HL Deb 12 March 1838 vol 41 c741

Bill. Read a third time:—Waterman's.

Petitions presented. By Earl STANHOPE, from a place in Lancashire, for the immediate and total repeal of the New Poor-law.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from Great Yarmouth, Asford, near Leeds, Horsley, the Society of Friends Meeting at Macclesfield, Laugharne, Ebenezer Chapel (Dewsbury), Pudstone, parishes in Dorsetshire and Northumberland, and various other places, praying for the abolition of Negro Slavery; from Jedburgh, Kilmarnock, the Relief Church, Hutchinson's-town, Glasgow, the Relief Church, Regent's-place, Glasgow, the Congregation Meeting at Nicholson-street, Glasgow, Stewarton, and its neighbourhood, the Relief Church in Paisley, Haddington, and its neighbourhood, United Secession Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders of Dumbartonshire, and various other bodies; that no further Endowments be granted to the Church of Scotland; from the Working Classes of Preston, to protect the right of associating for the protection of labour, and to obtain mercy for the Glasgow Cotton Spinners.—By Lord POLTIMORE, from Edinburgh, for a reduction of the rate of Postage—By the Earl of DEVON, from a Prisoner in Whitecross-street, for the abolition of Imprisonment for Debt.—By the Marquess of SLIGO, from Armagh and other places, for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By the Duke of RICHMOND, horn Yarmouth, to adopt Mr. Hill's plan with respect to Postage.