HC Deb 20 March 1845 vol 78 cc1211-2

BILLS. Public.—1o Customs (Import Duties).

3o and passed:—Railway Clauses Consolidation (Scotland); Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland).

Private.—1o Keynham Drainage; Dundee and Perth Railway; Dundee Waterworks; Belfast Improvement; Middlesex County Rate; North British Insurance Company; Forth and Clyde Navigation and Union Canal Junction (No. 2); Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway; Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot Bridge; Midland Railway Branches; Aberdeen Railway.

Reported.—Thames Navigation Debt.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Lord Ashley, from Members of the Church of England of Leamington Priors, for Arranging Differences (Church of England).—By Mr. Shaw, from Clare, and 3 other places, for Encouragement to Church Education Society.—By Mr. Wyse, from Province of Munster, for Establishing Provincial Colleges.—By Colonel T. Wood, from Staines, for better Observance of the Sabbath. — By Lord Ashley, from Queen Camel (Somerset), and by Colonel Wyndham, from Petworth, against the Grant to Maynooth. — By Mr. Hawes, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Anti-Slavery Society, Coalbrookdale, and St. Austell, against the Importation of Hill Coolies into Colonies. — By Lord Ashley, from Stockport, Rochdale, Preston, and Oldham, by Sir R. H. Inglis, from Manchester, and by Mr. E. Turner, from Bolton, in favour of Calico Print Works Bill.—By Sir John Guest, from several places in the county of Glamorgan, in favour of County Courts Bill (1844).—By Lord Ashley, from Herne Bay, for Alteration of Law relating to Promiscuous Intercourse.—By Lord Ashley, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Tatton Egerton, Sir George Grey, Sir John Guest, Sir Samuel Spry, and Colonel Trevor, from a great number of places, for Diminishing the number of Public Houses.—By Mr. Brotherton, from Proprietors of Chesterfield Canal Navigation, for Regulating Railway Charges.—By the Lord Advocate, from Argyleshire, and Ayr, for Ameliorating the Condition of Schoolmasters (Scotland).