§ Bills. Read a first time:—Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues.—Read a second time:—Designs Copyright; Juvenile Offenders; Law of Evidence (Scotland).—Read a third time:—Prince Albert's Annuity.
§ Petitions presented. By Messrs. Hutt, Baines, and Lord John Russell, from several places, for Relief to John Thorogood, and the Abolition of Church Rates.—By Mr. Hume, from Down, for Equal Rights to Ireland.—By Mr. M. Philips, from persons in Manchester, in favour of the Copyright of Designs Bill.—By Lord G. Somerset, from several places, for Church Extension.—By Mr. Hutt, from Hull, for an Inquiry into the tenets of Socialism.—By Mr. Baines, from one place, against the Jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts.—By Colonel Butler, from several places, for an Extension of the Franchise, and Corporate Reform in Ireland.—By Sergeant Jackson, from Clonmel, against Municipal Reform.—By Mr. F. Maule, from several places in Scotland, against the Intrusion of Ministers into Parishes.—By Mr. Hume, from several places in Norfolk, against Local Taxation.