§ Bills. Read a first time:—Austrian Treaty; Metropolis Improvement; Marriage Act Amendment; Affirmation; Fisheries; Commerce and Navigation; Registers Evidence Bill.—Read a second time:—Turnpike Acts Continuance; Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland); Insolvent Debtors (Ireland); Soap Duties.—Read a third time:—Newgate Gaol (Dublin); Prisons (Ireland); Parliamentary Boroughs; Canal Police.
§ Petitions presented. By the Bishop of Rochester, and the Earl of Devon, from Peterborough, and the Rev. Sidney Smith, praying their Lordships not to pass the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.—By the Marquess of Westminster, and Lord Brougham, from Bolton, and places in Cheshire, against the Weaver Churches Bill.—By Lord Portman, from Luton, Bedfordshire, against the use of Dogs in Carts.—By the Bishop of Durham, from the Dean and Chapter of Durham, against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.—By the Marquess of Normanby, from the Minor Canons of St. Christ, Canterbury, in favour of the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.