Wednesday, May 15, 1844

BILLS. Private.—3° and passed:—Salford Improvement (No. 2); Figge's Naturalization; British Iron Company; Malan's Naturalization.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Maurice O'Connell, from Ireland (81 Petitions), against the Irish Registration Bill. —By Mr. Boyd, from Belfast, and by Mr. Broadley, from Bridlington, against Dissenters Chapels Bill. — By Lord G. Bentinck, from Lynn, Earl Jermyn, from Bury St. Edmunds, and Mr. Wykeham Martin (2), from Newport (I. W.), in favour of the same.—By Mr. Watts Russell, from Leek, for Alteration of Ecclesiastical Courts Bill.— By Earl of March, from a Rural Deanery of Chichester, in favour of a Bishopric at Manchester.—By Mr. Boyd (7), and by Mr. Bateson (2), for Legalizing Presbyterian Marriages (Ireland).—By Mr. Bagot, from Denbigh (10), by Sir R. C. Glynn, from Gloucester, and by the Earl of March, from Chichester, against Union of Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. —By Mr. Stansfield, from Huddersfield, for Inquiry into Universities.—By Mr. Tatton Egerton, from North Cheshire, against Repeal of Corn Laws.—By Sir J. Hobhouse, from Nottingham, for Reduction of Duty on Fire Insurances.—By Mr. H. Berkeley, from Bristol and Bath, for Repeal of Soap Duties.— By Sir Thomas Esmonde, from Wexford (2), for Alteration of Poor Law (Ireland).