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London, England, 1853-05-13 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
The Lords' amendments to the Wakefield Stoke Mills
Bill were considered and agreed to.
The following bills were read a third time and passed
—The Australian Agricultural Company, Dundee Water-
works, Great Northern Railway (No. 1), Londonderry,
Enniskillen, and Sligo Railway, Lough Foyle and Lough
Swilly Drainage and Reclamation, and the Lough Foyle
and Lough Swilly Railway.
The High Ham and Ashcott Roads, Midland Rail-
way (Leicester and Hitchin), and York Drainage and
Sanitary Improvement and Foss Navigation Bills were
read a third time.
Mr. FREWEN presented a petition praying for the
inspection of nunneries.
Mr. G. LANGTON .presented a stmilar petition.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Great
Yarmouth, complaining of the French occupation of
Rome.

Mr. A. HASTIE presented a petition from Glasgow,
in favour of Mr. Craufurd's Sheriff*? Colift Bill.
Sir R. INGLIS presented a number of petitions
against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays.
Sir J. TROLLOPE presented a petition from Spald-
ing, in favour of the total repeal of the advertisement
duty.

Mr. O'CONNOR HENCHY presented petitions from
Kildare and other places in favour of the ballot and
tenant right.
Sir G. GREY presented a petition from Neville Hall
Medical College, Newcastle, praying for the enfran-
chisement of the London University; and a petition from
the working men of Morpeth against the opening of the
Crystal Palace on Sundays.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Winchester
Farmers' Club, in favour of the ballot ; also from the
county of Norfolk, in favour of the County Rates Ex-
penditure Bill.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from Essex to
the same effect.
Mr. MASTERMAN presented petitions from Ches-
ter and other places, in favour of the inspection of nun-

neries.
Mr. STRUTT presented a petition from the Univer-
sity College, London, in favour of the enfranchisement
of the London University.
Several other petitions were presented by Hon. Mem-
bers to a similar effect.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the
Literary Societies' Union of Lancashire and Cheshire,
in favour of the total abolition of the advertisement duty
and penny stamp.
On the motion of Mr. WALPOLE, Lord. St.
Leonards' Lunacy Bills were read a first time, and the
second reading fixed for the 19th of May.
Mr. MILLIGAN presented a petition praying for the
total repeal of the advertisement duty.
Lord CHELSEA presented a petition from Dover in
favour of national arbitration.
Lord GODERICH presented a similar petition.
Mr. C. BERKELEY presented a petition from the
solicitors of Cheltenham against the reduction of the
stamp duty on attorney's certificates.
Mr. COBDEN presented petitions from places in
Yorkshire, against the Government scheme of educa-
tion.

Sir F. KELLY presented a petition from farmers and
others in Suffolk, against the proposed licence duty on
maltstera.
Sir C. WOOD presented petitions from Paisley, Barns-
ley, and Moxenden, in favour of the legalising of mar-
riages with a deceased wife's sister.
Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from 2,000
inhabitants of Carlisle, in favour of the opening of the
Crystal Palace on Sundays.
Lord D. STUART gave notice that he should, to-mor-
row, move for a return of the number of warrants signed
by different Secretaries of State for the opening of letters
at the Post-office from the year 1845 to this time.
Lord H. VANE presented petitions from Durham
and Barnard Castle praying for the legalising of mar-
riages with a deceased wife's sister.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the
letterpress printers of Bristol praying for the total abo-
lition of the advertisement duty.
Mr. C. BERKELEY asked whether there is to be
any inquiry in this session of Parliament into the work-
ing of the Public Health Act, with a view to the amend-
ment of that act, or of the construction of the Board of
Health ?
Sir W. MOLESWORTH said, that at the termina-
tion of the existence of the present Board of Health the
Government would be prepared to bring in a bill to
renew the board, making such improvements as would
be deemed necessary. It was not intended to institute
any extraordinary inquiry.
Mr. HUME said that unless there were sn inquiry
great dissatisfaction would be excited.