§ Papers ordered. On the Motion of Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE, the Number of Recruiting Districts in the United Kingdom; of Staff Officers, Stall Non-commissioned Officers, Superintending Subalterns, and Regimental Parties, in each District; Number of Recruits Annually raised in each District (exclusive of East-Indian service); also, total Annual Expense of the same; from 24th December, 1828, to 1st January, 1831, each year respectively.
§ Bill. Read a second time; Witnesses in Equity.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. CHATER, from Durham, for the Abolition of Slavery.—By Sir WILLIAM RAE, from Glasgow, against the Arrestment for Wages (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSSON, from the Native Inhabitants of Calcutta, for Continuing to the Local Government the Power of Restricting the Residence of Europeans in India.—By Lord MORPETH, from Otley, against the Factories Regulation Bill; from Thorne and Saddleworth, for Stopping the Supplies; and from Reading and three other Places, for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death.—By Sir ROBERT BATESON, from Belfast, in favour of the Factories Regulation Bill.—By Mr. MACKINNON, from Lymington, against the Extension of the Boundaries of that Borough, and for correcting an Error relative to the Boundary-line.—By Lord MORPETH, from Leeds, in favour of the Ministerial Plan of Education (Ireland.)—By Sir ROBERT INGLIS, from Rochester, Ryash, Addington, and White Roothing;—and by Sir ROBERT BATESON, from Aghadowey (Londonderry), Granshaw, Belfast, and Garvagh, against the Plan.—By Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSSON, from Kirkcudbright, against depriving the Sheriffs of the power of deciding upon the Validity of Votes.—By Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, from Westminster;—by Mr. HUME, from St. James's Clerkenwell—by Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN, from London and its Vicinity;—and by Mr. WILLIAM BROUGHAM, from St. Mary, Lambeth,—for a Repeal of the Laws relative to Dramatic Representation.