§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of the Earl of HAREWOOD, Copies of all Reports from the Bishop of Jamaica, and of all other Information received by Government, showing the means furnished by that Colony for the Religious Instruction of the Slave and Coloured Population, with the Number of Churches, Chapels, and other Places of Worship, and of the Clergy attached thereto; similar Returns from the Bishop of Barbadoes; an Account of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Establishments of Jamaica, the Expenses of which are defrayed by the Colony, the Annual Amount of such Expenses, with the manner in which the Revenue is raised and appropriated; similar Accounts from all the other West-India Colonies; Copies of all Laws passed by the several Colonial Legislatures for the renewal of Disabilities of the Free Persons of Colour, passed during the last six years, and for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Slave Population, since the year 1823; Copies of a Patent of Land in Jamaica granted to Persons in 1690, and 1745, and an Account of all Manumissions granted between 1817, and 1830, distinguishing the Numbers in each year, and those which were Gratuitous, and those paid for; and similar Returns from the other West-India Islands.
§ Petitions presented. By the Earl of ROSSLYN, from the Presbytery of St. Andrew's and Fife. By the Bishop of LONDON, from Annan. By Lord WHARNCLIFFE, from Forfar. By the Earl of RODEN, from Ashbourne. By Viscount LORTON, from Parishes in Dublin. By the Duke of WELLINGTON, from the Synod of Glasgow and 596 Air; and by the Duke of NEWCASTLE, from the Minister and Congregation of St. James's Church near Nottingham, Inhabitants of Cotgrave, Hickling, and Over Broughton, against the New System of Education for Ireland:—By the Marquis of WESTMEATH, from the Roman Catholics of Galway, complaining of an Interpolation in their Indemnity Bill:—By the Earl of HAREWOOD, from Port Glasgow, for Protection for the West-India Colonies:—By the Earl of GOSFORD, from the Belfast Reform Society, and from the Predditch and Hadley Political Unions, in favour of the Reform Bill:—By the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, from Persons employed in Cotton Mills in Outwood, Alkington, and Kersley, in favour of the Factory Bill:—By the Duke of WELLINGTON, from the Merchants, Manufacturers, and Inhabitants of Glasgow; and by the Duke of BUCCLEUGH, from the Trades House of Glasgow for further Protection to the Produce of the West-India Colonies.