§ MINUTES.] BILLS. Public.—Reported. — Incumbents Leasing.
§ 3a. and passed:—Law of Evidence Improvement.
§ Private.—la. Liverpool Borough Court; Burntisland and Granton Pier and Ferry.
§ 2a. Caurin's Estate; Clerkenwell Improvement; Rouma's Naturalization; Lesbazeitle's Naturalization; Verconiu's Naturalization.
§ Reported.—Tyne Fisheries; Warwick and Leamington Union Railway (specially); Yate Inclosure; New Cross Roads; Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal; Stockton and Hartlepool Railway (specially); Liverpool Improvement specially).
§ 3a. and passed:—Sir F. Bathurst's Estate; Saundersfoot Harbour; South Metropolitan Gas; Liverpool Health of Town and Buildings' Regulation.
§ Committed.—Australia and New Zealand.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Lord Kenyon, from Peckham, and Bristol, for the Exclusion of Roman Catholics from Parliament.—From Colaton, Rowleigh, Abbeydore, Slaidburn, Lanmarton, Earnley, Llangnog, Stewkley, St. Kererne, King's Lynn, and other places, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—From several Parishes of Norwich, for Inquiring into the course of Education pursued at Maynooth College.—From the Plymouth Mechanics Institution, that such Institutions may be Ex- 1143 empted from the Payment of Rates and Taxes.—By Earl Stanhope, from Oldham, Middleton, Elton, Kettleshulme, Rainou, Burnley, Blackburn, and Ashton-under-Lyne, for the Repeal of the Poor-law Amendment Act.—By the Earl of Roseberry, from East Dereham, against the Property Tax.—By the Bishop of London, from Clergymen in the West Riding of York, for a Limitation of the Hours of Labour of Children in Factories.—From the East-India Committee of the Colonial Society, for the Production of Papers explanatory of the Policy pursued towards Affghanistan.