§ Bills. Read a second time:—Highway Rates; Public Works.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Finch, from Walsal, in favour of, and by Mr. R. Palmer, from a place in Berkshire, against the Government plan for National Education— By Messrs. Hume, and Warburton, Captain Pechell, and Sir B. Hall, in favour of, and by Lords Stanley, Sandon, and Worsley, Sirs R. Peel, and S. Duke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Cresswell, against the existing Beer Laws.