The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-01 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Sir R. 11. INGLIS presented a pettion from Barba-
does praying the House to take measures fir the sup-
pression of the slave-trade.
Mr. EVANS present rd a petition from Worthing
praying the House to take steps t 3 put a stop to Post-
office Sunday labour throughout the country.
An 110 N. MEMBER. presented a petition from the
Queer's County, praying for protection to agriculture.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER, pursuant to notice, presented
a petittor, agt eed to at a public mce:ing, held
in the Castle-yard of the city of Lincoln,
at which it was computed that between
15,000 and 20,000 persons were present. The petition-
ers stated that they were materially concerned in the
good cultivation of the land ; that the importation of
corn and agricultural produce in a season of unusual
abundance had compelled them to be undersold
in the markets of the United Kingdom to a very
-ninons extent, and the consequence had been
that the demand for and the wages of labour
hroughont the country had undergone a very serious
diminution. They stated, also, that in consequence of
the restrictions imposed upon them they were prevented
from growing tobacco land otherwise cultivating the
soi to the grea'est profit for themselves, while, as the
owners and occupiers of land, they were unfairly
dealt with by the Legislature in consequence of the
"additional burdens imposed on them by having to contri-
butt almost exclusively to the local taxation of
the country. They stated also that whilst they
were exposed to free trade in corn the
manufacturers of this country were protected to
a considerable extent by Customs' duties, and they
theref)re prayed the House to take their case into con-
sideration, and relieve thorn from some of their
local taxation, and also to impose such a just
and reasonable duty on foreign agricultural pro-
duce as should enable them to compete with the
foreigner is British markets. The Honourable Ger -
tleman also presented two petitions from places in the
county of Lincolr, one praying for the suppression of
Sunday labour in the Post-office, and the other praying
the House to take m(aiures to prevent the sale of spiri-
tuous liquors on the Sabbath.
Lord G. MANNERS present:d a petition from a place
in Leicestershire praying for the suppression of Sunday
labour in the Post-Alice.

Lord HOTIIAM presented a petition to the same
effect from a place in tt e East Riding.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from the Free
Church of Kilcountrie, and other places, praying for the
discontinuance cf Sunday labour in the Post-office.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY presented a petition
from Southwark to the same effect.

Mr. MARTIN presented a petition from Pontefract to
the same effect. _

An Hort. MEMBER presented a petition from Bottet.-
ford, to the same effect.
Mr. FREW EN presented a petition from Leicester-
shire to the same etf,et.
Mr. ADDERLEY presented a petition signed at a
public meeting by 4,271 of the inhabitants of Cape
Town, in South Africa, setting forth that they telt
deeply aggrieved by cerain Orders in Council, dated in
September, .1..443, by which that colony was made a
penal settlement for convicts under sentence of trans-
portation from this country; also petitions, very much
to the same eff,-er, from the inhabitants of Port Eiza-
beth, in she eas,ern province of the Cape of Good Hope,
and from the crnanaissioners and W and masters of Cape
Toen. The Ilon. Member gave notice that on Monday
next he should move that those petitions be printed with
the Votes.