§ Bills. Read a first time:—Metropolitan Police Courts; Grand Jury Cess (Ireland).—Read a second time:—Insolvent Debtors (Ireland); Poddle River; Vaccination.
§ Petitions presented. By Sir S. Lushington, Messrs. Villiers, Brotherton, Wakley, and Hume, from a number of places, for, and by Lord Ingestrie, from one place, against the Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. Brotherton, Mr. H. Berkeley, and Mr. Hume, from several places, against, and by Sir R. H. Inglis, Lord Sandon, Sir R. Peel, Mr. Wakley, Mr. Darby, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Gordon, and Captain Alsager, from a great number of places, for, Church Extension.—By Major Macnamara, Mr. Villiers, and Mr. Hume, from three places, for Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot.—By Sir S. Lushington, from five places, against the Opium Trade; from Chelsea, against Sunday Trading; from the Tower Hamlets, against portions of the New Poor-law.—By Mr. Archbold, from Carlow, against the Importation of Foreign Flour into Ireland.—By Mr. L. Bruges, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Pakington, Sir W. Follett, and Mr. Pemberton, from a number of places, against the Clergy Reserves Bill.—By Sir R. Peel, and Lord Castlereagh, from three places, in favour of Non-Intrusion.—By Mr. E. Tennent, from several places, in favour of Non-Intrusion.—By Sir Eardley Wilmot, from Thame, in favour of the Grammar School Bill.—By Mr. Callaghan, from the Medical Practitioners of Cork, for Medical Reform.—By Mr. Wakley, from the Working Men of London, for the Release of Lovett and Collins.