HC Deb 20 February 1849 vol 102 c937

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Life Policies of Assurance; Affirmation; Overseers (Cities and Boroughs); Outdoor Paupers.

2° Consolidated Fund (8,000,000l.); Commons Inclosure.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Hume, from John Childs, of Bungay, in the County of Suffolk, for an Alteration of the Law respecting the Printing of Bibles.—By Sir Joshua Walmsley, from the Independent Dissenters of Bolton-le-Moors, and several other Places, for an Alteration of the Law as regards the Church of England Clergy.—By Mr. Page Wood, from Augustus Johann Hoffstaedt, of No. 4, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, for Substituting Affirmations instead of Oaths.—By Mr. Robert Palmer, from several Places in Berkshire, against the Endowment of the Roman Catholic Clergy.—By Sir Lucius O'Brien, from Glamorganshire, to Facilitate the great object of Emigration.—By Mr. Duncan, from the Royal Burgh of Dundee, for Reduction in the Public Expenditure.—By Mr. Brotherton, from the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company, respecting the Taxation on Railways.—By Mr. Cobden, from the Borough of Sheffield, for a Repeal of the Duty on Windows.—By Lord Dudley Stuart, from Leominster, for an Alteration of the Law for Regulating Highways.—By Mr. Fuller, from the Board of Guardians of the Eastbourne Union, and from several other Unions, for the Suppression of Mendicancy.—By Mr. Lushington, from the Jurymen on the Trial of George Bridge Mullens, for a Commutation of his Sentence.—From Shipowners, Tradesmen, and Others, connected with the Ports of Alloa and Kincardine, against the Repeal of the Navigation Laws—By Mr. Lushington, from a Meeting held in the Temperance Hall, Broadway, Westminster, for Alteration of the Poor Law.—By Mr. Shafto Adair, from a Meeting held in the Town Hall, Cambridge, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.—By Lord Dudley Stuart, from Members of the Literary and Scientific Institution, John Street, Fitzroy Square, for Referring War Dispntes to Arbitration.