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

CORN-LAWS.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented several petitions
agaitist the Corn-laws.
Sir ANDREW LEITH HAY presented a petition
from Banff, praying for the total and immediate repeal
of the Corn laws.

Mr. HOULDSWORTH presented eleven petitions,
from different places in Yorkshire, with the same prayer.
Mr. BELL presented a petition from Glasgow, pray-
ing for a change in the passenger-duties on railways.
Mr. STANSFIELD presented petitions from several
townships, parishes, 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 alteration
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 Varrington, 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, com-
plaining of the Corn-laws and other evils arising from
class legislation.

Mr. —THORNELY presented petitions • against the
Corn-laws.

Mr. 11. BERKELEY presented a petition from a
numb:,r 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
‘,‘ jib 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 praying 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 the tolls on the Metropolitan Bridges.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented 50 petitions against the
Corn-la %vs.

Mr. WALtACE presented six petitions praying for a
total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Sir J..IIOBHOLTSIi preSented t petition from Not-
t:ngham 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 MAULE presented several petitions for a
repeal of the Corn-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 Cheam, praying for the abolition of
the Poor-law Commission ; also a petition from Kidder-
minster praying for 4 complete extension of the Franchise
aad 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-laws.
Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Crediton,
praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. EWART presented six petitions from Annan 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
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 Corn-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 Sheffield,
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 for the total and im-
mediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. MARK PHILLIPS presented a petition from the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, complaining that the
plan proposed by her Majesty's Government respecting
the Corn-.laws was totally inadequate to the exigencies
of the people, denouncing class legislation of every
kind, repudiating all protection, whether of manufactures
or agriculture, claiming the privilege of exchanging the
produce of their industry with other countries, praying
for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
He also presented fifty other petitions from parties em-
ployed in different works in Manchester, praying for
the total and immediate repeal of the COrn-laws.
Mr. PARKER presented a petition from a town in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for the total and
immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
NOTICE OF MOTIONS.—PRESBYTERIAN MAR-