WAITHMAN from the Wards of Bread Street and Bishopsgate in London, and from the parish of St. Andrew's Holborn.-Sir J. SEBRIGHT from Bishop Stortford and Hitchin; by Mr. C. DOUGLAS from Lesmahago; by Mr. PHILLPOTS from Gloucester.

Mr. Alderman THOMPSON in presenting a petition from the Bankers, Merchants, and others of the City of London, said-when I reflect on the situation, the rank, and the character in life which these petitioners hold,-when I consider that they are individuals pursuing an honest and beneficial course of industry-who, by their own means and by the means of their ancestors, have secured so much wealth and prosperity to the country,-when I consider that, from their station in life, and the pursuits in which they are engaged, they have opportunities of ascertaining the feelings and opinions of every class of society, when I consider all this, I know not any petition that could be presented to this House which more requires an attentive and dispassionate consideration than that which I now hold in my hand. It cannot be denied that the present system of returning members to parliament is manifestly injurious to every interest in the State. Large and increasing towns, possessing great wealth, and great intelligence, remain unrepresented, while, on the other hand, others, comparatively slight in wealth and population, return, either through the most corrupt means, or as the nominees of peers or other wealthy individuals,-members who cannot, in any respect, be considered as the representatives of the people.

Petitions were presented by Mr. KENNEDY from Edinburgh, signed by 21,700 persons, and from Glasgow, signed by 30,975 persons; also from Sanquhar, Girvan, Beith,

and Inverary;--by The LORD ADVOCATE, for reform and vote by ballot, from Cupar, Dunshalt, and Beith; by Sir R. FERGUSSON from Dundee, Newtown, Stewart, Cambuslang, Leven, and Kennaway; by Mr. J. WOOD from Tadcaster; by Mr. PENDARVES from Truro, Lostwithiel, Saltash, Chatteris, and Whitlesea; by Mr. WARBURTON from Clane, New Melksham, and Shaftesbury; by Mr. HUME from Bath, where the elective franchise is confined to twenty-four individuals, from the Isle of Wight, Leicester, Brighton Glasgow, Paisley, Aberdeen, Hastings, Rye, Hythe, Romney, Winchelsea, Emsworth, Warblington, Bolton-le-Moors, Mile End Old Town, Dunshalt, Hinckley, Hammersmith, Monmouth, Kilsyth, Kirkfieldbank, East Wemyss, Kilbirnie, Leith, Bervie, Avendale, Ushworth, Washington, Burtley, Stone Haven, Caithness, and Plympton Earle, also from the Cabinet-makers of Manchester, and the Weavers of Selkirk and Leith; by Mr. L.KECK from Whatton and Sileby; by Mr. HOBHOUSE from St. Ann's Westminster, the Co-operative As sociation, Westminster, the Crispin Friendly Society, and the inhabitants of Bradford; by Lord GEO. BERESFORD from Waterford; by Sir F. BURDETT from Calne, Liskeard, and Ramsbury; by Lord EBRINGTON from Devonport, Stoke Damarel, Dartmouth, Plymouth, Huntingdon, and Stocktonupon-Tees; by Lord MORPETH from Leeds, Aldborough, Marsden, Sandall Magna, Heptonstall, Kirkeaton, Westbury, and Wareham, also from the Political Union of Sheffield; by Sir G. ROBINSON from Northampton; by Mr. WEBB from Gloucester; by Mr. SANDFORD from Yeovil; by Sir W. INGLEBY from Knaresborough, Holbeach, and Lincoln; by Mr.

O'CONNELL from Carlow, a place containing 10,000 inhabitants, and the elective franchise of which is vested in twelve law burgesses, from Carnew, Chippenham, and St. Ebbe, Oxford; by Mr. HUNT from Ashton-under-Line, Blackburn, Langfield, Kingsbury Episcopi, Great and Little Bolton, Leyland, Andenshaw, Petersfield, Paisley, Strinesdale, Guisborough, Falkland, Radford, and Newark; also from the Political Unions of Manchester and Worcester, and from the Rotunda meeting in Blackfriars Road: most of these prayed for vote by ballot; by Mr. J. CAMPBELL from Bothwell; by Mr. C. DUNDASS from Richmond; by Sir J. BURKE from Galway; by Mr. C. CALVERT from Southwark, and St. John's, Southwark; by Mr. TUDOR from Barnstaple; by Viscount GRIMSTONE from St. Alban's; by Mr. BROWNLOW from Belfast, Navan, Laughgilly, Cullybackey, Lurgan, and Armagh; by Mr. L. HODGES from Rochester and Wittingbourne; by Mr. DENISON from Reigate, Lambeth, and St. Mary, Newington; by Lord TAVISŤOCK from Luton; by Sir S. LUMLEY from Mansfield, Beeston, and Hucknall Torkard; by Sir R. PRICE from Ross, Kingston, and Hereford; by Sir T. ACKLAND from Townstal; by Mr. E. ELLICE from Portsea; by Mr. J. WOOD from Thorne; by Mr. EWART from Liverpool; by Mr. BOUVERIE from New Sarum; and by Sir J. GRAHAM from the Political Union of Bilston.

HOUSE OF LORDS,

Feb. 28, 1831. Earl MORLEY, in presenting a petition from Plymouth, said,when the population of that town was but 7000, the number of persons entitled to vote was 1800; but now that the population has

increased to 81,000, there are but 200 voters.

The Duke of DEVONSHIRE. presented petitions from Waterford and Bilston.

Earl RADNOR presented similar ones from Bridgend, Kilburnie, Guisborough, and Marlborough.

Lord DURHAM presented petitions from Norham, Island Shires, Gateshead, the county of Durham, and St. John's Southwark.

The Lord CHANCELLOR presented petitions from the county of Devon, Londonderry, St. Mary's Newington, Dunbar, Jedburgh, Leven, Kilmarnock, Hamilton, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Castle Douglas, Kelton, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, Dumfries, and the tailors of Edinburgh.

Petitions were presented by Earl Grey from Lanark and Leith; by Lord KING from Leslie, Cupar, Selkirk, Northampton and Caithness; by the Lord CHANCELLOR from Blackburn, Saltcoats and Wells; by the Marquis LANSDOWNE from the county of Wiltshire; and by Earl CAW DOR from Carmarthen; by the Duke of RICHMOND from Brighthelmstone.

Lord KING in presenting petitions from Great and Little Bolton, the Isle of Wight, Christchurch, Radford, Bannockburn, and Barnstaple, said the petitions generally express their confidence in his Majesty's ministers, and their equal distrust in the parliament as at present constituted: they state, one and all of them, that great abuses do now exist, and have existed - that a corrupt state of things has been allowed for a very long period, and (1 may add) they are determined, if possible, to abate it. They state that since the period of the Reformation a great number of persons have sprung up

- men of intellect and educationa class denominated the middling class-who have no share in the re