§ MR. MARSHsaid, he would beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, If any Petitions to Her Majesty have been received from the Inhabitants of the District of the Clarence and Richmond Rivers, praying for separation from the Colony of New South Wales?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUEsaid, that the Petitions in question have not arrived, but they were understood to be on the way hither.