§ Bill. Read a first time:—Municipal Corporations (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By the Sheriffs of London, from the Common Council, by Sir Charles Burrell, Mr. G. Wood, Mr. W. Evans, Sir E Codrington, Mr. Thorneley, Sir G. Strickland, Sir P. H. Fleetwood, Alderman Copeland, Messrs. Hawes, Warburton, Ord, Philpotts, Elliot, Scholefield, Wilshere, Finch, M. Philips, P. Howard, Hindley, Smith, Tancred, T. Duncombe, Clay, Cresswell, J. Fielden, Kinnaird, Hume. Ellice, Grote, C. Wood, the Attorney-General, Lord Morpeth, the Lord-Advocate, Sir C. Lemon, Sir B. Hall, and the Earl of Surrey, from a large number of places, for the Abolition of the Cornlaws.—By Messrs. Burroughs, Broadwood, Cayley, Hogg, Heathcote, Forrester, Blackburne, Gaskell, D'Israeli, Dugdale, Hodges, Handley, Plumptre, G. Palmer, Thornhill, W. Denison, Fellowes, Darby, Fleming and Acland, Lords Hotham and Worsley, Sir James Graham, Lords A. Paget, Sandon, G. Somerset, Norreys, and Darlington, Sir Rowland Hill, Sir C. B. Vere, Sir W. Young, Colonel Rolleston, Sergeant Jackson, Colonel Sibthorp, Lords Mahon and Ingestrie, Captain Alsager, Messrs. Bagge, Eaton, W. Buncombe, Greene, Benet, Maunsell, B, Baring, Fitzgibbon, S. Lefevre, and Christopher, Sir 609 John Tyrrell, Sir Eardley Wilmot, Sir Charles Burrill, and Mr. Bethel, from an immense number of places, against any Alteration in the Corn-laws.—By Sir Charles Burrell, from the Innkeepers of New Shoreham, against their Liability to make good losses sustained by their Guests; also from the Fruit Growers of Bramber, against the reduction of the Duties on Fruit.—By Mr. Hudson, from a place in Northumberland, for Church Extension in Canada.—By Lord Anson, from a Parish in Staffordshire, and Mr. H. Marsland, from Stockport, for, and by Sir John Mordaunt, from a place in Warwickshire, and Lord Arlington, from Salop, against the Repeal of the Corn-laws.