§ Bills. Read a second time:—Joint Stock Banking Companies.—Read a third time:—Assaults (Ireland); Sale of Spirits (Ireland); Constabulary Force (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By the Earl of Gosford, from Armagh, against the Repeal of the Com-laws; also for a Uniform Penny Postage; from a number of places, for allowing Presbyterian Soldiers to attend Places of Worship of their own Persuasion.—By the Earl of Stanhope, from the Shoreham Working Men's Association, for an Inquiry into the Birmingham Riots.—By the Marquess of Lansdowne, from the Kensington Union, in favour of a Collection of Poor-Rates Bill; and from Halifax, for a Uniform Penny Postage.—By Lord Lyndhurst, from Lambeth, against a Clause in the Collection of Poor-Rates Bill.