 0 FERR ALL presented a petition to the same
effect from a parish in the county of Kildare, and said he
believed that that part of the country was in a state of
tranquillity.
Mr. HAWKINS presented a similar petition from the
borough of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, and said that
he heartily concurred in its prayer.
An HoN. MEMBER. presented a petition to the same
effect from the town of Sligo.
Mr. HENRY GRATTAN presented similar petitions
from the parish of Kilcomen, and from parishes in the
counties of Tyrone and Meath.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL presented a petition from
Tallow, in the county of Waterford, against the Bill.
Mr. LALOR presented petitions to the same effect
from Mountmerit, Ballyadam, and Ackerbourn.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented similar petitions front
the bricklayers of Dublin, signed by almost every
man in that trade, and from the operatives of Dublin.
They stated that though their trade was humble, they were
determined to oppose the Bill in the most determined
manner. Also from the Political Union of two parishes in
the county of Wexford. They stated that the present Bill
was a breach of the Legislative Union, and, in point of
justice, put an end to it ; from the stucco-plasterers of
Dublin ; from the Political Unionists of Hepton Bridge,
who prayed the House not to pass coercive measures
for Ireland, but measures of conciliation; and a similar
petition from Kilkenny, in the county of Limerick.
Mr. H. L. BULWER presented a similar petition
from the borough of Tavistock.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a similar petition from
Cockermouth. He stated that when he found him-
self opposing his Majesty's Ministers, whom he highly
respected, and sincerely wished to support, he set him-
self well to weigh the opinion he bad formed with
respect to this Bill. After all the consideration he
could give it, he found that from the first to the last he
must steadily oppose it, agreeing, as be did, with the per
titioners, that it was both uncalled for and unconsti-
tutional.

Mr. CHARLES O'CONNELL presented similar
petitions from the county of Kerry, and from Driver, in
the same county.

Mr. STANDISH BARRY presented a similar petition
from Agnes, in the county of Cork.

Mr. COBIJETT moved that the House be counted. Ths
proposition was received with general cries of " No, no,"
and one Hon. Member said lie would like to know the
reason for such it motion. Being pressed by Mr. O'Connell
and Mr. Attwood, Mr. Cobbett withdrew his motion.

Mr. COBBETT said he had a number of petitions to
present against this Bill. The first to which be would
call the attention of the House, was from the Northern
Political Union of Newcastle, signed by fourteen
thousand men.—(Hear, hear.) As to the respectability
of these men, he differed from those who laid great weight
on what they called the respectabilitp of petitioners. It
was enough for him that a petition came from subjects
of the King ; but if he were minded to dwell
upon the respectability, and the public spirit
of any body of men, he should not know where to find
men equal to those whose names were attached to this
petition. He should deem it his duty- to read it in
justice to the 14,000 men who had thought fit to send
their petition from Newcastle to London.
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Mr. COBBETT then read the petition at len2th
"TO THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, I N PARLIAMENT
ASSEMBLED, THE PETITION OF THE COUNCIL
AND ASSOCIATES OF THE NORTHERN POLITICAL
UNION, AND OTHERS, IN PUBLIC MEETING
ASSEMBLED.
" Sheweth,

" That your petitioners have heard with indescribable
amazement, of the introduction into your Honourable House,
of a Bill for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ire-
land; a Bill for the establishment of Martial Law there; a
Bill for investing a mere deputy of the Government, the Lord
Lieutenant, with an absolute authority to prohibit and prevent
the exercise, upon the part of the Irish people, of the great
fundamental, and constitutional public right, of meeting to
petition for redress of wrongs I
" That your petitioners can only feebly express the shock
with which this transaction has confounded them; yet, deeply
wounded as their feelings are, and shaken as is their confidence
in public men, they feel that they have duties to perform of a
much sterner nature than to admit of a long indulgence in pas-
sionate complaints. That, invoking, therefore, the witness
of Heaven to the justice of their cause, and the public spirit of
their country to its sanction and support, they respectfully pe-
tition your Honourable House ; they earnestly remonstrate ;
they solemnly protest against the danger--the cruelty—the ty-
ranny of such unheard-of legislation!
"'That your petitioners do not believe in the existence of
Whitefeet or Blackfeet outrages, to a degree so far beyond
what has, for seventy years, at least, been frequent, as to con-
stitute a call for any measures beyond the application of a
more than usual degree of zeal, of prudence, and of energy, on
thepart of a luxurious, inefficient, and inert executive admi-
nistration.

