§ Bills. Read a second time:—Soap Duties Regulation; Bastardy.—Read a third time:—Shannon Navigation; Jurors and Juries (Ireland); Militia Ballots Suspension.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Law, from Hereford, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.—By Mr. Dennison, from Chertsey, for a Uniform Penny Postage.—By Mr. T. Buncombe, from the Metropolis, and a number of other places, against the Poor-law Amendment Act—By Mr. Sanford, from several places in Somersetshire, against the Beer Bill.—By Mr. Langdale, from a number of Catholics, for a system of National Education including people of all Religious Denominations.—By Viscount Castlereagh, from Newtonvrards (Devon), against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—By Mr. Macauley, from Edinburgh, against running Mails on the Sabbath.—By Colonel Wood, from Chelsea, against joining Parishes of more than 25,000 souls to any Unions under the New Poor-law, and against allowing persons in Vestries to Vote by Proxy.—By Mr. M. J. O'Connell, from the Spirit Sellers of Fermoy, against the Spirit Licenses Bill—By Captain Gordon, from Aberdeen, for Church Extension in Scotland.—By Mr. M. Philips, from Silk Throwsters and Manufactures of Manchester, against including Silk Mills in the Factories Act.—By Mr. Hindley, from Yorkshire, for a Uniform Penny Postage.—By Mr. Bannerman, from Aberdeen, to the same effect.—By Lord R. Grosvenor, from one place, to the same effect, but against the use of Stamped Covers.—By Sir R. Peel, from Eccles (Berwick), for Church Extension.—By Mr. Gibson Craig, from Berwickshire, for an Alteration in the Law of Church Patronage.—By Mr. Pattison, from Norwich, and Sir R. Peel, from Blackburn, for a Uniform Penny Postage.