The Statesman.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-NIONDAY, APRIL 0.

Mr. R. SJIiTII moved that the short-hand writer
on the Committee appointetl to try the merits of the
iledon Election Peti•iu;l, hale leoce to give evi lens)l
at the Middlesex Sessionb on &ii indictment fur perjurft

—Leave given.
CORNWALL PETITION.
Sir W. LEMON presented a Petition from the -I
holders and Inhabitants of the County of Corm

The first prayer of the Petition was, that the Hove)
would take measures to restore her lajestv to litt I
Itights.—(Near.)—The Petition also complained yt
the actual distress which existed, especially anion!:
the agricultural classes. The house had appointed a
Committee to consider that subject, and Cie utmost
gratitude was due to the Orntlemen who daily ware
their attention to that subject, but he could not help
concurring in opinion with the Petiti mere, et.tt there
was no prospect of relief from taxes, mot consequently
from distress, unless the I adopted the motion of
the honourable 31ember I.tr Durham, for a Pat liamen-
tary !Z. form.
Mr. TREM.IYNT, roocnrre I with the Petitioners
in their pr.tyers f r economy, and for the restorati,m
of the queen to her Itizlits, but he was opposed to
any meastve for citanzintr the C011.4t t t fi ,f !barna-
went—The Petiti•.n tt a. laid on the Table.

AsTI.F.Y presented rota Petitions from 11elk-
sham, 'frowbriAge, lir.sdfnr a.ll another soinof.le.
turing place in Wilts, raring for a Itepral of the
Wool Tax.
11r. F. BUXTON ga‘c nonce, th-it on Wednesday
the l'sth, he shoal(' call the attsotion of the Ilon-e to
the Papers which bad kern presentrol to it respecting
the bitraing of Widows on the Fluieral Piles of their
Husbands in India.

Mr. TREMAYNE presented four Petitions from
the County of Cornwall, 'join!! of Aizricultural
Distress.
Capt. WE MYS presented a Petition from Kirkulay,
against the Ditties iiti Nut way Timber.
Mr. 11. BLAIR presented a Petition from the So-
ciety of Solicitors against the Court of Session Bill.
CoRN AVER IGK,.
Mr. RARING presented a Petition from the Proprie-
tors of Hooded Coro at Ihindee, against the 'orsolve-
rages Bill. He was liiinself inclined to agree with the
opinion of the toe •ssioners; and when they Pe- s
titious faumailliosets-of Ibe-cowntry• col • that
the Bill pending in the House would pro lute a loner
average than th it taken under the present law, and con.
seiptrutly of raising the real price at which importation
would commence. he wondered that the Right Hon. Pre-
sident of the lloari of Trade should persist in repre-
senting his Kill as one intenileil solely to prevent fraud.
The Petition was laid on the Table.
Mr. WILSON presented a similar Petition from the
Merchants an.l Corn Factor., being Proprietors or Con-
signees of Foreign Corn. The Petitioners nrgeil, that
if it was derne.l advisable by Parliament to introduce a
new tootle of milting up the Averages by lentil.. in
Irish Corn into the computation. it should not be allow-
ed to affect the a.lit.it.sion into the Market of Corn
li.nl b.., •t imported in bond under the faith of the
The Petition was laid on the Table.
'3lol'l I.SON presented A Petition from the Merchants
of London, praying for the Repeal of the Wool Tax.
The Petitioners nrged the well known reasons against
this Tax. The Hon. Member stated, that many facts
had come to his knowledge, corroborating the assertion
that the Bill had a most injurious effect capon our manu-
factures. Ile knew an instance in which 250 bags of
wool, n bid' had been imported to na inufacture-s in this
country. were found, when they were bronght here, un-
able to heir the duty, and were shipped to the United
States. In another ease, an annual order of some thou-
sands from America, for line and ordinary cloths and
stuffs, was withdrawn and transferred to the Continent
of Europe, in consequence of this Tax. We were, by
this impost, which amounted on the ordinary wools of
2s. or 2s. lid. per lb. to 120 or per emit.. forting the
Americans to become tnanufartorers. 'file {louse should
not, for 190,0001. a year, endanger the woollen =un-
fitctnre.
Mr. BARING said, that it was his thorough convic-
tion, that, if the House did not attend to the prayers of
the Petitioners, and repeal this Tax, this country would
be in ilanzer of losing its woollen usitnufactitre.
Mr. Iit73KISSIIN sail, the proper time would
come for discussing this Tax on the motion of the No-
ble. Lord (Lord Milton) for repealing the Tax. Mean-
time, he shoald remark, that the fact that the Tax pro-
duced 120,000/. last year, proved that the 'fax did not
repress MU manufacture.
Mr. BARING obserseil, that this fart proved nothing
laugh).
The Petition was laid on the Table, and ordered to be

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NI.
EWINGTON SELECT VESTRY BILL
31;. 11. SUMNER moved the revivol of the Netrinit-
tots .I,•et Vestry Bill Committee. Ile knew the 'louse
t. a< mrvilling to !scar any details on the subject, and
he n illingly abstained from entering into any ; aml
should make his motion simply, hoping that the COUP
miner would enter up in the business with the honest
intention of considering the merits of the c Ise.
N 1... BENNETT praised the conciliatory wanner in,
1 whirls the Hon. Member fur Surrey had wade the tour,
lion, to which he willingly assented.
A converts* juts took ploce as to the day on which the
Cuttni;tee skoold begin to sit, whether to-utorrovr or
on Fri,lsy, between Mr.. 11. Sumner. Mr. Denison, Sir
It. Wilson, bit W. De Crespigny, and Hr. Alderman
Wood ; it moss finally agreed that the Committee
shonid sit on Wednesday.
CONWAY FERRY.
In a Committee of the whole House, Mr. CANNING
rose to more a c-ant to th.fray the expense of erecting'
ft B. ifige .ovcr Coutroy Ferry. hI should then More
I,th..t an alidiftonA penny be paid mphe postage of sit
letters; est-Aie.l over it, an.l Oa sum Buts rtilsed, wilth
1
~,,,,, 00, „,,„ht be on it, wuiall iiiettaA lesatte, t
• 01. 9!limat4y the. public would.' be pail the 'multi
.Iv Sir •it u+• now proposed to advance. He' toured