§ PUBLIC BILLS. — Reported. — Brewing from Sugar; Distilling from Sugar.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. From British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, against the Use of Slave-grown Sugar in Breweries and Distilleries, as promoting Slavery.—By the Earl of Mountcashel, from Killarney, for Repeal of the Forty-fourth Section of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, and for the Adoption of such other Provisions as will render Property throughout the Poor Law Unions in Ireland subject to a Uniform Rate of Taxation for the Support of the Destitute Poor resident therein.—From Cork, for Consolidating the Gaols of that City and County.—From Cork, for Amendment of Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, as to the Appointment of Sheriffs and Recorders.—From Presbytery of Caithness, for the Adoption of a System of Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland.—From Kincardine, and other places, against the Proposed Measure for Lowering the 206 Duty on Rum.—From Proprietors of Sugar Estates in the Mauritius, in Favour of the Brewing from Sugar Bill, and Distilling from Sugar Bill.