HC Deb 11 March 1845 vol 78 cc632-3

BILLS. Public. — 1°. Sugar Duties; Customs (Export Duties).

Reported.—Lands Clauses Consolidation.

. and passed:—Consolidated Fund (8,000,000l.).

Private—1°. Huddersfield Waterworks; South Devon Railway (Tavistock and other Branches); Launceston and South Devon Railway; York and North Midland Railway (Harrowgate Branch); Stalybridge Waterworks; Claughton-cum-Grange (St. Andrew's) Church; Claughton-cum-Grange (St. John the Baptist's) Church; Clydesdale Junction Railway; Berks and Hants Railway.

. Trent Valley Railway.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Shaw, from Protestant Inhabitants of Kilfangnabeg, and several other places in Ireland, for Encouragement to Church Education Society (Ireland),—By Mr. A. Smith, from Maltsters of Ware, for Repeal of the Duty on Malt; and from Yardley, for Rating Owners of Tenements in lieu of Occupiers.—By Sir H. Douglas, from Merchants of Liverpool, for Allowance of Duty on Stock of Sugar in hand.—By Viscount Duncan, from Ross and Southampton, for Repeal of Window Duty.—By Col. Rushbrooke, from Agricultural Society of Suffolk, for Protection to Agriculture.—By Mr. Bright, from Nottingham, against the Game Laws.—By the Attorney General, from Exeter, against Insolvent Debtors Act.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from Durham, for Inquiry in cause of Accidents in Mines and Collieries.—By Mr. Arkwright, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Mr. Bright, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. C. Howard, Visct. Howick, Mr. Hume, Mr. Liddell, and Mr. Samuel Spry, from an immense number of places, for Diminishing the Number of Public Houses.—By Mr. Hume, from Presbytery of Brechin, for Improving the Condition of Schoolmasters (Scotland).—By Sir G. Clerk, from Mayor and others of Stamford, for Reserving the Rights of Freemen of that Borough.