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present session any measure for admitting corn now in bond into the
market at a reduced duty, nor for admitting colonial flour or grain at
a lower duty than the present.
The bill went through committee ; report to-morrow.
The Transfer of Aids Bill also went through committee.
The house next resolved itself into a committee on the Sugar and
Pensions' Duties Bill.
Mr. TODD was understood to express his regret that ministers did
not propose that East India sugar should come into the market at a re-
duced duty. The present high duty was highly prejudicial to the
pffblic interest, and was useless even as a pretext for protecting the
West India interests. - ' • •
Mr. Humx was anxious that there should be laid before the house
an exact account of the produce of the 41 per Cents., and of the pen-
sions to which it was liable under the present bill. t would be found
that the pensions exceeded the produce ; and he therefore wished to
know under what authority ministers ventured to make good' he de-
ficiency from the consolidated fund?
Lord Ar.Tuoiti, was not able to give the hon. gentleman's question
a positive answer. His impression was that the deficiency had not
been made good from any other fund. They all knew that when the
41 per Cents., which were part of the hereditary revenues of the
Crown, were, on the accession of his present Majesty, transferred to
the public, they were so with their liabilities to the present pensions.
The bill then went through committee.
Mr. LITTLETON presented several petitions against the Beer Act, an d
for the better observance of the Lord's Day. •
The house then adjourned at half-past ten o'clock.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13.

The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock.
Lord Milton and another hon. member took the oaths and
their seats.

A person from the penitentiary, presented the report from
that establishment for the last year.
Mr. Curteis brought up the report of the committee on the
Rye Harbour petition, and obtained leave to bring in a bill for
improving the Harbour of Rye.
Mr. Hodges brought up a bill for draining marsh lands, in
the county of Kent. It was read a first time.
Mr. Phillpotts obtained liberty to present a petition for a bill
to improve the Chester and Gloucester roads.
Lord G. Somerset brought up the report of the committee on
the Chepstow-roads petition, and obtained leave to bring in a
bill for their improvement.
Mr. B. Carter presented a petition from Mr. Sergeant Tad-
dy, Treasurer of Sergeant's Inn, praying for leave to bring in a
bill for the improvement of the Judges Chambers.—Reierred
to a committee.

Mr. Hodgson brought up the report of the committee on the
Clarence Railway bill.
Mr. Pendarves brought up the report of the committee on
the Saltash Roads bill; also the Ipswich and Boston Road bill ;
also the report of the committee on the Swansea Pier petition,
finding that the standing orders had been complied with. On
that report the hon.. member obtained leave to bring in a bill
for erecting a pier at Swansea.

THE IRISH COERCIVE BILL.
Petitions were presented against this measure by Mr. Grote,
from 2,591 inhabitants of the borough of Marylebone; Mr.
Brocklehurst, from Macclesfield, signed by 2,400 persons.
Mr. B. said that though he was an ardent supporter of consti-
tutional liberty, still he could not support the prayer of the
petition after hearing the case made out by his Majesty's
ministers; Mr. Luke White, from the parish of Ardagh, the
united parishes of Ardagh and Meydor, and the parish of
Edgeworths town, all in the county of Longford; Mr. Finn,
from three parishes in the county of Kilkenny; Mr. Hall, five
petitions from different benefit societies in the borough of
Newport, Monmouthshire; Mr. Fitzgerald, from Gormanstown,
Donnikin, Louth, Ardee, •Tullamore, Killbridge, Clare, and
other places in Ireland.
Mr. H. GRATTAN said that he held in his hands a number of
petitions, which had come to him from 18 or 20 different places
—principally from parishes in the counties of Meath, Clare
and Mayo—all against the bill, and praying that it might not
pass into a law. One of the petitions in particular deserved
the attention of the house. (Hear.) The petitioners deplored
the occurrence of several murders, but at the same time stated
that there were great and severe causes for all the outrages
which had been committed, amongst which stood most pro-
minently the conduct of the landlords and the Grand Jury cess.
On Monday last, five individuals had been found guilty of
Whiteboy offences, and sentenced to punishment; and it was
preposterous for the noble lord to suppose, that the law, as it
present stood, was not capable of reaching those or any other
offences committed in Ireland, provided it was put into active
execution. (Hear.) .
Petitions were also presented against the bill by Major
Keppell, from Diss, in the county of Norfolk; Mr. Harvey,
from the members of the Bury Union of the working classes of
of Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk; O'Connor Don, front dif-
ferent parishes in Roscommon, Ballydrum, Kilrooth, anti
several other places in Ireland; and by Mr. Oswald, from two
Political Unions in Ayrshire.

RUN FOR COLD.
Mr. EVANS presented a petition from Sevarn, in Ireland,
against the Irish Coercive Bill, and that Mr. Stanley might be
removed from the office of Secretary for Ireland. The hon.
gentleman took this opportunity of deprecating the f' run for
gold" on the banks in the southern part of Ireland as injurious
to the people themselves.
Mr. FINN said, that the people of Ireland had taken the
hint given them on a former occasion ; this might be unwise,
but it showed the feelings which the bill had created.
Mr. W. FurzsimoN and Mr. FERGUS O'CoNNoR felt satisfied
that the run for gold would be most injurious to the agricultu-
ral population of Ireland.
Mr. COBBETT differed in opinion with the speakers who had
preceded him on this subject, and would recommend the people
of Ireland to run for gold, or any thing that would produce con-
fusion (loud cries of order, and chair.)
The SPEAKER said that the hon. member was most disorderly
in uttering that which had he not been a member of that house
would have been a breach cf the law.

Mr. COBBETT, in explanation, said, that what he meant was,
that no state of things could be worse for Ireland than the pre-
sent.

Mr. ROCHE, Mr. GRATTAN, and Mr. LAMB deprecated the
introduction of such topics during the discussion of Irish pe-
titions.

Other petitions were presented against the bill by Mr. O'Con-
nor, from several parishes in Cork; Lord Mandeville from
Todmorton, in Lancashire ; and Mr. M. O'Farrall from four
parishes in the county of Wicklow. Petitions in favour of the
bill were presented by Mr. Brigstock from a parish in Somer-
setshire ; and by Mr. Ingham from South Shields. The house
adjourned at three o'clock.