§ Bills. Received the Royal assent:—Stamp Dies; Juvenile Offenders; Slave Trade (Sicily); Slave Trade (Tuscany); Affirmations; Recovery of Tenements; Custody of Insane Persons (England); Constables on Public Works; Hackney Carriages (Metropolis); Bank of Ireland Repayment; Loan Societies (Ireland); Fisheries (Ireland); Schools (Scotland); Liverpool Clergy Endowments; and Church Rebuilding Amendment.—Read a first time:—Spirit Licences (Ireland) Suspension.—Read a second time:—Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster.—Read a third time:—Militia Pay; Militia Ballot Suspension; Mails on Railways; Mediterranean Postage; and Joint Stock-Bank.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord ELLENDOROUGH, from an Individual, in favour of the Imprisonment for Debt Bill.—By the Bishop of HEREFORD, from Fermanagh, against Encouragement to Idolatry in India.—By Lord REDESDALF, from Sidmouth, in favour of a further Grant to the Church of Upper Canada.