§ Bills. Read a first time:—TitheCompositions (Ireland); Sugar Duties.—Read a second time:— Clerk of the Peace; Lancaster Schools Sites; Assessed Taxes Composition; Frivolous Suits.—Read a third time:—Sewers; Felony Explanation.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Hindley, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Grote, General Sharpe, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Byng, Colonel Salwey, Mr. O'Connell, and other hon. Members, from Buckinghamshire, Dumfries, Ayrshire, Wendover, Huntingdonshire, Ludlow, Middlesex, Dublin, Manchester, and a great many other places, for a Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Sir E, Filmer, Sergeant Jackson, Mr. Darby, Viscount Sandon, and other hon. Members, from Kent, Tipperary, Liverpool, Sussex, and other places, against a Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Lord C. Manners, from the County of Leicester, for Church Extension.— By Lord Dalmeny, from the Town-council of Stirling, against any interference with the Scotch system of Banking.—By the Earl of Surrey, from Sussex, against the Dissolutions of the Gilbert Unions.—By Mr. Dugdale, from Birmingham, in favour of a Vote of no Confidence in Ministers.