§ Bills. Read a first time:—Consolidated Fund (Appropriation); Exchequer Bills (Public Works); Four-and-a-Half Per Centum Duties; Tin Duties; Coal Trade (London); County Treasurers (Ireland); Church Buildings Acts Amendment; and Slave Trade Treaties.
§ Petitions presented. By the Earl of FALMOUTH, from Great Yarmouth, and another place, against the Encouragement of Hindoo Idolatry; and from the Clergy and others of Melcombe Regis, to Extend the Provision for the Church of Upper Canada.—By the Earl of ALBEMARLE, from King's Lynn, and another place, against the Encouragement of Hindoo Idolatry in India.—By the Duke of RICHMOND, from the Guardians of the Croydon Union, and by Lord REDESDALE, from the Guardians of a Union in the county of Huntingdon, in favour of the Poor-law Amendment Bill.