§ Bills. Read a second time:—Slave Trade Treaties.—Read a third time:—Postage Duties; Public Works (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By Lord G. Somerset, from Minchinhampton, against the Poor-law Amendment Act.—By Mr. Wallace, from a place in Ayrshire, against the system of Church Patronage.—By Mr. Barnard, from Greenwich, against the New Poor-law.—By Mr. Sanford, from the Silk Throwsters of Somersetshire, against the Factories Bill.—By Mr. Hawes, from some place, against the Abuses in Lunatic Asylums.