§ NEW MEMBER SWORN. For Kilkenny County, Richard Smithwick, Esq.
§ PUBLIC BILLS.—1°. Railway Commissioners.
§ 2°. Consolidated Fund; Public Works (Ireland) (No. 4); Public Works (Ireland) (No. 5); Poor Employment (Ireland); Constabulary (Ireland).
§ Reported. New Zealand Loan Act Amendment; Customs Duties (No. 2); New Zealand Government; Tithes Commutation; Private Bills.
§ 3°. and passed. Income Tax Deduction; Lunatic Asylums (Ireland).
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Mark Philips, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Captain Layard, and Sir John Pakington, praying that the Spirit Licenses and Duties Bill may not pass into a Law.—By Mr. Henry Berkeley, from Members of the Bristol Auxiliary Peace Society, and Members of the Committee of the British Anti-War Association, and by Mr. Montague Gore, from Mayor, Aldermen, and Town Council of the Borough of Barnstaple, in the County of Devon, for the Abolition of the Punishment of Flogging in the Army and Navy.—By several hon. Members, from a great number of Medical Practitioners, in favour of the Medical Practitioners Bill.—By Mr. Hume, from Robert Scott Burn and John Howden, Patent Solicitors in Edinburgh, and Agents for the National Association for obtaining a Reform of the Patent Laws, praying the House to take into consideration the present Patent Laws of Great Britain, with a view to their Alteration or Amendment, their Assimilation to the Patent Laws of Continental Kingdoms, or to the Law of Copyright at present existing in this Kingdom.—By Captain Layard, from Members of the Relief Committee of the Hollymount Union, and from Members of the Gallen and Costello Relief Committee, County of Mayo, suggesting Measures of Poor Relief (Ireland).—By Sir John Pakington, from Inhabitants of Pershore, in the County of Worcester, and by Mr. Edmund Turner, from St. Austell, in the County of Cornwall, in favour of the Small Debts Bill.—By Viscount Ebrington, from Householders, Workmen, and Inhabitants of and in the Vicinity of Hampstead Road, in the Borough of Marylebone, for the Adoption of Measures for Redeeming and Extinguishing the Tolls upon Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall Bridges.—By Mr. Hume, from James Hayman, for Alteration of Law respecting Weights and Measures.