§ Bills. Read a first time:—Attorneys and Solicitors (Ireland); Slave Trade (Venezuela); New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land; Sugar Excise Duties.—Read a second time:—Constabulary Slave Trade Treaties; Blenheim Palace.
§ Petitions presented. By Captain Peehell, from Lewes, by Mr. Viliiers, from Horsleydown, Langfield, and various other places, for Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. Briscoe, from Westbury, for the Release of John Thorogood.—By Mr. French, and Sir W. Somerville, from Medical Practitioners of Wexford, and Drogheda, in favour of Medical Reform.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from the Democratic Abstinence Society, for Universal Suffrage; from Sheffield, against the Law of Libel; and from York, and other places, complaining of the Treatment of Political Offenders.—By Mr. Hume, from a place in Scotland, for the Dismissal of Ministers, and for the Release of Political Offenders.—By Mr. L. Bruges, from the Mechanics' Institution of Bath, that Mechanics' Institutions might be exempted from all Taxes, Parliamentary and Parochial—By Dr. Lushington, from Barbadoes, for the due Protection of Liberated Negroes by the Laws of that Island; and from Stepney, against Church Extension,—By Mr. Wakley, from Glasgow, for the Dismissal of Ministers, and complaining of the Treatment of Feargus O'Connor and others, and praying for a Mitigation of their Punishment.—By the Attorney-general, from the Ushers, and Judges' Clerks of the Court of Exchequer, for Compensation in case the Bill for the Abolition of the Equity side of that Court should become law.