Star.
London, England, 1831-03-17 00:00:00

STEAM SIATS.

Lord G. SOM ER SET mdted s:4.ther the tax on passengers or steam
Ito was to be persevered in.
Lord ALT HO It P replied that the tax would be persevered in, hot
Olat it was proposed to be imposed on the tonnage of the vessels, an I
ut on the prunengen.
Mr. PATTEN then presented a petition from Wigan. against
• c newel of the Rut India Charter.—Ordered to be referred to the Ea,t
India Camrrit•ee. The same hon. member afterwards presented a IP- •
tition from Warrington, for Parliamentary Reform ; it was agreed ty
before the ministerial plan was known.
Mr. TYRRELL presented a petition from Renhall, Suffolk. for
reduction of taxation ; also one agreed to at Stowe-market 'wean.% t
parliamentary reform.
Ordered to be printed.
CORPORATION ROBBERY.

Mr. STRUTT presented seven similar (reform)petitions frum places
in Ekvhyshire.
Sir R. FERGUSON prevented similar petitions fromKinghorn,Du^-
dee, &e. He said they contained the best answer to the member for
Borouglihridge (Sir C. Wetherell) who was so shocked at corporation
robbery. They sere therefore ready to give up what were termed
their rights.
Sir C WETHERELL asked whether they bad not taken oaths to
support the corporation rights ?
Sir R. FERt.USON said he did not know ?hat the oaths were. ii
any had been taken ; but if they had taken any such oaths the sooner
they broke them the better.
Mr. O'CONNELL said no corporate oath, could hind against At
I of Parliament; it was in the power of Parliament to alter the !AWN ai,.l
if the law were altered. the e nporations must obey then,.
Sir C. WETHERELL declared that this was jesuitical resaaning ;
till the Parliament had altered the corporations, the corporate person-
, ages were bound to maintain the privilege a till they were altered.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said that the Learned Gentleman airs iemir.
rant of what the oaths were. Did he know what oath or oat! s .r
taken ? He undertook to any that no ouch oaths as the L.-ar. e
Gentleman imagined were taken.
Sir R. FERtiUSSON said he did not know what the na.hs war,
but he believed that they only swore to sustain ihe min on weal.
Sir C. WETHERELL observed that he should nit have spoken had
he not been called up; but he trusted that not mind would always tuke
fire when be heard perjury recommended.
Sir R. FERGUSON admitted that he had used a hasty expression ;
be had not intended to recononend the breaking of oaths: he meant to
say that if the law did so exist, the sooner it was alter. d the be t.er.—
(Cheers.) He had the pleasure of adding that all the Scorch burghs
which he formerly represented had petitionnl for Parliamentary He.
form.—(Hear. hear.)
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, this outcry about corpora.
tion oaths was a delusion. -(hear) —it was worthy of the quarter whence
it came.—(Cheers.) It was like the coronation oath brought forward
against the Catholic claims, and he hoped the result would be ai-
milar.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CONNELL said, his remarks might he termed jesuitical ;
but the argument by which he was opposed was a relic of the old bi-
gotry. He maintained that the corporations had only rights in trust
for the good of the community, and that the parliament 1.2 d the power
to alter the rights. Besides, corporations did not lose their rights and
feelings as men.
Petitions ordered to be printed.
Lord MORPETH said he had petitions to present from Sheffield in
favour of the Parliamentary measure of deform, signed by 16,0110;
from Huddersfield, signed by 7,000 ; from Leeds, agreed to at a very
numerous meeting; from freemen of York resident in Leeds, who
cheerfully acquiesced in the measure ; from kk hitby. Tadcaattr, &c.
He said he presented the petitions with very great pleasure, and üb.
served, that the charges of she Honourable and Leaned Metuher tor
Bcroughbridge, about corporatiw obligations, would fall feebly on
their opinions.
Petitions severally ordered to be printed.
Lord MORPETH presented a petition from Milsom, Yorkshire,
for a new arrangement of tithes.
Mr. T. DUNDAS presented a petition from the eorp irloo of York
in favour of the plan of Parliamentary Reform. Tie p. ittioners did
not view the reform as Corp nation robbery ; on the taintral, they eon.
sidered it as of the most beneficial tenden
Mr. J. WOOD said, as one of the Corporation, he was glad this
petition was presented. The measure was no Corporal 4.11 I..!lorty he
property of Corporations remained untouched ; it edify aff c.ed prin.
aid that :or the benefit of the comatunity.—( lear )
Ordered to lie on the table.

