§ BILLS. Public.—3a. and passed:—Property Tax.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Winborne Minster Agricultural Society, for Protection to Agriculture.—From Proprietors of Stroudwater Canal Navigation, for regulating Railway Charges for Conveyance of Passengers and Goods.—From Leeds, for Abolishing the Traffic in Hill Coolies.—From Cork, against the present system of Levying Rates (Ireland), and for transferring Criminal Business to Quarter Sessions.—By Lord Brougham, from John Loveridge, of St. John's Wood, complaining of great hardship with regard to Operation of Income Tax, and praying for Inquiry.—From Cork, for Revision of Secondary Punishments.—By Bishops of Bangor and St. David's from Clergy and others of Lleyn and several other places, against the Union of St. Asaph and Bangor.—From Clergy and others of Tamworth, against the Union of St. Asaph and Bangor, and in favour of the Appointment of 112 a Bishop to the See of Manchester.—From President and others of Liverpool Guardian Society for Repeal of 57th Clause of the Insolvent Debtors Act Amendment Act, except as to Debts not exceeding 5l.—By Duke of Buccleuch, and Earl Clare, from Lochmaben, and 6 other places, for Improving the Condition of Schoolmasters (Scotland).—By Bishop of Lichfield, from Clergy and others of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and several other places, against any further Grant to Maynooth.—From Brailsford, and 2 other places, for adopting measures for the better observance of the Sabbath.—From Aston, for Encouragement to Schools in connexion with Church Education Society.—From Prisoners in Queen's Bench Prison, for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt.