§ Bills brought in. By Mr. SPRING RICE, to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to Highways in England; and to authorize the Commissioners for Auditing Public Accounts, to Examine and Audit the Colonial Expenditure and Revenues.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Colonel EVANS, of the quantity of Hemp purchased by Government for the use of the Navy, in each year, from 1821 to 1831, respectively, with the Amount of Duty Paid and Chargeable, and the Amount of Drawback paid on the Exportation of Cordage during the said term:—On the Motion of Mr. POWELL BUXTON, Copies of all Communications received from Jamaica relating to the Trials of George Ancle, and Samuel Surney, Negro Slaves, for alleged Offences relating to Religious Worship; of all Communications of the Adoption or Rejection of a Law in the House of Assembly in Jamaica, for Abolishing the practice of punishing Females by the Whip in that Island:—On the Motion of Mr. WALLACE, of the Number of Persons 806 Licensed in the City and County of Dublin to sell Tea and Coffee, who also hold Licences to sell Spirituous Liquors; of all Reports made in the years 1825 and 1826, by the Solicitor and by the Commissioners of Excise in Ireland to the Lords of the Treasury relating to such Licences:—On the Motion of Mr. STUART WORTLEY, Copy of the Ukase of the 23rd of November, 1831, increasing the Import Duty upon Articles imported into the Russian Dominions, and a Comparative Statement of the New and Old Duties:—On the Motion of Mr. BALFOUR, of the Sums charged by the Excise under 4 and 6 George 4th, for Spirits produced being short of the Charge by Gravity of Worts by Attenuation or Charge from the Low Wines in England and Scotland, and of any, and what part of those Charges remain unpaid by the Distillers.
§ Petitions presented. By General O'NEILL, from the Presbyterian Congregation of Broughshane, Ballymena, and Conner, against the proposed Plan of Education for Ireland:—By Sir WILLIAM HORT, from the Inhabitants of the United Parishes of Kilcullen and Gormanstown, and of the United Parishes of Kilcumin and Robin, for the Total Abolition of Tithes in Ireland:—By O'CONNOR DON, from the Merchants and Inhabitants of Athlone, against the Clause in the Irish Reform Bill, which allows Persons to Vote for a Town if they reside within seven miles of it:—By Mr. HUME, from the Council of the National Political Union, for the Appointment of a Committee to Inquire into the Nature of Cholera; from the Students in Medicine, Glasgow; the Members of the Council of the Sheffield Political Union; the Committee of the London College of Medicine; and of the Inhabitants of Leeds, in favour of the Anatomy Bill; from Persons employed in Factories at Heaton, Norris, and other Places, and of Proprietors of Mills and Master Spinners in Renfrewshire, against the Factories Regulation Bill; from the Members of a Benefit Society at Newport Hants, for the Repeal of 10 Geo. 4th; from the Prisoners in Whitecross Street Prison, against the Law of Arrest for Debt, and Complaining of Regulations relating to the said Prison; and from 900 Members of the National Political Union, for the Repeal of all Taxes on Newspapers and Paper.