HC Deb 14 March 1849 vol 103 cc686-7

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Small Debts (Ireland). 2° Landlord and Tenant; Real and Personal Property Conveyance; Clergy Relief; Recovery of Wages (Ireland); Marriage (Scotland); Registering Births" &c. (Scotland).

Reported.—Life Policies of Assurance.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Bright, from Members of the Southern Unitarian Society, in favour of the Parliamentary Oaths Bill.—By Mr. Trelawny, from the City of York, and several other Places, for the Abolition of Church Rates.—By Mr. Kershaw, from the Inhabitants of Stockport, for an Alteration of the Law respecting the Church of England Clergy.—By Mr. Cowan, from the Committee of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, for a Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Sir Thomas Acland, from the Deanery of Cadbury, in the Diocese of Exeter, and by other Hon. Members, from several Places, against the Marriages Bill.—By Mr. W. Lockhart, from the Presbytery of Kirkaldy, against the Marriage (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Bouverie, and other Hon. Members, from several Places in Lancashire, respecting the Expenditure of that County.—By Mr. Disraeli, from the Parish of St. George's, Middlesex, in favour of a Revision of Local Taxation.—By Mr. Cowan, from several Tradesmen of Edinburgh, for a Repeal of the Paper Duty,—By Mr. Heald, from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, respecting the Taxation on Railways.—By Mr. Harris, from the Congregation of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Quirk's Green, Berkshire, for a Reduction of the Duties on Tea, Sugar, and Coffee.—By Lord Hotham, from Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, for the Relief of Agricultural Distress.—By Mr. Bourke, from the Landowners of Ballitore, in the County of Kildare, and from several other Parts of Ireland, respecting the Depredations by Killing Cattle, Sheep, &c.—By Mr. Moody, from the Deanery of Dunster, Somerset, for an Alteration of the Law respecting Education.—By Mr. Bright, from Owen Owen Roberts, of Bangor, complaining of the Misapplication of Funds intended for Educational Purposes (North Wales).—By Mr. Herries, from Merchants, and Others, of Liverpool, against, and by Mr. Brotherton, from the Borough of Salford, in favour of, the Navigation Bill.—By Mr. Leslie, from the Grand Jury of the County of Monaghan, and by other Hon. Members, from several other Places against the Proposed Rate in Aid (Ireland).—By Mr. Bourke, from the Guardians of the Athy Union, respecting the Poor Law (Ireland) as affecting the Kildare Union.—By Mr. Sotheron, from Melksham, Wiltshire, for the Suppression of Promiscuous Intercourse.—By Sir John Hope, from Members of the Kirk Session of Inveresk, against the Registering Births, &c., and against the Marriage (Scotland) Bills.—By Mr. Bankes, from Swanage, Dorset, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.—By Captain Fordyce, from Aberdeen, and from several other Places, for Referring War Disputes to Arbitration.