HC Deb 24 May 1843 vol 69 c843

BILLS. Public.—1° Townshend Peerage.

2°.Roman Catholic Oaths (Ireland); Pound Breach and Rescue.

Private.—1°. Maryport and Carlisle Railway.

Reported.— Hull Waterworks; Ballochney Railway; Lough Foyle Drainage; Bannbridge Road; Dean Forest and Gloucester Railway.

3° and passed:—Oxnam's Estate; Southampton Docks; Sowerby and Soyland Inclosure; Belfast and Cavehill Railway.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Messrs. M. Gibson, B. Wood,?S. Crawford, Blackstone, Ricardo, Wodehouse, Standish, W. Ellis, Hume, P. Howard, Brotherton, and Ewart, Dr. Bowring, Lord A. Lennox, Sir G. Strickland, and Lord Alford, from am immense number of places, against the Factories Bill.—By Mr. M. Gibson, and Mr. B. Wood, from Manchester and other places, for the Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. Blackstone, from Wallingford and other places, against the Canada Corn Bill.—By Sir R. H. Inglis, from the Clergy of Pimperne, against the Union of the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.—From several places, in favour of the Factories Bill.—From Nottingham, against the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill.—From Truro, and other places against the Turnpike Roads Bill.—From a Parish in Bristol, against the Health of Towns Bill.—From Bristol, and St George's the Martyr, (Southwark), against the County Courts Bill. —From Yaxley, against the Drainage of Lands Bill.— From Romney Marsh Union, against the Beer Act.— From Nottingham, and a number of other places, for Carrying out Rowland Hill's Plan of Post-office Reform. —From the Southwark Literary and Scientific Institution, for Exemption from the Payment of Rates and Taxes From Newark, for Amendment of Bankruptcy Act.— From Chorley, against the Truck System.