§ Bills. Read a first time:—Poor-law Commission; Prisons (Ireland); Canal Police; Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland).—Read a second time: —Assessed Taxes Composition; Turnpike Trusts.
§ Petitions presented. By the Bishop of Ely, from the Dean and Chapter of Ely, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.—By Lord Brougham, from various places in Yorkshire, for a Repeal of the Cora-laws.—By the Earl of Delawarr, from Chichester, and Brighton, to be excluded from the operation of the County Constabulary Bill.—By the Earl of Devon, from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.—By the Bishop of Winchester, from the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, to be heard by Counsel against the Bill.—By the Bishop of Exeter, from the Dean and Chapter of Wells, from the Parochial Clergy of the county of Cornwall, and from the Archdeacon and Clergy of Stowe, in the Diocese of Lincoln, against the Bill.—By the Earl of Wicklow, from Licensed Victuallers in Liverpool, against parts of the Beer Bill.