§ Bills. Deputy Lieutenants' Indemnity (Scotland), read a second time. Printed Cottons Marking, read a first time.
§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of the Marquis of CHANDOS, Return of Abstract of Slave-laws of St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Christopher, Nevis, Tobago, and the Virgin Islands, and of other Documents transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the 7th of March, 1851, under the following heads:—No. 1. Shewing the abstracts of the Slave-law, passed by the Legislature of St. Vincent, previously to 1823. No. 2. The provisions enacted in conformity with the recommendations sent out by the Secretary of State in 1823. No. 5. Provisions enacted previously or in addition to those enacted in consequence of those recommendations, and in force. No. 4. Remarks and obserTations.—Documents annexed: No. 5. Copy of a Petition for inquiry into the condition of the slaves, compared with that of the poor whites and free people of colour, dated 9th May, 1826. No. 6. Copy of a Petition for inquiry, dated 23rd June, 1828. No. Ditto, ditto, dated 23rd November, 1830. DOMINICA.—Returns, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, similar to those for St. Vincent. ST. CHRISTOPHER.—Returns, Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 4, similar to those for St. Vincent. NEVIS—Returns, Nos. 1, 2,5, and 4, similar to those for St. Vincent. TOBAGO.—Returns, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, similar to those for St. Vincent. VIRGIN ISLANDS..—Returns, Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 4, similar to those for St. Vincent. Also, Report of a Committee of the Legislature of St. Vincent, appointed to inquire into the Financial, Commercial, and Political state of the Colony, and of the Appendix, dated 27th October, 1850 (copy transmitted to the Colonial Secretary of State on 23rd December, 1830):—On the Motion of Mr. BALDWIN, the amount of Assessed Taxes levied in each year, during the last ten years, at the undermentioned Towns, viz. Abingdon, Aylesbury, Andover, Barmstaple, Banbury, Calne, Christchurch, Dartmouth, Grantham, Hertford, Horsham, Knaresborough, Lewes, Malton, Peterborough, Pontefract, Ripon, Scar-Borough, Tavistock, Totness, Wigan:—On the Motion of Mr. BETHELL, of the amount paid for Drawback on Soap used in the Worsted trade in Leeds and Halifax collections, and the rate per pound of that drawback; likewise of the quantity of Wool washed with such soap, from the year 1820 to 1850 inclusive; distinguishing the amount of drawback, and the quantity of wool in each year.
§ Petitions presented. Against Reform, by Mr. BALDWIN, from Totness:—By Sir C. WETHERELL, from Wootten Bassett:—By Mr. Wm. Mr. LES, from New Romney. In favour of Reform, by Colonel LYGON, from Repton and Wormantown:—By Mr. GISBORNE, from Dukinneld:— By Mr. RUTHVEN, from Galway. Against contributing to Greenwich Hospital, by Mr. LESTER, from the Seamen of Poole. Against the Registry of Deeds Bill, by Mr. SCHONSWAR, from Hull. For the Repeal of the Assessed Taxes, by Mr. BETHELL, from Great Driffield.