§ Bills. Read a first time:—Hanse Towns Slave Trade.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. JAMES, from parishes in Cumberland, for the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship on the let of August, 1858.—By Mr. FLEMING, from the county of Hants, to appropriate surplus Church revenue to Spiritual purposes.—By Mr. J. H. LOWTHER, from the Medical Practitioners of York, that no individual be admitted to practise Medicine or Surgery without having received a regular Medical Education.—By Mr. CHALMERS, from Dundee, against the Prisons' (Scotland) Bill; and from Dunbar and Cupar, for a low and uniform rate of Postage.