§ MINUTES.] Bills. Read a first time:—Ecclesiastical Commissioners.— Read a third time:—Assessed Taxes Composition.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Childers, Colonel Langton, Mr. Pease, Mr. Evans, Mr. Raikes Currie, Mr. Villiers, Sir E. Wilmot, Sir R. Hill, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Wynn Ellis, Mr. Hume, and several other hon. Members, from Buckingham, Barnard Castle, Derbyshire, Stafford, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Birmingham, various places in Leicestershire, and a great many other places, for an Alteration or Repeal of the Corn-laws.