The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

SECOND READINGS.

The Leeds and Bradford Railway, the Guildford Junction
Railway, and the Furness Railway Bills were read a second
time.

ATHLONE ELECTION.

The following Gentlemen were sworn as Members for try-
ing the petition apinst the rettrn for the Borough of Ath-
lone :—The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Hon. W. 0. Stan-
ley, Mr. H. Beckett, Mr. Wm. Lockhart, Mr. W. Cripps,
Mr. H. G. Ward, and Mr. J. S. Pakington.
RAILWAYS.

Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham, in
favour of a fair competition in the conveyance of goods on
railways.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition agreed on at a public
meeting in Liverpool, which the Hon. Member stated, but for
the desire of having it speedily presented would have been
signed by 20,000 persons. It stated the petitioners' satisfac-
tion at the intention expressed by her Majesty, to redress the
grievances of the people, and they hoped the House
would respond to her gracious intention. 'they com-
plained of the imperfect state of the representation
of the country, and of the powers assumed by that
Heuse in taxing the people, notwithstanding that im-
perfect condition of the representation. They requested the
House not to put military power into the hands of the Go-
vernment, to maintain a stste of things in Ireland, that would
be intolerable in England. They complained of the manner in
which money was voted away in that House, and of the in-
tolerable wrong that such a multitude should be obliged to
pay such sums, while they were not concerned, directly or
indirectly, with the representation ; and they prayed that no
more public money should be granted until their grevances
were redressed. _ _

Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from Preston
against the monopoly in the conveyance of goods on railways.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Kettering,
signed by 597 of its inhabitants, complaining that taxation took
away from the working man a large portion of his weekly
earnings. They alleged that taxation without representation
was tyranny, and they prayed that before voting away the
public money the House would proceed to redress the people's
grievances ; also a petition from the wood-sawyers and masons
of Aberdeen to the same effect.
SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.

Mr. EWART presented a petition from the inhabitants
of Lambeth, complaining of the conduct of the Lambeth
Waterworks Company in not supplying pure water, and praying
for inquiry.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. W ALLACE presented a petition from ad individual
named Black, complaining of the manner in which justice was
administered in the Small Debts Court of the county of
Stirling. We understood the Hon. Gentleman to say that it
was his intention on some future occasion to call the attention
of the House to the subject of the petition.
CORN-LAW S.
The Hox. GENTLE 34 AN then presented a petition praying
for an alteration in the corn laws.
TOBACCO DUTIES.
Mr. T. DUNCOMRE presented eighteen petitions from
the borough of Finsbury praying for an alteration in the duties
on tobacco.

NEW POOR-LAVV.
The Horr. MEMBER. then presented petitions from Man.
chester and from Gravesend, praying that those places migh
be exempted from the operation of the new poor.law.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON presented a petition from Mann
cheater, in favour of Lord Ashley's motion for a Select Corn.
mittee to consider the subject of medical relief for the poor.

RAILWAY COMMIT rEE.
Mr. GLADSTONE moved the nomination of the Select
Committee on Claslification of Railway Bills, in conformity
with the fifth resolution on Railways :—Mr. Bingham Baring,
Sir Charles Lemon,. Mr. Rice, Mr. Acland, and Sir John
Walsh.