§ Bills. The Royal Assent was given to the following Bills:—Bishops Residences; and a great number of Private Bills.—Read a first time.—Sugar Duties; Electors Removal; Bankrupts Estates (Scotland); Borough Watch Rates.—Read a third time:—Common Pleas Regulation.
§ Petitions presented. By the Duke of Argyle, Earls Fitzwilliam, Rosebery, Radnor, and Harewood, and a number of other noble Lords, from a great number of places, for a Uniform Penny Postage.—By Earl Fitzwilliam. from St. Ives, against entrusting the system of National Education to any particular Sect.