HC Deb 05 May 1848 vol 98 c705

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Waste Lands (Ireland).

Reported.—Evicted Detitute Poor (Ireland); Poor Houses (Ireland).

3° and passed:—Insolvent Debtors, India; Poor Removal.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Sharman Crawford, from Bury (Lancaster), for Adoption of Universal Suffrage.—By Mr. Farnham, from Inhabitants of the Chapelry of Woodville, in the Diocese of Peterborough, for Increasing the Efficiency of the Church of England.—By Mr. J. Williams, from Macclesfield, and its Vicinity (Chester), for Abolishing the Distinction between Ecclesiastical and Civil Courts.—By Mr. Cobden, from Skipton, Yorkshire, and by other Hon. Members, from several Places, for Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By. Mr. Buck, from the Parish of Charles (Devon), against the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.—By Mr. Gibson Craig, from Members of the Grayfriars Congregation, Edinburgh, and by other Hon. Members, from several Places, for Alteration of the Law respecting Sites for Churches (Scotland).—By Mr. Howell Gwyn, from Falmouth, and from Attorneys and Solicitors practising in Maryport (Cumberland), for Repeal of the Duty on Attorneys' Certificates.—By Mr. Alexander Oswald, from Directors, Governors, and Subscribers of several Charitable Institutions of Ayr, for Exemption of Charitable Bequests from Legacy Duties.—By Sir Henry Halford, from several Lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, for Extent of the Benefit Societies Act.— By Mr. Muntz, from Thomas Attwood, formerly a Member of the House, for Alteration of the Law of Currency.—By Mr. Bankes, from Kingston Russell, and its Vicinity (Dorset), and by Mr. W. Miles, from Barrow (Somerset), against the Diplomatic Relations, Court of Rome, Bill.—From the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin, for Production of Reports and Evidence from the Surveying Officers, in the Case of the Dublin Improvement Bills.—By Mr. Napier, from Achill, Diocese of Tuam, and other Places, for Encouragement to Schools in Connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland).—By Mr. Fergus, from Dunfermline, and by Sir W. Heathcote, from Occupiers of Land in the Northern Division of Hampshire, for Repeal of the Game Laws.—By Viscount Morpeth, from the Metropolitan Working Classes Association for Improving the Public Health, in favour of Sanitary Regulations.—By Mr. Hume, from the Town Council of Forfar, for Alteration of the Law of Entail (Scotland).—By Mr. Rutherford, from Leith, against Repeal of the Navigation Laws.—By Mr. Buck, from Guardians of the Bideford Union, Devonshire, respecting the Rating of Worlehouses.—From Ratepayers of Loughgall, Annaghmore, Charlemont, and Kilmore, in the Armagh Union, for Alteration of the Poor Law (Ireland).—By Mr. Rutherford, from the Parish of Gorbals (Glasgow), for Amendment of the Poor Law (Scotland).—By Admiral Bowles, from Launceston (Cornwall), for an Alteration of, and by Sir R. H. Inglis, from Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea, in favour of, the Public Health Bill.—By Mr. Cornewall Lewis, to take into Consideration the Existing State of the Turnpike Trusts.