Jr. Alderman WA ITH MAN presented petitioaa f the Common
Hall of the City of London; from St. Dunstan's; and from the So-
ciety of " Johns " in fay tut of the Parliamentary plan of Reform.
Mr. Alderman WOOD supported them, and lamented the absence
of the member for BoronAhbridge, (Sir C. Wetherell) Monist: he would
then have seen that the citizens of Loudon did not dread the measure.
In fact it would affect no corporate rights.
Mr. HUNT supported the petith na, and said the example of the
Common Hall of London was being followed in all lar a of the
country.
Ordered to lie no the table.
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Mr. Alderman Ii'AITHIIIAN present, d a petition from the rrpe-
makers of London, against the importation of fore gn cordage ; also ine
from St. Pancras, in favour of the vestries bill.

1111 LAND.

Mr. O'CONNELL proem vl a petition from an indiv du*/ in Ire.
land. for the extension of the Bankrupt Laws of England to Ireland
also one complainii.g of the vestry system, nit e.tenths being thereby
taxed for churches which they never attended. It these things were
Legislative union, thtre was great inequality.
Mr. HUM E asked whether the pie lite for the (measles's of the Batk-
rupt Laws to Ireland, was to be tedsemed.
Mr. STANLEY replied, that the subject wa% under the considera-
tion of the Solici,or-general for Ireland.

N ELL rejoiced that a learned lord la another place ( Lord
Brougham) had assailed the fabric of legal abuse, with a giant's arm,
and they must fall before the blow (a laugh), and tint being strewn-
plished, the remedies he now spoke of must come. The Irish V.:miles'
Bill had given no relief where it was wanted.

S:' RICE maintained the contrary it reli Ted the poor occupy.
big tenants ; was that nothing?
Mr. HUME contended that the legislation on this pint required

Bir J. NEWPORT remarked, that he did not defend the bill through-
out ;at the same time, it bad effected many ameliorations. Petition'
ordered to he printed.
3lr. O'CONNELL presented six petitions from bouse.painters and
glaziers, tobacco-manufacturers, lath-renders, and ship-weights, of
Dublin ; St. Michael's, Limerick ; end some places in Kilkenny, for
the repeal of the Union. Those of the house-painters and shipwrights
ordered to be printed.
31r. O'CONNP.LL presented a petition Atm Drogheda for Parlia.
mentary Reform, by upwards of 6.oollllmilat Ordered to be
printed.
Mr. MAXWELL pregented a petition fan Qamipt in favour of the
Kildare-street grant. . -• •
Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the shipowners of Dublin
against the proposed timber duties.—Or.lered to lie on the table.
Mr. P. THOMSON moved for leave to bring in a bill to oblige
calico printers to mark their name upon the pieces that they printed, cur
the purpose of identifying their copyright.—Leave granted.

Sir J. NEWPORT moved that the 19th report of the Commismon
on the Court of Prerogative in Ireland be submitted to a Select Com-
mittee to give their opinions thereon and to see whether there L. ary
measures that can he adopted to remedy the abuses that exist in the
Rerlesiastiesl Courts In Ireland.
Mr. CHO MPT N seconded the motion.—Leave granted.
Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for a Committee of the whole house
on the bill relating to canine madness. The motion was deferred till a
future day.
Petitions in favour of reform were presented from Chatham. Ten.
tenon, Gloucester, Dysart, sod Kirkaldy, Chipping Norton, at d &venal
other places.
Petitions were presented Nam Aylesbury and tioadburbt for a repeal
of the malt tax.

Several petitions were presented mildest any alteration in the timh,r
duties.
A petition was presented by Mr. GUEST from retailers of beer
praying to be pertafteed to keep their bealbs open daring the battle
hours that are allowed to licensed v.c

The orders of the day being diap tteda, she 10 OW adkairr.ed
lialtpatt Eight.