§ BILLS. Public.—Reported.—Drainage (Ireland); Excise Duties Compounds; Australia and New Zealand; Parish Constables.
§ 3o. and passed:—Fines and Recoveries (Wales and Cheshire).
§ Private.—2o.- Leeds Improvement; Tadcaster Road; Lough Foyle Drainage.
§ Reported—.Wicklow Harbour; Brentford Gas; Faversham Navigation; Aberdeenshire Roads; South Metropolitan Gas; City of Glasgow Life Assurance and Reversionary Company.
§ 3o.and passed:—Forth and Clyde Navigation; Dundee and Arbroath Railway; Drogheda Harbour; Guarantee Society; Liverpool Health of Towns and Buildings Regulation.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Plumptre, and Captain Boldero, from St. Luke's, Chelsea, Chippenham, Reading, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, against Travelling on the Sabbath, and for the Better Observance of the Sabbath.— By Lord J. Russell, and Sir J. Hanmer, from London, Liverpool, and Hull, against Reduction of the Duty on Rope and Cordage.—From Thornhill, for further Limiting the Labour of Young Persons in Factories.—From Aylesbury, and Hitchin, against Reduction of the Duty on Importations of Cattle and Meat.—From Dorchester, Blakeney, etc., against further Grant to Maynooth, and also for Inquiry into the System of Instruction.—From Stourbridge, and Wigan, for Equality of Civil Rights for Roman Catholics. —From Castlederg Union, for Suppression of Mendicancy (Ireland).— By Captain Rous, from Boot and Shoemakers of Westminster, against the Importation of Foreign 476 Boots and Shoes—By Mr. Villiers, from the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, against the Continuance of Slavery under the eyes of an English Governor-General in British India.— From Fishsrwick, Drunkenfield, Man chester, and Rhuabon, in Wales, for the Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. Miles, from Shepton Mallet, against the New Poor-law System.—By an hon. Member, from Clara, King's County, against the Fisheries Bill.—From the Incorporated Trades of Edinburgh, for imposing a Tax on Real Property, and for the Rejection of the In come-tax—From St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St. Mary's, Lambeth, for Redemption of Tolls on the Metropolitan Bridges.—From Prisoners in the Queen's Bench Prison, against the Lords' Amendments to the Queen's Prison Bill.—From Blackburn, Wakefield, and other places. against the Turnpike Roads Bill.—From the Port of Bathurst, New Brunswick, against the Commercial Reforms. —From the Deaneries of Powder, and Pyder, for Amendment of the Law of Tithes From Clutton Union, for Rating Owners of Cottages in lieu of Occupiers.—From H. Warburton, Esq., for Inquiry into the late Election for Bridport.—From F. T. Roberts, Esq., complaining of the late Election for Brighton.—From Stourbridge, for Exempting Institutions for Adult Instruction from payment of Rates and Taxes.