§ Bills. Read a first time:—Drainage of Lands; Registration of Voters (Scotland).—Read a second time: —County Bridges.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord Morpeth, Mr. Blake, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Grattan, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. P. Somers, and others, from Sligo, Donegal, Waterford, Galway, and other places, for Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill.— By Sir R. Bateson, and others, from Down, Monaghan, and other places, in favour of Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill By Mr. Wallace, from Greenock, against meddling with Church matters By Mr. J. O'Connell, from Liverpool, for a Repeal of the Union.—By Mr. H. Drummond, from the Presbytery of Meigle, for the Better Observance of the Sabbath.—By Sir H. Vivian, from Cornwall, in favour of Medical Reform, and against the choice of Poor-law Doctors by Tender.—By Mr. B. Baring, from places in Staffordshire, against any Grant to the College of Maynooth, and for the Exclusion of Roman Catholics from Office.—By Mr. O. Gore, jun., from Carnarvon, praying for Extended Religious Instruction.—By Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. G. W. Wood, from Manchester, and Pimlico, in favour of, and by Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. M. Phillips, against, the Copyright of Designs Bill.— By Sir H. Peel, Sir R. Inglis, Sir J. Y. Buller, and others, from Bedford, Stafford, Somerset, and other places, for Church Extension.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, Mr. Bryan, Lord F. Egerton, and others, from Finsbury, Kilkenny, Salford, and other places, against the Poor-law Amendment Act.