HC Deb 08 August 1846 vol 88 c463

PUBLIC BILLS.—1°. House of Commons Offices; Naval and Military Departments; Public Works Commissioners (Ireland); Public Works and Fisheries.

. Contagious Diseases Prevention.

Reported. Deodands Abolition (No. 2); Death by Accidents Compensation; Forms (Assessed Taxes); Militia Pay.

. and passed. Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society; Sugar Duties (No. 3); Fisheries (Ireland); Exclusive Privilege of Trading Abolition (Ireland).

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Villiers, from Secular Clergymen and Laymen of Bilston and Wolverhampton and their Vicinities, professing the Roman Catholic Religion, in favour of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.—By Viscount Ebrington, from the Honourable Newton Fellowes, of Eggesford, and from Occupiers and Owners of Land in the Parishes of Chawleigh and Eggesford, for carrying the Tithe Commutation Act.—By Mr. Sharman Crawford, from Members and Adherents of the Church and Congregation meeting at Ebenezer Chapel, Hexham, Northumberland, against the sanctioning, by Votes of Money or others, any further Embarkation of Troops from the United Kingdom to Foreign or Colonial Countries.—By Mr. William Lascelles, from the Committee and Members of the Wakefield Mechanics' Institution, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in favour of the Corresponding Societies and Lecture Rooms Bill.—By Mr. W. Lascelles, from Guardians of the Poor of the Wakefield Union, in the West Riding of the County of York, for Repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act.—By Mr. S. Crawford, from Thomas Callan, an Inhabitant of the Town of Arden, in the County of Louth (Ireland), Gentleman, for Assimilating the Irish Poor Law to that of England.