HC Deb 17 April 1849 vol 104 c382

NEW MEMBER SWORN.—Melville Portal, Esq, for Southampton County (Northern Division).

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Hume, from Taunton, Somerset, for Counting the Number of Constituents represented by hon. Members, and not the Votes of the Members individually, on taking Divisions of the House.—By Mr. Stafford, from Weldon, Northamptonshire, and by other hon. Members, against the Parliamentary Oaths Bill.—By Mr. Benjamin Smith, from Dunfermline, for the Affirmation Bill.—By Mr. Scholefield, from the Protestant Dissenting Church and Congregation meeting in Heneage Street, Birmingham, and from several other Places, for Separation of Church and State—By Mr. Trelawny, from Llangollen, County of Denbigh, and from Glyndyfrdwy, Merionethshire, for the Abolition of Church Rates.—By Mr. George Thompson, from Market Weighton, Yorkshire, and by other hon. Gentlemen, for the Clergy Relief Bill.—By Sir John Yarde Buller, from the Parish of Seaton, and from other Places, in Devonshire, and by other hon. Members, against the Marriages Bill; and by Mr. Compton, from several Places, and by other hon. Gentlemen, in favour of the same.—By Admiral Gordon, from Foveran, Aberdeenshire, and by other hon. Members, against the Marriage (Scotland) Bill.