§ Bills. Read a second time:—Ordnance Survey; Bankruptcy; Insolvency; and Lunacy.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Smith O'Brien, from Crone, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Registration of Voters Bill.—By Mr. Hutt, from Hull, in favour of the Jews Declaration Bill; and from the Chamber of Commerce of Aberdeen, against the Stade Duties.—By Mr. Hawes, from the Central Committee of the Religious Freedom Society, against the appointment of paid Chaplains to Union Workhouses.—By Mr. Bruges, from the Mayor and Town Council of Bath, in favour of the Jews Declaration Bill.—By Mr. H. Berkeley, from the city of Bristol, for the Establishment of Local Courts.—By Mr. Kemble, from some place in Surrey, complaining of the inefficiency of Medical Relief afforded to the Poor, and suggesting a remedy.—By Mr. Dugdale, from the Rate-payers of the Hundred of Hemlingford, Warwick, against paying the Expenses on account of the Birmingham Riots in 1839.—By Mr. Easthope, and Mr. Baines, from Baptist Dissenters, and Independants of Olney, Salah, Lincolnshire, and a great many other places, for the Abolition of Church Rates, and the Release of Mr. Baines.—By Mr. Wakley, Mr. T. Duncombe, Lords Duncan, and Mahon, form St. Columb, Cornwall, Southampton, Merthyr Tydvil, Suffolk, and other places, against the New Poor-law Amendment Act.—By Mr. Hawes, from Landowners and others engaged in the Sugar Trade in the East Indies, against the East-India Rum Bill as amended.