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London, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

The Earl of MOUNTCASHELL presented' severa
petitions against Post-office labour on Sunday.
BRICK DUTIES BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
EXCHEQUER-BILLS BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 15.
The SosAKER took the Chair five minutes before
Four o'clock.

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed:
Carlisle Gas Light and Coke Company.
Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society.
Ramsey, Up wood, and Great Raveley Tarf Fens, and
Lockspit Lots and Lockspit Lands Drainage and Im-
provement.
South Wales Railway (No. 1).
PETITIONS.
Mr.' FREWEN presented petitions from Newhaven
,and other places against Post-office labour on Sundays.
Viscount BARRINGTON presented similar petitions
from Cheadle.
Mr. ELLIS presented a petition from the Midland
Railway Company complaining of the inequality of the
proposed stamp duties.
Mr. W. PATTEN presented petitions from ♦arious
parts of Lancashire against Sunday labour in the Post-
office.
Mr. HARRIS presented a petition from Market Har-
borough praying for the application of the funds of the
Church to the relief of national burdens.
Mr. W. J. FOX presented a petition from Glasgow
against Sunday labour in the Post-office.
Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from
Chelsea in favour of secular education.
Colonel CHATTERTON presented petitions from
various parts of Ireland against Sunday labour in the
Post-office.
Mr. TIIORNELY presented petitions from places in
Leicestershire aad Devonshire in favour of secular edu-
cation.
Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from
Neilson and Co., of Glasgow, in favour of the abolition
of the punishment of death.
Sir H. HALFORD presented petitions from different
parts of Leicestershire against Sunday labour in the
Post-office; also a petition from Market Harborough in
favour of the extension of the jurisdiction of county courts.
Sir DE LACY EVANS presented petitions from dif-
ferent parts of the metropolis praying for the repeal of
the taxes on newspapers.
Lord GALWAY presented several petitions against
Sunday labour in the Post-office.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented similar petitions
from various parts of Lincolnshire.
Mr. NV. BROWN presented, a petition from Liverpool
in favour of secular education.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented petitions
from Rochdale praying for the reduction of the duty
on tea.
Mr. B. DENISON presented petitions from Dews-
bury and several other places in Yorkshire in favour of
an eleven hours' Factory Bill.
Mr. TRELA.WNY presented petitions from various
parts of the West of England against Sunday labour in
the Post-office.
Mr. BRIGHT presented petitions from various par-
ties in Manchester against the existence of an Esta-
blished Church.
Mr. WALPOLE presented a petition from the law
stationers of London praying for an alteration of the
Stamp Duties Bill.
Mr. COWAN presented petitions from Edinburgh
and other parts of Scotland against Sunday labour in the
Post-office,.
Lord HOTHAM presented a petition from a place in
the West Riding complaining that the Stamp Duties
Bill made no provision for re luting the duty on the re-
gistration of deeds.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
Royal College of Physicians i❑ favour of the claims of
naval assistant-surgeons to additional accommodation;
also a pet tion from the president, vice-president, end
members of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Insti-
tution, taking notice of the great loss of life arising out
of the indiscriminate sale of poison, particularly arsenic,
and praying the House to take steps to restrict its sale.
Colonel THOMPSON presented three petitions from
Bradford—one against the Education Bill, the other
against Sunday labour in the Post-office ; and the third,
praying for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge.
Mr. POWER presented a petition from Cork against
the Fisheries Bill
Mr. BAGSUAW presented a petition in favour of the
Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill.
Captain DUNDAS presented a petition against the
Marriage Bill.
Sir D. DUNDAS presented a petition from Suther-
landshire to the same effect.
Sir T. BIRCH presented a petition from Liverpool,
praying for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge.
Mr. HUME presented a petition in favour of the Edu-
cation Bill.
Mr. HUNIE presented a petition from Stirling and its
vicinity complaining that the dress of the Highland sol-
dier, consisting of kilt and philibeg, was indecent—
(Laughter)—that during the eighteen months that
the 93d Highlanders had bee❑ stationed at
Stirling Castle the inhabitants had been sub-
jected to painful spectacles—(Roars of laughter)—
that it was understood that each of the soldiers received
a bonus of 1/. ss. foe wearing the kilt, and tbat it was
exceedingly inconvenient to them in this inclement sea-
son.—(Renewed laughter.) The petitioners prayed the
House to give the matter its most serious considera-
tion.—(Roars of laughter.)
Mr. HUME also presented a petition from Framling-
ton, in Northumberland, in favour of the Bill for secu-
lar education.
Mr. WAWN presented petitions from South Shields,
as we understood, against the Marriage Bill, and pray-
ing for the cessation of Sunday labour in the Post-office.
Mr. G. HAMILTON presented a petition from the
Irish Church Association, complaining of the diversion
of the episcopal fund from its legitimate objects.
Lord JOHN MANNERS presented a petition from a
place in Lancashire against the relay system in factories.
Lord R. GROSVENOR presented a petition from
Chelsea and other places against Sunday labour in th©
Post-office.
Mr. KERSHAW presented a petition from a Baptist
congregation in Brecknock against church-rates.
Lord JOCELYN presented a petition in favour of the
Marriage Bill.
Sir J. WALSH presented a petition in favour of the
Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill.
Mr. C. BRUCE presented a petition from a place in
the county of Elgin, complaining of the operation of the
poor-law in Scotland; also several petitions from places
in Scotland against the Marriage Bill, and against
Sunday labour in the Post-office.
Mr. STAFFORD presented a petition from a place
in Northamptonshire in favour of the Bill for the regis-
tration of copyholds.
Sir GEORGE CLERK presented several petitions
from places in Scotland against Sunday labour in the
Post-office.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Bir-
mingham against church-rates.
Lord BARRINGTON presented a petition from the
Great Western Railway Company against the stamp
duties.
COUNTY RATES.
Mr. FREWEN said in the early part of the session ho
moved for certain returns from county court treasurers,
but certain treasurers had neglected to send in those
returns, and he begged to give notice that unless the
returns were made within a short time he should bring
the subject under the particular notice of the House.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND
Mr. HAMILTON gave notice that, on the motion for
going into Committee of Supply, he should move an ad-
dress to the Crown on the subject of education in Ire-
land