HC Deb 14 July 1846 vol 87 c1123

NEW WRIT. For Sutherland, v. David Dundas, Esq., Solicitor General.

NEW MEMBERS SWORN. For Manchester, Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson. — For Plymouth, Viscount Ebrington.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Bannerman, from Members of Free Union Church, Aberdeen, complaining of the Refusal of Proprietors of Land to grant Sites for the Erection of Free Churches (Scotland), and praying the House to devise Means for enabling Congregations to Rent or Purchase Ground on Reasonable Conditions.—By Mr. Gaskell, from Rural Dean and the Clergy of the Rural Deanery of Wenlock, in the Diocese of Hereford, against the Union of St. Asaph and Bangor, but at the same time providing for the Immediate Appointment of a Bishop to the newly erected See of Manchester.—From Inhabitants of the Districts of Muswell Brook and Merton, in the Colony of New South Wales, praying the House to admit Wheat, Maize, and Flour, the Produce of Australia, into the United Kingdom on the same Terms as Wheat, Maize, and Flour, the Produce of Canada.—By Sir William Codrington, from Farmers, Landowners, and others, in the Hamlet of Mangersbury, and from Churchwardens, Overseers, and Guardians of the Poor of Stow on the Wold, for Rating Owners of Small Tenements to the Poor Rates in lieu of Occupiers.—By Mr. Cobden, from Market Gardeners and Growers of Fruit at Ealing, Brentford, Hounslow, Isleworth, and the Vicinity, for Alteration of Duty on Sugar.—By Mr. Cobden, from J. and F. Lloyd and Co., Manufacturers of Tobacco and Snuff in the City of London, for Reduction of Duty on Tobacco.—By Mr. Blackburne, from Inhabitants of Warrington, for Regulating the Trade of Fustian Cutting.—By Guardians of the Gateshead Poor Law Union, and from Guardians, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, and others, the Inhabitants of the Parish of Broadwater, for Repeal or Alteration of Lunatics Act and Lunatic Asylums and Pauper Lunatics Act.—By Mr. Christopher, from Thomas Johnson, and others, for a Superannuation Fund for Poor Law Officers.—By Mr. Bury, from Inhabitants of Bury, for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death.