HC Deb 10 June 1840 vol 54 cc965-6

By Sir G. Strickland, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. T. Duncombe, and others, from Leith, Dundee, Merthyr Dydvil, and various other places, for Mitigation of the Sentence passed on Feargus O'Connor. — By Sir F, Burdett, from Inhabitants of Wilts, for a General Amnesty for Political Offences.—By Mr. A. White, from the Mayor and Magistrates of Sunderland, for increased powers to compel the Attendance of Witnesses.—By Mr. Godson, and Mr. Liddell, from the Vicar Choral of Lichfield, and Durham, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.— By Sir J. Graham, from places in Durham, for Church Extension; and from Lincolnshire, against the Importation of Hill Coolies into the Mauritius.—By Mr. Pakington, from Southampton, against the Law for the Sale of Beer.—By Mr. Sergeant Jackson, from Meath, for Lord Stanley's Bill for Amending the Registration of Voters in Ireland.—By Mr. R. Curry, from Northampton, against Church Rates. — By Sir G. Strickland, from Long Preston, for a Total Abolition of Church Rates; and from Operatives in Mills, &c, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, for a Repeal of the Corn-laws. —By Lord Ingestrie, from inhabitants of Greenwood, that the Grammar Schools Bill might pass into a Law; from Wolverhampton, Sudbury, and various other places, against the Desecration of the Sabbath by the Canal Boatmen; and from Wolverhampton, against any further Grant to the College of Maynooth.— By the Attorney-general, from Edinburgh, to exclude that city from the Scotch Borough Bill.—By Mr. Hawes, from a Meeting in Fetter-lane, and from various places in Suffolk, against Church Extension.—By Mr. Loch, from Fishermen of Dundee, and various places in Caithness, and Ross-shire, that Foreign Vessels might not be allowed to Fish within three miles of the coast of Scotland.—By Sir C. D. Norreys, from Grocers of Mallow, to admit Free-labour Sugar on the payment of a reasonable Duty.

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