§ Bills. Read a first time:—Exchequer Bills; Excise Collection and Management.—Read a second time:—Banking Copartnership.—Read a third time: — Court of Exchequer (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By the Earls of Stradbrooke, and Mountcashel, Lord Portman, the Marquess of Aylesbury, Lords Beaumont, Prudhoe, and other noble Lords, from Suffolk, Cork, Somersetshire, West Grinsted, Marlborough, and various other places, against any Alteration 334 of the Corn-laws.—By Earl Fitzwilliam, and the Duke of Cleveland, from Cupar, Yorkshire, Halifax, Durham, and other places, for a Total Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By the Earl of Haddington, Lord Sudeley, and the Earl of Warwick, from Blandford-square, and other Districts of London, for the Extinction of the Tolls on the Bridges. —By the Duke of Sutherland, the Earls of Lovelace, and Fitzwilliam, from Barnard Castle, Surrey, and Yorkshire, for the Abolition of Church Rates.—By the Earls of Errol, and Rosebery, from Aberdeen, Fife, and Arbroath, against any change in the Banking system of Scotland.—By the Earl of Winchilsea, from Blackburn, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—By the Earl of Errol, Lord Stratford, and the Duke of Argyle, from Cookstown, Molin, Peterhead, Ballyshannon, and other places, against Lay Patronage.