§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. HUNT, the average Price of Corn per Quarter, for England and Wales, for the Year ending December, 1830:—On the Motion of Mr. SPRING RICE, the quantity of Foreign Wheat entered Weekly for Home Consumption, with the rate of Duty paid thereon, in each Week in the Year 1831, shewing the total quantity entered, and the total amount of Duty; of the quantity of Foreign Wheat imported in each Quarter, from the passing of 9 George 4th, Cap. 60, to the latest period to which the same can be made up; of the amount of Duty received, and the average Rate paid in each Quarter:—On the Motion of Mr. HUME, the names of Commissioners now officiating for the Issue of Exchequer Bills for Public Works in England, stating their Salaries, and the amount of Exchequer Bills issued, the amount outstanding, and not repaid, and accounts of the Annual Expense of the said Commission.
§ Petitions presented. By Sir W. FOULKES, from the Members of the Norfolk Agricultural Association, against the use of Molasses in Breweries and Distilleries. By Mr. HUNT, from the Inhabitant Electors of Preston, for Election by Ballot. By Sir R. MUSGRAVE, from the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of Lismore, for the Repeal of the Vestry Act; and another from the same parties, praying for the Abolition of Slavery. By Sir H. PARNELL, from the Inhabitants of Maryborough, against any further Grant to the Kildare Street Society. By Mr. JOHN ABEL SMITH, from the Clergy, Gentry, and Parish Officers of the Western Part of Sussex, near Arundel, against certain parts of the Sale of Beer Act:—By Mr. ASHFORD SANFORD, Petitions to the same effect, from Householders of Yeovil and Martock, Somersetshire; and from the Inhabitants of Wanscombe, for commuting the Punishment of Death for Offences against Property. By Lord MILTON, from the Protestant Freemen, and Freeholders of Menlough (Galway), to extend the Elective Franchise to Catholics. 196 By Lord MILTON, from General Thornton, praying, that some alteration may be made in the Oaths to be taken by the King against Transubstantiation.