The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-22 00:00:00

IRISH COERCIVE BILL.

Petitions against this measure were presented by Mr. F.
O'Conner, from two parishes in Scotland, the parishes of
blyross and Castledavy, in the county of Cork, and from several
other places in Ireland, some of which also prayed for the abo-
lition of tithes; Colonel Buller, from several places in Kil-
kenny-; and by Mr. Sullivan, from several places in Ireland.

DISII3ILITIES.OF THE JEWS.

Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from certain inhabitants
of the borough of Manchester, praying the release of the Rev.
Robert Taylor; also a petition from the borough of Manchester,
praying the abolition of the monopoly enjoyed by the King's
printers, and particularly as regarded the printing of the Bible.
The hon. member also presented a petition most numerously
and respectably signed, and agreed to at a public meeting con-
vened by the boroughreeve and constables of Manchester, in
favour of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill. Although he did not
coincide in the propriety of limiting, by any legislative enact-
ment, the labour in factories to ten hours, yet .he was open to
conviction as to its propriety, and should give the subject,
when it came before the house, his calm and serious considera-
tion. The hon. gentleman then presented a petition from the
British born Jews of Manchester and its vicinity, praying for
the removal of the restrictions under which they labour; and a
petition to the same effect from the inhabitants generally of the
town of Manchester. In the prayer of these petitions he most
heartily concurred.
Mr. JOHNSTONE presented a petition from the inhabitants
and freeholders of Portsmouth and Portsea, praying the house
not to pass any measures by which the power of legislating over
a Christian country should be conferred upon the enemies of
the Christian faith. The petitioners, however, stated their wil-
lingness to agree to the removal of any other disabilities under
which the Jews labour. The hon. member expressed his entire
concurrence in the sentiments contained in this petition.
Mr. Alderman \\Toon presented a petition from certain inha-
bitants of the city of London, complaining of the number and
state of the hackney-carriages plying. in the metropolis, and
praying the adoption of some legislative remedy for the into-
lerable grievance at present existing; and a petition from cer-
tain inhabitants of the borough of Southwark, against the Irish
coercive bill. In presenting the last petition, he begged to say,
that on a former occasion, when he had delivered his sentiments
on the subject to which that petition referred, and had called
on Irish landlords to follow the example of a public company of
London, he had been misunderstood as having alluded to the
Merchant Tailors' Company. He had no intention to allude
to that company, which had no land in Ireland in its own.pos-
session, but he meant to refer to the Fishmongers' Company,
which held lands in Ireland, in the improvement of which they
had in ten years expended upwards of £70,000, and the people
upon these lauds were happy and comfortable, complaining of
nothing but the tithe system.
Mr. FINN concurred with what had fallen just now from the
hon. member fur the city of London with reference to the Fish-
monger's Company, which out of £84,000 received had ex-
pended £70,000 in the improvement of the lands. He was well
aware that the Fishmongers' Company were blessed by the
people who lived
.under them. He begged leave to contrast
their benevolence with the conduct of a nobleman to whom one
of the petitions just presented referred, who received £20,000 a
year from Ireland, and the same amount from England; yet,
while he spent a fourth of his income in this country, did not
spend more than £2OO per annum in Ireland. .Was it, then, to
be wondered at that there should be discontent in Ireland, from
which £5,000,(E0 was annually drawn away by absentees?
Mr. MAti-snA• L presented a petition from the inhabitants of
Leeds against the Irish coercion bill; alsaa petition from the