§ Bills. Read a first time:—Corporate Property.—Read a second time:—County and District Constables; Bolton Police. —Read a third time:—Birmingham Police; Joint Stock Banking Companies; New South Wales; Slave-Trade Suppression.
§ Petitions presented. By Earl Stanhope, from a place in Cambridgeshire, for Altering the present method of choosing Poor-law Guardians; also from the Society for Preventing the use of Climbing Boys in Chimnies, against that practice—By the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Lyndhurst, from several places, against the Manchester Police Bill.—By Lord Brougham, from the Salesmen of Covent-garden Market, for Including the Approaches to that place in the Metropolis Improvement Bill.