HL Deb 04 August 1840 vol 55 c1224

Bills. Received the Royal Assent by Commission:—Regency; Soap Duties; Assessed Taxes Composition; Parliamentary Boroughs; Poor-law Commission; Insane Prisoners; West India Relief; East India Mutiny; Blenheim Palace; Turnpike Trusts; Turnpike Acts Continuance; Caledonian Canal; Canal Police; Toll on Lime; Settled Estates Drainage; Entailed Estates (Scotland); Prisons (Ireland); Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland); Newgate Gaol (Dublin); and Weaver Churches—Read a first time;—Consolidated Fund; Appropriation; Dublin Police; Postage; Linen Manufacturers.—Read a second time:—.Militia Pay; Militia Ballots Suspension; Population; New South Wales; Pilots; Slave Trade Treaties; Attorneys and Solicitors (Ireland); Isle of Man; Slave Trade Treaties (Venezuela); Joint Stock Banking Companies; Bank of Ireland; Population (Ireland); East India Shipping; Notice of Elections; Railways.—Read a third time:—Admiralty Court; Oyster Fisheries (Scotland); Non-Parochial (Registers); Metropolis Improvements; Poddle River (Dublin); Sugar (Excise Duties); Fisheries; Insolvent Debtors (India); Chimney Sweepers; Grammar Schools.

Petitions presented. By Lord Dacre, from Bishops Stortford, and by the Bishop of London, from Stoke Newington, to prevent Idolatrous Worship in India.