HC Deb 06 May 1842 vol 63 c205

MINUTES.) BILLS. Public.—1°Double Costs; Grand Jury Presentments (Cork).

2°. Fines and Recoveries (Wales and Cheshire); Incumbents Leasing (No. 2); Ecclesiastical Corporations Leasing (No. 2).

Private.—2°. Boston Harbour (No. 2); Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (No. 2); Glegg's Divorce.

Reported,—National Floating Breakwater Company.

3° and passed: Great North of England Railway; Witt's Estate; Mieville's Divorce.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Villiers, from Leek, in Staffordshire, and from Manchester, for the Total Repeal of the Corn and Provision Laws.—By Mr. Aglionby, from Cockermouth, for the substitution of Affirmations instead of Oaths.—By Mr. Thomas Duncombe, from Bisley, Howden, Bromley in Kent, and Penrith, for Alteration or Repeal of the Poor-law Amendment Act.— From Salford, Pendleton, and many other places, against the Turnpike Roads Bill-—From Golden, Bansla, and other places, against the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill.—By Lord Worsley, from Cirencester, Winterton, Edinburgh, and Caistor, against the Property Tax.—By Mr. Turner, from Cornwall, against the proposed Reduction of the Duty on Foreign Oils.—By Mr. J. O'Connell, and Mr. Byng, from Hertwood, Oldham, York, Nuneaton, and Hammersmith, for Equality of Civil Rights for Roman Catholics. —By Sir George Strickland, and Mr. Hardy, from the West Riding of Yorkshire, for a Limitation of the Hours of Labour for Young Persons in Factories.—From Delting, Lerwick, Dunrossness, and Bury St. Edmunds, against Importation of Foreign Cattle.—From Stirling, for Alteration of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill (No. 2). —From the Proprietors and Tacksmen of Salmon Fisheries, against Reduction of the Duty on Salmon.—From Glasgow, and Ayr, for Abolitiou of Church Patronage (Scotland).—From sundry parties, for Alteration of the present mode of Admitting persons to the Freedom of the Corporation of Dublin. — From Halesworth, for Better Observance of the Sabbath.—From St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, for Redemption of the Tolls on Waterloo, and the other Metropolitan Bridges.