§ Bills. Read a first time:—Turnpike Tolls; Judges Lodgings; Fines and Penalties (Ireland); Soldiers Pensions.—Read a second time:—Imprisonment for Debt Act Amendment.—Read a third time:—Pleadings in Court (India); Prisons (Scotland).
§ Petitions presented. By the Bishop of Exeter, from se- 741 veral places, against Hindoo Idolatry; from Bath, Fordingbridge, Liverpool, Manchester, and Taunton, against the Church Discipline Bill; from Addingham, and Caxton, against the New Poor-law.—By Lord Wharncliffe, from Doncaster, against Lord John Russell's Appointment of Borough Magistrates.—By the Archbishop of Canterbury, from several Clerical Bodies, for Church Extension in the Colonies.—By the Earl of Aberdeen, from Glasgow, Dumbarton, and other places, for Church Extension in Scotland.