§ Read a first time:—Church of Ireland; Valuation and Civil Bill Courts' (Ireland); Admiralty Jurisdiction (Prince of Wales's Island); Insolvent Debtors' (India); Post Horse Duties; Administration of Justice (New South Wales).
§ Petitions presented. By the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, from various Places, against the Registration of Births and Marriages' Bill.—By the Duke of WELLINGTON, from various Places, against Universities' (Scotland) Bill.—By the Earl of CHICHESTER, from various Places, for the Better Observance of the Sabbath.—By Lord WYNFORD, from Huntingdon, for the Repeal of the Poor-Law Amendment Act.