The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-10 00:00:00

MAYNOOT il.

Mr. BROTHERTON and another Hon. Member pre-
sented petitions against the grant to Maynooth.
COPPER ORE.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition, signed by the
pincipal merchants of Manchester, for a repeal of the
duty on copper ore.

SMALL DEBTS BILL.
The How. MEMBER also presented a petition in favour
of the Small Debts County Courts Bill, introduced last
session by the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for
the Hone Department, and praying that a similar mea-
sure might be introduced this session.

Mr. IANNERMAN presented a petition from a place
in Scotland against any alteration in the Scotch system
of banking.
Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND presented a petition
from Preston, signed by 700 persons, against the sale of
intoxicating drink on Sundays.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented several petitions
from Lincolnshire against the grant to the College of
Maynooth.

kr. B. FERRAND presented a petition from the
wood-sawyers of Manchester, Salford, Paisley, and
Bury, in Lancashire, complaining of the privations they
suffered from the existence of saw mills ; and two pe-
titions from Glasgow, in favour of a Ten Hours' Fac-
tory Bill. _ .

LAW OF SETTLEMENT.
The HoN. MEMBER also presented a petition from
two guardians of the Newbury Union, against the new
law of settlement intended to be introduced into Parlia-
ment this sessitin.

Several Hon. Afembf,rs presented petitions against any
'urthQr grant to Alaynooth.

Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the in-
habitants of Glasgow, praying for the limitation of the
time of labour to ten hours a day.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.

Mr. O. DUNCOMBE presented a petition against
the proposed grant to Maynooth.
Lord BERNARD presented a petition from the grand
jurors of the county of Cork, praying that the national
funds for the education of those belonging to the Estab-
lished Church may be respected. He presented petitions
from Cove, Churchtown, Bandon, and several other
place,, to the same effect ; and also a petition from
Youghal against the intended grant to Maynooth.
Mr. BARING presented a petition from the Wes-
leyan Methodists, against the Maynooth grant.
Mr. HAMILTON presented three petitions against
the increased grant to Maynooth ; also eleven petitions
in favour of Church Extension.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a petition from Kent,
signed by 19,000 persons, against the increased grant to
Maynooth ,• also several petitions from other places to
the same effect.
Mr. WARD presented seventeen petitions to the same
effect. Some of the petitions opposed the grant
to Maynooth, on the ground that it was but a step to-
wards Popery ; others on the ground that the Roman
Catholic religion was idolatrous and unchristian; others
because they were opposed to all State establishments.
Mr. HINDLEY presented forty petitions from the
following places against the Maynooth grant :—From
the inhabitants of Prettswell. Essex ; Southend, Essex ;
Pershore, Worcestershire ; Whetstone, Middlesex ; the
Independents of Pendleton, Lancashire ; the Protestant
Dissenters of Marlborough, Wilts ; Grove Chapel, Cam-
berwell ; Wivinhoe, Essex ; Wingham, Essex ;
Salem Chapel, Leeds ; Braintree, Essex ; Burton-on-
Trent, Staffordshire; Primitive Methodists, Slade Cha-
pel, Ilkstone. Leicestershire; Langley, Hants; Baptists,
King's-road Chapel, Reading ; Lymington, llants ; the
Committee and Teachers of the Sunday School Union,
Colchester ; Bewes, St. Mary's, Suffolk ; Halsted,
Essex ; Lion-walk Sunday School, Colchester ;
Helveden,Essex; Mawrington, Essex; Stockwell Chapel,
Sunday School, Colchester; Laye Breton, Essex; Ded-
ham, Essex; Hoelgate Chapel Sunday School, Colches-
ter ; Tollesbury, Essex ; Great Oakley, Essex ; St.
Osyth, Essex; Grinstead, Colchester; Harwich, Essex;
Nayland, Suffolk; Wesleyan Sunday School, Colches-
ter; Brightlingsea, Essex; Baptist School at Thorne-le-
Token, Essex.
Mr. S. WORTLE Y presented petitions from places in
Yorkshire, against the grant to Maynooth.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE pre. ented a petition from
Stoke Newington, against the grant to the College of
Maynooth.
Alr. FORBES presented a petition against the Scotch
Central Railway Bill.
Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from Hereford
against the Jewish Disabilities Bill.
IMPEACHMENT OF SIR R. PEEL.
Mr. FERRAND gave notice that he would, on
Friday evening, present a petition, signed by 2,000
members of the Dublin Protestant Operative Associa-
tion, charging Sir Robert Peel, the First Lord of the
Treasury, with high crimes and misdemeanours—(Great
laughter)—and praying for his impeachment.—(Renewed
laughter.)
AUSTRALIAN CORN.
Mr. lIUTT moved that the petition which he ht'd
presented from the merchants of London, on the subject
of Australian corn, be printed.
PAUPER LUNATICS.
Sir C. NAPIER moved that the petition of the
Chairman of the Vestry of St. Marylebone, for inquiry
into the treatment of pauper lunatics at the Asylum at
Hanwell, be printed.
LUNATICS IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. F. MAULE moved that the petition from the
Prison Board of the county of Fife, respec ing criminal
lunatics in Scotland (presented Bth April), be printed.