§ Bills. Read a second time:—Marriage Acts Amendment.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Easthope, Mr. Thorneley, Mr. Wallace, and others, from Whitby, Grecnock, York, and other places, against Church Extension.—By Lord Grimston, Lord Ashley, Sir James Graham, and others, from Hertford, Pembroke, and other places, for Church Extension.—By Mr. Greene, from Lancaster, against Idolatry in India.—By Sir G. Grey, from Bideford, against Granting additional powers to the Poor-law Commissioners. —By Mr. Dennistoun, from places in Scotland, in favour of Universal Suffrage.—By Mr. Lucas, from Medical Practitioners at Monaghan, and by Mr. F. French, from Medical Practitioners of St. John's, and St. Margaret's, Westminster, for Medical Reform.—By Mr. Wakley, from the British Medical Association in London, from Manchester, Hornmarket, Bishop's Stortford, and other places, against the Vaccination Bill.—By the Earl of Lincoln, ftom three places in Lincolnshire, to Abolish the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners,—By Mr. Sergeant 1244 Jackson, from Dublin, for an Amendment of the Registration.—By Mr. W. S. O'Brien, from the Letter-press Printers of Limerick, against the Copyright Bill.—By Mr. P. Scrope, from Stroud, against the Importation of Hill Coolies into the Mauritius, and against the Opium Trade.—By Sir G. Grey, and Mr. Hume, from Grocers of North Shields, and Kilkenny, for an Equalisation of the Duties on Sugars.—By Lord Sandon, from the St. George's Steam-boat Company, for a Reduction of the Pilotage Duties; and from Dalton, against the War with China, and the Opium Trade; and from Cheltenham, praying the Dismissal of Ministers, as unworthy the Confidence of the Queen and the Country.—By Mr. Hume, from Airdrie, in favour of an Extension of the Suffrage.