HC Deb 28 August 1848 vol 101 cc583-4

NEW WRIT.—For Cheltenham, v. The Hon. Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, void Election.

PUBLIC BILLS—2° West India Colonies and Mauritius; Savings Banks; Consolidated Fund; Exchequer Bills; Copper and Lead Duties.

Reported—Postage on Newspapers (Channel Islands, &c.); Royal Military Asylum; Taxing Masters, Court of Chancery (Ireland); Drainage Certificates; Slave Trade (Muscat).

3° and passed:—Battersea Park, &c.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Ewart, from the Synod of Dumfries, against the Diplomatic Relations, Court of Rome, Bill.—By Lord John Russell, from the Protestant Clergy and Laity of Ireland, in favour of the Present System of Education (Ireland).—From the Board of Guardians of the Clones Union, for an Alteration of the Poor Law (Ireland).—By Mr. Brotherton, from the Board of Guardians of the Salford Union, Lancashire, against the Poor Removal (England and Scotland) Bill.—By Colonel Sibthorp, from the Trustees and Managers of the Lincoln Savings Bank, against the Savings Banks Bill.