The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-19 00:00:00

HOUSE OF -^CD.4IIAIIONS, FEB. 18.

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The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock.
The Midland County ,Railway Bill was brought in,
read a first, and ordered 'to lie read a second time on
Monday.

Mr. i3ARNARD brought in the London and Green-
wich Railway Bill which was read a first, and ordered to
be read a second time on Monday. .
Colonel ROLLESTONE.,brought in the Nottingham
Gas Bill (No. I),•which was read a first, and ordered to
be read a second time.

Sir G. LAR PENT brought in the Nottingham (No. 2)
Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a
second time.-

Mr. M. PHILLIPS brought in the Manchester In-
firmary Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be
read a second time.

Sir J. EASTHOPE presented a petition, signed by
the Mayor and Corporation of Leicester, against the
Government plan for the alteration of the Corn-laws,
and praying for their total repeal. The Wm. Baronet
also presented a similar petition, most numerously signed,
agreed to at a public meeting in the open air at Leices-
ter, the 'Mayor in the chair. The lion. Member also
presented eight similar petitions from different parts of
the country., •,

Mr. LOPIWART presented a petition complaining
of undue assessment in consequence of the New Prison

Mr. BI OTHERTON presentvd several petitions
against the Corn-laws.

-:Sir ANDREW LEITH HAY presented a petition
from Banff, praying for the total and immediate repeal
of the Corn laws.

Mr. HOULDSWORTII presented eleven petitions,
from different plaCes in Yorkshire, with the same prayer.
Mr. BELL presented a petition from Glat,gow, pray-
ing for a change in the passenger-duties on railways.
Mr. STA.NSFIELD presented petitions from several
townships, rarishes, and 'congregations in the county
of York, praying for the total and immediate repeal of
the Corn-laws. •

Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition from Staley-
bridge, signed by 3,600 persons, praying the House to
reject the measure of the Government for an alteratioii
of the Corn-law, as calculated to afford no relief to the
country, and praying the House to repeal totally and en-
tirely the present Corn and Provision-laws; and, further,
to enact a law by which every man at the age of 21
years, and of sound mind, should be entitled to
the elective franchise. Another, agreed upon at a pub-
lic meeting. in the borough of Warrington, and signed
by the Chairman ; two other petitions from the Young
Men's Anti-Monopoly Association at Ashton-under-
Lyne' and the Congregation of Independent Dissenters.
at Warrington, for a total and immediate repeal of the
Corn-laws. Also, a petition from a cotton weaver at
Ashton-under-Lyne, of the house of J. A. Stewart, coin-
plaining of the Corn-laws and Other evils arising from
class legislation.
Mr. THORNELY presented petitions against the
Corn-laws. •

Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from a
number of the Society of Friends, in Bristol, praying
for a removal of import duties, especially those on corn
and provisions. The petitioners stated their belief that,
unless these restrictive duties were removed, the people
would be driven desperate by starvation..
Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from the
wife and daughter of Mr. Chambers, the late banker, in
Bond-street, praying that a clause be inserted in the
Bankrupt Act, providing that no person be incarcerated
on account of Bankruptcy proceedings, after the age of
sixty-nine.

Petitions prayiug for a total repeal of the Corn-laws
were presented by Sir E. Colebrook, Mr. Wilson, and
Mr. Lewis Ricardo. •

Mr. WAKLEY presented, a petition for the total re-
peal of the Corn-laws, and another for the commutation
of :he tolls on the Metropolitan Bridges. •
Mr. M. GIBSON presented 50 petitions against the
Corn-laws.
Mr. WALLACE presented six petitions praying for a
total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Sir J. 110BEIOUSE presented a petition from Not-
tingham against the. Corn-laws.
Dr. BOWRING presented 23 petitions, signed by
16,900 persons, against the Corn-laws.
Mr. G. W. WOOD presented petitions to the same
effect.

Mr. HUTT presented a petition from Hull, signed by
8,000 persons, to the same effect.
Mr. YORKE presented 41 petitions signed, praying
for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Lord DALMENY presented a petition from Stirling,
to the same effect.

Sir BENJAMIN HALL presented a petition from
Marylebone, praying that the bridges may be opened;
also several petitions from the same place, praying for a
repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. FOX MAUL E presented several petitions for a
repeal of the Cnrn-laws.
Sir CHARLES NAPIER presented several petitions
to the same effect.

Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from an indi-
vidual in Camberwell, Surrey, praying the House to
take into early consideration the duties on foreign cut-
lery, linens, muslins, bobbins, and other foreign produc-
tions, with a view to the reduction of those duties, in
order to enable the people of England, who now pay
exorbitantly for English manufactures, to have the bene-
fit of the skill of foreign artizans. The petitioner
added, that such a step would promote the general wel-
fare of mankind.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Colonel ANSON presented a petition, signed by 6,000
persons, from Durham, against the Corn-laws ; also a
petition to the same effect from a place in Shropshire.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition signed by
112 rate payers of Oheam, praying for the abolition of
the Poor-law Commission ; also a petition from Kidder-
minster praying for a complete extension of the Franchise
and for Vote by Ballot.

Sir G. STRICKLAND presented two petitions from
Preston praying for an alteration in the Corn-laws, and
ten petitions from Dewsbury, all to the same effect.
Mr. MURRAY presented a petition from Dundee,
praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from Bath,
praying for a total repeal of the Corn-hws.
Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Creditcn ,
praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. EWART presented six petitions from Annaa and
other places, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Lord NEWRY presented a petition from Down, pray-
ing the House to pass a measure legalising Presbyterian
mixed marriages.
Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented two petitions from
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Macclesfield, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Cocker-
mouth, praying for a total repeal of the orn-laWs.
Mr. COBDEN presented .petitions from Staleybridge,
and from other places in Yorkshire and Devonshire, to
the same effect.

Mt. WARD presented petitions from several agri.
cultural parishes in the neighbourhood of Sheeld,

praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws, or, at all events,
a reduction of the duty.
: Mr. C. VILLIERS presented several petitions from
Dissenting congregations, praying
rr the
im-
mediate repeal of the Corn-law's.
ARK.
Manclester Chamber of Corn-law's.:on:
Mr. M PHILLIPS presented-a petition from the
Commerce,
laining that the
plaza proposed by her Majesty's Government respecting
the Corn-laws was totally inadequate to the exigencies
of the people, denouncing class legisl.ition of every
•kind, ropudiating all proto.•-ction, whether of manufactures
or agriculture, claiming the
privilege of exchanging. the
produce of their industry w ith other countries, praying
for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
lie a1.,0 presented fifty other petitions from parties em-
ployed in different works in 'Manchester, praying fir
the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. PARKER presented a petition from a town in
the' Vest Riding of Yorkshire, praying for the total and
immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
NOTICE OF MOTIONS.—fRESBYTERIAN MAR-