The Sun. — 1836-06-09 (London, England)

THO.a As ATTWOOD presented a petition from Birmi4-gain, most numerously and respectably signed, praying fry the abolition of the punishment of death, unless in caves of wilful murder. The Hon. Member rea d. some, returns, from which it appeared that from 1829 to 1PAP...., fifty executions took place in the City of Loudon, ar,d from 1832 to 1835, only one ; from which it appeared that the amelioration of the criminal code, instead of being productive of, tended to the diminution of crime. It was the same in Belgium, and would be always found to produce the like results in every country in which it was tried. The Hon. Member then presented a petition, signed by upwards of three hundred respectable individuals of the Jewish persuasion of Birmingham, praying that as only a small part of his Majesty's subjects now laboured under disabilities, that the remnant might be removed, and all be placed on the same footing in the State. The Ham. Member presented another petition, signed by 700 Chiistians, who condemned it as an existing wrong that vnch a respectable class of his Majesty's subjects should has,,, such a mark affixed to them, and praying that all civil disabilities under' which the Jews laboured might he reeaoved. The Hon. Member next presented a petition from 100 merchants of the same place for the reduction of the 'duty on East India sugar ; also petitions, signed by 300 of the inhabitants; of St. John's, Norwich ; from the Birmingham Society ; from the machine-makers of Dundee and another place, praying the House to pass a law for the reduction of all taxes on knowledge, and for Pao release of all prisoners confined for offences under the Stamp Act. The Hon. Member fully concurred in the prayer of all the petitions. Mr. EMERSON TENNENT presented a petition from a place in the county o? Antrim on the subject of the Landlord and Tenant Bill, in the prayer of which he did not concur. The Hon. Member than went into the details of a charge brought against a gentleman named MiLean, in the county of Louth, for burning a rick of turf belong,. ing to his tenant, for having voted for a candidate whom the landlord supported at a general election. The Ron. Member stated, that so far from Mr. M'Lean having required the tenant to vote for the candidate whom he sup- ported, he stated to him, when he called to have lais opinion for whom he should vote, he distinctly stated, that he would not influence his will in any way. -Mr. HUTT appealed to the Speaker whether such a latitude should be given to any Hon. Member, or presenting a petition ? The SPEAKER was decidedly of opinion4:hat the Hon,. Member for Belfast was exceeding the limits. Mr. TENNENT bowed with submissicn to the opinion of the Chair, and the petition was laid or• the table. Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the three denominations of Dissenters, txaying for the total abolition of church-rates. Mr. BAINES supported the. *prayer of the petition. Sir S. WHALLEY present,etl a petition from the inhabitants of Camden-town, praying that the British Museum might be kept open during t.ne holidays. Mr. WILLIAMS presented several petitions for the repeal of the Stamp Dutica on Newspapers, and also one from Spitalfields against the, Ten Hours' Factory Bill. Mr. LENNARD presented a petition from the Mayor and Magistrates of a town in the county of Somerset, praying for a similar measure of Corporate Reform to Ireland to that given to England and Scotland ; also a petition from the guardians of the poor, complaining that small tenements were greatly enhanced in value on the poor bysmall landlords, from representing that they were free frona rates, and praying that all houses of the value of 6!. and under, be made liable liable to poor-rates. Mr. BUTT presented a petition from the Mayor of Hull, on the part of many thousands of the inhabitants, against the Lords' amendments to the Irish Municipal Bill, and prayin.,. that ~ they might be rejected by that .House ; The next Session of the Central Criminal Cour - aiso a petition from a congregation of Protestant Dissen,akes place on Monday next. tors, for the abolition of church-rates