§ MINUTES.) Bills. Read a first time:—Election Petitions Trial.—Read a second time:—Appropriation; Militia Pay —Read a third time:—School Sites; Banks of Issue; Dog Carts.
§ Petitions presented, By Mr. Grote, Mr. Feilden, General Johnson, Mr. Ward, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Mr. Villiers, and Lord Elliot, from London, Westminster, Todmordon, Oldham, Rotherham, Yorkshire, Ramsgate, Cornwall, and a great many other places, for a Repeal of the Corn-laws.—Bj Mr. Round, Colonel Rolleston, Viscount Ingestrie, Lord C. Manners, and others, from Essex, Nottinghamshire, Dorsetshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, and other places, against Alteration of the Corn-laws.—By Dr. Lushington, from the Minor Canons of St. Paul's, against certain parts of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Bill—By Mr. Pakington, from Nottinghamshire, In favour of Church Extension.