§ Lord ALTHORP brought up from the Commons the Evidence taken on the charge of Bribery against East Retford, which, on the Motion of the Marquis of SALISBURY, was Ordered to be Printed.
§ Sir A. GRANT brought up from the Commons a Copy of the Report of the Committee to which had been referred the 18th Report of the Commissioners of Judicial Inquiry, and the Depositions of Sir Jonah Harrington, Judge of the Admiralty Court in Ireland, and certain other Papers relating to the discharge of his judicial duties.—To be Printed.
§ Sir A. GRANT brought up from the Commons the Annual Indemnity Bill—Read a first time.
§ Petitions Presented. By Lord KING, from Bridport, for a Revision of the Criminal Code, with a view to the Abolition of punishment by Death for Forgery. By the same noble Lord from the Anti-Bread-Tax Association at Kidderminster, complaining of the effects of the Corn-laws upon the Poor.