§ Bills. Read a first time:—Canada Clergy Reserves; Census of the Population.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord G. Bentinck, from Lyme Regis, against the County and District Constable Bill, and against the Poor-law Amendment Act Bill.—By Lord R. Grosvenor, from Chester, for Medical Reform.—By Mr. O. Gore, from Denbigh, against the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners, and for Church Extension.—By Sir W. Follett, from the Provincial Newspaper Society, for an Alteration of the Law of Libel.—By Mr. Easthope, from Leicester, &c., against Church Extension.—By Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, from Mr. Feargus O'Connor, to be removed from York Gaol to the Custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea.—By Mr. Bethell, and Mr. Hodgson, from a parish in Yorkshire, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, against the Ecclesiastical Revenues and Duties Bill.—By Mr. Baines, from Leeds, against the Sugar Monopoly.—By Sir R. Bateson, from Londonderry, for the adjustment of the Church of Scotland Question.—By Mr. Wilbraham, from various places in Chester, against Church Rates, and against the Rating of Workhouses.—By Mr. Pendarves, from several places in Cornwall, for the Abolition of Church Rates, and the Release of John Thorogood.—By Mr. Grote, from the Commercial Steam Packet Company, for Relief from Light-house Dues.—By Sir J. Graham, from Hadleigh, and Boxford, against the War with China.—By Mr. Colquhoun, from families in Glasgow belonging to the poorest class, for Encouragement to Emigration; and from 400 Spirit Sellers in that city, to prevent Selling Spirits on Sundays.