The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-08 00:00:00

(JO USE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at balflxist Three o'Clock,
when there were about twenty-eight Members present. Mem-
bers, however, continued to drop in, one by one, till the Speaker
had counted thirty-eight. At this moment there was a gene-
ral rush of Members from the galleries and the lobby, and the
Speaker ascended his chair amidst cheers and laughter.
CARLOW ELECTION.

The SPEAKER informed the House that be bad received
a notice from the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, stating that
a petition bad been lodged in that office, complaining of the
return at the last election for the county of Carlow. A day
was fixed for taking the petition into consideration.
DE TRESSAN'S NATURALISATION BILL.

On the motion of Mr. Alderman WOOD, this Bill was
read a third time and passed.
HOLYHEAD AND SHREWSBURY ROAD BILL.
On the motion of Sir H. PARNELL, this Bill was read
a third time.
Mr. HALLYBURTON brought up the Report of the
Committee upon the Newtyle Rail-way Bill.
CORPORATION REFORM.

Captain BERKELEY rose to present a petition from the
city of Gloucester. against that clause in the Municipal Cor-
poration Reform Bill, which took away the rights of free-
men. The petitioners complained that those rights having been
so long enjoyed, and having been confirmed to them by the
Reform Bill, it would be extremely unjust to deprive them of
those rights under the name of a Reform of Corporations. He
concurred most heartily in the prayer of the petition, which
was signed by 500 out of the 700 freemen of Gloucester, and
he trusted that when the Report upon the Municipal Reform
Bill should be brought up, this petition, and the others of a
similar nature, which had been presented, would have due
weight with the House.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman WOOD rose to present a petition from Glou-
cester, which was also signed by 500 individuals of that city,
amongst whom were the names of a considerable number of
freemen ; the petition was very strong in favour of the great
measure of Corporation Reform-:-.( Cheers)—and spoke in the
highest terms of satisfaction of the Government which brought
it forward. He was sure that the Gallant and Hon. Member
who had just presented a petition would support him, when be
stated that the greater number of the names attached to this pe-
tition were of the highest respectability. The petition, as he be-
fore stated, contained the signatures of a considerable number of
freemen There were some circumstances connected with the
petition presented by the Hon. Member (Captain B.) which
he thought it would be only just in the Hon. Member to
have stated. The Hon. Member must know that a con-
siderable number of the persons v% ho had signed the peti-
tion which he (Captain Berkeley) had presented, were
children in one house (as we understood); four children
had signed the petition as children.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.")
He unlerstood there was another petition to be presented
by the Hon. Member onpo.site (Mr. Hope), end what the
compkxion and object of that petition was, ,he (Alderman
Wood) did not know—( A laugh )—he supposed, however, as
the petition of the Hon. and Gallant Member contained the
signatures of 500 freemen out of the 700, and as his (Alderman
Wood's)
contained the signatures of a considerable number,
(he did not know the exact amount of freemen), he presumed
that -the
~petition to be presented by the Honourable. Mem-
ber (Mi.. 'Hope) -would contain the signatures of all the
other
_freemen. He only hoped there would be no boys
amongst them.—( A laugh.) Whether this petition should
breathe the same expression as that presented .by the Hon.
and Gallant Member, or a different one, he hoped and trusted

that it would not prevent the House from carrying to its full
and legitimate length the principles of this Reform
(Cheers.) There was one point to which be wished to call
the attention of the House. The boundaries of the city of
Gloucester had been fixed by the late Reform Bill,
and the petitioners were very much alarmed lctt the:,
should be taxed doubly—namely, with the county rates and
aftcrw,rds with the borough rates. He thought it right to call
the attention of the Noble Lord, the Member ft* Stroud, to
this point, and he trusted that it would be attended to. In a!1
other respects, as this was a liberal Corporation and a liberal
hotly of freemen, • he hoped they would not press upon the
iieuse to alter in any respect the Bill as it stood.
Mr. HOPE bad not yet received the petition alluded to by
the Hon. Member for London, but be expected it daily;
he thought the petitioners had a very strong right to exprtss
their opinions upon the Bill which bad excited very great alarm
he bebevcd in the country.
Captain BARC L AY explained that the petition was signed
by only 100 adults, and the rest were boys.
VOTE BY BALLOT.

Mr. E \V ART presented a petition from Liverpool, signed by
upwards of 7,000 persons, in favour of the Vote by Ballot. The
petitioners stated their firm conviction that the Reform Bill
could never effectually be carried into effect, unless the vote by
ballot was conceded. The Hon. Member also presented a pe-
tition against the monopoly in the Beer trade.
Mr. JAMES GRATTAN presented a petition from a
person named Doyle, residing in the county of Wicklow,
against the act called Perrin's Act. _ _

Mr. A. TRE VOR presented a petition from the Treasurer
of the city of Durham against that part of the Reform Corpo-
ration Bill that deprived them of their rights. The Hon.
Member thought the measure, as it respected the rights of
freemen, unjust ; and trusted that his Majesty's Ministers
would see the necessity of making very material alterations in
the Act es it at present stood upon that subject.
Dr. BAI, DWIN presented a petition from a Roman Ca-
tholic priest, in the county of Cork, praying to be allowed to
vote out of his Ecclesiastical freehold.

Mr. SPE IRS presented a petition from the Western dis-
trict of the county of Stirling, complaining of the conduct of
the Sheriff' of that county in having violated one of the princi-
ples of the Scotch Reform Bill, by ordering the polling to
take pl,lee at an insignificant spot.
Mr. HE ATHCOTE presented a petition from Tiverton,
in which the petitioners stated that they did not concur in any
of the statements contained in the petition presented by the
Corporation of Tiverton on a former day, and praying for the
passing of the Corporation . Reform Bill. Also one from
the Trustees of the Tiverton Turnpike Trust, ap-ainst a clause
intended to be moved by the Hon. Member for Knaresborough
in the Highvays Bill.
Mr. RICHARDS said he had so framed his clause as to
meet the wishes of the petitioners.