HC Deb 08 August 1848 vol 100 cc1213-4

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Boroughs Incorporation; Legacies to Charitable Institutions.

2° Westminster Improvements.

Reported.—Churches; Proclamations on Fines, Court of Common Pleas; Poor Law Union Charges (No. 2).

3° and passed:—Turnpike Roads (Ireland); Canada Government; Militia Ballots Suspension.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Colonel Dunne, from the Grand Jury of the County of Westmeath, for the Parliament to Assemble Periodically in Ireland.—By Mr. Wilson Patten, from Inhabitants of Patterdale, Westmoreland, for a Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Mr. Barkly, from Members of the Acting Committee of West India Planters and Merchants, to take the State of the West India Colonics into Consideration.—From the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Township of Rathmines, adjoining the City of Dublin, in favour of the Dublin Police Bill.—By Sir William Somerville, from Drogheda, respecting the Suppression of Stations on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway.—By Captain Archdall, from the Parish of Lisnaskea, County of Fermanagh, for Encouragement to Schools in Connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland).—By Mr. Bright, from John Hooper, for Inquiry into his Case.—By Captain Arehdall, from the Grand Jury of the County of Fermanagh, for Inquiry into the Working of the Poor Law (Ireland).—By Mr. Bright, from the Board of Guardians of the Bury Union, Lancashire, for an Alteration of the Poor Law Union Charges Bill.—By Mr. Forbes, from the Presbytery of Dunblane, Perthshire, against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill—By Mr. Cubitt, from the Irish Society, against the Renewable Leasehold Conversion (Ireland) Bill.—By Mr. Anderson, from Landholders, and Others, of Shetland, for Appropriating a Portion of the Revenues of a Certain Estate in Shetland, towards the Making of Roads.