HC Deb 28 July 1848 vol 100 c924

NEW WRIT. FOR Thetford, v. the Hon William Bingham Baring, now Lord Ashburton.

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Attorneys and Solicitors (Ireland); Marriage (Scotland); Dublin Police; Assessionable Manors Commissioners (Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster).

2° Paymasters Officers Consolidation; Poor Law Union Charges (No. 2).

Reported.—Rum, &c. Duties; British Spirits Warehousing; Reproductive Loan Fund Institution (Ireland); Juvenile Offenders (Ireland); Land Tax Commissioners Names.

3° and passed:—Salmon Breed Preservation; Public Works (Ireland) (No. 2).

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Cobden, from Lockwood, Yorkshire, for a Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Mr. William Lockhart, from the Parochial Board of Govan, Lanarkshire, against the Marriage (Scotland) Bill.—By Sir H. F. Davie, from the Magistrates and Council of Dunbar, for Inquiry into the Working of the Excise Laws.—By Mr. Thornely, from the Proprietors and Farmers of Fifeshire, against a Reduction of the Differential Duty on Rum.—By Mr. Alexander Hastie, from the Wine and Spirit Merchants of Glasgow, for an Alteration of the British Spirits Warehousing Bill.—By Mr. Stafford, from several Inhabitants of Northampton, for Encouragement to Schools in Connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland).—By Mr. Milner Gibson, from Manchester, in favour of a Secular Education.—By Mr. Scott, from Guardians of the Barnet Union, in favour of Free Emigration.—By Colonel Dunne, from the County of Meath, for an Alteration of the Poor Law (Ireland).