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House Of Commons

Volume 49: debated on Wednesday 10 July 1839

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Wednesday, July 10, 1839.

MINUTES.] Bills. Read a first time:—Slave Trade (Portugal).—Read a third time:—Pleadings in Court (India).

Petitions presented. By Mr. Wakley, from Finsbury, and other places, by Lord Worsley, Mr. Wilbraham, and Mr. Vernon Smith, from several places, for a Uniform rate of Postage.—By Mr. Brotherton, from Bradford, for Protection to British Commerce.—By Lord Worsley, from Exeter, for Education.—By Mr. O'Connell, from New Ross, against renewing the Bank of Ireland Charter.—By Lord G. Somerset, from Winkfield, and other places, against the Government plan of Education.—By Mr. Wakley, from Newcastle-on-Tyne, in favour of Universal Suffrage.