§ Bill. Read a second time:—Punishment of Death.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Wallace, from Greenock, in favour of Immigration of Free Labourers into our West India Colonies—By Mr. Lambton, from Durham, against Church Extension.—By Mr. Villiers, from Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and other places, against Sergeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill; and from Camden-town, and other places, for the Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. Handley, from Handloom Weavers of Norwich, complaining of the Reduction of the Duty on East India Silk.—By Mr. F. Kelly, from Ipswich, against the New Poor-law and from the Guardians of a Poor-law Union in Suffolk, in favour of the Law.—By Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, from Kilbride, in favour of a Mitigation of the sentence passed on Frost, Williams, and Jones, and Mr. F. O'Connor; and from Reading, and other places, in favour of the Copyright Bill.—By Mr. Grote, from Merchants of London connected with New South Wales, against the application of the Funds derived from the Sale of Lands to purposes other than the Encouragement of Emigration.—By Mr. M. Philips, from the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester, for the Equalisation of the Duties on Sugar and Coffee.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from Glasgow, against Severity to Political Offenders; a"d from the Licensed Victuallers of London, for an Amendment of the Law.—By Mr. V. Smith, from the Mayor and Corporation of Northampton, in favour of the Immigration of Free Labour into our West India Colonies.