§ Bills. Read a first time:—East-India Rum; County Bridges.—Read a second time:—Administration of Justice (No. 1 and 2); Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland).—Read a third time:—Court or Exchequer (Ireland).
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Clay, Mr. Easthope, Mr. Ormsby Gore, and Mr. Law Hodges, from Whitechapel, Leicester, Carnarvon, and various other places, against the existing Poor-laws.—By Sir E. Knatchbull, Mr. Labouchere, Sir E. L. Bulwer, and Mr. Macaulay, in favour of, and by Mr. S. O'Brien, against the Copyright of Designs Bill.—By Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Miles, and Sir T. Fremantle, from Southampton, Hinton, Blewitt, Somersetshire, and places in Bucks, in favour of Church Extension.—By Mr. Macaulay, from Edinburgh, for Reform in the Medical Education, and for an Alteration of the Tariff.—By Sir H. Vivian, from a Medical Society in Cornwall, for Medical Reform.—By Mr. Lockhart, from West-India Merchants in Glasgow, against the Equalization of the Duty on East and West India Produce.—By Mr. T. Parker, from Attorneys and Solicitors of Preston, for the Removal of the Courts of Law and Equity to the 625 vicinity of the Inns of Court.—By Mr. Ormsby Gore, from Oswestry, for an Extension of the means of Spiritual Instruction in the Colonies.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from Manchester, for the Pardon and Restoration of Frost, Williams, and Jones.—By Mr. M. Philips, from Manchester, for an Alteration of the Laws relating to the Exportation of Machinery.