§ Bills. Read a second time:—Factories; Silk Factories.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Elliot, from Kelso, and its vicinity, for the Separation of Church and State.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from Labourers of the Metropolis, and from the National Association of Lambeth, for the Liberation of Political Prisoners; and from two Polish Refugees, complaining that, the Bounty of this country had been illegally withheld from them.—By Mr. L. Hodges, from Maidstone, Mr. R. Currey, from Northampton, and Mr. Hume, from Brentford, for the Abolition of Church Rates, and Ecclesiastical Courts.—By Mr. Hume, from Irishmen, inhabitants of Manchester, for an Alteration in the Poor-law to enable them to obtain Relief in England.—By Mr. Easthope, from Newport, Waltham Abbey, and other places, for the Abolition of Church Rates.—By Sir C. Coote, from Medical Practitioners of the King's County, for Medical Reform.—By Mr. Muntz, from Birmingham, to Alter the Tariff, and against the County Courts Bill. -By Mr. H. Berkeley, from South Australia, against the appropriation of the Land Fund to other purposes than Emigration,—By Sir G. clerk, from Stamford, and places in Rutland, for Church Extension.—By Mr. Hawes, from a Dissenting Congregation, against Church Rates, and Church Extension.—By Viscount Morpeth, from Working People in the county of York, for the Repeal of the Corn-laws; from the Protestant Dissenters of Zion Chapel, Wakefield, for the Abolition of Church Rates; and from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, against placing the Medical Institutions of Ireland under Poor-law Commissioners.—By Viscount Sandon, from the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, for Relief from Taxation.—By Mr. Villiers, Mr. Thornely, and Colonel Salwey, from Bermondsey, St. Paul's, Bethnal-green, and other Districts of the Metropolis, and from the West Riding of Yorkshire, for the Repeal of the Corn-laws.—By Mr. E. Buller, from Buckingham, for Church Extension.—By Mr. O'Connell, from English Catholics, in favour of the Grant to Maynooth; from Manchester, against the Corn-laws; and from a place in Scotland, against Distilled Liquors except for Medicinal or Manufacturing purposes.—By the Attorney-general, from the Lord Provost and Council of the city of Edinburgh, praying that that City may be Exempted from the Scotch Boroughs Bill.—By Mr. Brotherton, from Salford, for the Revision of the Tariff.