§ Bills. Read a first time:—Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Corporations; Ecclesiastical Benefices; Farming Leases.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord Redesdale, the Earl of Winchilsea, and the Duke of Wellington, from places in Suffolk, Walmer, and from places in Hampshire, against Alteration of the Corn-laws.— By the Earl of Rosebery, from Linlithgow, and Stirling, for the Government measure for the Alteration of the Import Duties; and from the Members of the Scotch Church, Lancaster, against Lay Patronage (Scotland).