§ Bills. Read a first time:—Timber Ships; Cathedral and Ecclesiastical Preferments; Assessed Taxes Composition.—Read a third time:—Soap Duties Drawback; Indemnity.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord Redesdale, and the Bishop of London, from Haddington, and other places, for Religious Instruction in Scotland.—By Lord Lyndhurst, from the Corporation of Dublin, against the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill.—By the Earl of Roden, to the same effect.—By the Duke of Richmond, from Huntley, for a Uniform Penny Postage.—By the Earl of Stanhope, from a parish in Cumberland, for the Repeal of the New Poor-law.