Lords Sitting of 21 March 1842

MINUTES.
BILLS. Public—1a. Jurisdiction of Justices Quarter Sessions.
2a. Ecclesiastical Residences.
3a. and passed:—West India Clergy; New gate Gaol (Dublin); Consolidated Fund.
Private.—1a. Birkenhead Improvement.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. By the Earl of Clare, and the Earl of Bandon, from Limerick, Cork, Core, Bandon Agricultural Society, and other places, against the Importation of Foreign Flour.—By Lord Brougham, from
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Tyrone, for an Alteration of the Marriage Law of Ire land.—By a noble Lord, from Merchants, Traders, and others in the City of Cork, for the Establishment of a Packet Station at that place—By a noble Lord, from Limerick, against the Proposed Duties on Corn, Cattle, and Provision.—From Lislee, Kilmalooda, Mogeoly, &c, for Encouragement of Education (Ireland).—From Strat ton, for Inquiry into Abuses in the Management of Char ities.—From H. C. Stenton, praying for a Discontinuance of Burials in Churches.

EASTER RECESS — ADJOURNMENT.
The Duke of Wellington,adverting to a question put to him on a former evening by the noble Viscount (Melbourne), as to the probable duration of the Easter recess, begged now to inform him that he would on the next day move that the House at its rising do adjourn to Thursday, the 7th of April.
Adjourned.