" That, even granting the existence of such disorders, to a
degree beyond that which they have ever previously extended
to—a fact, however, which they are not called on to admit,
upon the mere declamatory statement of a servant of the
Crown—your petitioners implore you Honourable House,
before consenting to any new measures of harshness or coer-
cion, and, at any rate, before consenting to lay the axe unto
the very root of the Constitution, by the establishment of a
Government of force ; that you will institute a severe in.
quiry, into not only the truth of such facts, but into the
causes which have produced them. For that your petitioners
believe that your Hon. House would ascertain by such inquiry,
that all the disturbances and miseries of Ireland originate in
wrongs, oppressions, insults, and misrule ; that, therefore, re.
dress, and not coercion, is the only proper, just, and efficacious
remedy ; and that the enactment of severe and arbi-
trary laws, were, consequently, inhuman, unjust, and
dangerous. And that it further seems to your peti-
tioners, that, to legislate for a people exasperated by long
privation of the practical advantages of a popular
constitution, only by the arrogant abolition of their share and
portion in its personal securities, immunities, and rights, were
but to invite and challenge their eternal animosity ; and that
to endeavour, at the same time, to suppress by violence, the
convulsive agitations of a body politic, not only wild with
political exasperation, but frenzied with physical distress,
were not less insanely foolish, or less intolerably cruel, than
to seek to still the writhings of a natural body, by the
driving of another nail amidst the torments of the crucifixion!
" That your petitioners regard these measures in a still more
serious point of view, than solely as regards their justice and
their policy, with reference to Ireland. It is in their eyes the
general cause of liberty, which is wounded through the sides
of Ireland; it is the security, the sanctity, the very soul and
essence of the British Constitution, which they regard as
outraged and violated by even the proposition of such laws
as these. That by their operation your petitioners would
feel themselves insulted and degraded, in the persons of their
Irish brethren. That it cannot be denied to be the effect of
such enactments (if enactments they should ever be), to pro-
claim and establish a power in the general Government or
legislature of the kingdom, to abolish civil and political liberty
at its own mere will, and abrogate, by binding laws, the very
form, as well as spirit of the Constitution !
"That against all claim or usurpation of such powers as
these, your petitioners do utterly and earnestly protest; and
against the enactments which are now proposed, as tacitly in
volving such a monstrous claim, they no less earnestly petition.
For they are not able to map out the constitution into an Eng-
lish and an Irish part ; nor do they see in what manner, com-
patibly with that claim which is so loudly urged on Ireland,

