§ Bills. Read a first time:—Factory Children.—Read a second time:—Charitable Trusts,
§ Petitions presented. By Sir R. H. Inglis, from Inhabitants of that part of St. Giles's called the Rookery, for Improvements in Drainage.—By Mr. Easthope, from Amersham, against paying Chaplains to Workhouses out of the Poor-rates, and for Paupers to attend their own places of Worship.—By Sir C. B. Vere, and Colonel Salwey, from Suffolk, and Egham, for Church Extension.—By Colonel Salwey, from Egham, against any further Grant to Maynooth.—By Dr. Lushington, from Stepney College, against Church-rates, to the same effect from the Inhabitants of St Leonard's, Shoreditch, in favour of the County Courts Bill, and for Supply of Pure Water for the Metropolis.—By Mr. Hume, from Inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, from Members of the Society of Free Inquiry at Paddington, and from Bethnal-green, in favour of Universal Suffrage, the Release of Hetherington, and that the House would define the Offence of Blasphemy.