Mr. Hobhouse obtained leave to bring in a bill to revise, amend, and render perpetual, the act of the 42d of the king, relative to the trial of Contested Elections; which bill the hon. member stated it to be material to carry through the house with all convenient expedition, in order that the parties concerned in the petitions which were now before the house, and about to be presented, might experience the benefits which it had been found capable of producing. The bill was brought in, read a first and second time, committed, reported, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.—The house resolved into a Committee of Supply, lord H. Petty in the chair, and the order, usual at the commencement of a session, that a Supply be granted to his majesty, was moved by Mr. Vansittart, and agreed to.—Mr. C. Wynne gave notice, that he would to-morrow move for leave to bring in a bill to continue and amend the Thames Police act.—The hon. gent. also called the attention of the house to an order made in the year 1805, that a return should be made of the Lunatics and Insane Persons in custody throughout Great Britain, in consequence of which order many returns had been made. But these and other similar returns could not, he understood, be laid before the house, unless the order referred to should be renewed. He therefore moved, that this order should be renewed. Ordered accordingly.—Mr. Biddulph gave notice that as the chairman of the committee of Ways and Means 226 had no functions out of that house, and as the present was a period in which it was necessary to make every possible retrenchment, he should to-morrow move a resolution, that no salary should in future attach to that office.—Petitions were presented, complaining of undue returns for Weymouth and Thetford. The former was ordered to be taken into consideration on the 22d, and the latter on the 27th of January.