§ Bills. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Horse Racing, and a number of Private. Bills.—Read a first time:—Printed Papers; Mutiny; Marine Mutiny; Tithe Commutation Acts Amendment
§ Petitions presented. By Lord Ellenborough, from the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, for Equalising the Duties on East and West India Produce.—By the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viscount Melbourne, and the Earl of Minto, from Staley Bridge, Chester, and Berwick, for the Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn-laws, and by the Duke of Buckingham, from several places, against the same; and from Newport Pagnell, against the Opium Trade.—By the Marquesses of Bute, Londonderry, and Lansdowne, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Lords Stratford, and Wharncliffe, from a number of places, in favour of the Principle of Non-Intrusion.—By Lord Castlereagh, and Captain Gordon, from several places, in favour of Non-Intrusion.—By the Attorney-general, from Attorneys of London, in favour of the Privileges of the House.—By Mr. Brotherton, from Dunfermline, against the War with China By Sir R. Inglis, from the Leeds Operative Conservative Association, against the Rights of the House of Commons to Commit the Sheriffs, etc.; from Dublin, against the Irish Municipal Bill; from Christchurch, Oxford, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.