§ Bills. Brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. Civil List; Deputy Lieutenant; (Scotland); Indemnity; and Growth of Tobacco (Ireland).
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Lord WYSFORD, the total amount of all Fees received in the Office of the Chancellor's Secretary for Commissions of Bankrupts, in each year, from the 1st April, 1815, to the 1st April, 1831, distinguishing how much thereof has been retained in each year for the Secretaries, Clerks, and other Expenses of the said Office, and how much thereof has been paid in each year to the Lord Chancellor, as part of his lordship's Emoluments from Bankruptcy; also, the total amount of all Fees received by the Lord Chancellor's Purse Bearer, from the different branches of the Bankruptcy business, in each year, from 1st April, 1815, to 1st April, 1831, distinguishing how much thereof has been in each year paid to the Lord Chancellor as part of his Lordship's Emoluments from Bankruptcy; also, the number of public and private Meetings of Commissioners of Bankrupts, which have been held in London during the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, distinguishing the number in each year, and classing them under different heads, according to their nature and purposes; also the number of Certificates to Bankrupts, allowed by the Lord Chancellor, in the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, distinguishing the number in each year; and also the amount of Fees received by each of the Commissioners of Bankrupts in London, in each of the years 1828, 1829, and 1850, or for such portions of the said years, as the party making the Return shall have held the office of a Commissioner:—On the Motion of Earl GREY, a Copy of the Treasury Minute of the 15th April, with respect to the reduction of the Salaries of Official Persons, being Members of either House of Parliament.
§ Petitions presented. For the Abolition of Slavery, by the Earl of DERBY, from Warrington:—By Lord SUFFIELD, forty-seven (signed by 2,957 persons) several from different Parishes and Congregations in Norfolk, and several from Parishes in Ireland:—By the Archbishop of YORK, Lord BEXLEY, the Earl of ABERDEEN, the Duke of RICHMOND, and Lord CARBERY, from various Congregations of Dissenters; and from Parishes in the North of England. In favour of Reform, by the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, from the Inhabitants of St. Martin-in-the 1386 Fields:—By Lord CLIFDEN, from Carlow:—By the Marquis of HASTINGS, from Loughborough:—By Lord BELHAVEN, from Hamilton, praying to be included in the Renfrew District of Burghs: — By the Marquis of LANSDOWN, from Brandon, Suffolk; from Ayr, and from Grantham:—By Lord KING, from Dunfermline, from the Students of Glasgow, from Wallingford (Berkshire), from Fordingbridge, and from Downton, (Wiltshire):— By the Duke of RICHMOND, from Horsham:—By Earl GOWER, from the County of Stafford:—By Earl CAWDOR, from Cardigan, and Pembroke. By Lord CLIFDEN, from Kildare and Dungarvon, praying that the Grants of Public Money, for the purposes of Education in Ireland, might not be exclusively given to the Kildare Street Society. By Lord KING, for an alteration in the Tithe Laws, from Berkeley; and from Glasgow, for an alteration of the Scotch Law of Hypothec. For the Repeal of the Beer Bill, by Lord FOLEY, from the Magistrates of Worcestershire:—By the Earl of CARNARVON, from the Justices of Peace, for the Bath Division of Somersetshire; and from the Grand Jury of Somersetshire.