§ Bill. Read a first time:—Consolidated Fund.
§ Petitions presented. By the Duke of CLEVELAND, from Gateshead, and by the Marquess of SLIGO, from Alston, Amersham, Bucks, Shepton, Belfast, and from the Females of Whitehaven, for the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By the Marquess of SLIGO, from the High Sheriff and Grand Jury of the county of Mayo, against the Irish Poor Relief Bill.—By the Duke of RICHMOND, from the Dean and Clergy of Waterford, and the Roman Catholic Bishop, and other Inhabitants, that the claims of the able-bodied and the impotent pauper might not be confounded in the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill.