Commons Sitting of 26 June 1846

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS. — Reported. Sugar Duties; Spitalfields New Street.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Bouverie, from Members of the Free Church Congregation at Renfrew, complaining of the Refusal of Proprietors of Land to grant Sites for the Erection of Free Churches (Scotland), and praying that Means may be devised for enabling Congregations to rent or purchase Ground on Reasonable Conditions.—By Viscount Clive, and Lord Henry Lennox, from several places, against the Union of the Sees of Saint Asaph and Bangor, but at the same time providing for the Immediate Appointment of a Bishop to the newly erected See of Manchester.—By Mr. Smollett, from Moderator and Remanent Members of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, against the Abolition of Religious Tests in the Scottish Universities. — By Lord Henry Lennox, from Guardians of the Westbourne Union, and by Viscount Morpeth, from Ratepayers of Snaith and South Crossland, against the Highways Bill.—From Minister and Members of the Remonstrant Presbyterian Congregation of Ballymoney, for the Total Abolition of Capital Punishment.

PLACES OF WORSHIP, &c. SITES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
MR. F. MAULEsaid, that although he found he could not, with any prospect of advantage, attempt to proceed further with this Bill, he was happy to observe that its introduction had not been without good effect, for since the measure had been under the consideration of the House, two noble Lords—the Earl of Cawdor and another—had given sites for places of worship, and he hoped their example would be followed. He now moved that the Order of the Day for the Adjourned Debate

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on the Second Reading of the Bill be discharged.
SIR J. GRAHAMexpressed his satisfaction at the information communicated by the right hon. Gentleman, who, he thought, exercised a wise discretion in not pressing the Bill under the circumstances. He joined with the right hon. Gentleman in the hope that the example of the two noble Lords to whom he had referred would be imitated, and that the measure would be rendered unnecessary.
Order discharged.
The several Orders of the Day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at half-past Seven o'clock.
[All business was postponed, it being understood that in consequence of the vote on the previous evening the Ministry was at an end.]