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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY le.
Sir J. YORKE presented a Petition from the Proprietors
Waterloo Bridge, praying to be heard by Counsel against cer-
tain provisions cOntailted lit the lambety Roads NlL—Referred
to the Committee on the- Bill.
Lord BINNING having obtained leave to present a Petition
for • BM to incorporate the Subscribers to the Scotch Na-
tional Monument, presented it accordingly.—Ordered to lie on
the table.
Lord SA NDON presented i Petition from the Farmers, Tan-
neys, Currier*, Saddlers, and other inhabitants of the town of
Merlon. praying the repeal of the Leather Tae.—Ordered to
be printed.
A Petition was presented from Tynemouth, praying for Sixes:
vision of the Criminal Code.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. BRANDLINO presented a Petition from the Inhabit-
tants of a Parish in Northumberland, praying a revision of the
Criminal Law.—Ordered to be printed.
Colonel BAGWELL presented a Petition from the Sheriff
and Grand Jury of the County of Tipperary, representing the dis-
tress which prevailed in that part of Ireland, and praying the
House to impose duties on the importation-of foreign Butter.
Colonel BAGWELL also presented a Petition from Frederick
Hawkins; Esq. late Clerk of the Crown for the same County,
praying the interposition of Parliament for the restoration of his
vested rights.—linth ordered to be printed.
Mr. Cli A LONER presented a Petition from the Curtiers,
Tanners, and other inhabitants of York against the Leather
Tax.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. T. WILSON presented a Petition from certain persons
carrying on the trade of Currier' in London and Westminster,
against else repeal of the Leather Tax.—Laid on the table.
Sir C. COLE presented a Petition from the High Sheriff and
Grand Jury of the County of Glamorgan against the present
system of Welsh Judicature, and praying that justice might be
administered in Wales as it was in England.
After a few words from Mr. Aaszeitostar and Sir W. W.
Wr:se the Petition was read and ordered to be printed.
Mr. ALLAN postponed his motion on the subject of Welsh
Judicature till the 23d instant.
Mr. BEN NET brought in a Bill to regulate the granting of
Publicans' Licenses.—Bead a first and ordered to be read a
second time on Monday, and the Bill to be printed.
Mr. N. CALVERT brought up the Report of the Bakers'
Regulation Bill, which was ordered to be taken into further con-
sideration on the 21st instant.
Mr. BYNG brought up the Report of the Committee on a
Petition for leave to present a Petition, and pray fqr leave to
bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Law with respect to
County Bates in the County of Middlesex.—Leave wps given to
present this Petition, which was accordingly presented and or-
dered to be laid on the table.
Lord EDW ARD SOMERSET presented a Petition from
btawel Vold, complaining of Agricultural Distress.—Ordered
to be printed.
Sir WM. CONYNGIIAM FA IRLIE obtained leave to
bring in a Bill to amend the inat George 111. chap. 51, for im-
proving Lands in Scotland, held under strict entail.
General GASCOY.NE presented a Petition from the Ship-
owners of Liverpool against the Lill for amending the Navigation
Laws.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. L. LECK presented a Petition from a Parish in the
County of Leicester, against the Catholic Peers' BilL—Ordered
W he printed. •
Mr. SYKES presented a Petition.from the Guardians of the
Poor at Kingston-upon-liun, against the Poor Removal
Ordered to be printed.
Mrs GOOCH presented a Petition from the Tanners, Cur.
Tiers and others concerned in the Leather Trade, at Ipswich, in
Suffolk, praying for a new Regulation of the Leather Tax.—Or-
dered to lie on the table.
Mr. COKE presented a Petition from certain Owners and
Occupiers of Land in the Hundred of Treebridge, in the money
of Norfolk, on the subject of Agricultural Distress.--Orristud
to be printed.
Mr. T. WILSON moved for a Return of the quantities of
Foreign Spirits imported in the last year.—Ordered.
Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a Petition from the Mayor,
Recorder, Aldermen, and Corporation of Canterbury, against
the Catholic Peers Bill. After a few words front Lord QM..
rno, the Petition was ordered to be printed.
VAGRANT LAWS AMENDMENT BILL.
Mr. CHETWYND moved that the Vagrant Laws Amend-
ment Bill should be recommitted.
The House went into a Committee on the Bill, in which the
Memorable Member stated the clauses which were considered
objectionable to have been omitted.
The clauses were then severally' read.
A clause respecting the specification of Gipsies, or persons re-
presenting themselves to be such, occasioned a conversation of
some length, and the gallery was ordered to be cleared ; but, ul-
timately, the clause was agreed to without a division.
The House having resumed, the Report was ordered to be re-
ceived to-mortow.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Mr. R. MARTIN rose to present a Petition from
certain inhabitants of the village of Camberwell, all
of whom he understood were persons of great re-
spectability and property, praying for some legisla-
tive enactment to prevent the ill-treatment of animals.
This subject at present occupied the minds of many
of the most inteliigent persons in the kingdom, and
the Petitions presented to the House were most re-
spectably signed. The House would be shacked, if he
were to enter into a statement of the cruelties practised,
even within a short distance of where they were then
sitting. In Westminster there was a place called the
Pit, where might be found congregating some of
the greatest vagrants in existence. By some it would
be said that Parliament ought not to interfere with
the amusements of the lower orders. The cruel prac-
tices, however, which he wished to suppress were not
the sports of the People, but those of a congregation
of wretches whose barbarities ought to be checked.—
lie held in his hand a bill which had been issued
some time ago, announcing that Jacko Atacama (a
monkey) who was called first cousin to Majocchi,
was to fight with a white bitch, and would fight any
dog of double his weight. The battle announced in
this bill took place. The bitch core the under jaw of
the monkey away altogether, and the monkey tore
out the bitch's windpipe ! They survived in agony I
for a short time, and then died. Sports so abhor-
rent to human feeling were not to be regarded with
.tenderness, as constituting the sports of the People.—
It was desirable to put them down in order to spare
human beings, for he, when l p went to this pit, in
order to see what was to be done there, saw a woman
who had just returned from a Hospital she had
been confined for six months, in consequence of her
scalp having been torn off by a bear—for at the place
in question bears are kit, as well as monkies, and
from fifty to sixty badgers. He believed, under the
existing law, such exhibitions could be stopped, but at
all events he thought an Hon: Friend of his who had
a Police measure us the House, could easily introduce
a clause to apply to them.—(Hear, Hear.)
,KIIART spoke against treating animals
Though the brute creation were sub-
... dominion of men, it was never intended
should be subjected to torture. He was there-
' to favour the Petition, and also the bill
Gentleman.
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