§ MINUTES. NEW MEMBER SWORN. Joseph Randolph Mullings, Esq., for Cirencester.
§ PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Highways.
§ 2° Metropolis Police.
§ Reported.—Incumbered Estates (Ireland); Administration of Justice (No. 1); Administration of Justice (No. 2); Protection of Justices from Vexatious Actions.
§ 3° and passed; Tobago Relief and Immigration into British Guiana and Trinidad.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED, By Dr. Bowring, Mr. Ewart, and other Hon. Members, from an Immense Number of Places, for an Extension of the Elective Franchise,—By Mr. Devereux, from Wexford, and from the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Citizens of Dublin, in favour of a Repeal of the Union with Ireland.—By Mr. Alexander Hastie from Members of the Free Church synod of Glasgow and Ayr, respecting Quoad Sacra Churches (Scotland).—By Mr. Cobden, from the Baptist Congregation at Eyre Street Chapel, Sheffield, for Discouragement of Idolatry in India.—By Mr. Broadley, from Members of the Congregation of Wesleyan Methodists at Keyingham, Yorkshire, and by other Hon. Members, from several Places, for Better Observance of the Lord's Day.—By Mr. Baillie, from Portree, in the Isle of Skye, and by other Hon. Members, from several Places, in favour of the Places of Worship (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Cobbold, from Dewsbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, for a Repeal of the Duty on Attorneys' Certificates.—By Mr. Hastings Russell, from Members of several Lodges of the Ancient Order of Foresters, for an Extension of the Benefit Societies Act.—By Sir J. Jervis, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Chester, for Extending the Jurisdiction of the County Courts.—By Lord Claud Hamilton, from Tyrone, and other Places, for Encouragement to Schools in Connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland); also from Armagh, for an Alteration of the Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) Bill.—By Mr. Forbes, from the Commissioners of Supply, for Kirkcudbright, and from other Places, against the Lunatic Asylums (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. William Miles, from Guardians of the Poor of the Frome Union, Somerset, for Alteration of the Law respecting Mendicants.—By Lord G. Bentinck, from Leith, and by other Hon. Members, from several Places, against a Repeal of the Navigation Laws.—By Mr. Hodges, from Poor Law Officers in the County of Kent, and other Places, in favour of a Superannuation Fund for Poor Law Officers.—By Mr. Masterman, from Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, London, against the Public Health Bill.—By Captain Fordyce, from Members of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Old Aberdeen, suggesting the Grant of Loans for Railways (Scotland).