§ Bills. Read a first time:—Commissions of the Peace; Oaths and Declarations of Municipal Corporations Officers.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. J. GIBSON, from Belfast, relating to Spirit Licences; from the same place, for allowing Presbyterian Clergymen to make oaths after their own fashion.—By Mr. Pease, from the Baptist Missionaries of Jamaica, for the entire abolition of Slavery.—By Mr. 283 WAKLEY, from a number of Medical men, against the administration of the Medical Department under the Poor Law Commissioners.—By Mr. BROTHERTON, from Sal-ford, for a National system of Education—By Mr. HODGES, from Rochester, against the decisions of the revising barristers.—By Mr. E. BULLER, from three Dissenting Congregations in Staffordshire, against Church-rates.—By Sir R. INGLIS, from Cheltenham, for a National system of Education founded upon Christianity.