§ Bills. Read a first time:—Population; Mi- 1194 litia Ballots Suspension; Militia Pay.—Read a second time:—Marriages Act Amendment; Loan Societies; Clergy Reserves (Canada).—Read a third time:—Toll on Lime; County Constabulary.
§ Petitions presented. By the Bishop of Exeter, from Beverley, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, Sedgley, Darlington, Newmarket, and Kingston (Upper Canada), and other places, against the Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill; and from the Ononaga, and other tribes of North American Indians, for the Support and Extension of the Church or England in Upper Canada—By Lord Colborne, from Inhabitants of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, against the Metropolis Improvement Bill.—By Lord Lyndhurst, from two Individuals, for Compensation in the event of the Irish Municipal Bill becoming Law; and from certain Inhabitants of St. George's, Hanover-square, against the Parochial Assessment Bill.—By the Marquess of Londonderry, from Members of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and from Aberdeen, against Ecclesiastical Patronage.—By the Marquess of Lansdowne, and Lord Brougham, from Leeds, and another place, against the Encouragement of Idolatry in India.—By the Earl of Devon, from the Incorporated Law Society, to remove the Law Courts from Westminster-hall to Lincoln's-inn-fields.