§ Bills. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Sugar Duties Bill, the Population (Ireland) Bill, the Witnesses' Examination Bill, the Prohibition and Mandamus Bill, the Canada Timber Bill, and thirty-two private Bills.
§ Petitions presented. In favour of Reform, by Earl GREY, from the Inhabitants of Aylesbury; and similar petitions from the Inhabitants of Leicester, Limerick, Waterford, Oldham, Dover, and from the Burgesses of Newcastle-upon-Tyne:—By the Marquis of CLEVELAND, from Wrington, Somersetshire:—By the Earl of RADNOR, from a Parish in Berkshire:—By Lord MELBOURNE, from Oldham, and other Parishes in Lancashire:—By the Marquis of LANSDOWN, from Ballymeath; also from the Inhabitants of Calcutta, for relief from the unequal local Taxation by which they were oppressed; from the Chamber of Commerce at Glasgow, against the renewal of the East India Company's Charter; from the Cordwainers of Dundalk, for the Repeal of the Union; and several for the Abolition of Colonial Slavery. By the Earl of GLASGOW, from certain Residents at Irving, that compensation might be given if Slavery were abolished.