A meeting of the Committee for the Relief of the
Distressed Irish Clergy was held on Wednesday, when nn additional 20,000!. was directed to be remitted to the Archbishop of Armagh. The receipts up to that day were 109,4001.
The Central Agricultural Association assembled yesterday at the Freemason's Tavern, and passed a series of resolutions in conformity with the principles on which the Society is founded. A dinner after- wards was attended by many of the members.
There was a dinner at White Conduit House on Wednesday, Mr. Hume in the chair, to celebrate Mr. Wakley's return for Finsbury. Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Wallace, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Maunce O'Connell, and Mr. Harvey, all Members of Parliament, were among the guests. Mr. Wakley and Mr. O'Connell addressed the company at length; but, in these days of Parliamentary speechmaking, it is scarcely worth while to give any specimens of their oratory at White Conduit House.
The Lord Chancellor has promptly acceded to the desire of the parishioners of St. Anne's. Blackfriars, and St. Andrew by the Ward- robe, in nominating the Reverend John Harding, the Lecturer, to the vacant rectory.
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