The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes to
Four o'clock.
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.

Petitions against this Bill were presented by Mr.
B. Smith, from Norwich; Mr.Duncan,from Dundee;
Mr. Chute, from King's Lynn; Lord J. Stuart, and
Mr. H. Berkley from Bristol.
Mr. B. SMITH presented a petition from the
printsellers of Norwich, praying for protection
against art-unions.
Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition from Ireland
against the national system of education in Ireland.
Sir E. FILMER presented a petition from Kent
praying for protection to agriculture.
Mr. G. KNIGHT presented a petition from 1,800
inhabitants of Port Phillip, New South Wales, com-
plaining of the Governor-General having removed a
judge from the bench, and praying for inquiry into
the circumstances.
Mr. C. ROUND presented a petition from Suffolk,
against the Bank Charter Bill.
Mr. YORKE presented a petition from Essex,
praying the House to take steps to arrest the progress
of incendiarism in that county.
Lord ELIOT presented a petition from Cornwall,
praying that the owners and not the occupiers of
small tenements may be rated to the poor.
KILMARNOCK. El*4ol--TION.
The SPEAKER informed tlO, House that he had
received a letter from the agents on the petition
against the return of the Kilmarnock burghs, stating
that it was not their intention to proceed with the
petition.—(Hear, hear.)
THE STATE TRIALS.
Mr. WYSE presented a petition from Pieree Ma-
honey and others, the solicitors to the traverser& in
the late State trials, complaining of the course pur-
sued at the late State trials in Dublin, and praying
the House to institute some legal inquiry into the
system that had been adopted in empannelling the
jury. The petitioners also expressed a hope that
that House would be found the guardian of trial by
jury. The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. HARDY presented petitions against the Dis-
senters' Chapels Bill.
Lord ASHLEY presented several petitions to the
same effect.
Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from Durham,
signed by 4,000 persons, praying the House to con-
tinue protection to agriculture.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the
stage coach and carriage proprietors of the metro-
polis, complaining of the monopoly of railways.
Mr. HAWES presented petitions against the Dis-
senters' Chapels Bill.

- GREENWICH PARK.
Mr. HAWES said he had a petition to presmt
from certain inhabitants of Greenwich, complaining
that there was an intention on the part of the Govern-
ment to make an encroachment upon Greenwich Park,
and to build private residences therein. Seeing the
Noble Lord, the Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, in his place, he trusted he might waive cere-
mony upon the occasion, and take the liberty of ask-
ing him if such intention did exist ?
The Earl of LINCOLN was quite willing to ac-
cede to. the wish of the Hon. Member, and had great
pleasure in assuring him, that the anxiety of the peti-
tioners was not justified by any application or conduct
of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. There
was no intention of the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests of building houses within . the
park.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") There was a
strip of land belonging to Greenwich Hospital ad-
joining the Park, and in order to render that ground
more available, it had been agreed to give up a piece
within the park, but the park would remain exactly
of the same extent. In company with one of the
officers of the Hospital he had gone over the proposed
alterations, and, not approving of the plan, had sent it
back for alteration.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HAWES—Am I to understand there is no
foundation for the report about building in the park ?
The Earl of LINCOLN—No foundation what-
ever.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from certain
Wesleyan deputies against the Dissenters Chapels
Bills ; and other petitions from the Tower Hamlets
to the same effect.
COUNTY RATES BILL.

The order of the day for the further proceeding
with the County Rates Bill was read in order to be
postponed.
STATE TRIALS (IRELAND).
Mr. WYSE said that he was compelled to defer
the motion of which he had given notice 10-morrow
night on the subject of the State trials in Ireland, in
consequence of the delay which had taken place in
laying before the House the papers which he had moved ,
for; he, therefore, gave notice that he should bring it
forward on the first supply night, as an amendment to
the motion that the House do resolve itself into a
Committee of Supply. He begged to move that the
petition which he had that night presented be printed
with the Votes.—Agreed to.
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.

Mr. F. SHAW gave notice that he should move
an amendment to the second clause of the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL.

Mr. MACKINNO/4 wished to ask the Noble
Lord when he intended to bring forward the Metro-
politan Buildings Bill?

Lord LINCOLN would bring it forward the first
opportunity.

POOR LAWS.

Mr. HOGG presented two petitions against the
new pcor-laws.

SUGAR DUTIES.

Sir ROBERT PEEL, in rising to move the
order of the day for going into Committee on the
Sugar Duties, said—Sir, it is probable that the House
will expect rom me some statement of the course
which her Majesty's Government propose to
pursue under the circumstances in they are
placed by the vote of Friday night upon
the sugar duties ; and assuming that statement
of-view. to be in general conformity with the wishes
and feelings of the House, I am prepared to make it,
if the House will allow me to make it, when the
House shall have resolved itself into a Committee,
and Mr. Greene shall be in the chair. Before we pro-
ceed any further with the resolution, I will then take
the opportunity of stating to the House the course
which her Majesty's Government propose to pursue.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he thought there could
be no objection to that course.
The House then went into Committee.
Sir R. PEEL then rose and said—Sir, I propose
now, with the permission of the Committee, to put it
in potession of the views her Majesty's Government
entertain with respect to the effect of the decision of
Friday evening on the subject of the sugar duties, and
the course which it is their intention to pursue
as a preliminary to their intention. The Com-
mittee will permit :me, perhaps, to refer,
in the first place, to the course the Government have
pursued in the present year with respect to the finan-
cial policy of the country, and the motives which
have induced them to take the course they have pur-
sued, and particularly the views they entertain upon
those particular duties which were imposed on foreign
and colonial sugar. The opinions we entertain on
the subject of the sugar duties are those we
have entertained and continued in for several
years past views we expressed when oppo-
nents of her Majesty's Government, and which
we have entertained since we have been entrusted
with power, and which we still at the present time
entertain, and intend to act upon. 'We are of opi-
nion that the ordinary considerations which deter-
mine matters of financial and commercial policy
do not apply to the article of sugar. We
find that this country had adopted, with
respect to the slave-trade, a particular course
of action, from which it may be inferred that
it considers the continuance of the slave-trade as one
of the greatest evils and curses by which humanity
can be surrounded. This country has entered into
treaties with foreign Powers, engaging them to co-
operate for the putting down of the slave-trade. Un-
der ordinary circumstances we are willing to admit
that the regulation of the affairs of every country is
within the province and exclusive jurisdiction of each
independent State, but we have engaged other.powers
to co-operate with us by treaties for the suppression
of the slave trade, the chief onus of attemptth g to
suppress which has fallen on this country. We have
thought ourselves justified with regard tgi,the general
interests of the world to do the best in our power for
the extinction of slavery in our dominionsi and we have
thought ourselves justified upon consideNtions wholly
apart from interested motives, but as the promoters of
humanity, to call upon this country to make greater
sacrifices for the suppression of the slave trade, than
any other country in the world. This country had
voted 20,000,0001. of money, and up to the present
hour great expenditures were going on in Africa and
other. parts of the world, not in the dominions of this
Country, but at its expense,
for. the suppression
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