§ Bills. Received the Royal Assent by Commission:—Exchequer Bills; Slaves' Compensation; Excise Act Amendment; Duties on Wood Collection; Dominica Relief; Government of Agra; Clerk of the Crown; Illegal Securities; Colonial Passengers; Special Constables; Peace Preservation (Ireland); Insolvent Debtors' Courts; Court of Exchequer (Scotland); Marriage Legalizing; Highways; Turnpike Road Acts' Continuance; and to four private Bills.—Read a third time:—Weights and Measures; Tithes' Recovery; Tithes on Turnips—Read a second time;—Sardinia Slave Treaty; Denmark Slave Treaty; Cruelty to Animals.
§ Petitions presented. By the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of RODEN, and Lord Ellenborough, from several Places,—against the Church of Ireland Bill.—By the Earl of ABERDEEN, from Paisley, against the Imprisonment for Debt Bill; also for Inquiry into the State of the 1123 Law referring to Waste Property in Scotland.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from Leeds, in favour of the Prisoners' Defence Bill.