§ Bills. Read a first time:—Parochial Assessments; High Court of Admiralty; Judge of Admiralty Courts Salary; Insolvent Debtor's (Ireland); Exchequer Bills; Public Works; and Tobacco Regulations.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. F. French, from Medical men, complaining of the Unequal Distribution of Anatomical Subjects.—By Mr. Baines, from Bishops Storford, Mr. Aglionby, from Cockermouth, and Mr. Bowes, from Stockton-on-Tees, against Church Extension.—By Sir James Graham, and other hon. Members, from Daventry, and several other places, in favour of Church Extension.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from Glasgow, for Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot.—By Mr. Wallace, from the Chamber of Commerce of Greenock, for an Alteration in the Duty on Ground Rice.—By Sir De Lacy Evans, from Householders of Westminster, by Mr. Baines, from Leeds, by Mr. Aglionby, from Cockermouth, by Mr. Greg, from Manchester, Norwich, and thirty-eight other places, by Mr. Marsland, from Stockport, by Sir H. Fleetwood, from Preston, by Mr. Oswald, from Glasgow, by Mr. Dennistoun, from Linlithgow, Cumbernauld, Arbroath, Calton, Storehouse, and eighteen other places in 315 Scotland, by Mr. Ewart, from Annan, Wigan, Ormskirk, and other places, by Mr. Brotherton, from fifty different places, by Mr. Strutt, from Derby, by Mr. Barnard, from Greenwich, by Lord Sandon, from Liverpool, by Mr. Gisborne, from Glossop, Derby, by Mr. P. Scrope, from Stroud, by Mr. C. Berkeley, from Bristol, by Sir G. Strickland, from three places in Yorkshire, by Mr. Divett, by Mr. Wakley, six petitions, by Mr. Briscoe, from Westbury, by Mr. Grote, from the city of London, from Trowbridge, Wellingborough, and other places, by Captain Pechell, from Sussex, by Mr. Scholfield, from Birmingham, by Mr. Hume, from Wrexham, and nine other places, by Mr. V. Smith, from Northampton, by Mr. Hindley, by Mr. E. J. Stanley, from two places in Cheshire, by Viscount Morpeth, from Dewsbury, by Mr. Bowes, from Elwich-hall, Durham, by Mr. Easthope, from the Total Abstinence and Democratic Association of Leicester, and by Mr. Villiers, from the Inhabitants of the city and borough of Oxford, and various other places, all for the Abolition of the Corn-laws.—By Lord Eliot, from Bodmin, and other places in Cornwall, by Mr. Plumptre, from East Kent, by Mr. Darby, from Sussex, by Mr. Sheil, from the county of Tipperary, by Colonel Lowther, from Westmorland, by Sir E. Hayes, from Donegal, by Lord Castlereagh, from the county of Down, by Sir J. Tyrrell, from Essex, by Sir T. Acland, from twenty-four places in Devonshire, by Sir C. Burrell, from Sussex, by Mr. Blackstone, from Berkshire, and by Mr. M. Archdall, from Fermanagh, for Retaining the Corn-laws.