§ An Election Committee reported, that M. BULGE, Esq., and JAMES J. H. VERE, Esq., the sitting Members, were duly elected for the Borough of Ilchester.
§ Bills. The Patents Continuation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Labouring Poor Bill (Lord NUGENT'S measure) was postponed till February 10th.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. LENNARD, of the number of Persons convicted of, and executed for Forgery, during the year 1830:—On the Motion of Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN, Manufactured Cottons exported since 1798, distinguishing the real from the official value, and stating Duties and Drawbacks:—On the Motion of Mr. HUMS, various Returns connected with the Duties on Houses and Windows; account of all the Houses and Buildings in the Royal Parks; of the names and occupations of the Persons by whom they were filled; and whether they were rated to the Assessed Taxes and County Rate; a Copy of 1299 the original Patent by which Mr. J. A. Sullivan was appointed to the office of Secretary and Registrar and King's Receiver for the Colony of Demerara—a return of his age— the date of his appointment—the period during which he had exercised the office as principal, and (hiring which he discharged its duties by deputy—the amount of the money he had received, with interest and compound interest on his receipts, calculated at five per cent— the amount of money paid to him as principal money in each year—the amount of the payments to his deputies up to the present period:—On the Motion of Mr. BULLER, the Population of each Hundred in the Empire, with its extent of surface:—On the Motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the rates of Duties payable on Soap, Candles, Coals, &c. in 1792, and on January 1st, 1851, with the value of the Cottons, Woollens, and Cutlery exported at the two periods, distinguishing the official from the real value; the Prices of Meat and Bread paid at Greenwich Hospital in 1790, 1791, 1792, and in 1828, 1829, and 1830.
§ Petitions presented. For the repeal of the Duty on Printed Cottons, by Mr. PATTEN, from Burnley, Lancashire, and Stayley Bridge:—By Mr. GREENE, from Lancaster. For a Reform in Parliament, by Mr. LESTER, from Poole. For the repeal of the Assessed Taxes, by Mr. H. DAVIS, from several Parishes in Bristol:—By Mr. LABOUCHERE, from Taunton. Against the Duty on Sea-borne Coals, by Lord J. STUART, from Neath, Glamorganshire. For the abolition of Colonial Slavery, thirteen by Mr. HUME:— By Mr. SLANEY, three from Shrewsbury and its neighbourhood:—By Mr. BLOUNT, from Roman Catholics of Sheffield:—By Lord J. STUART, from Glamorganshire:— By Mr. C. RUSSEL, from Dissenters at Hatch Beauchamp: —By Mr. BULLER, from East and West Looe:—By Mr. PATTEN, from Shrewsbury:—By Mr. TALBOT, eight from Glamorganshire:—By Sir J. SEBRIGHT, three from various parts of Devonshire. By Mr. HUME, from the Magistrates, &c. of Arbroath, complaining of the delay and expense now occasioned by the Quarantine Laws. By Sir M. W. RIDLEY, from those who constituted the Deputation of the Procession of Trades which lately went with an Address to the King, denying that they had used a tricoloured Flag, making warm professions of loyalty, and praying an inquiry into their conduct. By Mr. LUMLEY, from Mansfield, against the Truck System; and from an individual, named Benjamin Ellis, against the Corn Laws. By O'GORMAN MAHON, from Drumline, in the Barony of Bunralty, in the County of Clare, against the Subletting Act.