HL Deb 03 May 1847 vol 92 c299

PUBLIC BILLS. 1a Naval Prisons.

3a and passed:—Incumbered Estates (Ireland).

PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Dissenters of Roxton, and Roseland, against the Proposed Government Plan of Education.—From Ipswich, for the Enactment of Sanitary Regulations.—From the Norfolk and Norwich Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Association, against the present Method of Hiring Labourers for the Colonies, as tending to perpetuate a Modified System of Slavery.—From Limerick, and Kilkenny, against any Clause being Inserted in the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill which would throw the Responsibility of Supporting the Poor on the Occupying Tenant—From the Presbytery of Elgin, that the present objectionable System of Granting Licenses may be Amended, and the Rapid Progress of Intemperance in some measure arrested.