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London, England, 1825-04-20 00:00:00

ANTI-CATHOLIC PETITIONS.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented Petitions from the Elden
of the Provincial Synod, and from the Moderators of Glasgow,
against further concessions to the Catholics.—Laid on the table.
The Duke of MONTROSE presented a similar Petition from
the Inhabitants of the Gorbals in Glasgow.—Laid on the table.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented two Petitions to the
same effect : one from the Borough of Reading, signed by 1000
individuals ; the other from that of Totnes. County of Devon.
The Noble and Learned Earl stated at the same time, that Vim had
not been content with remaining wholly passive, their Lordships'
table would have been covered every day with Petitions.—Read
and laid on the table.

Similar Petitions were presented—By Lord Cotcntrrea, from
the Towns of Colchester and Donnington; by Earl Souses, from
Hereford and Kington ; by Lord Exnuaritsii, from the County
of Fermanagh; by Lord COMMINIZIIt, from Knutsford; by Lord
&MUM, from Beckenham ; by the Earl of AIINGDOI, from Wheat-
ley, and several Parishes in the County of Oxford ; by Lord Bax-
ter, from the Minister and Congregation of the Episcopal Chapel
of Queen-square, Westminster; by Lord Kssivou, from Sudbury,
and from certain Parishes in the County of Chester; by the Earl
of SKAFTISNUILT, froth the Parish of Sr. Nicholas, in the County of
Dorset; by the Duke of NEWCASTLZ, from the Town of Mansfield;
by the Earl of HA 111WW0014 from Saddleworth,Lialifax and Leeds,in
the County of York, the latter signed by 9500 individuals; by the
Bishop of Callus;, from the Clergy of the Deanery of Cloynes, in
the Diocese of Chester; by the Bishop of Unarm.% from Stockton,
in the County of Stafford, and from certain Parishes in Warwick-
shire ;by the Bishop of Baru and WELLIV from the Archdeacons
and Clergy of the Archdeaconries of Winchester and Surrey.—All
those Petitions having been laid on the table,
The Right Rev. Prelate said that he held one which he should
not present, as it contained charges against the Roman Catholics,
and expressed feelings towards them to which be could not agree,
and of which he could not approve.

PETITIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE CATHOLICS.

The Earl of LIMERICK presented a Petition, most numerously
and respectably signed, praying that the remaining restrictions on
the Catholics might be done away with. It had been agreed to at
a public County Meeting, and was signed by the High Sheriff, the
Gentry, Freeholders, anj Inhabitants, of the County of Mayo.—
Read, and laid on the table.

Earl DARN LEY also presented a Petition from the Inhabitants
of the Town of Chatham, praying for the removal of Catholic dis-
abilities, and saying that the peace and prosperity of Ireland would
never be secured, unless the Catholics were placed on the same
footing as their Protestant brethren: Read, and laid on the table.
Lord KING held a Petition in favour of Catholic Emancipation,
numerously signed by the Inhabitants of the Town of Newark.
One, expressive of a strong feeling against the Catholics, had been
presented a few days since from the same place by a Noble Duke
opposite, but this was the manner io which he understood that it
had been got up. He had been told that the Petition had been sent
the round of the reading schools. The Methodist Parsous bad
worked on the children, the women on their husbands, and aU of
them had worked upon the Petition, and made women and chil-
dren sign their names. He also understood that the Petition had
been laid where no one could see it.

The Duke of NEWCASTLE could only say that, as far as he
was concerned, he had never expressed a word to desire a Petition
from that plate. It had been sent up to him spontaneously. The
Methodist Pat sons might do as they pleased, he had nothing to do
with them, and he confessed that lie never wished to have anything
to do with them. The Petition was then read, and laid on the table.
Dr. SMITH, from the Commi►sioners of Richmond Bridge,
presented the Cash Acconnts of the Bridge for the last year.—
Laid on the table. _ _

The Earl of RAH E WOOD presented Petitions from the bier-
.:hants, Bankers, and Tradesmen of the City of York, and from
those of Dewsbury and Sheffield, praying for some better provision
for the recovery of Small Debts.—Laiit us' the table.
The Noble Earl then presented Petitions from the Mannfac-
lure's of the torch of liradtord, in the West Riding of the County

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of York, from the Corporation of Cutlers afire City of York, al.l
from the Borough of Leeds, praying for the revision of the Corn
Laws.—Laid on the table.

A Petition was also presented by the same Noble Fad from
Sheffield, in favour of the continuance of the tax upon Dogs.-I.4id
on the table.

QUARANTINE LAWS.

Mr. Gatutrar.r. and others, from the Commons, brought up the
BiU for allowing the Royal Exchange Company to lend money on
mortgage, the Police Magistrates Salary Bill, and mural private
IRUs, whichrWsre read a first time.—Adjourned.,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
In consequence of the expected debate on the Catholic Question,
the approaches to the Gallery were extremely crowded at an early
hour in the day, and the first ru%h was mure than sufficient to fill
the space allotted to strangers. At tour o'clock the Setae= took •
the Chair in the usual form, and the House proceeded to business.
Su veralEetitimaa weteiveserated in favour at the Tees Railway,
Indoor or two against k.
Mr. GRENFELL =wed the third reading of the St. Cadre-
tine's Dock BM

Mr. C. CALVERT opposed the motion, and said he should
take the sense of the House upon it.
The gallery was then cieartd, and the places which had been
obtained by virtue of so much patifnce and squeezing were thus sa-
crificed in a moment.
When the-gallery was again opened, the impetuosity of the
crowd was such that we were really apprehensive of seeing a large
proportion of it carried over the gallery, into the body of the
House. The Senior.= was obliged to ism* A peremptory order
for the Serjeant to clear the gallery, and that had the effect of calm-
ing the troubled spirits wbo were fighting so desperately for places
already filled to an overflow. We understood that the House had
not divided after all.
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from White-
chapel, praying a repeal of all the Assessed Tases.—Ordered to
be printed.
Mr. BYNG presented a Petition from St. Mary's, Islington,
praying a repeal of the House and Window Tax.—Ordered to
be printed.
Mr. WHITBREAD presented a Petition from the Shipwrights
of the Rimer Thames, against any alteration in the Combination
Laws.—Referred to the Committee.

