§ Bills. Brought in; by the Duke of RICHMOND, to amend the Poor Laws. By Viscount MELBOURNE, to amend the Sale of Beer Act. Read a second time; Exchequer Bills. Read a third time; Court of Exchequer (Scotland).
§ Petitions presented. By the Earl of SELKIRK, from the West Lothian Agricultural Society; and from Freeholders, Commissioners of Supply, Justices of the Peace, and other Inhabitants of the county of Linlithgow, against the use of Molasses in Distilleries and Breweries. By the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, from the Citizens of Waterford, against a Tax upon Houses and Land, for the support of the Poor; and from the Inhabitants of Youghall, for a revision of the Penal Code; from the Catholic Inhabitants of the same place, Dungarvon, Cloupriest, Temple Michael, Killcockin, and Kilwatermoy, for an alteration of the Grants for Education in Ireland. By the Earl of RADNOR, from the Inhabitants of Kinsale, in favour of Reform, and for an alteration of their Franchise; and from the Inhabitants of Mallow, and Mechanics and others, composing the Trades Union of Perth, in favour of Reform. By Lord KING, from the Inhabitants of Great Shelford, for an alteration of the Tithe Laws. By Lord WYNFORD, from General Thornton, praying, that the Sovereign may be released from making a declaration against Transubstantiation.