HC Deb 30 April 1847 vol 92 cc204-5

PUBLIC BILLS. 1° Savings Banks Annuities. 2° Drainage of Lands (Scotland); Passengers Act Amendment.

3° and passed:—Naval Prisons.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Bouverie, from Society for the Abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts, for Alteration of Law respecting those Courts.—By Mr. Rumbold, from Norwich, for Alteration of the Law of Marriage.—By Mr. T. Mackenzie, from Members of the Synod of Ross, against the Marriage (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. O. Morgan, from Monmouth, against the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.— By Mr. Chute, from Norfolk, for Repeal of the Duty on Malt.—By Mr. R. Trevor, from Llandilo (Carmarthen), for Regulating the Qualification to become Chemists and Druggists.—By Mr. O, Morgan, from two places in Wales, Against, and by Lord John Russell, from several places, in favour of the Government Plan of Education; and by Sir W. Molesworth, from Liverpool, for Alteration of the same.—By Lord E. Bruce, from Marl-borough, in favour of the Health of Towns Bill.—By Sir Dennis Le Marchant, from Worcester, in favour of the Juvenile Offenders Bill.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from Members of the Alleged Lunatics Friend Society, for Inquiry respecting Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums.—From Richard Beadon Bradley, Clerk, A.B., Incumbent of Ash Priors and Cothelstone, Somerset, and Curate of East Teignmouth, Devon, for the Establishment of a National Benefit Society.—By Mr. A. Duncombe, from Clerks, Masters, and Matrons of numerous Workhouses, for a Superannuation Fund for Poor Law Officers.—By Mr. Duncan, and Mr. T. Mackenzie, from several places in Scotland, against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill.