§ Bill. Read a third time: Custody of Insane Persons.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord DACRE, from Wisbeach, and several other places, by the Duke of CLEVELAND, from Stockton-upon-Tees, by the Duke of SUTHERLAND, from Kelso, and several places in Scotland, and by Lord BROUGHAM, from Taunton, Wellington, Appleby, Burn- 189 ham-market, Cardiff, Evesham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and many other places, for the immediate and total abolition of Slavery.—By the Bishop of EXETER, from inhabitants of the city of Cork, to protect the Protestant Church against the Roman Catholics.—By the Earl of RADNOR, from Bradford (Wilts), and by Lord BROUGHAM, from St. Michael's, Dublin, for the Ballot.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from the Benevolent Society of Smiths, London, for an extension of the royal mercy to the Glasgow Cotton Spinners; and from St. Michael's Dublin, against Tithes, and for Municipal Reform in Ireland.—By Lord LYNDHURST, from the Cordwainers of Glasgow, complaining of the combination of workmen, and praying for an inquiry.