§ PUBLIC BILLS.—2o Apprehension of Deserters (Portugal).
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. G. Thompson, from Inhabitants of the Metropolis, for the Adoption of Universal Suffrage.—By Mr. H. Berkeley, from Bristol, and by other hon. Members, for the Clergy Relief Bill.—By Mr. Alexander Hope, from Dodford, Northamptonshire, and several other Places, against the Marriages Bill, and by Mr. Stuart Wortley, from Rotherham, Yorkshire, and other Places, in favour of the same.—By Mr. Elliot, from Kelso, for Alteration of the Marriage (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Gibson Craig, from Edinburgh, against the Marriage (Scotland) Bill, Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill, and Lunatics (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Fox Maule, from Glasgow, and a Number of other Places, and by several other hon. Members, against the Sunday Travelling on Railways Bill.—By Sir William Codrington, from Cirencester, for Repeal of the Duty on Malt and Hops.—By Mr. Cornewall Lewis, from Ross, Herefordshire, for Rating Owers of Tenements in lieu of Occupiers.—By Mr. Cobden, from Francis Higginson, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, for Inquiry and Redress.—By Mr. Archibald Hastie, from Paisley, against the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill.—By Sir Henry Halford, from Members of the Leicestershire Agricultural Society, against the Navigation Bill and Public Roads Bill.—By Mr. Godson, from the Guardians of the Poor of the Kidderminster Union, for an Alteration of the Poor Law.—By Mr. Arkwright, from Leominster Union, and by other hon. Members, for a Superannuation Fund for Poor Law Officers.—By Colonel Thompson, and other hon. Gentlemen, for the Adoption of Measures for the Punishment of the Promoters of Promiscuous Intercourse.—By Captain Edwards, from the Mortgagees of the Tolls, and from the Acting Trustees, of the Turnpike Road from Rochdale, Lancashire, to Halifax and Ealand, in the West Riding of the County of York, against the Public Roads (England and North Wales) Bill.—By Mr. Fox Maule, from Perth, and by other hon. Gentlemen, from several Places, against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill, and Marriage (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Raikes Currie, and other hon. Members, from several Dissenting Churches and Congregations in Northamptonshire and other Places, for referring International Disputes to Arbitration.