The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, Jui' 24.

The Lords were occupied up to six o'clock, in hearing Mr.
Wigram and witnesses in behalf of the petitioner in Malpas's
Divorce case.
Lord BROUGHAM moved that the evidence in this case
be printed, and was not prepared to say that the petitioner
was entitled to a divorce from his wife, because it appeared
that he had separated from her and returned to her three
different times, and that the cause of each separation was
rather his own bad temper, than any misconduct on the part
of his wife.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR then took his seat on the Woolsack.
Earl HAREW OOD presented two petitions against the
Corporation Reform Bill from Doncaster.
The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition from
Maidstone to the same effect.
Lord BROUGHAM preiented a petition in favour of the
Bill from the parish of St. James's, in the city of Bath, and
one from the borough of Bridport, signed by the local autho-
rities, to the same effect ; also one from the inhabitants of
London in support of the Prisoner's Council Bill; and a peti-
tion from a place in Yorkshire, against beer shops.
Lord STRANGFORD gave notice that on Tuesday he
would present a petition from the Lord Mayor and Common
Councilmen "of Coventry, praying to be heard b) Counsel
against the Corporation Reform Bill.
On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM the House went
into Committee on the Certiorari Bill.
The Report was brought up and received, and the Bill read
a third time and passed.
Mr. Cobb, from the Commissioners of the Margate Pier
Company, attended at the bar with an account of the transac-
tions of the said Company.
The House then adjourned to Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 24.

The SPEAKER took the chair at five minutes to four o'clock.
Mr. G. BERKELEY moved that the Committee upon the
Strangers' Gallery have power to report their opinion to the
House, together with the evidence taken before them.

Agreed to.
Mr. LOWTHER presented a petition from the Ecclesias-
tical Court of York, praying that their interests might be
protected in the Bill about to be introduced by his Majesty's
Law Officers.

Mr. TOOKE presented a petition signed by about three
hundred of the most respectable inhabitants of St. Andrew's
Holborn above the Bars against the Parish Vestry Bill ;
and deprecating the repeal of Sturges Bourne's Act, which
in their opinion constituted the best protection of the rate-
payers. The Hon. Member supported the prayer of the
petition.
Mr. WAKLEY begged to ask the Hon. Member if the
petition had been agreed to at a public meeting of the rate
payers ?
Mr. TOOKE believed there had been no public meeting,
but that most of the respectable inhabitants of that part of the
parish which be had mentioned, had signed it.
Mr. WAKLEY was informed that the petition had been
got up in a clandestine manner, and in a few days he should
present a petition very numerously signed by the rate-payers
of that parish, with a contrary prayer.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition from
an individual named William Gordon, complaining that that
House had permitted Session after Session to pass by without
enacting Poor Laws for Ireland. He (Mr. S. Crawford) had on
several occasions brought the subject of the extreme distress
in Ireland before that House. On that day week he had presented
a petition detailing additional instances of distress, and he had
then given notice of a motion for Tuesday last upon the sub-
ject, but had withdrawn it, in consequence of the general wish
of the House. If the statements contained in the petition
to which he alluded were true, his Majesty's Govern-
ment had certainly been guilty of the most culpable
negligence with respect to the distress of the people of Ireland,
and he should take an early opportunity of again calling the
attention of the House and the Government to the neglect..
The petition was then laid on the table.
TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.

Mr. E. BULLER presented a petition from some place in
Staffordshire, praying for the Repeal of the Newspaper
Stamp Duty. _

TITHES.

Captain PECHELL presented a petition, signed by the
proprietors of 38,180 sheep, complaining of a late decision of
the Lord Chief Baron, respecting the tithes upon turnips. This,
said the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman may be taken to be
the petition of 38,180 sheep—(laughter)—praying that in
future the turnips upon which they feed may not be contami-
nated by the touch of the Tithe agent. He trusted he
would have an opportunity of introducing his Bill that
evening, for the purpose of mending the evil. Though the House
last night had shown an unwillingness to separate the Bill then
before it, he hoped they would allow him to split his into
two—(Laughter)—and he trusted the House generally would
help him to do away with an evil which pressed heavily upon
the agricultural interest.
Mr. C URTE I S warmly supported the prayer of the Peti-
tion. If a Bill was brought in such as was promised, it would
have his warmest support ; but he would even go further than
the Gallant Captain—he would vote for the entire abolition of
tithes upon turnips put out for the purpose of feeding cattle.