§ Bills. Read a first time:—Administration of Oaths; Grand Juries (Ireland).—Read a second time:—Justices of the Peace; Merchant Seamen.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. FRYER, from Fruchie, for the Repeal of the Corn Laws.—By Mr. Secretary STANLEY, Mr. FOWELL BUXTON, and Mr. CROMPTON, from several Dissenting Congregations, for Relief to the Dissenters.—By Mr. A. JOHNSTON, from Perth, and other Places, for 203 an Alteration in the System of Church Patronage in Scotland.—By Colonel VERNER, from Armagh County, against the Repeal of the Union.—By Sir WILLIAM FOLKES, from two Places, for the Repeal of the Malt Tax; and from Dorking, and other Places, against any Measure likely to weaken the Efficiency of the Established Church.—By Viscount NEWARK, from four Places, against any Alteration in the Corn Laws.—By Major MACNAMARA, from Clare County, for an Inquiry into the State of the Irish Fisheries.—By Mr. HUTT, from Kingston-upon-Hull, for the Removal of the Civil Disabilities of the Jews.—By Mr. MAXWELL, from the Hand-Loom Weavers of Stone-house, for a Board of Trade, and for Relief.—By Mr. WYNN ELLIS, from Leicester, and other Places, for an Alleviation of the Sentence on the Dorchester Labourers.—By Colonel LYGON, Sir WILLIAM CHAYTOR, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Sir WILLIAM FOLKES, and Messrs. OLIPHANT, MILDMAY, EVANS, EGERTON, and SHEPHARD, from a Number of Placcs,—for the Better Observance of the Sabbath.—By Mr. OLIPHANT, from Perth, for the Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Receipts.—By Colonel LYGON, from Astley, for the Abolition of Beer-houses.—By Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, and Mr. LYNCH, from several Places,—for the Repeal of the Union.—By Messrs. CHAYTOR, VIVIAN, BELL, and RUSSELL, from several Places,—in favour of the Lord's Day Observance Bill.—By Mr. O'CONNELL, and Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, from a Number of Places,—for the Abolition of Tithes in Ireland.—By Mr. STRUTT, from the Independents of Derby, against Church Rates.—By Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD, from Lieutenant Henry Dundas Perrott, praying for an Inquiry into his Case.