§ NEW WRIT. For Edinburgh County, v. William Ramsay Ramsay, Esq., Chiltern Hundreds.
§ BILLS. Public.—1°. Timber Ships.
§ 2°. Poor Law Amendment (Scotland).
§ Reported—Banking (Ireland); Fresh Water Fishing (Scotland).
§ 3°. and passed:—Banking (Scotland).
§ Private.—1°. Bolton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North Union, Liverpool and Manchester, and Grand Junction Railway Companies Amalgamation.
§ Reported—West Cornwall Railway; St. Ives Junction Railway; Totnes Markets and Waterworks (No. 2); Manchester and Leeds Railway; Eastern Union Railway; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway; Newark and Sheffield Railway.
§ 3°. and passed:—Caledonian Railway; Clydesdale Junction Railway; Dundee and Perth Railway; Aberdeen Railway.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Colquhoun, from Members of the Bath Church of England Lay Association, for Encouragement to Schools in connexion with Church Education Society (Ireland).—By Mr. Fox Maule, from Inhabitants of Kincardine O'Neil, and Portmoak, for Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Mr. Colquhoun, and Mr. Dugdale, from several places, against the Grant to Maynooth College—By Mr. Colquhoun, and Mr. Lockhart, from Glasgow, against Universities (Scotland) Bill—By Mr. F. Maule, and Lord James Stuart, from Fifeshire, and Ayr, in favour of Universities (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. O. Gore, from Occupiers of Land in the Parish of Hinstock, Salop, for Relief from Agricultural Taxation.—By Mr. Parker, from the Cutlers' Company of Sheffield, for Repeal of Duty on Copper Ore.—By Mr. Henley, from Reading and Henley, for Alteration 393 of Law relating to Highway Rates.—By Mr. Boyd, from several places, for Alteration of Banking (Ireland) Bill.—By Lord Ashley, from several places, for Establishment of County Courts.—By Mr. Jervis, from Attorneys and Solicitors practising in Chester, for Removal of Courts of Law and Equity to Inns of Court.—By Lord Ashley, and several other hon. Members, from an immense number of places, in favour of the Ten Hours System in Factories.—By Mr. Barnard, from W. Palmer, of Deptford, for Repeal or Alteration of Insolvent Debtors Act.—By Mr. Bankes, from Justices of the Peace, of Cerne, Dorset, against Justices' Clerks and Clerks of the Peace Bill.—By Lord Ashley, and several other hon. Members, from Beaminster, and a great number of other places, for Alteration of Physic and Surgery Bill.—By Mr. Kemble, from George Bottomley, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, for Postponement of Physic and Surgery Bill—By Sir James Graham, from John M'Millan, of Aconel, Yorkshire, in favour of Physic and Surgery Bill.—By Mr. Lockhart, from several places, for Alteration of Poor Law Amendment (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Blewitt, and General Lygon, from Newport, and Stourport, in favour of the Salmon Fisheries Bill.—By Viscount Palmerston, from William Marris Dinsdale, of Walworth, Gentleman, for Inquiry into the merits of his Plans for the preservation of Life and Property from Shipwreck.