HC Deb 13 April 1831 vol 3 c1260

New writ issued for the county of Sussex, in the room of Walter Burrell, Esq., deceased. WILLIAM MAYHEW, Esq. took his seat for Colchester.

Bills. Read a first time. Heritable Securities (Scotland); to improve the Administration of Justice (Ireland). Read a second time; Emigration; Committed. Dean Forest Boundaries. Post Office Sale Customs Acts.

Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. LAMB, the Copy of the Twentieth Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Duties, Salaries, and Emoluments, of the Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of Justice, in all temporal and Ecclesiastical Courts in Ireland; the Imports into, and Exports from, the port of Waterford, during each of the last fifteen years; distinguishing the quantity and value of all articles severally exceeding the amount of 5001.; also, of the number of Vessels, with the amount of Tonnage, that entered inwards, and cleared outwards, during the same period, distinguishing British and Foreign, so far as the same can be made out.

Petitions presented. Against certain parts of the Reform Bill, by Lord SEYMOUR, from Okehampton:—By Mr. CALCRAFT, from the Burgesses of Wareham:—By the Marquis of CHANDOS, from Chipping Wycombe; and from Sir Harcourt Lees, of Black Rock, near Dublin:— By Mr. COOPER, from certain freeholders of the county of Sligo. The petitioners stated it to be their opinion, that if Reform was necessary, it ought to be effected gradually, and not in this sweeping and sudden manner, which was likely to endanger all the ancient institutions of the country. By Mr. COOPER, from the Protestant Clergy, Churchwardens, and Roman Catholic Clergy of Kilpaltyle, in the county of Sligo, complaining of the distress of the poor in that county. In favour of Reform, by the Marquis of CHANDOS, from Horton (Bucks):—By the Earl of UXBRIDGE, from Galway:—By Mr. PRITTIE, from the High Sheriff and Grand Jury of the county of Tipperary. By Lord BRABAZON, from the United Parishes of St. Nicholas and St. James, Dublin, in favour of the Repeal of the Union. For the Abolition of Slavery, by Lord F. OSBORNE, from Great Shelford, and two other places in the county of Cambridge:—By the Marquis of CHANDOS, from Hanstop (Bucks):—By the Earl of UXBRIDGE, from Beaumaris, and other places:—By Mr. TENNYSON, from various Congregations of Dissenters. Against any alteration of the Timber Duties, by the Earl of BELFAST, from the Shipowners of Belfast. For an Amendment of the Poor Laws, by the Marquis of CHANDOS, from Olney and Waddesdon.