The Premier has issued letters to his supporters in the
House of Com- mons, informing them that "business of importance will be brought for- ward without delay," at the meeting of Parliament on the 4th February.
The adjourned meeting of Metropolitan deputies from the "Three De- nominations of Dissenters," reassembled yesterday at the King's Head Inn, Poultry. The report of the Committee had not been modified. An amendment, declaring it to be impolitic and unjust to prevent any portion of the Queen's subjects from following out that form of religious worship in church government which they may prefer, but also wrong to foster by connexion with the State or endowment any ecclesiastical body whatever, was negatived ; and an amendment affirming the duty of re- sisting by every legitimate means the aggressive policy of the Papacy, and protesting against any legislative encouragement to that system by any pecuniary grant, was unanimously adopted.
There was a great meeting at Framlingham in Suffolk, on Thursday, to consider addresses to Parliament on the present alarming state of dis- tress in the agricultural districts. Mr. George Frederick Young was the principal orator ; and the meeting passed resolutions in accordance with its objects.
A meeting of parochial deputies in the Marylebone Court-house, yes- terday, under the Chairmanship of Lord Dudley Stuart, approved of the heads of a bill expounded by Mr. Toulmin Smith, to establish a re- sponsible Metropolitan Board of Sewers, by making districts with self- governing prerogatives, defining the duties of the separate boards, and arranging a combined action for the whole.
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