Petitions against the punishment of death for Forgery, presented in the course of eleven weeks.

In alluding to the petitions on this subject, in the list which we publish to-day, we ought not to omit stating that their number, namely 200, is equal to one-fourth of all the petitions on public questions which have been presented to parliament during the same period; the whole number being not more than 800, notwithstanding the excitement raised respecting the East India question, and some other subjects of public and national interest. This affords the most convincing testimony of the prevalence and power of public opinion on this question, and the general and deep interest which the country takes in the amelioration of the sanguinary spirit of the law of forgery.-Morn. Herald, May 26, 1830. List, extracted from the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

* In the list will be found some places mentioned a second time. Those are places which petitioned for an amelioration of the law of Forgery in the first instance; and which, subsequently to the introduction of Sir R. PEEL'S Bill, sent up petitions against it in the nature of remonstrances.-Morning Herald.

In all, 200 petitions, besides the general petition of above 1000 Bankers, established in 214 cities and towns of the United Kingdom.

The Common Council of London, with only two dissentient votes, resolve on petitioning the legislature for a revision of the Penal Laws.

It will be seen, by a report in another part of our columns, that a Court of Common Council was held yesterday, to take into consideration the present state of the laws inflicting the penalty of death on offences exclusively relating to property, and to consider the propriety of presenting petitions to both Houses of Parliament, to remove from the statutes the punishment of death for crimes against property, unattended with murder or personal violence, on the ground that it deters prosecutors from enforcing the laws against offenders, and thus operates to increase crime.