8 APRIL 1837, Page 10

The Eighth Report of the Committee on Public Petitions was

de- livered this morning; by which it appears, that there had been presented, up to the 10th of March, against the abolition of Church-rates, 877 petitions, with 73,941 signatures ; in favour of the abolition, 854 peti- tions, with 309,959 signatures.