" And your petitioners will ever pray."
The next petition was from the inhabitants and electors;
of Nottingham, which the Hon. Member real. The nex
petition he had to present was from Bslfast, whit h
was worthy of the particular attention of the Hon"
especially as something had been a aid last night in
disparagement of those who signed it. As he had
said before, he made no distinction as to the respectability
of petitioners. If a man was a subject of the King—if
he was untarnished by crime—if he was a fr• etnan, his
game was just as good as the name of the richest man
in the kingdom.—(Hear.) If, however, he were to enter
into particulars, he could show that amongst the names
attached to this petition, were those of the richest and
most respectable in Belfast. It was a petifo emex'remely
well worded, and the petitioners challsoged any person or
persons who objected to it to write one as good. The
'next petition was one from Great Yarmouth, Nisselk,
and entitled to great respect from the nsnaber of petition-
ers who had signed it. This petition had to bet ken
back after it was read, in consequence of its being in de •
,ached sheets, and no petitioners names in the first sheet.
The Hon. Member presented another petition, but we did
not learn from where, which was very long, and which he
would not read ; it expressed great indignation at the in-
troduction of such a tyrannical measure into Ireland, and
the determination of the petitioners by all lawful
means to resist it. The next was from the
Political Union of Eastbourne, where the House would
see to what extent had tr sell d the indtg.
nation that was felt against this Bill. There wes not a
town, nor city, nor borough, that had not imbibed the
feeling that this was a most unjust measure. The
petitioners considered, that by the introduerpin of the
present measure Ministers had clearly shown themselves
unworthy of the confidence of the country, and incapable
of managing its affeirs.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") They
els° stated their firm belief that the miseries under
which Ireland laboured had arisen from the hoevy
tithe and taxation under which that country labourer%
The Hon. Member also presented two petition, from the
parishes of St. Nicholas Within and Without, in ths city
of Dublin, praying the House not to sanction the proposed
measures of coercion, or any measure which would interfere
with the rights of petitioning or trial by Jury. Also praying
that the House would not interfere with existing laws, except
through the medium of a strict Parliamentary inquiry.
Also a petition from the Sevenoaks Politica! Union, pray-
ing the House to pause before it proceeded to viol ate the
constitution el rights of so many millions of Irish subjects. It
also prayed the House to abolish the tithe system, and other
grievances under which Ireland bad so long and so unjustly
I (booted. The Hon. and Learned Member also presented
a petition from Clone, in the county of Wexford, against
the Bill, the petitioners believing that it had been intro-
duced for the purpose of enforcing the collection of tithes.
Mr. T. ATTWOOD presented a petition from the
town of Newtonbarry, which informed the House that
that district was in a perfect state of tranquillity,
notwithstanding the heartrending circumstances which
had occurred at that place, when so many of their
relatives and friends were slaughtered in open day.
The petitioners were very much surprised that no
allusions of sympathy had been expressed by big
a:tx:i7k sal Ito etkh,e cainrti
itishct
that
tr sh
had
lt thatoecu
impartialr event,
re d
Committee
andomc mi
tee
should
be
actPuiepamyjo:i stntatypnerdesders3ediwiwnhith a view to inquire into the
state of Ireland, and to redress all the grievances
which afflicted the country. The petition was signed by
540 persons, who, he supposed, were nearly all the inha-
bitants of that unfortunate town. He next had to present
't petition, signed by 1,100 iuhabitauts of Nuneaton, in
the county of Warwick, and one signed by 900 persons
of a town in the county of Mayo, stating that that part
of the county was in a state of perfect tranquillity. He
also presented a similar petition from the town of Dar..
laston, in the county of Stafford.
O'CONNOR DON presented similar petitions from
a parish in the county of Kilkenny, and from Kilronea, in,
the county of Roscommon. _
Mr. M. PHILLIPS presented a similar petition from
Chester, agreed to at a public meeting. He could not
sanction the introduction of martial law into Ireland. He
must therefore vote against that clause of the Bill.
Mr. VERNON presented four petitions from plseeer ho
Derbyshire against the Bill.—Tbe petitions were ordered
to lie on the table.

Mr. Alderman WOOD brought up the report of the
Serjeants' Inn Committee, and a Bill was
,ordered to be
brought in accordingly.
Mr. GROTE presented a petition from Castlemore
against the Irish Bill.
It being now past three o'clock, the Speaker left the
chair.

