HC Deb 16 June 1842 vol 63 c1609

NEW MEMBER. John Quincey Harris, Esq., for Newcastle-under-Lyme.

BILLS. Public.—1°. Bribery at Elections (No. 2).

Reported.—Assessed Taxes.

Private.—1°. Manner's Estate; Brewood School Estate.

Reported..—Dean Forest Poor; Briavel's Small Debts.

3°. and passed; Sudbury Improvement.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Etwall, from Andover, and Weyhill, for the Repeal or Alteration of the Poor- law Amendment Act By Sir John Hanmer, from Kingston-upon-Hull, against the Poor-law Amendment Bill.—From Teston and Nettlestead, Kingston, Glasgow, Brampton, Tonbridge, and other places, against Railway Travelling on Sundays.—From Headington, for placing Charitable Lunatic Asylums on the same footing as County Lunatic Asylums.—By Mr. Brotherton, from the Members of the Peace Preservation Society, for the Discontinuance of the Wars in China and Affghanistan. —By Mr. T. Duncombe, from North Shields, for Alteration of the of Law of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland.— By Mr. T. Duncombe, and Mr. Byng, from Finsbury, and the Ward of Farringdon, for the Redemption of the Tolls on the Metropolitan Bridges.—By Mr. Mitcalf, from Tynemouth, for securing to Seamen their Wages.—By Mr. H. Berkeley, from Bristol, for the Abolition of Church-rates.—By Mr. Thornely, from Ormskirk, for the Reduction of the Duty on Sugar.—By Captain Pechell, from William Smith, for Inquiry into the Eastbourne Union,—From Droitwich, for Rating the Owners of Small Tenements to the Poor.—From Kilworth, against placing Medical Charities (Ireland), under the Poor-law Commissioners.—From Limerick, against the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill.