§ Bills. Read a first time:—Stamp Duties; Law Proceedings.—Read a second time:—Insolvent Debtors (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By Viscount Sandon, from Liverpool, for a revision of the Commercial Tariff.—By Mr. Ewart, from Liverpool, and Mr. M. Phillips, from Manchester, for the Removal of all Restrictions on Trade, and the Total Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. E. Tennent, and Mr. Wallace, from the North of Ireland, and Greenock, against Lay Patronage ill the Church of Scotland.—By Mr. K. Tennent, from Lambeth, for throwing open the Mriilges.—By Mr. Brotherton, from the Baptists of Norwich, praying that Dissenters might be exempted from the necessity of taking Oaths.—By Mr. Walter, from Nottingham, for Church Extension; and from a Union in Shropshire, against the New Poor-law,—By Mr. G. Berkeley, and Mr. B. Wood, from Bolton, and other places, against Church Rates.