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    • ON PUBLIC OPINION AS SHOWN BY PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT DURING THE PRESENT SESSION.
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      In the Times newspaper of the 10 th June , we find the substance of the 22 d Report of the Public Petition Committee , containing an account of the petitions , with the number of signatures

      attached to them , presented to the House of Commons , up to the 24 th May last . The document is a curious and instructive one . We have taken the trouble to classify the petitions according to their objects , to note their order as to the number of signatures , and to calculate the average of signatures to a petition , on each topic . The latter is given in whole numbers , reckoning a fraction as one when not less than the half . The results appear in the following table : % * The figure prefixed to each topic indicates its rank according to the total number of petitioners . 1 . CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS . Petitions . Signatures ,

      11 . Vote by Ballot 37 24 , 646 20 . Repeal of the Septennial Act 15 9 , 289 17 . Repeal of Taxes on Knowledge 14 12 , 566 II . ECCLESIASTICAL REFORMS . 2 . For the better Observance of the Sabbath 1061 2 G 1 , 706 26 . Against Sir Andrew Agnew ' s Bill . 20 2 , 794 6 . For the Abolition of Lay Patronage in the Church of Scotland 132 61 , 871 23 . Against the Irish Church Reform Bill .. . 98 6 , 707 34 . From Roman Catholics , for relief from the necessity of being married according to the rites of the Established Church . . 4 52 O

      13 . From Protestant Dissenters , for the same 99 20 , 972 18 . Against the New System of Education in Ireland 12 11 , 082

      III . LOCAL AND COBPORATION REFORMS . 28 . Against the Volunteer Corps at Huddersfield 1 2 , 400 4 . For Corporation Reform 116 70 , 517 24 . For the Scotch Burghs Bill 24 4 , 657 37 . Against the same 8 271 IV . HUMANITY AND MORALITY . 8 . For removing the Civil Disabilities of the Jews % . 46 44 , 100 36 . Against 3 134 1 . For the Abolition of Slavery 4 , 603 1 , 209 , 355 35 . Against immediate Abolition 1 391 15 . For the repeal or alteration of the Beer Act 159 19 , 774 . 19 . Against the same 11 10 , 988 22 . For Mitigation of the Criminal Laws . ... 13 7 , 00 i >

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      On Public Opinion As Shown By Petitions To Parliament During The Present Session.

      ON PUBLIC OPINION AS SHOWN BY PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT DURING THE PRESENT SESSION .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/1/