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LAND) BILL

On the motion of the Earl of DALHOUSIE, the
Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill went through
Committee.

AITCTION DUTIES BILL.
This Bill was read a first time, and the House ad-
journed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 17.
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.
RAILWAYS.

Mr. Fox Maule presented a petition in favour of the
Edinburgh and Perth Railway ; and petitions were pre-
sented by Mr. Ward, from the shipowners of Newcastle
against the New-castle-on-Tyne Railway ; by Mr.
Bcket, in favour of the Caledonian Railway, and
against the London and Richmond Railway ; by Mr.
Lockhart, from the Chamber of Commere of Leith, the
Town Councils of Inverness and Lochmaben, and the
inhabitants of Lochmaben, in favour of the Caledonian
Railway.

TIDE-WAITERS.
Sir JOHN HANMER presented a petition from
.he Mayor, Corporation, and other inhabitants of
Hull, stating that:the tide-waiters are underpaid, and their
belief that the revenue suffers thereby.
FORTH AND CLYDE NAVIGATION BILL.

This Bill was read a third anieand passed.
BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY

EXTENSION.
On the motion of Mr. KEMBLE, this Bill was read
he first time.

YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS.
Mr. FERRAND presented petitions in favour of the
Leeds and West Riding Railway, against tl►e Leeds and
Dewsbury Railway, and against the West Yorkshire
Railway.

MAYNOOTH.
Mr. HINDLEY presented sixty-two petitions against
the Maynooth grant from the following places :—The
Inhabitants of Over, Cambridgeshire ; Belton and its
vicinity, Rutland ; Ridlington, and its vicinity, Rut-
land ; Melrose, and its vicinity ; Winston, Durham;
Protestant Dissenters, Wilmot-street, Bethnal-green ;
Christian Instruction Society, St. Paul's, Shad well ;
Hanover Chapel, Stockport ; Maberley Chapel, Kings-
land, Middlesex ; Princess-street, Devonport ; Lake-
street Chapel, Leighton, Bedfordshire ; Downs Chapel,
Altringham ; Willingham, Cambridgeshire ; Bed-
minster, Dorsetshire ; Ascott, Oxfordshire ; Oak-street,
Accrington, Laecashire ; Hartlepool, Durham ;
Pately Bridge, Yorkshire ; Shipston, Oxfordshire ;
Zoar Chapel, Neath, Glamorganshire ; Godney Hill,
Lincolnshire ; Sutton St. Edmonds, Lincolnshire ;
Edington Aston, near Birmingham; Hallaton Hawston ;
Milton, Oxfordshire ; Bethesda Chapel, Forest-row,
Sussex ; Tunbridge Wells; Ashwell, Hertfordshire; Chad-
lin gton, Essex ; Providence Ch apel,Throwley, Devonshire;
Shilton, Leicestershire ; Nairn, Scotland ; Beerford, Ox-
fordshire ; Havant, Hampshire ; Baptists, Wandsworth ;
Heasham, Derbyshire ,• Whitefriars-lane, Coventry ;
St. Clement's, Norwich ; Downton, Wiltshire ; St.
Mellon, Gl
Monmouthshire ; Fishguard, oucestershir
id-
e ;
Old L
ampford, Essex ; Dublin ; Kingsland, M
dlesex ; Wesleyan Methodists, Hamilton, Done-
gal • Skibbereen, Cork ; Ballinasloe, Galway ; Clough-
Jordan, Tipperary ; Sallyshannon, Donegal ; Far-
ringdon Berkshire ; Petigo, Donegal; m, Avon;
Michaelstone, Glamorgansbire ; Bromsgrove ; James
Cameron, minister, Dumfries ; Calvinistic Methodists,
Hay, Brecon ; Forest, Brecon ; Teachers of Sunday-
Schools, Carnarvon, North Wales ; Leighton, Bedford-
shire; Hallaton ; Oak-street Sunday-School, Accrington.
Lord BERNARD presented petitions from Brandon
and from several parishes in the county of Cork against
the Bill for the endowment of the College of Maynooth,
and also against the system of national education.
Mr. ST UART `Wan pr
petitions against
the Maynooth grant, and also against the Parochial Set-
tlement Bill.
Lord ALFRED LENNOX presented a petition from,
a congregation assembled at Providence Chapel, Chi-
chester, against the Bill for the endowment of May-
nooth.
Mr. DARBY presented a petition from the Wes-
leyans of Slough to the same effect.
Lord NORTHLAND preseuted a petition from the
town of Southampton against the Maynooth grant.
Petitions against the grant were also presented by Mr.
Hastie, Mr. Turner, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Buckley, Sir
John Hanmer, Mr. Bright, Mr. Octavius Duncombe,
Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Shaw. Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. M. Gib-
son, and several other Honourable Members.
Parochial The Ear
Settlement
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BCiii presented a petition against the
Bill.
Petitions against the grant to Maynooth were pre-
sented by Mr. S. Crawford from Maynooth
and other
places, Mr. Stansfield, Mr. S. O'Brien, Mr. Blewitt, Dr.
Bowring, Mr. Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Newde-
gate, Mr. Gisborne, Williams.Mr Adderle3', Mr. J. Neeld, Mr.
Wodehouse' and Mr. Duncombe.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
colliers of Northumberland, complaining g of the state
of the collieries in that county, and praying for inquiry.
Petitions against the grant to Maynooth were pre-
sented by Mr. Howard, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr.
Villiers Stewart, and other Hoe. Members.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented several petitions against
the West Riding Junction Railway.
JUSTICES CLERKS BILL.
Mr. T. EGERTON presented a petition against this
Bill by the jnstices
Mof tAYNOOTH he county of Chester.

Lord HARRY VANE presented several petitions in
favour of the grant to Maynooth.
Mr. ENTWISLE presented several against it.
Mr. HAWES presented seven petitions from places in
Surrey, against the grunt to Maynooth.
Mr. TANCRED gave notice that, on going into Com-
mittee upon the Maynooth College Bill, he would move
that it be an instruction to the Committee to make
an assessment on the land in Ifeland equivalent to the