§ Bills. Read a first time. The Ecclesiastical Lands Exchange. Read a second time. The Laud Tax Double Assessment.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. SPRING RICE, Copy of the Circular Letters issued from the Home-Office to the Returning Officers of all Cities, Boroughs, and Towns in England and Wales, respecting the Limits, Houses, and Population of the said Cities and Boroughs, and Towns; together with the statement received from the Returning Officers in reply to such Circular Letter:—Copies of any Memorials addressed to the principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Corporations and Inhabitants of any Borough mentioned in Schedules A and B of a Bill now before the House "to amend the Representation of the people in England and Wales," respecting the Population of the said City or Borough:—A corrected return of the Population of each City and Borough in England from the Population Returns of 1821, distinguishing in each case whether the Population given be that of the Borough or of the Parish, or of the Borough and Parish together, and distinguishing the Boroughs mentioned in Schedules A and B of the said Bill:—The Fees received in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds in Ireland, during the quarters ended 27th October 1830, and 27th January 1831, and of the Disbursements and Allowances there out:—The number of Gallons of Malt Spirits exported from Scotland to England in each Year, from the commencement of the allowance of Malt drawback on Spirits made in Scotland; and the Amount of the Allowance that has been refunded, in each Year, on such Spirits:—The total Amount of Money which, on the 5th of January, 1831, was in the Exchequer, or remained to be received on Account of Ways and Means:—also, the several Sums of Money which would probably remain to be defrayed on Account of the Supplies of the Years 1825, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830; and the Surplus of the Ways and Means at the disposal of Parliament.
§ Petitions presented. For the Abolition of Slavery, by Lord C. TOWNSHEND from Tamworth, and twenty-eight other Places:—By Mr. G. MOORE, from Drumcliffe:—By Mr. WILKS, from Dissenters at Mile End, Gosberton, and Purfleet:—By Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, from the Congregation of Salter's-Hall Meeting House:—By Mr. ROBERT GRANT, from Norwich:—By Viscount BERNARD, from Portadown:—By Mr. WOLRYCHE WHITMORE, Mr. HODGSON, Sir JAS. GRAHAM, and Mr. BRISCOE, from Southwark, 1132 and six teen other Places: — By Sir EDW. LLOYD, and Sir R. BATESON, an immense number, chiefly from Dissenters, from all parts of the Empire: — By Viscount GARLIES, from New Woodstock. Against the Registry of Deeds Bill, by Mr. GREENE, from Lancaster. By Mr. G. MOORE, from the Coal Meters and others of Dublin, against the Abolition of the Coal Meters' Establishment; and from Boyle and Aghana, for a General Fast. Against any alteration in the Timber Duties, by Mr. HODGSON, from South Shields. Against the Sale of Beer Act, by Mr. DICKINSON, from the Archdeaconry of Bath. For an alteration of the Tithe Laws, by Mr. WILKS, from Cadoxton. By Mr. ATTWOOD, from Bristol, for the Repeal of the Assessed Taxes. For the opening of the China Trade, by Mr. WM. DUNDAS, from the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh. By Mr. BROWNLOW, from Antrim and Dromore, for an alteration of the Grand Jury Laws; from Armagh, for a Repeal of the Union; from the Catholic Clergy of Dromore, against the Grants to the Kildare Street Society; and from the County of Galway, for the extension of the Franchise. By Mr. O'CONNELL, from the Inhabitants of Youghall, complaining that the Recorder of that place, who ought to be an efficient resident Officer, was an old Lady residing at some distance from the Town; against further grants to the Kildare Street Society, from Cappoquin and Achonry in Sligo; against Stamps on Newspapers, from the first Western Co-operative Society; from Woodbury, against Tithes; and from John Quigley, against the Corporation of Londonderry. By Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, from Bury Hutchinson, complaining of the East India Company interfering to prevent the Rajah of Travancore from paying a debt due to Mr. Hutchinson. Complaining of distress, and praying relief, by Sir JOHN BOURKE, from Ross, Galway. In favour of Reform, by Mr. O'CONNELL, from certain Inhabitants of Limerick, Yetlington, New Ross, Drogheda, and Navan:—By Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, from Coleman Street Ward:—By Sir J. WROTTESLEY, from Sedgeley:—By Sir JOHN NEWPORT, from Waterford:—By Sir E. LLOYD, from the Freeholders of the County of Flint; from the Inhabitant Householders of Mould, and Holy well; from the Burgesses of Flint, and from the Inhabitants of the City of St. Asaph:—By Mr. WEBB, from the Inhabitants of Wootton-under-Edge, in the County of Gloucester:—By Sir THOS. BARING, from Chipping Wycombe: By Sir JOHN BOURKE, from Tuam: — By Sir ROBT. BATESON, from Londonderry, and from Newtown, Lunavady:—By Sir F. BLAKE, from Galway:— and by Mr. WOLRYCHE WHITMORE, from Bridgenorth. Against the Ministerial plan of Reform, by Mr. SCOTT, from Freeholders, &c. of Roxburgh. For compensation, by Sir RICH. VYVYAN, from the Coopers of London engaged in supplying the West India Colonies with casks. For the Abolition of the Pilgrim Tax, by Mr. WILKS, from Wareham. For the Abolition of Tithes in Ireland, by the Ear! of OSSORY, from Kells and St. Nicholas Jerpoint.