§ Bill. Read a first time:—Custody of Insane Persons.
§ Petitions presented. By Lord DACRE, from Melbourne Cambridgeshire), and other places, by the Earl of MINTO, from Royston, and another place, and by Lord BROUGHAM, from Milverton, Diss, Holt, the Corporation of Liverpool, Bromyard, Pier-head (Cumberland), Ockendon, Dissenters' Meeting in Oxford-street (London), Walsall, Dissenters of Devonshire-square Chapel (London), Kilmarnock, Corporation of Hereford, Dudley, Lichfield, and many other places, for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from the Gorbals (Glasgow), from Berwick-on-Tweed, Canterbury, Cupar, Glanplyngan (Carmarthenshire), Lewes, Yeovil, Ludlow, Biddlescombe, East Chiverton, the Reform Society of Sandwich, Barwick (Somerset), West Colling (Somerset), Cupar-in-Angus, Shrewsbury (three petitions), Ro- 1124 chester, Chatham and Stroud, Margate, Frome, Selwood, Dumfries, Maxwelltown, Wakefield, Hereford, and several other places, for Vote by Ballot.