HC Deb 12 June 1846 vol 87 cc374-5

PUBLIC BILLS.—1°. Churches; Landlord and Tenant (Ireland); Ejectments, &c. (Ireland); Leases (Ireland).

. Steam Navigation; Wreck and Salvages.

. and passed. Railway Companies Dissolution.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By several hon. Members, from an immense number of places, complaining of Refusal to grant Sites for the Erection of Churches for the Free Church of Scotland.—By Mr. Aldam, from Inhabitants of the Town of Thirsk, for the Adoption of Measures for promoting the Due Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Captain Duff, from Secular Clergymen and Laymen of the Town of Banff, and its Vicinity, professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and by Mr. Ricardo, from Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the Village of Cowbridge, in favour of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.—By several hon. Members, from various places, against the Union of the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, but in favour of the Immediate Appointment of a Bishop to the newly erected See of Manchester.—By Mr. Wilshere, from Merchants, Shipowners, Manufacturers, and other Inhabitants of the Port of Great Yarmouth, praying that all Expenses for the Erection and Maintenance of Lighthouses, Floating Buoys, and Beacons on the Coasts of the United Kingdom, should be henceforth defrayed out of the Public Revenue.—By Mr. Morgan, from Ratepayers of the Parish of Llandogo, for Repeal or Alteration of the Lunatics Act and Lunatic Asylums and Pauper Lunatics Act. — By Sir James Graham, from Officers of the Longtown Union, for a Superannuation Fund for Poor Law Officers.—By Mr. Muntz, from Members of several Religious Societies, and others, for the Abolition of Capital Punishments.—By Mr. Owen Stanley, from Owen Owen Roberts, of Bangor, complaining of Treatment of Lunatics in Wales.—By Mr. G. Hamilton, from Solicitors of Dublin, for Alteration of Protection of Purchasers, &c. (Ireland) Act.—By Mr. Forbes, from Cromarty, for Alter- ation of Prisons (Scotland) Act.—By General Morrison, from Alloa, for Repeal of the Corn Laws.—By Mr. W. Williams, from Rhayader, for Extension of Education in Wales.