§ Petitions presented. For the abolition of Negro Slavery, by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, from Malton:—By Mr. M. A. TAYLOR, from Durham:—By Sir C. LEMON, from Truro:—By Mr. M'CLINTOCK, from Dundalk;— 210 By Sir W. HEATHCOTE, from Southampton:—By Colonel LYGON, from Tenbury:—By Sir W. GORDON, from Laun-ceston:—By Sir C. SMITH, from Pontefract:—By the Marquis of BLANDFORD, from Woodstock:—By Mr. TYRELL, from Essex:—By Mr. BELL, three petitions from Northumberland:—By Mr. SHAW, three from Dublin:—By Lord EBRINGTON, three from Devonshire: —By Mr. PENDARVIS, seventeen from Cornwall:—By Mr. WM. CAVENDISH, four from York:—By Mr. EVANS, four from Leicester:—By Mr. ARBUTHNOT, from Ash-burton:—By Mr. SANDFORD, from Frome, Somersetshire:—By Sir J. COTTERELL, from Hereford. By Mr. O'CONNELL, against the return of the Member for the County of Louth. By the same hon. Member, from certain Inhabitants of Armagh, complaining of the sitting Member for that Borough, and praying a Repeal of that Act of George 2nd, which first dispensed with the law requiring the elected and the electors to be residents of Boroughs in Ireland; from Debtors in the Marshalsea (Dublin), complaining of the Insolvent Debtors Laws; against the Returns, from Romney, Armagh, Hastings, and Louth.
§ The Speaker took the Chair this day at three o'clock, according to the new regulation with respect to the hour of sitting for the despatch of business.