§ MINUTES.] Bill. Read a second time:—Stamp Duties Offices' Consolidation.
§ Petitions presented, By the Marquess of SALISBURY and the Earls of ABINGDON and HAREWOOD, from Oxford, Maidstone, Doncaster, and another Place,—against the Municipal Corporations' Bill.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from Bath, in favour of the whole of the above Bill; from the City of London, in favour of the Prisoners' Defence Bill; from Alverthorp-with-Thornes, against Dram-drinking, and against Allowing Beer to be drunk on the Premises.