§ Bills. Read a first time:—Seduction; Loan Societies.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Marsland, from eight places, for, and by Lord C. Manners, the Earl of Lincoln, Messrs. Barneby, and G. Heathcote, from several places, against the Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Lord C. Manners, Lord Barrington, Captain Alsager, Sir R. Inglis, and Mr. Miles, from a very great number of places, for, and by Messrs. Baines, and C. Lushington, from Southampton, and other places, against Church Extension.—By Mr. Lushington, from Frome, against the Opium Trade.—By Sir R. Inglis, from several places, against the Grant to Maynooth College, and against the Clergy Reserves Bill.—By Viscount Mahon, from Upper Canada, to the same effect.—By Mr. Lock, from Dumbarton, against the Tax on Railway Passengers.—By Mr. Hume, from the Eating-house Keepers of London, against the Tax on Servants.—By Messrs. Dennistoun, and Hume, from Glasgow, and other places, for Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot; and by the latter, from a number of places, against Clergymen being in the Commission of the Peace; and from other places, for the Separation of Church and State.—By Mr. Hope, from Gloucester, against the Inland Warehousing Bill; from a Charitable Society, against the Charities Trustees Act; and from the Guardians of the Gloucester Union, against the Central Commissioners.—By Mr. Bernal, from Rochester, for the Repeal of the Carriage Duty.—By Mr. Lockhart, from places in Lanarkshire, in favour of Non-Intrusion.—By Mr. Pakington, from several places, against the Canada Reserves Bill; from Droitwich, against the Workhouses Exemption Bill.—By Lord Barrington, from Lansbourne, and Mr. Barneby, from one place, against the Rating of Workhouses.—By Colonel Wood, from the Guardians of the Bethnal Green Union, against Rating Stock in Trade.—By Mr. Maxwell, from several places, against the Irish Corporations Bill.—By Mr. Philpots, from Gloucester, against the Abolition of Church Rates.