§ Bills. Read a second time:—Registrars' Office Improvement; Court of Bankruptcy Fund.
§ Petitions presented. By the Duke of RICHMOND, from Irvine, for Protection to the Church of Scotland, and for further Accommodation in Scotch Churches.—By a NOBLE PEER, from Kirrimuir, for a Reform of all Abuses in the Church of Scotland.—By the Marquess of TAVISTOCK, from Worcester, against the Prisoners' Defence Bill.—By the Earl of SEFTON, from Liverpool, Lord BROUGHAM, from Deal, and Lord POLTIMORE, from South Molton, in favour of,—and by Lords LYNDHURST and WHARN-CLIFFE, from Kingston-upon-Hull and Ludlow, against the Municipal Corporations' Bill.