§ Bills. Read a first time:—Assaults (Ireland); Constabulary Force (Ireland); Slave Trade Treaties; Sheep Stealers (Ireland); New South Wales.—Read a second time:—Public Works (Ireland); Railway Constables.—Read a third time:—Cathedral and Ecclesiastical Preferment; Turnpike Tolls.
§ Petitions presented. By the Bishop of London, from Dewsbury, Bishops Stortford, and other place, for the better Observance of the Sabbath.—By Lord Hatherton, from Kilkenny, for Alteration in Spirit Licenses.—By the Earl of Lichfield, from East Dereham, by Lord Duncannon, from Collumpton, by Viscount Melbourne, from London, and from several places, for a Uniform Penny Postage.