§ Bills. Read a first time:—Sugar Duties.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Gillon, from Edinborough, and other places, against any additional Grant to the Church of England, and for the Separation of Church and State.—By Mr. Baines, and Mr. Briscoe, from Dews-bury, and Warminster, against Church Dates.—By Mr. Hawes, from persons in the Metropolis interested in the Coal Trade, to remove the Conservancy of the Thames from the Corporation of London.—By Captain Alsager, from Clapham, in favour of Church Extension; and from the London Protestant Association, against the College of Maynooth.—By Mr. Thesiger, from certain persons formerly in the Service of the East India Company, for Increased Superannuation.—By Mr. Thorneley, from Wolverhampton, for an Equalisation of the Sugar Duties.—By Mr. Liddell, from Durham, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.—By Mr. Brocklehurst, from Cotton-spinners in Lancashire, for the Repeal of the Corn-laws.'—By Mr. Stansfield, from the Attorneys of Huddersfield, for the Removal of the Courts of Law.—By Mr. Greg, from Richmond, against Church Extension.—By Mr. O'Connell, from Blackrock (Kilkenny), against Lord Stanley's Bill; from Tralee, in favour of the Repeal of the Corn-laws; from the Fishermen of the Eastern Coast of Ireland, for Protection; and from Boston, and other places, against Church Rates, and Church Extension.—By Sir D. Roche, from Limerick, against the Tax called Ministers' Money.—By Sir R. Inglis, from Northampton, for Church Extension By Mr. Baines, from Morden (Surrey), against Encouragement of Idolatry.—By Mr. J. Martin, from Tewkesbury, against Church Rates.