§ Bill. The Colonial Trade, went through a Committee.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Viscount GODERICH, Copies of the several Reports of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty's Warrant of the 21st of June, 1850, to inquire into the Receipt and Expenditure of the Revenue in the Colonies and Foreign Possessions.
§ Petitions presented. By the Duke of WELLINGTON, from the Merchants and other Inhabitants of Bristol connected with the West Indies, for a proper inquiry into the condition of the Negro Population. From the Beer sellers of Manchester, for an alteration in the Beer Laws. For 1129 Reform, by the Earl of GOSFORD, from Newry, and from Beccles:—By the Duke of RICHMOND, from the Magistrates, Town Council, and Inhabitants of Peterhead:— By Lord KING, from Canterbury and its vicinity, and from Gravesend and Milton, in Kent; from a Parish in the County of Kilkenny, in Ireland, praying for a better appropriation of the Funds granted by Parliament to the Kildare-street Society. By Lord FARNHAM, from Independents of Usher's Quay Meeting House, Dublin, and from Drumcliffe and Calry for the abolition of Slavery. By the Marquis of BUTE, from the Merchants and Shipowners of Greenock, against the East India Company's monopoly, and from the Merchants of Greenock connected with the West Indies complaining of the publications of the Anti-Slavery Society. By Lord CARBERY, from the President of the Committee of Merchants in Cork trading to the West Indies, for protection. By the Earl of GLENGALL, from the Magistrates of Tipperary, against the introduction of the system of Poor-laws into Ireland, and praying for an assessment in the shape of a Property-tax, for the relief of the poor there.