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of justice which had been extended to all classes of his Majesty's
subjects who had dissented from the Church of England.—(hear.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL begged it to be understood that
he was only expressing the sentiments of the petitioner, whose feel-
ings on the subject of tate petition he though: libitsvir bound to lay
before the house.

The subject then dropped.
Captain BRADSHAW presented a petition araini the Sale of
Beer Bill, froni the innkeepers of Runcorn.
Mr. S. Hll E pre,; rated a petition from tliti S..s: ions Grand in
favour of tht Galway Franchise Bill.

IRISH NERSTAPERS.
Mr. S. RICE rote to move for an account of the amount of stamp
and advertisement duties for newspapers it: irelavd. In moving for
this, he put It to the Chancellor of ins Exchequer, before he filially
made up his mind with c..,pect to the duties intended to be haptesed
upon newspapers, to consider the effect they wz•tld have upon the
press in Ireland. In opposing them, ins.e.ed of a diminution of the
revenue, he•contended for an incretes.“ liteau.e if ale additional
duty were impond, it would not only reduce, but c•:tinguish the
press in Ireland, and take away from a class tiw rnerws of their
existence.

Mr. O'CONNELL was intrusted with several petitions on the
subject, and if the right hon. gentleman had nut been misinformed,
he was sure that the Ora of increasing the duty could not be enter.
tabled. The measure was calculated, if not intended, to annihilate
the press. Witlin a few years the daty had die:Wished from
23.1001. to 14,(:0:11. which was about ovie-half. As tespeend re-
venue, therefore. it vas impolitic; and if it were wished to tenni-
Hate the public expression, there welt other tu.anii, as recent ex-
perience had bliown, of suppressing tho expression of the public
opinion in that country.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT wished the Chancellor of the Excite-
que: to bear in mind, that the race that had been run of augmenta-
tion of taxation it Ireland had so drained that country, that in the
)car 1816 the Irish treasury became bani,rupt. Then a system of
reducing taxation was commenced that had been found productive;
but it appeared t: r.t the old plan was now about to be revived, and
in a tew years the balm harvest would be reaped. Several years ago
he }mil stated his conviction to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer
that the harvest of revenue he sought would end in nothing but debt.
Ile then proposed a reduction of taxation, and what he. said was
aft,rwards verified. \riffle the ditty upon spirits was ers. Gd. a
gallon, the revenue.emounted io taw 0001. Now it was but 2.i.
and in the last year the revenue amounted to 1,400,0001. If any
one thing could he more obnoxious than another to the people of
Ireland, it wit, the suppression of the public pass; and if the Chan.
cellos of the I.xchequer intended that, by the imposition of an aug.
minted duty, he could have plenty of dila, hut no revenue, his
conviction was, that tie more the expression of public opinion was
promulgated, aid tilt more the poser of publicity was increased, the
grcatzr would be the benefit to the people at large, and the less
would be the power of any partial representations to cause an injn-
riotts effect.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEP. :-aitl that, as no.
rice had be;n given for a particular thy to consider tic rubjcct,
he was unwilling thus incidentally to enter into a debate on a r.ub-
ject which would give ‘.mple scope for discussion. He would not,
in short, be responsible for thus interfering with the regular coin w,
and it was a mode of proceeding to which he was not at all partiaL
The retmos wen then ordered.