HC Deb 10 May 1837 vol 38 c775

Petitions presented. By Lord POLLINGTON, Sir C. BURRELL, and other hon. MEMBERS, from various places, against the Ministerial plan for the abolition of Church-rates. —By Mr. M. PHILIPS and other hon. MEMBERS, from various places, in favour of the Ministerial plan for the abolition of Church-rates. —By ALDERMAN WOOD, from a parish in London, for the equalisation of the Land-tax.—By Sir C. BURRELL, from the trustees of various roads, praying for compensation for loss sustained by the abolition of Statute Labour.—By Mr. H. HUGHES, from Oxford, for the equalisation of the Land-tax.—By Mr. HAMILTON, from the Protestants of Ireland. This single petition, which was more numerously and respectably signed than all the petitions put together that had been presented from Ireland in favour of the abolition of Tithes, Municipal Reform, or all the other revolutionary Ministerial Measures, prayed for the preservation of the Constitution in Church and State, for protection to the Established Church in Ireland, and for security to the lives and property of the Protestants in that country—By Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, from Scarborough, in favour of the Ministerial plan for the abolition of Church-rates.—By Lord EBRINGTON, from Westdown, Devonshire, for a reform of the Municipal Corporations of Ireland, and for the abolition of Church-rates.—By Mr. BORTHWICK, from two parishes in Worcester, against the Ministerial Church-rate Bill.—By Mr. Sergeant JACKSON, from Saffron Waldon, not to make any grant to Maynooth College; and from the Clergy and inhabitants of a parish of Ireland, for an improvement in the Established Church (Ireland) Bill.— By Sir L. PARRY, from some place in the county of Carnarvon, complaining that the Bishop did not understand the Welsh language.—By Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, from St. James's, Clerkenwell, against Church-rates.—By Lord EBRINGTON, from a place in Devonshire, in favour of the Irish Municipal Bill, and against Church-rates.—By Mr. BORTHWICK, from Evesham, and from two other places in Worcestershire, against the abolition of Church-rates.—By Sir T. FREMANTLE, from various places in Gloucester, against abolition of Church-rates.—By Mr. HOLLAND, from a place in Derbyshire, in favour of the Amended Poor-law Bill.—By Mr. YOUNG, from Scarborough, against the duty on Marine Insurances.