§ Bills. Read a first time: —Punishment of Death; County Courts and Bankruptcy; Insolvency and Lunacy.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Wallace, from Dundonald, Suddy, and Kilmuir Wester, for the Abolition of Patronage in the Church of Scotland.—By Mr. H. Berkeley, from Bristol, against the Corn-laws.—By Mr. Brotherton, from Salford, for the release of Frost, Williams, and Jones.—By Mr. Godson, from Kidderminster, against the Kidderminster Court for the Recovery of Small Debts Bill.—By Sir W. Wynn, from Clergymen in the Deanery of St. Asaph's, for the Repeal of the Bill uniting the Deaneries of St. Asaph and Bangor.—By Mr. E. Tennent, and Mr. Lockhart, from Manchester, and Kilmarnock, in favour of the Copyright of Designs Bill.—By Mr. Colquhoun, from Stirling, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—By Mr. H. Berkeley, and Sir A. Grant, from Merchants of Bristol, and others connected with 554 the Trade of the West Indies, against the Reduction of Duties on East India Rum.— By Mr. Hawes, from owners of Land in the East Indies, in favour of the Reduction of the Duties on East India Rum.