§ Bills. Read a first time:—Waste Lands (Ireland).—Read a second time:—Civil List; Slave Compensation.
§ Petitions presented. By Sir H. VIVIAN, from the Clergymen and Inhabitants of a Parish in Cornwall, against Church-rates.—By Mr. DENISTOUN, from Glasgow, against the Spirit Duties.—By Sir EARDLY WILMOT, from an Anti-slavery Meeting at Exeter-hall, against the system of Apprenticeship in the West Indies.— By Sit CHARLES LEMON, from a Polytechnic Society, against the Assessed Taxes.