The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-29 00:00:00

TM Moss are **tided tato periodsof flee pans. Them
the total somber of othicose preesated la the live yams
ladies 1788-9 wee 830; radios 1804-6, 1,036; and make
1814-16, 4,436. With the five yews ending 1833 a pest
foresee bights. There woe fa that period 21,263 petitions
Prouted. The forms. elation's. Is the Lee yarn
eadiag 1837, the total ember was 37,183; swift 1862,
10,072 ; ending 1817, 81,186; eons, 1863, 61,248 ; be in
Ile Ave yeas ending 1864 6 there was a lathes bath to
01,347. TM total amber of petitions pressatod la 23 you
wee 283,076—t0tal amber printed, 29,230. Is 1780, the
prods, wee to print all Fable petitions is the veto, either
at length or a short &WOO of them, eiseelag them as meek
as omit& asseeding to their subjoins, wittiest Say
motion or special soda tbe boos lier that parrot.
Ito 1817 a cheap of practise took pieoe, and sash petitions
as the boos thee& poor to order to be printed is to
lessee spa motion: were hot Primed orelthel7 or us el"
, podia, sad delivered twin a week, the elemtheaties sal
&betties in the votes AM sentleuing. Is 1832 • selectee's-
natio was &predated " to take late mosideratioa the best
aeons to be adopted kw theilitating the yeseentatioa of
putts petitions;" sad la 11913, it was resolved, that a aloft
itemmittee be appelatod at the comosseentest of mob
session, " to whisk obeli be referred all petitions pmented
to the hose, with the 'modem of sash as wamplala of
undo vetoes or relate to private bills; and that oak
ommittee do clualfy and prepare abstracts of the same, is
stook form sad sonar as shall appear to that beet lathed to
envoy to the louse all Tophiee laionaadea merest-
lag their ameba% mai de Mae lb. loiss
time to lbs. to the boos; sad that soak /epode
do is all mesa set forth the amber of signatures
to sash polities ; sad that soh eommittee lave power to
duo. the printing, is estaise, of sunk petitions, or of nob
orb of pathless as dull appear to main it; sad that
mesh cemoinee lave pewee to report their *Ora and
obeenationa thereupon to the boom" AClOldillgly, is
seek 'oblivion year a similar committee has bees or
pointed, who have earefally supervised the alpine». to
sob petitions, and made a Weak& for plating, attentively
eemporths thou, to avoid publishing septa of the lame
petition, as was constantly the ease wader the end system
and these their appolataest, they Lee abseiled sad
abolished, he 23 years, 283,076 petitions, to which
70,613,246 eignatare wore atosised, and bars minted
29,330 for printing, either is Mersa se is part, bobs
made, is that period, 1,183 reports.
Is the flee years endiag 1813, 10,185 petitions were
whited ; ending 1837, 8,361; maths 1842, 4,837 ; esdtg
1817, 4,463 ; 'Ohm 1862, 8,963; ending 18644, 7,039.
It will be seen that previous to 1832 nosey umbelf of
the whole number of petitions presented were ordered to be
Fisted, upon motion ; if this practise lad endured, tke
some paid for Walls g, owing to the late greet themes ia
tbe somber of petitions, would have esensonely inereased.
This oosszeittee has therefore *treated anually s greet en-
ing e f expense, sad also of the time of the hose. A pus-
ral classification toad short statement of the objects of poli-
ticise is still 'sada sightly ha the votes, sad pablisbed oa
following mottling. The isommittee new plea • diens-
guithing mark is their reports against nob petitions as are
nista officially or under seal, cousidericg them of gnats?
importaaos than others, to which primps only • few sires-
tons are oppeaded. In 1864-6, out of 10,038 petitions pro-
seated, 1,714 were from serroratiees, public meetings, and
other belles of porno, sad signed cefially or under seal.
TM total somber of signature* to petitions Is twisty-
Wee years is 70,613,246. The sicastans to the petition'
pushed in the lot flu yeses are lees than In say similar
period sines it war ordered that the number of signatures
shoed be recorded in the report.