HC Deb 25 August 1848 vol 101 c518

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Post Horse Licences, &c.; Postage on Newspapers (Channel Islands, &c.); Lock-up Houses; Drainage Certificates; Savings' Banks.

2° Royal Military Asylum.

Reported.—Slave Trade (Equator); Renewable Leasehold Conversion (Ireland).

3° and passed:—Transfer of Landed Property (Ireland); Local Acts; Fever (Ireland); Dublin Police.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Hume, from several Proprietors of India Stock, for Inquiry into the Case of the Rajah of Sattara.—By Mr. Wyld, from Miners, and Others, at Camborne, against the Copper and Lead Duties Bill.—By Mr. Anderson, from the Commissioners of Supply of the County of Orkney, for Inquiry into the Working of the Excise Laws.—By Mr. Henry, from Members of the Board of Guardians of the Bury Union, Lancashire, for Rating Owners, in lieu of Occupiers, of Tenements.—By several Persons, in London and its Vicinity, for Ameliorating the Condition of the Chartist Prisoners.—By Mr. Maxwell, from the Protestant Inhabitants of the Parish of Granard, in the County of Longford, for Encouragement to Schools in Connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland).—By Mr. Wakley, from Edward Nye, 36, Cavendish Street, New North Road, London, praying the House to take his Case into Consideration.—By Captain Pechell, from Matthew Phillips, Geographical Engineer, for an Inquiry into the Prospects of the Poor in the coming Winter.