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Public Bills.—Reported.—Parliamentary Oaths; Defects in Leases.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Sir R. H. Inglis, from Maidstone, against the Parliamentary Oaths Bill.—By Mr. Muntz, from Birmingham, for Universal Suffrage.—By Mr. G. Hamilton, from Grangegorman, for an Alteration of the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act.—By Sir John Hope, from the County of Edinburgh, against the Marriages Bill.—By Mr. William Fagan, from Cork, for an Alteration of the County Cess (Ireland) Act.—By Mr. Cobden, from Hertford, for Reduction of the Public Expenditure, and for Reform of Parliament.—By Mr. Hodgson, from Carlisle, respecting Taxation of Railways; and from Carlisle, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.—By Mr. Aglionby, from Ellenborough, for the Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill.—By the Marquess of Granby, from Stamford, for an Alteration of the Law respecting Freemen's Lands.—By Mr. Foley, from the Guardians of the Bromsgrove Union, for an Alteration of the Poor Law,—By Mr. Anderson, from the Parochial Board of Sandsting and Aithsting, in Shetland, for an Alteration of the Poor Law (Scotland); and from Kirkwall, against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill, and Marriage (Scotland) Bill.