§ BILLS PUBLIC—2a. Indemnity; Public Works.
§ 3a and passed:—Forged Exchequer Bills.
§ Private.—1a. Sir John Cass's Charity (Shaw's) Estate. 2a. Nottingham Gas (No. 1).
§ 3a.:— and passed:—West Stirlingshire Roads (No. 1).
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Kilmoe, Balysonnon, Kilmon, Down and Connor, Kilcommon, Crosspatrick, and other places, for the Encouragement of Schools in connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland).— From Ballynahinch, Ballydown, and Dungannan, that Marriages solemnized by a Presbyterian or Dissenting Minister between parties Members of the Church and Dissenters, or Presbyterians, may be Valid.—By the Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Cleveland, and the Earl of Yarborough, from Cambridge, the Isle of Tha- 502 net, Horncastle, Caistor, and other places, against the Corn Importation Bill, and for Protection to the Agricultural Interest.—By Lord Campbell, from the City of London, against the use of Oaths.—From Kinalea, Ibawne and Barryroe, Fenagh, Wicklow, and Larne, against the Importation of Foreign Flour into Ireland.— From the Incorporated Carters of Leith, for the Abolition of the Tax on their Horses.—From Chipping Wycombe, 'Wooler, Darlington, and Kendal, against the Income-tax.—From the Sheffield and Bradford Mechanics Institutions, for Exemption from the Payment of Assessed and other Taxes and Rates.—From the Board of Guardians of the Poor-law Union of Downpatrick, for the Suppression of Vagrancy and Mendicity (Ireland).— From John Clarke, praying for Inquiry into certain ob noxious Doctrines now propagated by some of the Clergy of the University of Oxford.—From Kingston-upon-Hull, praying that the ancient right of Nominating Justices of the Peace in Boroughs may be restored to the Town Councils.