HC Deb 07 August 1848 vol 100 cc1163-4

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Poor Removal (No. 2); Nuisances and Contagious Diseases; Petty Bag, &c. Offices (Court of Chancery).

2° Registering Births, &c. (Scotland); Marriage (Scotland); Criminal Law Administration Amendment; Registers of Sasines, &c. (Scotland); Money Order Department (Post Office).

Reported,—Turnpike Roads (Ireland); Canada Government; Militia Ballots Suspension; Fisheries (Ireland).

3° and passed:—Insolvent Debtors Court; Payment of Debts out of Real Estate.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. From the Parish of Lansallos, Cornwall, in favour of the Abolition of Church Rates.—By Admiral Gordon, from Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, for a Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Mr. Duncan, from the Town of Dundee, against the Marriage (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Lushington, from Members of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Withdrawal of the Regium Donum Grant.—By Sir Edward Buxton, from the Parish of St. Mary Spital, for an Alteration of the law respecting Sunday Trading.—By Lord George Bentinck, from the House of General Assembly of Tobago, for Procuring a Portion of the Captured Africans for that Colony.—By Mr. Henley, from Agriculturists and Others, for Repeal of the Duty on Malt.—By Mr. Hume, from Montrose, for Abolition of the Montrose Annuity Tax—By Captain Jones, from Dealers in Spirits, of the Town of Coleraine, for Altering the British Spirits Warehousing Bill.—By Mr. Hume, from Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.B., for Inquiry respecting the Merchant Seamen's Fund.—By Mr. Bourke, from the Grand Jury of the County of Kildare, for Alteration of the Poor Law (Ireland).—By Mr. W. Lockhart, from the Parochial Board of the Barony of Glasgow, against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill,—From Brewers and Retailers of Beer, of the Town of Reading, for Repeal of the Sale of Beer Acts.—By Lord George Bentinck, from Shipowners, and Others, of the Port of Sheilds, respecting the Boundaries of that Port.—By Mr. Hollond, from the Trustees of the St. Leonard's and Sedlescomb Turnpike, to take the Turnpike Trusts into Consideration.—By Mr. Fuller, from the Trustees of the Flimbell and Hastings Turnpike Road, for Alteration of the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill.