§ Bills. Read a second time:—Exchequer Bills; Transfer of Aids.
§ Petitions presented. By Mr. ORD, from Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Mr. INGHAM, from the Common Council of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for alterations in the Borough Boundaries Act.—By Sir R. FERGUSON, from Nottingham, by Mr. THORNLEY, from Wolverhampton, by Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY, from Cheltenham, by Mr. P. SCROPE, from Stroud, by Mr. HODGES, from several places in Kent, by Mr. WILLIAMS, from various parishes in Coventry, by Colonel SALWAY, from several Wards in the Borough 1106 of Shrewsbury, by Captain WEMYSS, from several places in the county of Fife, by Mr. WAKLEY, from Shefford (Bedfordshire), Gisborough (Yorkshire), and the parishes of St. George and St. Giles, Bloomsbury, by Mr. ETWALL, from Andover, by Mr. DIVETT, from Exeter, by Colonel DAVIES, from Worcester, by Mr. SANFORD, from two parishes in Somersetshire, by Mr. WALKER, from Wexford by Sir W. SOMERVILLE, from Drogheda, by Mr. PRYME, from Bolton and Chester, and by Mr. LAMBTON, from places in Durham and Northumberland, for the Ballot.—By Mr. BARNARD, from Deptford, by Mr. PEASE, from a place in Durham, and by Mr. BLEWITT, from Monmouth, for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By Mr. HUME, from Bolton-le-Moors, for Short Parliaments, Household Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot—By Mr. W. MILES, from Somerset, for rating Owners of Small Tenements.—By Mr. BRAMSTON, from the Board of Guardians of the Rochdale Union, to the same effect.—By Mr. WALKER, from Shipowners in the county of Wexford, for a reduction of the duty on Marine insurances.—By Lord SANDON, from the Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool, for lower rates of Postage; and from the East India Association of Liverpool, for an inquiry into the fluctuations in the Currency.—By Mr. G. YOUNG, from Millers and Merchants, to allow Foreign Corn to be ground in Bond.—By Mr. HUME, from Kilkenny and Galway, for the extinction of Tithes.