THE TEN HOURS BILL.—We hope that
vhen the Ten Hours Bill petition from Canterbury is
presented in Parliament, it will be stated by some one of
our Kentish representatives, that it was negatived at 4
public meeting by an immense majority, because it did not
embody a declaration that over-taxation wls the eause of
,hat unnatural state of things which called for legislative
i,iterference between the parent and his child..—Kent
Herald.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF LLANDAFF.—
We regret to announce the death of the Earl of LLANDAFF,
vhich took place yesterday, at the resid,nce of his Lord-
ship, in Merrionssquare. He had been walking through
town a day previous, apparently in good health. The
titles of his Lordship, Earl LLANDAFF ani Viscount MA.
-rum, are, we believe, extinct. Es next brother, the
Honourable General MamEw, who represented the county
of Tipperary in several successive Parliaments, died four-
teen years ago, shortly after the contested election, in which
he and the present Earl of GLENGALL were the successful
candidates, and the Hon. Mr. PRIrrlE was defeated. Ilia
-econd brother, the lion. GEORGE AIATHEVV, died 4 snort
time since. The late Earl of LLANDAFF Was married tci
Miss LATOUCHE, sister to JOHN DAVID LATOUCHE, Esq.
The family seat is Thomastown, in the county of Tippe-
rary.—Dublin Morning Register, of Wednesday.
For several nights past there has been seen
about the marshes near the sea, in this parish, a singular
object, white and solid, floating capriciously just above the
r.tt,innni
sdh,
mi ne
ntth
and
shape of a
nd dismay
or sack,
a oif
individuals,
tor ot he n
whoa em Il
have
come in contact with this headless spectacle. But although
it comes in such a questionable shape," no one his
yet had the courage to demand an explanation. Of coutse
we, in our superior judgment, " hold that spirits are.
from delusions," and laugh at the al •rming inlerencee,
which gain credence from the simple. At tkt sante
lane, as several respectable persons have attester! that such
anlappearance has been seen, we shohld feel interested by
a further acquaintance with this ghostly iilmnomena, if
the experience of any reader of the Sherburne Journal
will enable us to gain it.—Sherburne Journal.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The new improve-
:nenta from the grand entrance at Hyde Park-corner,
through the arch of Constantine to the Palace, are nearly
finished. Immediately near the arch a reservoir was made
some time since in a situation the most unaccountable, as
it it were intended to block up the road for carriages down
Comititution-hill. The inconvenience, however, is now
avoided by a sweep of the avenue, towards the northern ex.
trefnity of the Palace-garden, leaving the reservoir on the
vA-
left, obscured by a shruiibery, and surrounded by an iron
r fling. The carriage road has been much improve,ciAs
Berbere
shabby with
paling
broade taken
st-epn away
aths
at either " s
enclosed the
and
plantation, and the latter is no longer a receptacle for filth
it excellent
has
been
and various other nuisances. Several new trees have been
,lanced within the last few weeks in St. James's Park,
,n the room of the old trees blown down by storms, and
Aug removed in constquence of being decayed, and
workmen are engaged in sill further improving the beau-
tiful plantations and walks in the interior of the Park on
Le marlin of the waters.
HERTFORDSHIRE BOORS.—The Hertford-
-hire peasants are notorious for their want of urbanitY•
haired, as reeards all that relates to the bit:l:seances de
s.9ciete, they are as great brutes as any gentleman alive.
A lady, while on a visit to a fri,nd residing in ti.)77:::
try, had during her rides on horseback in th.,elitlnztobf
the
'loot! become perfectly aware of
the
tb:rirdiefl, she Caine
feesantry. One day, when rifling
which had not a lodoe
to a hy-gate of her host's parks w and fro upon it. to .
A chubby boy was swinging
ould hold it open while she
.fentur, d to beg that be w
wised. To her utter amazement lie did so! wigi,ted
vith his complacency, she gave him a shilling, observing,
It is quite clear, my lad, from your civility, .bat
are nut a native of Hertfordshire." T e rep'y was,
Tbee'rt a be."—Montidy Magazine.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From Galignani's Messenger, of Tuesday, March 12.)
The ak'toobian Mercury has the fallowing Rome,
dated Feb. 24 :
" Yesterday thesquestion of a, obViiiti_ to=the MintstrY
