§ Petitions presented. For the abolition of Slavery in the Colonies, by Mr. WHITMORE, from Bridge-north:—By Sir J. MACKINTOSH, from Knaresborough, and the Independents of New Court, Carey-street:—By Sir J. WROTTESLEY, from Leek, Staffordshire:—By Mr. SYKES, from the Dissenters of seven places in Yorkshire:—By Mr. GREENE, from Lancaster:—By Mr. E. CLIVE, from certain Female Inhabitants of the City of Hereford:—By Mr. WALL, from Guildford:—By Lord EBRINGTON, from five places in Devonshire:—By Mr. O'CONNELL, from Dalreoch, Scotland:—By Mr. PRINGLE, from the Presbytery of Selkirk:—By Mr. GISBORNE, from Stafford: — By Sir W. FOULKES, eight Petitions from Dissenters in Norfolk:—By Mr. HUME, from the Wesleyan Methodists of Harrow-on-the-Hill:—By Sir E. KERRISON, from the Borough of Eye:—By Mr. PENDARVIS, from a Town of Cornwall:—By Mr. MUNDY, eight Petitions from Dissenters in Derbyshire. By Mr. SHAW, from the Pastor and Members of the Congregation of Ebenezer Chapel, Harmony-row, Dublin, against Duelling. By Lord MORPETH, from James Hamilton, Barrister-at-Law, a landed proprietor, and a Magistrate of Yorkshire; and, he ex- 318 pressed in his Petition, "an ardent and persevering sportsman," for an alteration in the Game-laws, particularly as regarded qualification. By the same noble Lord, from Martin Stapylton, esq., praying that no Member should be allowed to sit and vote, until he had taken an Oath that he had not committed any breach of the Laws against Bribery and Corruption. By Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, from Mr. Capel and Mr. Gladstone, complaining of the Return at the late Election for Queen borough.
§ Mr. C. W. WYNN'S Bill to Repeal so much of certain Acts as required certain Oaths to be taken before the Lord Steward, &c. was read a first time.