The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House was summoned to attend a Commission in
the House of Lords, for the purpose of giving the Royal
Assent to several Biils.
On the Speaker's return, Mr. V. FITZGERALD took the
oaths and his seat for Newport.
On the motion of General GA scovris, that the Report
oa the Liverpool Church be brought up,
Mr. W. HARVEY opposed it on the ground that it
was a misappropriation of the grant to the Commissioners
for Building Churches, which was intended for the provision
of churches where the people were not sufficiently ac-
commodated, and never was intended to have been ex-
pended on places which were able to provide for them-
elves.
Mr. HUME also opposed the Grant. It was only in-
tended to apply the million and a half voted to the building
of churches, where the inhabitants had contributed, and
could not make up the deficiency.
General GASCOYNE, is reply, stated, that Le would
not persist in the :notion, which was ultimately postponed
till this city week.
Mr. BELL presented two petitions against the Orphans
Duty on Coals, from the Coal Owners of
.London and
6outhwark,
Mr. FERGUSON said, that this duty ought not to be
continued. He would ask his Hon. Friend the Member
for Westminster, if he would submit that the people of
Westminster should be taxed for the local improvements
of the City of London.
4lderrnan WOOD contended that the coal-owners had
more reason to complain of the combination in the north,
by which ss. or 6s. per chaldron were laid on coals while
the present Bill only imposed Cs. per eltaldron. Part of
the Orphans' Fund had been applied to the improvement
of Westminster, as well as of London and Southwark.
After a few words from Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN,
the petition was ordered to be referred to the Committee
on the Bill. _ .

Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the town
of Leeds, in favour of Emancipation. He stated that his
deliberate and advised opinion was, tlaat there was a large
and preponderating majority in all parts of Yorkshire,
ip favour of the Catholics.
Lord MILTON differed with the Hon. Member in sup-
posing that the majority was on that side of the question.
Petitions had only b, en presented front 118 places, front a
county which contained between 800 and 900 parishes.
Q 4 the motion of Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN the Bill
for rebuilding Et, Pgnstan's Church, Fleet-street, was
read a second time.

The LORD MAYOR presented a petition from several
individuals against the proposed approaches to London-
bridge.
Sir lAN4S M'INTOWI postponed the motion of
which he had given nritice, respecting Portugal, till
after the Easter recess, the Hod. Baronet a1%9 gaYe
notice, that on Thursday next he should present a Petition
from the City Of Edinburgh in favour of Catholic Eman-
piration.
Sir k;Rw4up KNATCHBULL presented petitions
and —nine iilaccs in the County of
from Deptfnrif,
Kent, against any further CoM•essions to Use
Catholics.
Nr, MUNDY presented a ptition from Chesterfield
and iwo other places in the county of Derby, against
the Cathoilc The one from Chesterfield was
agreed to at a public meeting regularly convened, and al-
most unanimously-,.-it Was also signed by Olio gagi

strates.
Lord G. CAVENDISH slid the AlaOstrates who had
‘;,,T.:ed the petition did not reside io the neighbourhood,
and' wa4 ,thr,,y did not express the sense of the ma-
jority of the district:
After a few words from Mr. Cam!Prox, the petiticp
brought up and read.
A Message i:roy the Lords announced their Lordships
having agreed to several private petitions.
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