was decided.. Cardinal Bernettk leitbeto Abe _only Mini.
ster, keeps the Departmentsof.:•Foieiglx Affairs, of. the
Police, and the Army ; and M. Gamberini takes the De.
partment of the Interior, and is to have the superintendence
of all the branches of the Administration. -It is said that
Ca dinal Rernetti himself proposed the change." • '
The Neckar Gazette has the following from Warsaw,
dated Feb. 18 :
" We are still in a state of suspense as to our political
organ'zation. Every thing wears %temporary aspect; and,
although eighteen months have elapsed since the -fall of
Warsaw, vet the Administration is wholly military, and
in the palatinates it is presided by Russian Generals. This
system often produces, in civil eases, collisions injurious
to tl e parties between the Chief Pr, sident and the Go..
vernor-General. The organic statute which is to be our
Constitution, but which is scarcely of the value of a
simple otd, nnance, as according to one of its provisions
the Emperor can modify it when he. pleases, has,
since its publication, received more of the deve
lopments which it required. Thus the protests of
France and England against that act have been without
re-ult. We la ceive no political news ; yet Many thing-
occur of which foreign countries are informed very late.
Towards the end of January 60,000 Russians passed the
Pruth. One-halt that army was composed of Lithuanians
and Poles. .A considerable corps was collected . between
Kiero and the sea, but it is tint known for, What-purpose.
In Poland there are scarcely 30,000 Russian troops ; hut
the walk-, of the citadel which command the capital are
being carried on with great activity. As soon as the na-
vigatian is open again, we expect 480 pieces:of artilleiy
from Cronstadt, by Dantzic, destined for Warsaw. Last
year cannon were sent to Modlin by the same channel."
(From the Journal du commerce of Tuesday.)
PARIS, MARCH 11.—The Neckar Gazette announces
that. 60,000 Russians passed the Pruth in January and
February last. There is nit a little boldness in venturing
on such an assertion. Every body knows that at that
season the only conveyance is by sleds. s. and that troops
cannot he remitted by that means. B.sides, movements
of troops in Bessarabia are impoaaible front October to
May, the country being at that time impaasat,e. This
news. th- refors, is unfounded. It is also well known
that Russia has not 30,000 men on that whole frontier,
as far as 0 tessa.
Dr. Bowring set out from Paris yesterday for Bor-
deaux, for the purpose, it is said, of inquiring into the
means of -extending the commercial intercourse between
England and that part of Franc-. M. Villiers, his
eague, remains at Paris.
(From the Journal du Commerce.)
PARIS, MARCH 11.—After arguing that France ou2lit
to be indemnified for the expense of her expeditions in
Belgium, the Journal remarks:—" Can the parties who
signed the treaty of 15th November suffer the execution
of this their common engagetnent to remain a charge upon
that party who under oak it ? If we consider the ques-
ti,ri in another point of view, ought riot the burden of
tie coercive measares to fall u;inn the patty which, by
his hostility, provoked them ? Would it not be an injus-
tice to relieve this party from it, and throw it upon 11 I-
giurn, who has twice s fined the treaties proposed by the
Conference, and thus give to Holland a premium of en-
couragement to persevere in ter present system ? Let it
be reflecteo, moreover, that if such i- the situation into
which Belgium is to be placed by her neutrality, that at
every execution of the guarantee promised her by the
great Powers, she is to be loaded with the expenses of
the war, she can have moiling to look f rwaro
to but dependence and ruin. It is the more proper to
consider the questi.in in this light, as the ne v State was,
by the policy of Europe, excluded frotn all participation
in the siege of Antwerp, though possessing an army
of 120M00 men, and consequently it is unreasonable to
impose on Belgium the charge of an expedition formed
in the interests of Europe, whose consineratio, s will, no
doubt, be duly appreciated by diploin tits in due time and
place. At present we are ofopinion that Holland ought to be
made to pay the expenses of artnamen's, which slit alone
occasioned, unless Belgium should be allowed to reim-
burse herself, by retaining the amount out of the por-
tion of the joint debt which is to fall upon her."