§ Bills. Read a first time:—Dissenters Declaration; Immediate Abolition of Slavery.—Read a third time:—See of Sodor and Man.
§ Petitions presented. By the Earl of RADNOR, from Medical Men of Leeds, that no uneducated persons might be permitted to practise Medicine.—By the Earl of STRADBROKE, from Halsted, for an Equalisation of the Postage Duties.—By Viscount MELBOURNE, from the Guardians of a parish in Surrey, and another in Kent, and by the Earl of DEVON, from Okehampton, in favour of the New Poor-law.—By Lord WHARNCLIFFE, from a place in Yorkshire, complaining of the hours at which children work in Factories.—By the Earl of ROSEBERY, from a parish in Scotland, by the Marquess of SLIGO, from Wesleyan Methodists of Glasgow, and from Macclesfield, by Lord WHARNCLIFFE, from a place in Yorkshire, by the Duke of CLEVELAND, from Wesleyan Methodists and Dissenters of Barnard Castle (Durham), and from a place in Derbyshire, by Lord BEXLEY, and by the Earl of BURLINGTON, from a place in Yorkshire, and by Lord BROUGHAM, above eighty petitions from various places, for the immediate abolition of Negro Apprenticeship; and by Lord BROUGHAM, from Electors of Norwich, for the Ballot; from the Operatives, and the parents of children engaged in the Woolen Manufacture at Calverleycum-Farley, at Shepley, and other places in the West Riding of York, for a limitation of the hours of Children's Labour; from the inhabitants of Musselburgh, from the inhabitants of Kinross, from the United Secession Congregation of the Eglington-street Chapel, Glasgow, from the United Secession Church in Rose-street, Edinburgh, from a village in Fifeshire, and from other places, against additional Grants to the Scotch Church; and from the Faculty of Advocates (Scotland), against Bills for reforming the law of Scotland.