§ Bills. The Sugar Duties, the Witnesses Examination, read a third time and passed. The Deputy Lieutenants (Scotland), read a first time.
§ The following Resolution of the Committee of Privileges was brought up and read:—Resolved,—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that in any Bill which, having passed the House of Lords, shall be sent down to this House for their concurrence, or in any Bill which having passed this House shall be returned by the Lords with amendments, it shall appear that any pecuniary penalty or forfeiture is thereby imposed, varied, or taken away, the 837 Speaker shall, before the second reading of such Bill or Amendments, report to the House his opinion, whether the object thereof be to impose, vary, or take away any pecuniary charge or burthen on the subject, or whether the same relates only to the punishment or the prevention of offences, and the House shall thereupon determine whether it may be expedient in such particular case to insist upon the exercise of their privilege, to originate all such provisions respecting pecuniary penalties or forfeitures.—To lie on the Table, and be printed.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. LITTLETON, the number of Brick and Tile Manufacturers, and the amount of Excise Duty collected on each description of Bricks and Tiles, in the year 1830:—On the Motion of Mr. HUME, Transports taken up between 1st January, 1850, and 25th February, 1831, both inclusive; specifying the rate of tonnage paid, and if by open contract or private tender, and for what services wanted, and to what places sent.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. LITTLETON, from certain Tile and Brick Makers, for the Repeal of the Duties on those articles; against the Cotton Factories Bill, from Master Spinners at Stockport; and in favour of the Bill, from Operative Spinners at Waterhead, Oldham. In favour of Reform, by Sir W. GUISE, from Cinderford, in the Forest. of Dean; from Winchcomb, Stroud, Rodborough, Woodchester, Salford, and other places in Gloucestershire:—By Mr. LITTLETON, from Lane-end, Darlaston, Walsall, and Burton-upon-Trent:—By Mr. EGERTON, from Stoekport, from the Corporation, Magistrates, and Inhabitants of the Borough of Macclesfield, and from the Inhabitants of Droitwich and Nantwich: — By Mr. J. BROUGHAM, from Kendal, and other places in the North of England, and in Scotland:—By Mr. PORTMAN, from Beaminster, Lyme Regis, Netherleigh, and Blackburn:—By Colonel DAVIES, from Worcester:—By Mr. W. PATTEN, from Eccles: — By Mr. F. BARING, from Portsea:—By Sir F. BLAKE, from Colpe, Durham:—By Lord ALTHORP, from West Bromwich and Huntingdon. Against the Reform Bill, by Mr. SHAW, from the Guild of Merchants of Dublin: — By Mr. BALFOUR, from Pittenween:—By Mr. PORTMAN, from Bramber; and one against Tithes from Sherbourne. By Mr. WARBURTON, from Shipowners of Dumbarton, against the proposed Tax on Steam Vessels. By Mr. C. GRANT, from Shipowners in Galway, against the Reduction of the Duty on Barilla; from Coach Contractors for Inverness-shire, for the Repeal of the Coach Duly; and from Tavistock Chapel, Drury-lane, for a Public Fast. By Mr. J. BROUGHAM, from Marylebone, against the Vestries Bill; and from Firbank, for limitation to the time at which Tithes may be claimed. By Sir R. HILL, from Wellington, Whitchurch, and other places, against Slavery:—By Mr. HUGHES HUGHES, five similar Petitions. By Lord KILLEEN, from Parishes in Meath, for an Amendment of the Grand Jury Laws, complaining of Distress, and for a Repeal of the Union.