§ Bills. Read a first time:—Notice of Elections; Slave Trade Treaties; Venezuela; Bank of Ireland; Railways; Parochial Assessment; Joint Stock Banking Companies; Population (Ireland). — Read a second time:—Fisheries; Insolvent Debtors (India); Stock in Trade; Church Temporalities (Ireland); Sugar (Excise Duties).
§ Petitions presented. By Lord Lyndhurst, from Medical Practitioners, in favour of Medical Inquiry.—By Lord Brougham, from Huddersfield, for the Better Treatment of Political Prisoners.