§ Bills. Read a first time:—Church Patronage (Scotland).—Read a second time:—Lease and Release; Entails Scotland Act Amendment.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord Poltimore, from various places, for the Extinction of Church Rates.—By Lord Wharncliffe, from Attorneys and Solicitors of Taunton, and other places, against the Prohibition of Marriages within certain degrees of Affinity.—By Lord Redesdale, and the Karl of Winchilsea, from two places in Oxfordshire, Ashford, New Romney, and other places, against any Alteration in the Corn-laws; and from the Inhabitants of Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, and from Inhabitants of Middlesex, for the Abolition of Tolls on South-wark, Waterloo, and Vauxhall Bridges.—By the Earls of Wicklow, and Charleville, from a Congregation in Donegal, and Knniskillen, against Church Patronage (Scotland).—By the Earl of Wilton, from Southwark, for the Abolition of the Tolls on the Metropolitan Bridges.—By the Bishop of Winchester, from Clergyman in his Diocese, for an Alteration of the Law for Rating Tithes.—By Earl Fitzwilliam, from Barnstaple, for the Extinction of Church Rates; and from Arbroath, Binglev, and Saddle-worth, for the Repeal of the Corn-laws.