HC Deb 18 April 1831 vol 3 c1493

The Gallery was this day opened at one o'clock, and in the course of a few minutes every seat was occupied with gentlemen anxious to hear the Debate on the House going into a Committee on the Reform Bill. The Members themselves seemed to participate in the general anxiety: every seat in the lower part of the House was speedily labelled with the name of the Member who claimed it for the evening, and even several of the Benches in the Galleries were appropriated in the same manner. At three o'clock, when the Speaker took the Chair, there were more than three hundred Members assembled.

Bills. Corporate Funds, read a third time.

Petitions presented. In favour of Reform, by Mr. PHILLPOTTS, from Berkeley, Gloucestershire:—By Mr. MAC NAMARA, from Tulla (Clare), and from the County of Clare:—By Mr. O'CONNELL, from Monaghan, Macroom, Carrick on Suir, and Enniscorthy:—By Mr. GISBORNE, from the Burgesses and Householders of Stafford:—By Mr. LAWLEY, from Warwick: — By Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY, from Newcastle:—By Mr. D. BOUVERIE, from Downton:—By Mr. SPRING RICE, from St. Paul's, Shadwell, and Hackney. Against being Disfranchised, by the Earl of DARLINGTON, from Saltash. For an alteration in the Beer Bill, by Mr. PHILLPOTTS, from Gloucester. By Lord EASTNOR, from Hereford, for an alteration in the Savings Banks Acts:—By Mr. MUNDY, from the Officers of the High Peak Savings Bank; and from the Hundred of Scarsdale, against the Registry of Deeds Bill. By Mr. PRINGLE, from the Bible Society of Edinburgh, against allowing the patent of King's Printer to infringe their privilege of printing Bibles. Against the Cotton Factories Bill, by Mr. JOHN WOOD, from owners of Mills at Wigan and Buglawton. By Mr. G. MOORE, from the Coal Meters of Dublin, praying for compensation.