§ Bills. Read a first time:—High Sheriff's Expenses.—Read a second time:—Borough Courts.
§ Petitions presented. By the Earl of Rosebery, from Edinburgh, against further Endowing of the Scotch Church.—By the Earl of Durham, from several Dissenting Bodies in and near London, for the Abolition of Church Rates; and of Ecclesiastical Courts.—By the Bishop of Exeter, from four Dioceses, against the Church Discipline Bill.—By Viscount Melbourne, from Sunderland, against the New Beer Bill.