§ Bills. Read a second time:—Convictions; Gold and Silver Plate (Scotland); Constabulary Act Amendment (Ireland).—Read a first time:—Richmond Penitentiary (Ireland); Corporate Property (Ireland); Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues; and Post-Horse Duties.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. WAKLEY, from Portwood, Manchester, against Factories' Act Amendment Bill; and for a Ten Hours' Bill; and from the Medical Profession, Abingdon, Suffolk; and from Coroners of Middlesex and Greenwich, for Medical Witnesses' Bill; and from Handloom Weavers, Sanquhar, for a Board of Trade to Regulate their Wages.—By Mr. BRADY, from Drumbo, for Abolition of Tithes (Ireland); and for Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill.—By Mr. JOHN PARKER, from Dissenters of Sheffield, for Abolition of Church Rates.— By Mr. H. MARSLAND, from Stockport, for Equalization of Duties on East and West India Produce.—By Mr. R. WALLACE, from Kilryth, for Extending the Franchise to all Householders; and from Stirling, for Alteration of Municipal Corporations' (Scotland) Bill.—By Lord OSSUL-STON, from various Places, for Benefit Building Societies' Bill.—By several HON. MEMBERS, from various Places, praying the House to Adhere to the Provisions of the Irish Municipal Corporations' Bill as originally passed by them.