§ The Patents Continuation Bill was read a second time.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. KENNEDY, the amount of Salary of the Registrar of Sasines in Scotland, for the last ten years.
§ Petitions Presented. Against the Duty on Coals, by Sir M. W. RIDLEY, from Newcastle. Against the Truck System, by Colonel LYGON, from Slourbridge:—By Mr. W. PATTEN, from Dudley, and from Wigan:—By Mr. LITTLETON, five from places in Monmouthshire; from the southwest district of the County of Stafford; and from Nottingham:—By Sir J. WROTTESLEY, from the Staffordshire Potteries:—By Mr. A. CAMPBELL, from Paisley:—By an hon. Member, three from Glamorganshire:—By Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN, from the Manufacturing Districts in Gloucester. By Mr. HUME, two petitions in favour of the Truck System, from the Iron Works in Denbigh. For the abolition of Slavery, by Mr. EVANS, seven from places in Leicestershire:—By Mr. HUME, from several places in Scotland. By Sir M. W. RIDLEY, for the Emancipation of the Jews, from the Unitarians of Newcastle. By Mr. JOHNSTONE, from Borrowstoness, in favour of Reform.