The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-20 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 19.

The &TAXER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Mr. WARD presented ten petitions from certain per.
sons connected with the Colchester and Ipswich Rail-
way, stating that two railway Bills were then before the
House, namely, the Eastern Union line, and the Har-
wich and Colchester line, which had been treated as

competing lines, and had in consequence been referred to
the same Committee. The petitioners prayed that the
Colchester and Ipswich Railway Bill might be referred to
the same Committee, as that was a competing line also.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET thought it was
too late to refer the petitions to the Select Committee.
After a short conversation, the petitions were ordered

to lie on the table.
Sir ANDREW L. HAY presented a petition from
Banff, complaining of the laws which regulate prisons.
Lord ASHLEY presented several petitions in favour
of an Eleven Hours' Factory Bill.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented petitions from twenty-
seven parishes in the neighbourhood of Horncastle, in
Lincolnshire, in favour of protection to agriculture.
Mr. BROADLEY presented similar petitions from

Yorkshire.
Mr. BECKETT presented a petition from the letter-
press printers of Leeds, against the Masters and Servants
Bill.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from
Stockdale, against the Small Debts Bill.
Mr. ROSS presented a petition from a Presbyterian
congregation in Scotland, praying that Presbyterian
marriages in Ireland might be legalised.
Mr. FERRAND presented a petition, agreed to at a
public meeting of nearly 20,000 inhabitants of Bradford,
against the Masters and Servants Bill ; also, from Leeds
and other places, to the same effect.
Sir. G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from the
boot and shoemakers of Preston, in Lancashire, against
the Masters and Servants Bill. . . _

Mr. WARD presented a petition from owners and
occupiers of land on the Trent line of railway against the
Eastern Union Railway.
Mr. JERVIS presented a petition against the Holy-
head and Chester Railway Bill.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented thirty-six petitions
including petitions from Manchester, Birmingham
Bolton, Norwich, Halifax, Nottingham, Rochdale, and
Warrington, against the Masters and Servants Bill,
which the petitioners considered unconstitutional and
degrading to the rights of nations ; also a petition from
Charles Price and Henry Thompson (on behalf of the
Hon. Member for Warwick), complaining that they had
been summoned before the magistrates for the non-p_ay-
ment of church-rates, and that one of them, Mr.
Greenaway, said the magistrates did not come there to
be made fools of, but to enforce the payment of the rates.
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, complaining
that in several instances, where paupers had been found
dead in bed, no inquest had been held on them. The
Hon. Member moved that the petition be referred to the
Select Committee on Medical Relief.
SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition against the
sugar monopoly.
MASTERS AND SERVANTS BILL.
Mr. SCOTT presented a petition from Horsham,
against the Masters and Servants Bill, stating that, in
the opinion of the petitioners, it would give too much
power into the hands of magistrates.
CORN-LAWS.
Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from a parish in
Durham, from agriculturists' farming property rated at
4,600/. a year (the whole parish being rated at 6,000/.),
praying for protection to agriculture.
TOBACCO DUTIES.
Mr. HUME presented eight petitions from North-
ampton and Willenborough, against the high duties on
tobacco and snuff.
CHARITABLE PAWN SOCIETIES BILL.
Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from the pawn-
brokers of Wolverhampton, against the Charitable Pawn
Societies Bill.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that, on Tuesday.
next, he should move for a return of all moneys
vat(' by
the Government on account of Mr. O'Connell 's tria'
since the close of it.
FACTORY LABOUR.

Mr. T. DUNCOAIBE gave notice that, on the second
reading of the Factories Bill (No. 2), he would move for
a Select Committee to consider the limitation of labour
of young persons under ten years of age employed in
factories.