The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-28 00:00:00

NAVAL OFFICERS.

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Sir E. CODRINGTON rose to present several petitions
from naval officers, complaining of the mariner in which
they had been treated by the Board of Admiralty. He was not
entirely acquainted with the whole of the facts stated
by the petitioners, so that he was unable to give a
judgment upon them.—( Hear, hear, hear.) The Honour-
able Gentleman who cried " Hear" should bear in mind that
these proceedings to which the petitioners referred had been
carried on behind the scenes, and therefore he was unable to
form a complete judgment upon them. The Hon. and Gal-
lant Member presented petitions from William Boyd, and
Sarah Byrne (a widow of an officer), and was proceeding to
make some observations when—

Mr. WILK S rose to order, and suggested that as the Gal-
lant Member had given notice of a motion upon this subject,
he ought to content himself with presenting the petitions with-
out comment.

The SPEAKER was of opinion that the Gallant Member
might be allowed to make any comments upon the petitions by
way of explanation.
Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON said that he had been
thrown off his guard by a taunt, or he should not
have proceeded to make the observations he had delivered.
The Hon. and Gallant Member presented similar petitions
from Dr. Williams and Captain Edwards, and others, and
concluded by moving that they be laid on the table.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, as the Hon. Member's motion was
so soon to come on, would rikerve anything he had to
say till that motion was brought on. He would only
observe that there were three petitions of which he never
heard before. If the Hon. and Gallant Member had been
kind enough to send them to him, or to inform him of them,
he should have attended to them.

The petitions were then laid on the table.
CORPORATION BILL.

Mr. CHALMERS presented a petition froni the Royal
Burgh of Montrose, praying that House not to pass the Muni-
cipal Corporation Reform Bill, as it had been altered by the
House of Lords. The petition was very numerously signed.
Mr. HUME supported the prayer of the petition.
UNSTAMPED PUBLICATIONS.

:7 Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from John Cleave, the
f-
proprietor of the Weekly Police Gazette, complaining of his
house having been entered by the Sheriff of Surrey for 2001.,
and Elating that although he had paid that sum, the whole
of his property had been seized, and was about to be
sold. Under these circumstances, the petitioner prayed that
the property might be restored to him.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL did not oppose the pre-
semation of the petition ; if the petitioner had conducted him-
self legally his property would be restored, but if he had acted
illegally, his property would be forfeited.
MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL.
Mr. WILKS presented a petition from Boston, praying
that the House would adhere firmly to the important principle
laid down by them in-the Bill, and reject it in the shape it
was understood it would come in from the House of
Lords.—(Loud cheers.) The petition also prayed that
the House would at this alarming crisis adopt such measures
as the exigencies of the country demanded. Nothing in his
opinion could more clearly show the determination of the
peopli of England than what had taken place in Boston.
Some time since he had presented a petition from that place
in favour of the Municipal Reform Bill signed by two or three
hundred persons; the present petition, however, was signed