§ PUBLIC BILLS.—1°. Judgment Creditors.
§ 2°. Cheshire Returning Officer.
§ Reported. Cheshire Returning Officer.
§ 3°. and passed. Cheshire Returning Officer.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Inhabitants of the City of York, for the Adoption of Measures for promoting the Due Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Mr. Thomas Buncombe, from John Williams, Inhabitant of the Town of Holywell; by Sir Robert Harry Inglis, from Archdeacon of Sarum, and from Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Westminster; by Mr. Long, from Clergy and Laity of the Deanery of Potterne; and by Colonel Reid, from Members of the Windsor and Eton Church Union, against the Union of St. Asaph and Bangor, but in favour of the Immediate Appointment of a Bishop to the newly erected See of Manchester.—By Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, from Heritors, Magistrates, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Ross, met in the Court House at Dingwall, for Repeal of the Duties on Malt and Whiskey.—By Mr. Baine, from Bankers, Merchants, Shipowners, and other Traders, Inhabitants of the Town of Greenock, in favour of the Measure proposed by Her Majesty's Government respecting the Sugar Duties.—By Mr. Law, from Inhabitants of Bradford, for an Investigation into the Working of the Anatomy Act, with a view to its Repeal.—From Directors and Members of the York Institute of Popular Science and Literature, in favour of the Corresponding Societies and Lecture Rooms Bill.—By Lord Granville Somerset, from Owners and Occupiers of Fen Lands situated in the Parishes of Northwold and Methwold, in favour of the Drainage of Lands Bill.—By Dr. Bowring, from Inhabitants of the Parish and Borough of Ilfracombe, and by Mr. Thomas Duncombe, from George Williams, Resident in the Parish of Saint John's, in the Town of Cardiff, for the Abolition of Naval and Military Flogging, and for a Strict Investigation into the Treatment of Private Frederick John White, late of Her Majesty's Regiment the 7th Hussars, who was flogged at Hounslow by order of the Commanding Officer.—By Viscount Newport, from Inhabitants of Broseley, and by Mr. Manners Sutton, from Inhabitants of the Town of Cambridge, for the Establishment of Local Courts for the Recovery of Small Debts.—By Mr. Thomas 340 Duncombe, from Edward Baker, of No. 2, Catherine Place, Westminster, late Warder in the Milbank Prison, for an Immediate Inquiry into the Manner in which the Prison of Milbank is conducted.—By Mr. Robert Palmer, from Guardians of the Poor of the Wokingham Union, for Alteration of the Poor Law.—By Mr. Wrynn Ellis, from Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Guardians of the Leicester Poor Law Union, and from Guardians of the Poor of the York Union, for Alteration of the Poor Removal Bill.—By Mr. Henry Berkeley, from Members of the Bristol Peace Society, for the Abolition of Punishment of Death.—By Lord John Russell, from Wholesale Book sellers and Stationers of the City of London and Westminster, respecting the Opening of Railway Parcels.—By Mr. Eliot Yorke, from Bankers, Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants of the Borough of Wisbech, for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts.