§ Bill. Read a first time:—Sewers.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. Easthope, Mr. Hume, Mr. Baines, Mr. B. Wood, and others, from Gaddington, Northamptonshire, Alfreston, Sussex, Eye, Devonshire, Portsmouth, and a great many other places, for the Abolition of Church Rates, and the Release of Mr. Baines.—By Sir B. Hall, Mr. W. Duncombe, Mr. T. Parker, Sir E. Wilmot, and others, from Mary-le-bone, Adlington, Cowick Unions, in Yorkshire, and other places, against the New Poor-law Amendment Act—By Mr. Sheppard, Mr. C. Berkeley, Lord C. Somerset, and others, from Frome, Cheltenham, Pontypool, and other places, against, and by Mr. Hume, from Bridgenorth, in favour of the Medical Profession Bill.—By Mr. Scholefield, from Birmingham, and by Mr. Divett, from the Town Council of Newport, in favour of the Jews Declaration Bill.—By Mr. Oswald, from Glasgow, and other parts of Scotland, and by Mr. R. Steuart, from places in the counties of Haddington, and Kincardine, against Church Patronage.—By Mr. T. Duncombe, from inhabitants of Nottingham, for the Liberation of Frost, Williams, and Jones; and from inhabitants of Dublin, for the Liberation of all Prisoners for Political Offences.—By Mr. Hume, from inhabitants of Middlesex, against Plurality of Votes in Vestries; and from Socialists of Battersea, for an Investigation.—By Mr. M. J. O'Connell, from a Town in Kerry, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Parliamentary Voters Bill.—By Sir J. Graham, from a parish in Roscommon, in favour of Lord Stanley's Registration Bill.—By Colonel Sibthorp, from a parish in Lincolnshire, for Church Extension.—By Mr. Denison, from Farnham, against the Employment of Troops in connexion with Idolatrous Worship in India.—By Sir John Scale, from Dartmouth, in favour of the Government plan with regard to the West-India Mails.—By Sir John Campbell, from the Town-council of Edinburgh, for a Bill for the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland.