§ Bills. Read a first time:—Poor-Rates Collection; Birmingham Police; Slave-Trade Suppression; Rogue Money (Scotland); Excise Licenses (Sale of Spirits); Militia Pay; Joint Stock Banking Companies.—Read a second time;—Soap Duties Regulation; Poor-law Commission Continuance; New South Wales.—Read a third time:—Highway Rates; Unlawful Oaths (Ireland); Shannon Navigation.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord Lyndhurst, from Individuals, claiming Compensation under the Copyholds and Metropolitan Police Courts Bills.—By Lord Brougham, from Licensed Victuallers of Lancashire, against the Excise Licenses (Sate of Spirits) Bill; and from the Chairman of the General Convention, for an Address to her Majesty to Pardon certain Birmingham Rioters.—By Lord Ellenborough, from St. Luke's, Chelsea, against the Poor-law Commission Continuance, and Collection of Rates Bills. —By Earl Stanhope, from several places, to the same effect; and for the Repeal of the Poor-law.