The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-25 00:00:00

be an nrraknfrement to wvielt no po.ible ohjetior
be made.

Lord SANDON said it was a very difficult legal question
—he had no doubt the Clergy bad an undoubted claim upon
the property in question—which was not much. Lately the
Churchwardens had petitioned to have the poor rates drawn
out of the Corporation funds.
Mr. M. PHILIPS said he must bear testimony to the fact,
that the money collected by the Corporation of Liverpool was
laid out in a very splendid, ornamental, and certainly very
useful manner; but it was a heavy tax upon the trade and
commerce of the country, and notwithstanding all the splen-
dour and taste with which it was spent, he could not
allow that those ships which did not receive any benefit from the
docks should be obliged to pay for them.
The petition was then laid on the table.

Mr. CA VE NDISH presented a petition from the innkeepers
of a place in East Sussex, praying for the better observance of
the Lord's Day.
Mr. WILES presented a petition from a congregation in
Bristol, complaining of the vast number of beer-houses wiiio
were licensed.

Mr. O'CONNELL said it would have been better had the
petitioners complained of the Clubs, and the drinking of
champagne.—(Laughter.)
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Rutherglen re-
lative to the Imprisonment for Debt and arrest of wages in
Scotland.

Colonel WESTENRA presented a petition from Tuna-
mole, praying for the abolition of Tithes.

Mr. •FITZSIMON cordially supported the prayer of the
petition. _

Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the mill-
owners of Keswick, praying for an alteration in the Factory

Mr. FECTOR presented a petition from the Mayor, Al-
dermen, and Common Councilmen of the city of Rochester,
against the Corporation Bill. The Hon. Gentleman was pro-
ceeding to read it at length, when he was interrupted by
The SPEAKER, who said there was an order of .the House
against that waste of time, except in particular cases.
Mr. FECTOR then moved that it be read by the Clerk at
the table.
Mr. Gl SBORNE rose to order. The course the Hon.
Gentleman was pursuing was a mere evasion of the order of
the House. He did not expect that the House would allow its
orders to be so set aside.

Sir GEORGE CLERK said that the course the Hon.
Gentleman was pursuing was the regular one. Every petition
ought to be read.—( Laughter.) It was the regular form—
the question was put upon every petition " that it be read."
Mr. ROBINSON rose to address the Hoti*,e, but could n:.)t
proceed in consequence of the general cries for the reading of
the petition. •
The petition was read at length by the Clerk of the House.
It prayed that a qualification would be introduced into the Bill,
by which their rights should be protected. _

Mr. C. BULL ER would not enter into an examination of
the atlegations of the petition, but he did not think that the
Bill would produce any of those lamentable effects to society,
in Rochester especially. after the admissions which they them-
ielves had made.—(Hear, hear.) Party fcelit,g6 ~f
,b2,-,:.-ription appeared to (•:dstud there for a beg
alld the Corporation had- eareinliy. excluded 'ail Th(!
from the Government of the city who were not of their o,
party, and the effect was, that the most respectable inha-
bitants of the city were deprived of those privileg•es
to which they were entitled, in common with their
citizens.—( Hear, hear.) Besides this, the Corporation
had resisted an investigation into their accounts, none of which
had been made public for several years.—( Hear, hear.) In
deed, the governing body came to a resolution that the town-
clerk should produce any documents whatever to the Corpora-
tion Commissioners.—( Hear, hear.)
. _

Mr. FECTOR. said the evidence in the Report of the
Commissioners was erroneous, and in some parts very contra-
dictory.—( Hear.)

STAMP DUTIES.

An HON. MEMBER (whose name was unknown in the Gal-
lery) presented a petition from Lymington Priors in favour of the
repeal of the stamp duty on newspapers.
Mr. BARNARD presented a petition from Inverness, pray-
ing for an alteration of the laws respecting landlords and
tenants, and requesting the same might be referred to a Com-
mittee.