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London, England, 1845-02-07 00:00:00

MEDICAL REFORM BILL.

The Hon. C. P. VILLIERS presented a petition from
the surgeons and apothecaries ot Wolverhampton against
this measure.

POOR-LAWS.

Sir JOHN EASTHOPE presented a petition from the
Corporation of the Borough Of Leicester, in council as-
sembled, with reference to the Bill about to be
brought in to consolidate and amend the law regu
lating the law of settlement for the poor. He
said that, perhaps, he would best discharge his duty
in reference to this petition, by stating that it came from
a very large meeting of the borough, and the subject it
treated on appeared 'to have been very deliberately and
carefully considered. He knew he could not enter fur-
ther upon the merits of the subject without founding a
motion upon it, and therefore he would content himself
with the observations he had made, and present the
petition.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.

Mr. TOLLEMACHE presented a petition in- favour
of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Extension Bill.
—Ordered to lie on the table.
NOTICES OF MOTION.

Lord EBRINGTON gave notice that on Monday next
he should present a petition from the Rev. Dr. Car-
withen, Rector of Stoke, in the diocese of Exeter, pray.
ing that the statute of 2d and 3d of Edward VI., cap. 1,
and of 2d Elizabeth, cap. 2, might be repealed, and that
the House would cause to be made a calm and temperate
revision of the Book of Common Prayer and of the
Canons of the Church of England.
The NOBLE LORD also gave notice that, on Tuesday
next, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill
to limit the exemption from turnpike tolls of carriages
carrying her Majesty's mails.
POOR-LAW COMMISSION.

Colonel SIBTHORP moved for certain returns which
he had moved for in the month of May last, but which
had not yet been laid before the House. They were a
return of the number of days each Poor-law Commis-
sioner has sat in discharge of his official duty at the
office appointed for such official sittings, or at any other
place for the same purpose. Also, a similar return of
the number of days each Assistant Poor-law Commis-
sioner has been engaged in the discharge of his
official duty, the place and periods at which those have
been performed respectively, whether at the office of
the Central Board of Commissioners, or in visits and

inspections, or other matters of official duty at the dif-
ferent unions or union workhouses throughout England
and Wales, the number of days employed therein, and
the amount of expense incurred by each Assistant Poor-
law Commissioner, in travelling or in other incidental
expenses relating thereto.
On the question being put,
The lioN. and GALLANT COLONEL said that he had
understood that it had been the intention of the Right
Hon. Gentleman to make some observation before the
question was put.
Mr. MANNERS SUTTON said that, perhaps, the
Hon. and Gallant Gentleman would postpone his motion
for the present. He did not know that there would be
any objection to the ground of return, but he knew that
his Right Hon. Friend was, not at present in the House,
and that be wished to make some observations on the
subject.
Col. SIBTHORP had no wish to take any Hon.
Member by surprise, and he would postpone his motion,