HC Deb 20 May 1842 vol 63 cc559-60

BILLS. Public.—1°. Bribery at Elections; Tithe Commutation.

Reported.—Colonial Passengers; Roasted Malt; Law of Merchants Act Amendment.

. and passed:—Pentonville Prison; Australia and New Zealand; Exeise Duties Compounds.

Private.—2°. Medbourn Inclosure (No. 2); Imperial Insurance Company; Cass's Estate.

Reported.—Gravesend Terrace Pier Slug Road; Cwm, Celyn, and Blaina Iron Company; London and Croydon Railroad (Grange Road Approach), (No. 2); Holywell Roads; Kingstown Mariners Church.

3.°. and passed:—Aberdeenshire Roads; South Metropolitan Gas.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. P. Howard, from Roman Catholics of Carlisle, Richmond (York), Brough, Huddersfield, Darlington, Congleton, and other places, for Equality of Civil Rights.—By Sir H. Douglas, Lord Worsley, Sir John Easthope, and Mr. Fleming, from Ropemakers and Spinners of Leicester, Aberdeen, Warwick, Portsmouth, Falmouth, Gainsborough, and Wolverhampton, against the Reduction of the Duties on Rope and Cordage.—By Mr. Grogan, from Clongish, and Waterford, against the present System of Education (Ireland)—By Mr. M. Phillips, from the President of the Manchester Medical Society, the Guardians of Berwick-upon-Tweed Union, and Launceston Union, for Alteration of the Poor-law Amendment Act.—By Lord Robert Grosvenor, from Chester, for the Extension to the whole of the United Kingdom of the Regulation with regard to the Closing of Public Houses on Sunday Mornings.— From Wilts, and the Wester Row Farmers Society, against the Importation of Cattle and Meat.—From Abergavenny, for the Improvement of the Old Passage Ferry. —From Fishermen of the Rivers Nore, and Barrow, against the use of Salmon Wiers and Stake Nets—From Peckham, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.— From Alverstohe, against the Dissolution of the Gilbert Unions.—From Lainbeg, for providing Coffins for such Destitute Persons as die out of the Workhouses.— From British Merchants, and others at Antwerp, for placing the Postage and Communication of Great Britain with Belgium on the same footing as with France.—From Grimsby, against the Property Tax Bill.—From Upper Eshols, and Manchester, for the Repeal of the Corn-laws. —From Dundee, against the Reduction of the Duty on Whale Oils and Whale Bone.—From Manchester, and Salford, complaining of Recent Outrages in the Province of Ulster.—From Manchester, Altrincham, Hulme, and other places, against the Turnpike Roads Bill.—From R. J. Morrison, for the adoption of Regulations to prevent Accidents on Railways.