§ Bills. The Earl of WINCHILSEA postponed sine die the second reading of his Bill for Finding Employment for Labourers. The Administration of Justice Amendment Bill was, on the Motion of Lord TENTERDEN, read a second time.
§ Petitions presented. By the Duke of RICHMOND, from Matthew Phillips, pointing out a method of Employment for the Poor. By the Earl of GROSVENOR, from St. George's, Middlesex, for a Repeal of the Metropolitan Police Act, to which his Lordship expressed himself favourable. For the abolition of Slavery — by Lords BEXLEY, WHARNCLIFFE and KING, the Earls of CARLISLE and RODEN, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and the Bishop of LONDON, from a great number of places.