13 MAY 1837, Page 9

The accounts front the trading districts in the country continue

to be unfavourable. All the markets are flat, and failures frequent.

A meeting was held at Tewkesbury on Monday, to petition Parlia- Mt'llt in favour of the Ministerha plan for the abolition of Church- rates. The Tories mustered in force to oppose the petitiun, and

moved an amendment against petitioning; but the original motion was carried, by 232 against 208.

A petition to the Pope, praying for an increase of Bishops in Eng- land, and their election by the working clergy, signed by a great majo- rity of the Catholic priests and respectable laity of the four Northern Counties arid the Isle of Man, is now on its way to Rome, and will be soon followed by others from Lancashire and Yorkshire.—Preston Observer.

Subscriptions have been carried on with great spirit at Dudley, for the purpose of building two new churches in that parish, which will contain free sittings for upwards of 2,000 persons.