§ The LORD ADVOCATE took the Oaths and his Seat for Malton; Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL took the Oaths and his Seat for the county of Clare.
§ New Writ issued for the borough of Shaftesbury, in the room of Mr. E. Dugdale, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
§ Bills. To promote Public Works in Ireland, read a first time. To prohibit the Growth of Tobacco in Ireland, Committed. Lunatics, and Post Office Sale, read a second time. Indemnity, read a third time.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. SPRING RICE, the dates on which the Duties on Slates, Tiles, and Bricks, were first imposed in the United Kingdom, and the several alterations which have since taken place; stating the gross and nett receipt of revenue in each year, on each article, in each kingdom; the number of Tiles made in the year 1830, in the United Kingdom; stating the number of each kind, and the rate of duty charged per thou- sand in each; also, the gross amount of the duty for the year, and the amount paid for drawback on Tiles exported, distinguishing each country, and the number of Tiles exported; also, a copy of a Minute of the Board of Treasury, dated 24th December, 1830, relative to the discontinuance of unnecessary oaths in the departments of the Customs and Excise.
§ Petitions Presented. Against the Tax on Steam Boats, by General GASCOYNE, from the Hundred of Wirral (Cheshire). In favour of Reform, by Lord ALTHORP, from Newport, Pratt, Lutterworth, South Kilworth, and Berwick:—By Mr. SPRING RICE, from the Chamber of Commerce at Limerick:—By Sir WILLIAM INGILBY, from various parts of Lincolnshire:—By Mr. LEFROT, from Drumhone, county Donegal, in favour of the Kildare Street Society. Against it, by Mr. SPRING RICE, from Tullors. Against the Reform Bill, by General GASCOYNE, from the Corporation of Liverpool:—By Mr. WILSON PATTEN, from Manchester and Salford. By the same hon. Member, from Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers of Bolton, complaining of parts of the Cotton Factories Bill; from Weavers and others engaged in the Cotton Trade, in Wigan, Blackrock, and another place in Lancashire, complaining of Distress, and praying for the imposition of a Duty on the exportation of Cotton Twist. By Mr. SAUNDERSON, from the town of Cavan, praying for the right of returning a Member to Parliament.