§ Bills. Read a second time:—Highway Rates.—Read a third time:—Municipal Officers' Declaration.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. GROTE, from a number of Dissenting Congregations in London, for extending the working of the Municipal Officers' Declaration Bill to the whole empire.—By Mr. CHRISTOPHER, from Gainsborough, against the Poor-law Amendment Act.—By Mr. GILLON, from Leith, for Household Suffrage and the Ballot.—By Mr. MILES, from Warminster, for the repeal of the Beer Act.—By Mr. HUME, from three Protestant Dissenting Congregations in London, for extending the Foundation Schools (Ireland) Bill to persons of all religious denominations, by making it apply to the whole empire.