§ The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the following Bills:—Stamp Duties Offices' Consolidation; Merchant Seamen; Property in Infants' (Ireland); Contempt in Equity (Ireland); General Turnpike Act Amendment; as a Number of private Bills.—Read athirdtime:— Lunatic Act Continuance.
§ Petitions presented. By the Dukes of NEWCASTLE and WELLINGTON, the Marquess CAMDEN, Earls VERULAM, HAREWOOD, and SHAFTESBURY, Lords SKELMERSDALE and LYNDHURST, from a Number of Places,—against the Municipal Corporations' Bill.—By the Earls of WEST-MORELAND and BEAUCHAMP, and Viscount STRANGFORD, from a Number of Places, against the same Bill—By Lord FOLEY and Lord BROUGHAM, from several Places,—in favour of the same.