§ MINUTES.] Petitions presented. By the Earl of CLARENDON, Lord KENYON, Lord WYNFORD, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Earl of DEVON, Bishops of EXETER, WINCHESTER, and Lord ASHBURTON, from various places, against the Abolition of Church Rates.—By the Duke of CLEVELAND, Viscount MELBOURNE, and LORD BROUGHAM, from Ilchester, Maidstone, Durham, and other places, for the Abolition of Church Rates.—By Lord DUNCANNON, from Moylbugh, Angheart, Grange, and Grose, for the Abolition of Tithes (Ireland); and for Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill.—By Lords KENYON and REDESDALE, from Macclesfield and Stow on the Wold, Union, Gloucestershire, against any Alteration of the Poor-law Amendment Act.