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"The noisiest meeting, beyond all comparison, ever seen or heard in Birmingham," was held in the great Hall there on Wednesday, upon the requisition of several hundred zealous and respectable Protestants who wished to pronounce against the Pope. But Birmingham is well stored with other sects besides Church-of-England "Protestants" ; and it is said that at the most crowded moment there could not have been fewer in IT-11 4-in nine thousand persons. The Mayor took the chair. Mr. -actress of the usual stamp : his whole perform- -mpossible for him to be heard above they 'son, a Wesley-- seconded the addrest

the at

niment of hisses, wh; speech to a con- tinued

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quent periods. His last sentence i the rise of his oious freedom to all" raised a , and complete reli-

stfrations. Mr. Stokes, a Roma I. the adverse demon- ained an unmedra)0 hearing."

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He 'coned as "the only ke patriotically in speaker that a tone that awakened national sympathies binding Englishmen .of .811 -creeds ; but bounced out at the d with the assertion that "the agitation is a senseless attack the Avisi ' •k, after five hour

ds on the amend could ridt Hide: on a second meat murkiest. The or"

..,f -ords " Dna Iseph is of -raying 2ueen y. Mr. is speech as roared int regal- ,cmpted for mart ejacu- ho was close .est. At about a terrible assault a; but the pressure

a nIt Imes Angel James, had u cigh. .

_pion as the e powers of speech,

and popular lecture George Dawson,

principles of the rights of conscience." of uninterrupted row, the Mayor took a ant; the show was so balanced that he how, he felt obliged to say that the amend- Buddwas was then put : the show of hands

was agrun so equally balanced tlame Mayor said, "I declare the ori-

gidel!gesolinicin dostrurfilo ibrigas it diaiinhattle ; and the meeting se- parated without tesabringJanything8t%all l.il. rou c 311; :11:4:011

The constituency of North No • hamshire threatens to ietieVitgainst

the long-estriblishedifileeildritteri0 IN itglInehbe which is so rife

in that coimty 'in of Lord Newark,

and to choose t-farmers may for a while re yardian contains an addrese npOrpleiftyn.,the division, calling on its no to arlitiment none but men who- will ri�, tfilllk.he Iff.41%„01,:theliglnerno-

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dal* *ref 4VgNOIsamw;i9pp,of,thq,County iT4ftiC48s .;I .'A•city..9t4•0ifitrAft a strong frtOnd to 318V415,,sligtipme Oren ptogyi his pntrangoin.A0 field cfreates altlill4.RNIRCIPINhuiNgt4 041411941411;051% 5614414410f0944ty 34,9mbemllay9..gqm lieftm":" otgooq 'Jilt mud i ur i );= The Earl of Carlisle has been refaeshingitholte4Optiditogdititmtede the inhabitants of Leeds which originated in-his-political character of Member fat the-West Siding ofnYorkehirep.arici were Cemented bylis own genial personal qualities. :.The teenagers of the Tradesmen's Benevolent Society in Leeds ventured to invite his•Lerdship to preside at one of their festive anniversaries ; and he not only consented, but volunteered, as he should at any rate be in the town, to deliver two lectures to the members of the Leeds Mechanics Institute,—one on the poetry of Pope, and the other on his own travels in America. His offer was accepted with delight, and the lectures were delivered On Thursday and Friday evenings last week. It was at first intended:that they should be heard in the hall of the In- stitute ; but that would contain but three hundred, and four times as many were expected : the. Music-Hall, which will hold some fifteen hun- dred persons, was chosen; and even this building. proved far too small, as many gentlemen became members of the Institute solely with the pur- pose of attending on these occasions; and 'parties travelled from the re- mote verge of the county to be present. Mr. Becket, M.P., Mr. J. G. Marshall, M.P., the Dean of Ripon, and a suitable garnishing of distin- guished ladies grouped round Lady Mary Howard, Lord Carlisle's sister, were on the platform each night. The attention of the audience, jammed together so that every person must have been suffering inconvemegLpres- sure, was engaged and riveted in each instance for two hours ore pure criticism of the English classic proving as interesting under the noble lecturer's treatment, as graphic portraiture of ,the living men and existing things of the great Western Republic. Mike close, the audi- ence, with genuine enthusiasm, expressed their gratitude in a vote of At the Liverpool Winter Assizes, on Monday, William Threlfall pleaded guiltyto forging a bill:of exchange for 10001. Mr. Bliss stated for the pro- ne on, that the prisoner had uttered forged bills by wholesale. His for-

of thirty, for 32,81,11., and his guilty knowledge with respect to a hun-

and fifteen others, for 133,0001., could be proved. There were four in- dictments against him. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, for the prisoner said that in nearly every instance the bills had been taken up before they became due—. 113,8011. in all. Others would have been met but for the breaking up of his business by the discovery of the forgeries; still his estate would pay rim 12e. to 15s. in the pound. Morally speaking, be had no intention to defraud. Mr. Bliss replied, that 70,0001. or 80,0001. of the bills had been met, but there were others for 30,0001. which never could be met. Mr. Justice Talfourd said that, morally speaking, as well as legally., he consi- dered a person who should commit forgery with the intention of' taking up the bill before it was due was guilty. When the offence was punishable by death, many persons had been executed who, no doubt, intended to do what it was said had been the prisoner's intention. He had no doubt that Dr. Dodd never intended to defraud Lord Chesterfield when he forged his name. It was quite impossible that he could adopt a notion that, in such cases, there was not a moral as well as a legal guilt. Sergeant Wilkins explained, that he never doubted the immorality of such transactions : he merely wished to state, in, mitigation of his offence, that the prisoner, up to the time of the discovery of his guilt, had never dishonoured a single bill. Judgment was deferred till next day; when the prisoner was sentenced to be trans- ported for life. The Reverend Mr. Fenwick, the Cambridge Proctor, and his two " bull- dogs," did not pay the fines imposed upon them by the Borough Magistrates till the form of capturing them had been gone through. An arrangement was made by which the Superintendent of Police formally arrested them at the office of Mr. Fenwick's solicitor, and the fines were paid. This was done to form the basis of an action for false imprisonment by the University au- thorities against those of the town.

thanks.

The provinces now emulate the metropolis in local cattle-shows almost equal in extent and excellence with the great central show of the Smithfield Club. The Midland Counties have been exhibiting their ability and re- sources as breeders at Birmingham, before a numerous and fashionable concourse of visiters ; and Salisbury has been the focus of a display which in sheep and pigs is described as unsurpassed in any other place or season. In the Birmingham display, Prince Albert, and Lords Warwick, Howe, Leicester, Hatherton, and Aylesford, were prize-gainers ' • at Salisbury, the most successful competitors were Mr. Ford and Mr. J. Stratton.

The Hampshire Telegraph, in an eulogium on. the really substantial ad- vantages of the port of Southampton, says it has reason to believe that the arrangement the Post-office has already made with Southampton for the reception and transmission of over-sea mails, will be extended so as to comprise the mails to and from the United States.

A discovery has just been made which is likely to be of immense im- portance to the town of Cheltenham and neighbourhood. Last week, some men were sinking for water at [fatherly, on one of the estates recently purchased of the Reverend Dr. Roy by Mr. Thomas Piokernell, when they came upon appearances which gave evident indications of the existence of coal. An engineer:was called in, who examined the strata ; and his report being highly favourable, arrangements are now being made for sinking a shaft.—Times: