§ Bill. Read a second time:—Small Debts (Scotland).
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. J. H. LOWTHER, from a hamlet in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and by Sir F. TRENCH, from Scarborough, against the Boundary Bill.—By Lord CASTLEREAGH, from Newton Ards, and Comber, against the Irish Poor-law Bill.—By Mr. HODGES, from parishes in Essex, by Mr. THORNLEY, from Stafford, by Mr. BERKELEY, from Bristol, by Mr. MORRIS, from Carmarthen, by Mr. BELL, from a parish in Northumberland, by Mr. Bowes, from Barnard Castle, and by Mr. LAMBTON, from North Durham, for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By Mr. C. LUSHINGTON, from fifty Members of the Society of Friends, for the total abolition of Church-rates.—By Mr. THORNLEY, from Bilston, for the repeal of the Corn-laws; and from Liverpool, for an universal Penny Postage.—By Mr. LAMBTON, from Richard Beard, coal merchant, complaining of dealers' frauds.—By Mr. G. LANGTON, from a place in Somersetshire, in favour of the Ballot.—By Mr. BAILEY, from Worcester, against the mode of transferring licences for Public-houses.—By Mr. HUTTON, from St. Alphage, and St. Mark, Dublin, for Municipal Reform; from the latter, against Tithes; and from the Licentiate Apothecaries, to attach them to Dispensaries.—By Mr. WAKLEY, from House Painters of Dublin, for a full investigation into charges of Combination; and from the Working Men's Associations in Sheffield and York, and from the Whitesmiths of London, for a mitigation of the sentence on the Glasgow Cotton Spinners.—By Sir R. FERGUSON, from Nottingham, for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Captain WEMYSS, from a parish in the county of Fife, against any grant of Public Money for Church Endowments in Scotland.—By Sir C. STYLE, from Scarborough, against the Municipal Boundaries Bill.—By Mr. BORTHWICK, from Evesham, for preserving the Bishopric of Sodor and Man.—By Mr. W. DUNCOMBE, from Huddersfield, and Cleckheaton, for the production of all Papers and Documents which had passed between the Magistrates of that district, the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the Home Secretary, in reference to the conduct of those Magistrates.