§ Bills. Read a first time:—Joint Stock Banks; Transfer of Funds; War Office Act Amendment.
§ Petitions presented. By Captain ALSAGER, from Marylebone, against the Grant to the College of Maynooth—By Major BRYAN, from Kilkenny, for the total Extinction of Tithes.—By Mr. L. BRUGES, from the Guardians of the Bath Poor-law Union, for the repeal of the 27th Section of the Poor-law.—By Captain DUNDAS, by Mr. MAUNSELL, and by Captain WOOD, from the Wesleyan Methodist Congregation of Great Queen-street, Lincoln'sinn-fields, and various other places, against encouraging Idolatry in India.