§ PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Mercantile Marine. 3° Workhouse Loans (Ireland); Drainage of Lands; Admiralty Jurisdiction in the Colonies; slave Trade (Persian Gulf).
§ PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Baldock, from Shrewsbury, for the Marriages Bill.—By Lord J. Russell, from Merchants, &c., for promoting Steam Communication to the Australian Colonies.—By Mr. Ormsby Gore, from Sligo, for facilitating Emigration.—By Mr. Disraeli, from Uxbridge, for Repeal of the Duty on Attorneys' Certificates; also from the Montgomeryshire Farmers' Club, for Agricultural Relief; and from the Amersham Union, for a Superannuation Fund for Poor Law Officers.—By Mr. Bouverie, from North Uist, for Redress.—By Sir Ralph Lopes, from Clyst Honiton, respecting the Appropriation of the Educational Grant.—By Mr. Spooner, from Sunderland, for an Alteration of the Merchant Seamen's Fund Act.—By Lord Dudley Stuart, from Kentish Town, complaining of the Impurity of the Water supplied to that District.—By Mr. Brotherton, from Ashton, against the Mines and Collieries Bill.—By Admiral Dundas, from Deptford, for an Alteration of the Poor Law.—By Mr. Ellis, from Leicester, for the Protection of Women Bill.—By Sir D. Dundas, from Kirkwall, against the public Health (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Newdegate, from the Holbeach Union, for an Alteration of the Sale of Beer Act.—By Viscount Palmerston, from Jamaica, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; and from the Tiverton Union, for an Alteration of the Small Debts Act.