HC Deb 09 July 1840 vol 55 c576

Bills. Read a first time:—Charitable Lands Exchange; Grand Jury Cess; Court House (Ireland).—Read a third time:—Sale of Beer.

Petitions presented. By Mr. Brotherton, from Byers-green, Durham, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.—By Mr. Lockhart, from Wandell, in favour of the Church of Scotland Benefices Bill.—By Mr. Wallace, from Greenock, in favour of Grinding Foreign Corn in Bond.—By Lord Hillsborough, from Ryan (Down), in favour of Non-Intrusion.—By Mr. Hume, from Medical Practitioners in Kilkenny, for Remuneration for Medieal Witnesses; and from Barshead, in Renfrew, for the Release of Political Offenders.—By Sir R. H. Inglis, from Womboune, and from Islington, against Sunday Trading; from Twining, and Dumford, for a Repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act; and from Wavendon, against any Grant to Maynooth.—By Mr. Gillon, from the Synod of the United Secession, Edinburgh, to apply the Clergy Reserves, Canada, to General Education.