§ MINUTES.] BILLE.Public—1a Civil Bill Decrees (Ireland); Turnpike Roads (Ireland); Exchequer Bills; Punishment of Death (Ireland); Victoria Park; Dublin Police; Knightsbridge and Kensington Openings; Bribery at Elections.
§ Reported.—Parish Property.
§ 3aand passed:—Soap Duties Drawback; Timber Ships; Queen's Prison.
§ Private.— 1a. Equitable Gas; Southwark Improvement (No. 2); Great North of England Railway; Northern Union (Newcastle and Darlington Junction) Railway; Bristol Floating Dock; Greenock Harbours; Kington Roads; Ellesmere and Chester Canal; Christopher's (or Manners) Estate; Pilkington's Estate.
§ 2a. St. Philip's Bridge (Bristol); Liverpool Paving and Sewerage; Great Torrington Market.
§ Reported.—Northern Coal Mining Company; Granton Pier (No. 2); Saundersfoot Railway; Great North of England (Clarence and Hartlepool) Railway; Sir John Cass's Charity (Shaw's) Estate; Cottenham Drainage.
§ 3a. and passed:—Buckland Inclosure; Weston-super-Mare Improvement; Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway; Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway; Glasgow and Redburn Bridge Road; Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway.
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By the Earl of Wicklow, from Dunganston, for the Encouragement of Schools in connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland).— From Hinckley, Cobridge, Lichfield, Tichbourne, Bromsgrove, Bungay, Durham, Warwick, Lancaster, Chepstow, and other places, for the adoption of a measure the better to secure Religious Instruction to the Roman Catholics serving in the Army and Navy.—From Lees, Oldham, Fairbotham, Pendleton, Manchester, Paynton Worth, Hazel Grove, and other places, for the Suppression of the practice of employing Females in Mines—From Sit- 196 tingbourne, for Limiting the Hours of Attendance of Children in the Factories, and that their Religious Instruction may be properly attended to.—From Broughton, Warkton, and Cransley, for Repeal of the Com and Provision Laws.—From the Mayors, Aldermen, and Corporations of Leeds, and York, for an Alteration of the Law respecting the Levying and Collecting of Local Rates in Corporate Cities and Boroughs in England and Wales.