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Mr. GOOCH presented :hree similar Petitions froth the Clergy
of the Archdeaconry of Suffolll.and from two parishes in that county.
Mr. ASIIKEST presented two similar Petitions from the
Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Oxford, and from the inhabitants
of Wheatly.
Lord EASTNOR presented a similar Petition from the inhal i-
tants of Hereford.

Mr. BURRELL presented two similar Petitions from two
Parishes in the county of Sussex.
Mr. T. WILSON presented a similar Petition from the parish
of St. Botolph, Aldgate.
Colonel POWELL presented a similar Petition from a part of
the county of Cardigan.
Mr. CARTWRIGHT presented a similar Petition from Tow-
enter.
Sir E. HARVEY presented three similar Petitions from ae
Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Essex, and frum the Laity of Bark-
iug, Saffron Walden, and D.beaham.
Mr. NEWMAN presented three similar Petitions
ent parishes in the City of Exeter.
Alr. LEAKE presented a similar Petition from the
Rutland.

Sir J. COTTERELL presented three
Hereford, Plimpton, and Ely.
Mr. BASTARD presented nine similar
in the County of Devon.
Mr. H. DAVIS presented six similar
Parishes in the• City of Bristol.
Mr. LEYCESTER said. the Petii

ignorant on this subject, as he yet.
was enlightened by the evidence before the
fore tin?: he believed that the Catholic Religion
Mr. BRIGHT said,-it was from the
land and the world, and not from
tholic Clergymen, that his cons
that the Catholic religion had alw'
been the enemy of toletation, of

civil and religiouiliberty. Thr intuit ranee
dead—it scarcely slept. Let them read the

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Earl DARNLEY said, that as he only intended to
move for a document to the production of which lie an-
t ciliated no objection, he should detain their Lordships
but a very few minutes. A Committee had been ap-
pointed by the Howe of Commons last 'ear to inquire
into the effects of the Quarantine Laws. That Com-
mittee had made a Report, in which it recommended
that great alterations should be made in the system
which had hitherto been pursued. To these, however,
he should not call their Lordship.' alention now, but
should wa t for a future opportunity. He understood
that his Majesty's Government had ahead)! acted on
that Report, atbi Oat ships from Alexandria had been
allowed to laud their goods without pelf riving quaran.
t ne, although they had left that place at a time when
ele plague prevail: d. _ By the former regulation folly
days' quarantine were requ'red from vess.ls with a foul
bill, and fifteen from those with a clean bilL Now the Coonnittee
recommended that vessas with a foul bill should only perform a
Quarantine of twenty. one days, and that those with a clean bill
should be admitted immediately. All he would 'nave for at pre-
sent should be, a Return of the number and names of the vessels
:rich had arrived from Alexandria last year, and for Copies of the
Order in Council by which they had been relieved from Quarantine.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL had no objection to
the production of the Pilfers for which the Noble Earl
had moved. With respect to t' e measure proposed by
the Committee of the other House, it was a new regu-
14tion, founded on the principle that the former system
was not necessary to the health of his Majesty's subjects,
and most injurious to the interests of the country. if
their Lordships inquired how the Quarantine Laws had
operated during the last 50 years, they would find that the severe
strictness with which tbey.had been observed, was hot necessary
to the health, but mast inconvenient and detrimental to the interests'
of the country. The orders which bad been given only applied to
vessels coming with clean bills. lie should not object to their pro-
duction, and their Lordships would have a fuller opportunity of
considering the whole matter, when the Bill now in progress
through the other House should lie before them.
Lord HOLLAND thought it very proper that if the
Quarantine Laws were abused, they should be corrected;
but he hoped that their Lordships would keep in view
that in all those countries where the Quarantine Laws bad been
established, the plague had become very uncommon. With this
fact before them, he trusted that they would not proceed to the
abolition of the system without using great caution aLd delicacy.
The motion was then agreed to.
NEW BILLS.

Mr. H. DAVIS presented a Petition from the Clergy of the
Diocese of Bristol, against certain Clauses in the IKsscuters' Mar-
riage Att.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. ASHETON SMITH presented a Petition from Bangor,
in favour of the County Courts Bill.
Mr. TYNTE presented a Petition from the Roman Catholic
Clergy of the County of Monmouth, in favour of the Bill before
the House.
Mr. HONEY WOOD preset red a similarPerition fronsChatham.
Mr. BYNG presented a similar Petition from the Parish of
St. Luke.
Mr. DORERTY presented a similar Petition from the Protes.
tant Inhabitant% of New Ross.—Ordered to 13
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from the parish of
Whitechapel, against further concessions to the Roman Catholics.
Sir L. PALK presented a similar Petition from Ashburton.
Mr. MUNDY presented a similar Petition from the Clergy
of the town and neighbourhood of Derby.

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