§ Bills. Read a first time:—Ecclesiastical Patronage Act Amendment; Holding of Petty Sessions.—Read a second time;—Haileybury College.
§ Petitions presented. By the Duke of RICHMOND, from Merchants of the metropolis trading with the New Zealand Islands, for efficient steps for the protection of their property and commerce; and from the Protestant and Roman Catholic inhabitants of a parish in the county of Cork, for a final and amicable settlement of the Tithe question.—By the Marquess of SLIGO, the Duke of SUTHERLAND, the Earl of DURHAM, the Duke of RICHMOND, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, and the Earl of SHREWSBURY, from a great number of places, for the Immediate Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By the Earl of ABERDEEN, from a place in Scotland, for Church Endowment.—By Lord GLENELG, from Lower Canada, for an union of the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.