§ Bills. Read a third time:—Tithe Compositions (Ireland); Municipal Elections; Poor-Law Loans.—Read a second time:—Borough Funds and Borough Boundaries.—Read a first time:—Equity Exchequer Suits; Malt Duties; Grand Jury Presentments (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. LENNARD, from the Protestant Dissenters of Maiden, for the Abolition of Church Rates.— By the LORD ADVOCATE, from Peebles, to be exempted from the burthen of alimenting Prisoners after conviction. —By Dr. LUSHINGTON, from the Peace Society and others, Southampton, that all national difficulties may be attempted to be settled by Friendly Interposition.