§ Bills. Read a first time:—Dublin Corporation; Officers' Compensation; Corporate Property; Alienation (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By Sir R. INGLIS, from certain Wesleyan Methodists in London, Ipswich, and other places, by Mr. FINCH, from a place in Staffordshire, by Mr. THORNELY, from Wolverhampton, by Mr. S. LASCELLES, two, from Wakefield, by Lord ASHLEY, from two places in the county of York, by Mr. M. ATTWOOD, from the Wesleyans of Whitehaven, and by Mr. W. ATTWOOD, from the Wesleyan of Woolwich, against the Encouragement of Idolatrous practices in India.—By Sir R. INGLIS, from a parish in Derbyshire, for additional Endowment to the Church of England in Canada; and from a parish in the county of Durham, against the Parochial Assessments Bill.—By Mr. BROTHERTON, from Stockport, for the better Education and Employment of the Labouring Classss.—By Mr. P. SCROPE, from the Weavers and Manufacturers of Stroud, against the Corn-laws.—By Mr. D. W. HARVEY, from the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, against the Grammar School Bill; from Sheffield, and other places, complaining of the operation of the New Poor-laws; also from the Operatives of Bath, Rochdale, Halifax, and other places, praying that Mr. R. Owen might be heard at the Bar of the House in support of his plan for ameliorating the condition of the Labouring Classes