§ Bills. Read a second time:—Post-office Acts Repeal, Post-office Offences, Post-office Management and Franking.—Read a first time:—Reform of Parliament Act Amendment.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. WILKS, the LORD ADVOCATE, Mr. E. J. STANLEY, Mr. ALSTON, Mr. BERNAL, Colonel ANSON, Mr. BAINES, Mr. HASTIE, Mr. STEWART, Mr. LAMBTON, and other Hon. MEMBERS, from various places, for the Abolition of Church-rates. —By Mr. MAUNSELI., Colonel RUSHBROKE, and other Hon. MEMBERS, from various places, against the Abolition of Church-rates.—By Sir WILLIAM BRABAZON, Mr. D. BROWNE, Mr. STAN-DISH BARKY, from various places, for Vote by Ballot.—By Mr. HUTT, from Kingston-upon-Hull and Huddersfield, for Repeal of Duty on Tobacco.—By Mr. WILKS, the LORD ADVOCATE, and Mr. LOCH, from Bradford (Wilts), Leith, and Melksham, for Repeal of Duty on Fire Insurances.—By the LORD ADVOCATE, from Milngavie, against the Creation of Fictitious Votes (Scotland); and from Dundalk, for Small Debts (Scotland) Bill.—By Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND, and other Hon. MEMBERS, from Trowbridge, Bradford, and Idle, for Repeal of Duty on Foreign Wool, Olive Oil, and Indigo.—By Major CUMMING BRUCE, from Torres and Perth, for Revision of the mode of constituting Committees on Private Bills.— By Lord Viscount SANDON, from Liverpool, complaining of the Exportation of foreign made Biscuit in Bond, thereby defrauding the Revenue.— By Sir WILLIAM BRABAZON, and other Hon. MEMBERS, from Ballyhooley, and various other places, for Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill.—By Sir WILLIAM BRABAZON, and other Hon. MEMBERS, from Hilleagh, and various other places, for the Abolition of Tithes (Ireland).