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that the standing orders of the House had not her!!
,oreplied with. .
After a few words from Lord ALTHORP, the
petition was laid on the Table.
Mr. HOBHOUSE moved for certain return,
relative to the rate, and application of the rates, of
St, Martins-M-the-Fields,-since the year 1826.
CORPORATION ANI) TEST ACTS.
Mr. GYE presented petitions from the Disscit•
ten of Boston and other places, praying for a re-
peal of the Corporation and Test Acts.
Mr, DUGDALE presnuted similar petitions lion,
Halesowen, Birruingliain, and several other places.
Lord STANLEY presented similar petitions from
the Dissentera of . Ashton-under-Line, Churchtowit,
Lancaster., Southport; and Bolton-le-Moors.
Mr, LITTLETON presented five similar peti-
tioirs from as many Oates in the county of Stafford.
Mr. HUSKISSON presented similar petitions
from the Dissenters of Renshaw-street, and Para:
clise-street, Liverpool. Also from Duncan, Russel;,
Great George, and various other streets in the same
city and also from Norwood, in Surrey—hi all 30.
pair ROBERT INGLIS presented a similar pe-
tition from Ripon, in the county of York.
Mr. 'SIKES pz,lsented similar petitions from
Chapels in Hull.
Mr. Mclennan WOOD presented similar peal.
Titions from the Dissenters of Grafton-street, Soho;
Whitchtuch, Salop, and various other parts of the.
Kingdom.
Mr. MACKINNON presented a similar petition
from a chapel in Ipswich.
Mr. CAREW presented several petitions from
the Gstholic inhabitants of various parishes in the
county of Wexford, praying for Emancipation.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented seven petition:,
praying fur the repeal of the Test and Corporation
Au!, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other places,
Sir M. W. RIDLEY also presented a petition
liom the Maltsters of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pray-
ing fer a repeal of the Malt Act.
Sir GILBERT HEATHCOTE presented two
petitions from the Dissensters of two chapels of
ostcn, praying for a repeal of the 'Pest and Corp-
!•ation Acts.

Mr. PORTMAN presented some similar petition.
from the Dissenters of Weymouth and other place.
in Dorsetshire.

Mr, PORTMAN presented a p :tition from the
Maltsters (f Dorset, praying for a repeal of the
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Lord MILTOiN; said, lie had no less than twenty-
IY from various congregations of Bissell-
iii different parts of the kingdom, and in doing;
he felt it incumbent upon him to make one obser-
11U01/. The loyalty of the Dissenters had-been al.
ways
.exemplary, even at times when the Established
Church could hardly boast of its fidelity, and he
tinted that this mistaken loyalty would not be suf-
fered to go unrewarded.

The petitioi►s were then brought up and ordered
‘3 lie on the table.

Sir J. COTTERELL presented a petitiOn from
the Maltsters of Jedburgb, praying for a repeal of the
Malt Act.

Lord JAMES STEWART presented petitieir3
from the Dissenters. of Glamorgan and Cardigan,
Praying for the • repeal of the 'rest and Corporation
Acts.

Mr. J. COOPER presented petitions from the
31altstfts of ecrtain places in Gloucester, praying for
the repeal of the :nth Act.. „

BOROUGH OF EAST REDFORD,

Mr. FL'RGUSSON presented a petition from the
,inhabitants of the Borough of East Redford, calling
.en the House not to transfer the Elective Franchise
to any other town, but to extend the franchise to the
householders paying a certain:rent.
Sir GEORGE PHILLIPS presented'a petition
iron] the Protestant Dissenters of a congregation in
Manchester, for the repeal of the Test arid Corpora-
tion Acts. The Hon. Member made Some observa-
tions in support of the...petition, and read a letter
from the Minister of the 'congregation froin which
the 'neSition _emanated,. statina that he awl his Ilri,k
were lavouratile.l6 the repeal of all laws affecting re-
ligious opiions.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. HURST presented similar petitions • from
Honiton, Exmoath, , and other places in the county
of Devon. .

Mr. HARVEY presented similar petitions from
Colchester. The Member said, one of the petitions
was signed by a County Magistrate and three Cler-
gymen beionging to the EstabliShed Church.
RUORIVI OF:THE
.COURTS OF LAW.

Mr. BROU'GRADI adjourned the further debate
en the Courts of Law, Ervin Monday to. Friday next.
Mr. HARVEY moved for returns of the convic-
tions under the Malt Acts, from July •182.4 to July
1827, and also for a return of the number of bushels
of Malt seized. The Hon. Member also gave notice
of a motion on the same subject for the -11th March.
Mr. LASCELLES presented a petition front the
'•laltsters of NorthallertOn, fOr the repeal of the
Malt-Tax.

Mr. HAY presented, a petition from the Ater-
dlantt, of Edinburgh, for the repeal of the Scotch
Receipt Tax.

CORPORATION AND TEST ACTS.

Mr. C. N. PALLMER presented a petition, from
Jamaica-road, Bermondsey,- for the repeal of the
Corporation and Test Acts; similar petitions
were presented from Bradford and Trowbridge,
county of Wilts; by Mr. -Bennett; from Thirsk,
Yorkshire, by Mr. Fvkinkkind from Ealing, Dart-
month; and everal other places; by Sir Robert
Wilson ; from Mapleto►► Chapel, by Lord Wil-
liam Russell from a parish in Buckinghain, by
Sir Thos. Freemantle-; from parishes in Kent and
lievon, by Sir George Warrender; front King's
Chapel, 'Maidstone, by Mr. Wells ; from the Unitarian
Chapel, King's Lynn, by Lord G. Hendrick ; by Mr.
Leonard.frorn. a parish in Suffolk; by Mr. Calcraft
front Keppel-street, Russell-square, from New Se-
rum, and from Falmouth ; from 13 parishes in Car-
marthenshire, try Mr. Jones ; by Mr. Baring, from
Taunton and other places in Sornersetshire ; by Mr.
Byng from the Independent Chapel, Old Gravel-
.