§ Bills. Read a first time:—Rating of Tenements.—Read a second time:—Sugar Duties.
§ Petitions presented. By Captain Alsager, Lord G. Bentinck, Lord F. Egerton, Lord G. Somerset, Major Scarlett, Messrs. Blewitt, and Richards, from a number of places, against, and by Colonel Salwey, Messrs. Codrington, Hume, and Langdale, from several places, in favour of the Government plan of National Education.—By Messrs. Hume, Crawford, Pusey, M. Philips, Dunbar, Sir B. Hall, and Captain Pechell, from a great number of places, for a Uniform Penny Postage.—By Mr. Hume, from Dunse, against the Monopoly for Printing the Bible; from Blackrath, against the Irish Church.—By Mr. M. J. O'Connell, from Kilkenny, for an Alteration in the Law regarding the Irish Salmon Fisheries.—By Sir H. Parnell, from Liverpool, for Equalizing the Duties on Coffee and Sugar,—By Mr. Greene, from Lancaster, against, and by Messrs. Grote, Briscoe, Langdale, Aglionby, H. Berkeley, J. Stuart, Hindley, Pryme, Sir G. Strickland, Captain Pechell, Sir B. Hall, Lord C. Fitzroy, and Sir E. L. Bulwer, from a great many places, in favour of Vote by Ballot.