§ The sheriffs of London appeared at the bar, and presented a petition from the corporation, praying for leave to have a bill brought in to enable them to extend the limits of Smithfield market. Ordered to lie on the table.— Colonel Stanley presented three different petitions from certain manufacturers and other inhabitants of Lancashire, praying the repeal of the Corn act of last sessions. After an observation from the Secretary at War, that he did not believe the persons who complained in this instance felt any real grievance from the act alluded to, the petitions were ordered to lie on the table. —General Gascoyne presented petitions against the slave trade abolition bill, and praying to be heard by counsel against it, from the mayor and corporation, also from the merchants and other inhabitants of Liverpool, and also from the manufacturers and certain inhabitants of Birmingham. Ordered to lie on the table.—On the motion of Mr. Byng, leave was given to bring in a bill for the repeal of the act of last sessions relative to the construction of a workhouse, &c. in the parish of St. 640 Parcras.—Sir W. Burroughs rose, pursuant to notice, to move for the production of an account from the Sick and Hurt Office of the rations allowed to each man per diem on board our fleet in the Red Sea, while under the command of Admiral Blanket and Sir H. Popham, bart. respectively, according to the charges of the acting agents of that office; and also for a comparative statement of the rates of exchange under which the bills drawn by those officers were negotiated. The motive of those motions the hon. bart. stated to be, to put the house in possession of the comparatively unfavourable rate of exchange at which the bills of Sir H. Popham were negociated, and thus to enable the house to come to a fair decision upon the real merits of the question respecting that gallant officer, which was intended for discussion. The motion was agreed to.—Mr. J. Fitzgerald gave notice, that he would to-morrow move for an account of the amount and expenditure of the Civil List in Ireland, from the year 1792, up to the latest period at which the same could be made out; also for an account of the produce of the taxes imposed upon Ireland in the course of the last session; also for the production of such documents as should serve to shew the proportion of the general expences of the empire borne by G. Britain and Ireland.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that it was his intention, in the course of the sessions, to move for the appointment of a committee to investigate the accounts of the two countries, upon the point to which the last notice of the hon. gent, referred, and he imagined the hon. gent, would not object to wait the result of that investigation.— On the motion of Mr. Creevey, accounts were ordered of all sums paid to the treasury by the executors of the hon. Keith Stewart, in part of the debt of 41,1571. due by him to govt, specifying the dates of the different payments.