Lords Sitting of 26 January 1838

MINUTES.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the following Bills:—Duchess of Kent's Annuity; Joly's Naturalization.
Petitions presented. By Lord BROUGHAM, from Kirkudbright, for Vote by Ballot, and Extension of the Suffrage; the same from Gainsborough (North Riding), Totness (Devon), Beverley (Yorkshire), Peebles, and Selkirk; from the Synod of the Secession Church of Scotland, from Gorbals, and from Fife, against any grant for providing additional Church Accommodation; also from Boston (Lincolnshire), for the Diffusion of Knowledge among all classes; also from Bridport, Glasgow, Frome, Gretabridge, Merthyr Tydvil, Dawlish, and Boroughbridge, for immediately ending the system of Negro Apprenticeship.