The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 8.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'Clock.

I - 11-r.BARNARD presented a petition from the inha-
bitants of gaze-hill, Greenwich, against the Corn-laws.
Mr. HINDLEY presented several petitions from Ash-
ton-under-Lyne to the same effect.
Mr. RICARDO presented similar petitions from St.
Pancras, the Tower Hamlets, and several other places.
Mr. STRUTT presented similar petitions from Derby.
Mr. WILSON presented petitions from Clithero, and
several places in Yorkshire, to the same effect.
Dr. BOWRING presented thirty petitions from dif-
ferent parts of the metropolis, in favour of the repeal of
the Corn-laws.
Mr. FERRAND presented petitions from the inha-
bitants of Keightley, agOATnst the Poor-law Bill.
Mr. BROTHERTM
presented a petition from the
members of the Christian Alethodist Chapel at Salford,
praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Lord DALMENY presented a petition from the Cor-
poration and Guild of Stirling, for a total repeal of the
Corn-laws.
Mr. STANSFIELD presented petitions from various
religious congregations and 'bodies of workmen in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for a total and im-
mediate repeal of the Corti-laws.
Mr. PHILLPOTTS presented four petitions from the
City of Gloucester, praying for a total repeal of the
laws affecting the importation of corn.
Mr. G. W. WOOD presented 32 petitions from the
county of Westmoreland, signed by persons of all classes,
many of them farmers, praying for a repeal of the Corn-
laws.
te-
Mr. LITTON presented a petition from a Presby
rian congregation in Coleraine, Ireland, praying for an
enactment legalising Presbyterian and Catholic mar-
riages.
Mr. WAWN presented two petitions from South
Shields, signed respectively by. 1,500 of the inhabitants,
and 2,800 workiier4, men, praying for a repeal of the
Corn-laws.
Mr. COBDEN presented several petitions from dis-
senting religious congregations in Ayr, Northumber-
land, Lancaster, and the town of Oldham, praying that
the Corn-laws might be repealed.
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
bee
inha-
bitants of Lyndhurst, praying that
and another one reason was, atthey might
ex-
empted from the operation of the Poor-laws. if he were Mr. COMPTON wished to know
reason annexed to the petition. • .
Mr.DU
fromNCo3olbBtatinrinepgli:ll:
that
what was called the workhouse test prevented the aged
and infirm
that under that system the rates annually increased.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN presented a petition from the
working classes of Paisley, complaining of the distress
of the country, and praying that some system of emigra-
tion might be devised, by which they might go to the
Colonies.

Mr. EWART presented petitions from Dunbar, in
Scotland, and from the members of Hope Chapel, Wigan,
in Lancashire, complaining of the distress of the coun-
try, and praying for the total and immediate repeal of
the Corn and Provision-laws.
Mr. COMPTON presented a petition from Porches-
ter, praying for the continuance of the present duties
on corn.

Sir G. DE H. LARPENT presented two petitions,
yery numerously signed, from .the Baptist congregation,
in NOttingham, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws;
Mr.- RENNIE presented a petition from the master-
shipbuilders of Ipswich, Harwich, and Woodbridge,
complaining of the present high rate of duty on timber
entering .the Cnited Kingdom, and' praying for its re-
duction..

Mr.HOWELL wished to ask the Noble Lord, Secretary
for Ireland,whether it was the intention of the Government
to introduce a measure for the purpose of remedying the
technical effects of, the Irish Municipal Reform Bill?
Those defects had been productive of great practical in-
, •
convenience.
Lord ELIOT said that he would take that op-
portunity of expressing a hope that any Honour-
able , Gentleman who might be desirous of put-
ting questions to the Government similar to those
of the Hon. Member would give previous notice of their
intention. He did not wish to enter at that moment
into the subject to which the Hon. Memher had alluded ;
and as he had not the honour of a seat in the Cabinet,
he was the biss able to intimate the intention of her
Majesty's Ministers. He was sure, however, that
if any practical grievances were pointed out, the Govern-
ment would be ready to apply a remedy. He was not
aware, however, that they had in contemplation any
measure on the subject to which the Hon. Member had
alluded.

Mr. HOWELL said that he did not Wish to press any
question improperly on the Noble Lord. lie would give
notice, however, that he would renew.his question of that
evening to-morrow.
Mr. D'ISRAELI postponed the motion of which ho
had given notice, with respect to the Consular Establish-
ments of Great Britain.