HL Deb 11 June 1840 vol 54 c989

Bills. Read a second time:—Grand Jury Cess (Ireland).

Petitions presented. By Lord Langdale, and Lord Ellenborough, from Shrewsbury, Oxford, and various other places, in favour of the Administration of Justice Bill.— By the Duke of Richmond, and the Earl of Falmouth, from places in Essex, Sussex, Elgin, and Somersetshire, in favour of the Corn-laws; and from the Market Gardeners of Fulham, and Chelsea, against the Importation of Foreign Fruit.—By the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Fitzgerald, the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of Gosford, and Lord Western, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Lutterworth, and other places in Leicestershire, from the Leicestershire Agricultural Society, from Operatives of Leicester, from Warwickshire, and various parts of Ireland, against any Alteration in the Corn-laws. —By the Earl of Kinnaird, and Earl Fitzwilliam, from Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Penryn, Newport, Isle of Wight, Yarmouth, Sheffield, Derby, and other places in England and Scotland, for an Alteration of the Corn-laws.