§ Bills. Read a first time:—Bribery at Elections; Militia Pay:Appropriation.—Read a second time: —County Bridges (No. 2) Highway Rates.—Read a third time:—New South Wales; Western Australia; Houses of Industry (Ireland); Dog Carts.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Villiers, Mr. Brotherton, Viscount Morpeth, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Mr. Warburton, and others, from Bilston, Wolverhampton, Stanbridge, Surrey, and a great many other places, for a Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. G. Parker, Mr. J. Round, Sergeant Jackson, and other hon. Members, from Essex, Waterford, Tipperary, and other places, against any Alteration of the Corn-laws.—By Sir J. Graham, from Milford, for Inquiry into the fitness of that place for a Steam Packet Station.—By Sir G. Sinclair, from various places in Scotland, against the Grant to Maynooth, against Mails on Railways on Sundays, and against Commercial Changes. — By Mr. Evans, from Derbyshire, praying for a Revision of the Import Duties.