The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

INCOME ?I'AKr.

Lord BROUGHAM said he had been requested by
sesiral Noble Lords not to bring his mot' n, of whit h
be had given totice last night, forward to-night, Lut he
`should do so on Thursday.

Lord FITZGERALD and VESCI presented a peti-
ion from the millers and mill-owners of Galway, ugaimt
he importAion of foreign flour,

Several Bills, brought from the Hous6 of Comm
racsed the first reading.
The House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MANCH 15.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.
The Great North of England Railway Bill was read a
second time.
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BIDDULPII presented a petition from the Dean
and Chapter of Durham against the Great North of
'ngland Railway Bill.
MARYLEBONE VESTRY BILL.

Mr. GORE presented a petition from the district of
St. Mary, in the parish of Marylebone,.praying that the
Home would pass this Bill. •
NATIONAL F4OATING BREAKWATER.
On the Order of the Day for • the second reading of
This Bill being read,-
Captain FITZROY said he wished to draw the atten-
tion of the House to the subject of the Floating Break-
water, that they might inquire into its probable
defects. He • wished, to draw their attention to this
subject, because he believed that wood would
not float in the sea for more than two or three
years, unless protected by some metallic substance.
It would also be.subject to the action of worms. An-
other objection to the principle was, that the chains by
which the breakwater were to-be Moored were soon cor-•
roded by rust, and' rendered uSelesS. In proof of that,
he need.only mention that the buoys now placed on the
coast by. the Trinity House were obliged to be examined
every six months, and the chains and rings by which
they were fastened never lasted more than six or seven
years at the utmost. It was for this reason that he felt
it his duty -to call the attention of the House to the
subject.
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'the Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed. •
P.ARISII OF ST. MARYLEBONE.

Mr. MACIiINNON, having moved the Order of the
Day for the second roading of the St. 3.larylebone Pa-
rish (Paving, &c.) Bill,
.presented a petition, signed by
600 ratepayers of the parish, in its &your.

Sir B. HALL pre-sented several petitions, among
which was one signed by Lord Nugent, against the Bill.
Mr. MACKINNON said that it was not his intention
.o raise any discussion on the Bill at present. He would
only observe that, in moving the second reading of the
Bill, he was influenced by the fact that two points had
been abandoned respecting it which, gave general satis-
faction :—one - related to the committing of
a job by the vestries, respecting the, salary of
the Treasurer ; the other referred to the qualificatii n
of vo'ers. Under those circumstances he woul l make no
further opposition to the Bill.
Sir B. 11 ALL was greatly surprise 1. that th-3 Hon.
Gentleman should have brought forward a Bill of so im-
portant a description as his was, without statist;; some
reasons fi r so doing. It was a Bill, in fact, fin• the re-
peal of all the local Acts referring to that parish. He
would cal: the attention of the House to the petition
presented by the Hon. Gentleman in favour of the Bill.
No per. on could 131 more desirous than he (Sir 13.
Hall) was to pay the greatest attention to the
petitions presented to that House, but he felt himself
bound tu.say that the petition to which he referred on
the present occasion was got up under gross fraud and
falSe statements. He had received several letters which
h would read to the House to show that such was the ease.
The Hon. Member then proceeded to read extra6ts
from letters addressed to -him by several individuuts,
stating that they had been induced to sign the petition
by nusrepfesentations of its
purport, it having beenstated to them that-its object was to obtain a reduction,
or an equalization of
.the rates ; they would not have
.signed it had they been aware tat its object was to do
away with the local acts. One writer stated that ha
he known its true character be would not have given his
sanction to so infamous a Bill. These letters the Hon.
Member ofThred to place in the hands of his Hon. Friend,.
and he apprehended, after what he had stated, that
little credit should attach to the signatures to the
petition.—(Hear.) Before his Hon. Friend brought
in a Bill of this description he should have stated
the grounds on n hich it was proposed. As far as he
could understand the Bill, it tended both to affect the-
local Acts, and---(The. Hon. Member' was here inter-
rupted by
in g the Speaker to 'hear the Royal assent given by com-
a message from .the House of Lords, summon_
missionto certain Bills.)
• • ROYAL ASSENT.
The, PEAKER, on his return, communicated to the
House that he hid been to :the House of Lords to hear
the Royal assent_ given by Commission to the Van
Dieman's Land and Duehy of Cornwall Bills,
ELECTION PETITIONS (GREAT MARLOW).
The following
Members were swori4fo,try the merits