§ Bills. Read a second time:—Assessed Taxes Composition.—Read a third time:—Dublin Steam-Packet Company; Parochial Rates Exemption; Royal Artillery Pensions.
§ Petitions presented. By the Earl of ABERDEEN, from the Clergy of Suffolk, for the Preservation of the Church Establishment.—By the Earl of CAMPERDOWN, from Brechin, in favour of the Factories Regulation Bill.—By the Duke of WELLINGTON, from Hamilton, for taking the Ancient Boundary of that Borough for the Assessment under the Police Bill.—By the Earl of KINNOUL., from Perth; and the Duke of BUCCLEUGH, from the Cordwainers of Edinburgh, against the Royal Burghs (Soot-land Bill.—By a NOBLE LORD, from Bagnor, in favour of the Local Courts Bill.—By the Duke of GLOUCESTER, from the University of Cambridge; by the Bishop of EXTER, and the Earl of RODEN, from a Number of Places,—against the Irish Church Temporalities Bill.