§ Bills. Read a first time:—Insolvent Debtors' (Ireland); Instrument of Sasine (Scotland).
§ Petitions presented. By the Bishop of LONDON and several NOBLE LORDS, for Measures for the Better Observance of the Sabbath.—By Lord HATHERTON, from Tunbridge Wells, Wellingborough, and Tunbridge, for the Repeal of the Duty on Newspapers.—By Lord HATHERTON and several other NOBLE LORDS, from various Places, against the Punishment of Death for any Crime but Murder.—By the Earl of WARWICK, from Warwick, for the Alteration of the Ecclesiastical Courts' Consolidation Bill as relates to the future Grant of Probates of Wills.—By the Duke of CLEVELAND, from various Places, in favour of the Municipal Corporations' Bill (Ireland).