§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Lord ALTHORP, an Address, for accounts of the Population of each City and Borough in England now returning Members to Parliament, to be prepared from the Parliamentary 1000 census of 1821; of the Population of each City and Town in England not now returning Members to Parliament, which amounted in 1821 to 10,000 or upwards; of the Population of each County in England and Scotland, to be prepared from the Parliamentary census; a similar Return of the Population of each Royal Borough in Scot-laud, now sharing in the return of a Member to Parliament, and of each City not so sharing, the population of which in 1821 exceeded 8,000.
§ Petitions presented. For the speedy abolition of Negro Slavery, by Mr. LLOYD, four from Methodist Congregations at Romsey, Winchester, and Southampton:—By Sir R. FERGUSSON, two from parishes in Fife:—By Mr. RUMBOLD, from Yarmouth:—By Lord STANLEY, five from parishes in Cheshire, and from Wigan and Liverpool:—By Mr. DENISON, two from Dissenting Chapels at Clapham and Walworth:—By Mr. B. SMITH, from Tralce:—By Mr. BIDDULPH, from Tenby and Cotton:— By Mr. S. RICE, from Kingston-upon-Thames. By Lord STANLEY, from the Shopkeepers of Great and Little Bolton, against the Truck System. By Mr. PHILLIPS, from Glastonbury, for the repeal of the Assessed Taxes. By Mr. JAMES JOHNSTONE, from Stirling and Dunfermling, for Parliamentary Reform.
§ A Committee reported, that Mr. STUART WORTLEY was not duly elected to serve in Parliament for Forfar district of Burghs, and a new Writ was, on the Motion of the Chairman, ordered to be issued.