§ Bills. Read a first time:—Law of Libel Amendment.—Read a second time:—Hackney Carriages (Metropolis).
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. SANDFORD, from Wellington; by Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, from the Protestant Dissenters of Birmingham; by Mr. AGLIONBY, from places in the Western Division of Cumberland; and by Mr. O'CONNELL, from the Protestant Dissenters of South Shields, to abolish Negro Apprenticeship.—By Sir C. KNIGHTLEY, from Braintree, and by Mr. BURROUGHS, from Holkham, in favour of the Rating of Tenements Bill; and by Mr. M. PHILIPS, from Ashton-under-Line, by Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, from Reading, by Mr. T. ATTWOOD, from Birmingham, and by Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, from Preston, Lancashire, against the Bill.—By Mr. O. GORE, from a Mr. Blunt, against the 37th clause of the Tithe Commutation Act.—By Mr. PARROTT, from Morley, Devon, against the Highway-rate Bill—By Mr. MACKINNON, from Shopkeepers in London, in favour of the Bill for a Registration of Patents.—By Mr. HODGES, from Kent, in favour of the Vote by Ballot.—By Mr. Sergeant JACKSON, from the clergy of the archdiocesses of Tuam and Armagh, in Ireland, that the act of the 2nd and 3rd William 4th might not be interfered with.—By Colonel CONOLLY, from Donegal, in favour of the Poor-law for Ireland.—By Mr. O'CONNELL, from St. Catharine, Dublin, complaining of the mode of Assessment of Local Taxation in Ireland; from the city of Dublin, for the total abolition of Tithes and Ministers' Money; from the city of Dublin, against the Poor-law Bill for Ireland; from the parish of St. Anne, Dublin, for Corporate Reform in Ireland; from the parish of St. James, Dublin, for the total abolition of Tithes and Ministers' Money; and others, from the same parish, for Vote by Ballot, against the enactments of the Poor-law Bill, and for Municipal Reform in Ireland.—By Sir C. BLUNT, from Lewes, Sussex, for Extension of the Suffrage.—By Mr. WAKLEY, from Trade Societies and Associations in London, Edinburgh, Bristol, and Kingston-upon-Hull. condemning the sentence passed on the Glasgow Cotton-spinners, and praying the House to institute an Inquiry into the character of all Trade Associations.—And by Mr. HUME, from South Shields, to shorten the Duration of Parliaments; and from the county of York, in Canada, eomplaining of the violation of the Constitution of that province by Sir F. Head.