Wednesday, August 1, 1838.

MINUTES.] Bills. Read a first time:—Bank of Ireland Act Amendment—Read a third time:—Prisons (West Indies).

Petitions presented. By Mr. HUME, from Licensed Victuallers, and Retail Beer Sellers of Salford, against any alteration in the Beer Act; and from the United Associate Presbytery of Dunfermline, against the monopoly of the King's Printer in Scotland.—By Captain ALSAGER, from Kennington and Camberwell, for a better provision for the Established Church in Canada.—By Mr. R THOMSON, from Congregations of Wesleyan Methodists of Manchester, against Idolatrous practices in India.—By Mr. SANDERSON, from the Wesleyan Methodists of Colchester, to the same effect.—By Lord W. BENTINCK, from Calcutta, Madras, and Ceylon, in favour of a direct communication by steam from the Red Sea to the several presidencies of India and Ceylon.