§ Bills. Read a first time:—Parochial Rates; Parliamentary Franchise (Ireland).—Read a second time: —Coal Duties (London); Consolidated Fund; Exchequer Bills (10,751,5.550l); Dublin Police; Ecclesiastical Courts (No. 1); Ecclesiastical Courts (No. 2).—Read a third time:—Slave Trade (Venezuela); Notice of Elections; Population (Ireland); Bank (Ireland); Parochial Assessments; Joint Stock Banking Companies; Regency.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Hodges, from Fruit Growers of Kent, to raise the Duties on Foreign Fruit.—By the Earl of Darlington, from the Solicitors of Oswestry, and Shrewsbury, to remove the Courts of Law.—By Mr. Tennent, from Wesleyan Methodists, for the Discouragement of Idolatry in India.—By Mr. Warburton, from Aliens residing in the City of London, for Inquiry into the Restrictions on them.