HC Deb 20 May 1833 vol 17 cc1380-1

Papers ordered. On the Motion of Sir RONALD FERGUSON, an Account of the Number of Rate-payers at Leamington (Butts) and Kenilworth, in the County of Warwick.—On the Motion of Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, the Amount of Church Rates or Vestry Cess, levied at Youghall in 1832, and how applied; also of the Amount assessed on Easter Monday, 1833, in the Parish in which Youghal is situate.—On the Motion of Mr. ROBERT STEUART, the Number of Appeals from the Sheriff-Substitute to the Sheriff-Depute in each County in Scotland during the last five years.

New Writs issued. For the Southern Division of Staffordshire, in the room of E. J. LITTLETON, Esq., who has accepted Office; and for Stroud, in the room of DAVID RICARDO, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

Bills. Read a third time:—Police Offices (London); Curtesy of England; Limitation of Actions; Fines and Recoveries. Read a second time:—Rating of Tenements.

Petitions presented. By Mr. ROBINSON, from Balmerino, for a Property-tax, in lieu of all other Taxes.—By Mr. JERVIS, from the Market Gardeners of the Metropolitan Counties to Exempt Garden Land from the Metropolitan Police Rate.—By Mr. GISBORNE, from Eyam, for an Alteration of the Currency.—By Mr. J. FIELDEN, from Middleton, and another Place, for Relief.—By Mr. FIELDEN, Sir R. FERGUSON, Sir W. INGILBY, and Mr. GISBORNE, from several Places, for the Repeal of the Duties on Hops, Malt, and Soap.—By Mr. WALTER, from the Innkeepers at Reading, for Relief from the Unequal Charges imposed for Licenses,—By Mr. HUME, from Harrington, for the Right to Control the Expenditure of the Rates and Dues collected in their Port; from Wis-beach, for the Release of R. Taylor; from the Keepers of Coffee-shops in London, for Permission to open their Shops all the year round at four o'clock; from St. Andrew's, for the Repeal of the Soap Duty; and from Perth, for Amending the Bankrupt Laws.—By Mr. H. HANDLEY, from Grantley and Sleaford, for Repealing the Duty on Fire Insurances on Farming Stock.—By Mr. HOPE JOHNSTONE, from Moffatt, for a Repeal of the Duty on Stamps of Receipts.—By Sir R. FERGUSON, from several Dissenting Congregations, for Relief from their present Grievances.—By Mr. H. HANDLEY, and Sir W. INGILBY,—for a Repeal of the Malt Duty.—By Mr. JOHN FIELDEN, from Hyde, against the Taxes on Knowledge; from Rochdale, for Univeisal Suffrage, Short Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot; from Oldham, for Liberating Richard Carlile; and from Huddersfield, for withdrawing the Vote for 2,000l. for raising a Volunteer Corps at that Place—By Mr. VIGORS, from the Inhabitants of Carlow, for the Right of Choosing their own Magistrates.—By Mr. WELBY, from Grantham, for not Curtailing the Power and Jurisdiction of their Magistrates.—By Mr. HUME, from Bury (Lancaster), against any Alteration in the Sale of Beer Act; and by Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY, Sir WILLIAM INGILBY. and Mr. BARING, from several Places,—for the Amendment or Abolition of that Act.—By Mr. BARING, from the Innkeepers of Saffron Walden, for putting them on the same footing as other Shopkeepers, relative to the House and Window Tax; and from the Clergy of Colchester, against the Irish Church Temporalities Bill.—By Lord A. LEN-NOX, from the Solicitors practising in Chichester, &c., against the General Registry Bill By Mr. GILLON, from the Shipowners of Grangemouth; and by Mr. BETHELL, from those of Kingston-upon-Hull, for Inquiry and Relief.—By Mr. BROTHERTON, and Mr. JOHN FIELDEN, from several Places, in favour of the Factories Regulation Bill.—By Captain GORDON, from Aberdeen, for the Amendment of the Apothecaries Act; from the Landowners and Tradesmen of Forque and Drumblade, for Relief.—By Lord MOLYNEUX, from several Places, for an Alteration of the Law relative to Catholic Marriages—By Lords STORAIONT, CAVENDISH, and MILTON, and Messrs. PLUMPTRE, COBBETT, HODGSON, W. STEWART, and LEFROY, Sir GRAY SKIPWITH, and Captain FENTON, from several Places—for a Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Mr. COBBETT, from Dartford and Crayford, for a Repeal of the Duty on Newspapers; from the Farmers, &c., of Hensbridge, against the Assessed Taxes; from the Political Union of Chowbent, for the Sale of church and Crown Lands; from Enniscorthy and Temple-shannon, for the Abolition of Tithes, and of the Protestant Hierarchy in Ireland; from Bury, and other Places, for the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, and on Malt, Hops, and Soap; from Birmingham, and Hebden Bridge, for the Repeal of the Corn Laws, and Relief from unequal Taxation, and contraction of the Currency; from Wing-ham, and another Place, against the Lord's Day Observance Bill; from Brewood, for placing Retail Brewers on a footing with Publicans; from the Gravesend and Milton Political Union, for an Inquiry into the Case of R. Newsham.