§ NEW MEMBERS.—Charles Octavius Sommerton Morgan, Esq., for Monmouth; Edmund Antrobus, Esq., for East Surrey.
§ Bills. Read a first time:—Lord Keane's Annuity; Southwark Improvement.
§ Petitions presented. By Sir Robert Peel, from the Guardians at Braintree, against the Continuance of the Poor-law Commissioners for ten years.—By Sir R. Inglis, from Bristol, and a place in Bedfordshire, for Church Extension.—By Mr. Colquhoun, from the East-India Association, Glasgow, against the Equalisation of East and West India Duties.—By Lord R. Grosvenor, from Chester, for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death.—By Mr. Hutt, from the Hull and Selby Railway Company, com- 633 plaining of Taxation.—By Mr. Baines, and Mr. Hindley, from Leeds, and Staley Bridge, to allow the Free Exportation of Machinery.—By Mr. Fox Maule, from Perth, against Patronage in the Church of Scotland.—By Mr. Miles, from some place in Somersetshire, in favour of Church Extension.—By Mr. Hume, from Galway, against Lord Stanley's Registration Bill.