§ Bills. Received the Royal assent:—Poor Rebel (Ireland); Land Tax Redemption; Land Tax Commissioners; and India Steam Company.—Read a first time:—Mediterranean Postage; and Customs.—Read a second time:—Tithes (Ireland); and Fisheries (Ireland).—Read a third time:—Royal Exchange.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord RAYLEIGH, two, from places in Essex, for the repeal of the Beer Act; and that the revenues of the Established Church should be appropriated to Ecclesiastical purposes.—By the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, from the Archdeacon and Clergy of Bath, against the Beer Act; and from Warminster, and other places, against encouragement of Hindoo Idolatry.