§ Bills. Read a first time:—Horse Racing.—Read a second time:—Printed Papers; Union Workhouses Prisons.
§ Petitions presented. By Messrs. Baines, Villiers, T. Stewart, Brotherton, M. Philips, Hume, Sir G. Strickland, and Lord Marcus Hill, from a very great number of places, 1051 for the Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Lord Elliot, Mr. Hope, and Sir J. Y. Buller, from several places, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—By Sir W. Follett, from Exeter, for the Repeal of the Tithe Commutation Act—By Mr. Hume, Lord M. Hill, and Sir J. Stewart, from a number of places, for an Extension of the Franchise, and Vote by Ballot—By Messrs. Villiers, Baines, Hume, and W. Williams, from a number of places, for the Abolition of Church Rates, the Release of John Thorogood, and against the Jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts.—By Sir E. Sugden, Mr. R. Palmer, and Sir J. Y. Buller, from several places, for Church Extension.—By Mr. Vere, from two places, in favour of Non-Intrusion.—By Lord G. Somerset, from Carriers of Birmingham, against the Railway Monopoly.—By Lord Eliot, from Cornwall, against the Irish Corporation Bill.—By Mr. Alston, from Bishop Storford, against the Rating of Workhouses.—By Mr. S. Barry, from places in Cork, for Municipal Reform, and an Extension of the Franchise in Ireland.