§ BILLS. Public.—1°. Excise Duties; Compounds; Roasted Malt; Property Tax. Private.—1° Mieville's Divorce. 2° Kington Roads; Camberwell and Feckham Lighting. Reported.—Weston-super-Mare Improvement and Market; Southwark Improvement (No. 2).
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Lord Dalmeny, Mr. Craig, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Mr. Wakley, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Mr. Thomas Duncombe, Mr. Colville, Mr. Mac-kinnon, Mr. Hutt, Sir John Hanmer, Mr. Barnard, Lord John Russell, and other hon. Members, from Ross, Athlone, Edinburgh, Rochdale, St. Austell, Leeds, Windsor, Stroud, Rochdale, Gateshead, Northallerton, Littlebo- 639 rough, Stirling, Norfolk, South Shields, and other places, against the Income-tax.—By Sir R. Inglis, from Prescott, and Twyning, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—By Lord Francis Egerton, and Sir Thomas Freemantle, from Bolton, and Rye, in favour of the Government Financial Measure.—By Mr. C. Berkeley, from Guardians of the Poor in Thornbury, and Chipping Sodbury, that Railway Companies may be compelled to Contribute to the Maintenance of the Poor in those Parishes through which they pass By Mr. Wakley, and other hon. Members, from Shoemakers in Nottingham, Winchester, Reading, Eton, Portsmouth, and other places, against the proposed Alteration in the Import Duty on Foreign Boots and Shoes By Mr. D. Jackson, and Sir R. Bateson, from Rincurran, Killowen, and other places, against the National Education System (Ireland). —By Sir Robert Bateson, from several places in the county of Antrim, for an Alteration of the Law of Marriages (Ireland).—By Mr. Beckett, from Attorneys at Leeds, and Derby, for Repeal of the Duty on their Certificates.—By Mr. Hardy, and Lord Francis Egerton, from Bolton, and Oakham, against the New Poor-law Amendment Act.—By Mr, Blackstone, from Baydon, Wallingford, and the Western Division of Norfolk, against the Importation of Foreign Cattle.—From St. Mary*s, Lambeth, for the Redemption of the Tolls on Waterloo, and the other Metropolitan Bridges.—From Pembroke, against the Removal of the Mail Packet Stations from Milford and Waterford.—From Ratepayers of Strabane, complaining of the acts of the Poor-law Commissioners.—From the Catholic Inhabitants of Armagh, complaining of the proceedings of the Law Officers of the Crown at the North East Circuit of the late Assizes.— From J. J. Stockdale, for substituting Solemn Declarations for Oaths.—From W. Carson, praying that an Inquiry may be made into his plan for Heating and Ventilating the New Houses of Parliament.—From Edinburgh, and Chippenham, for, and from Batheaston, against the Repeal of the Corn-laws.—From Aberdeen, for a Fixed Duty on Corn.—From R. E. Varely, for Compensation to Corn Inspectors.—From Aberdeen, against Reduction of Duty on Foreign Corks, and against the Exportation of Labourers from British India.—From W. Robinson, praying that a Tax may be levied on all Property in Great Britain and Ireland for the Discharge of the National Debt,