Numerous petition.; to Peale:nolo are hr the coffee of signature
in the dioceses of B ingor amid St. Aeaph, for obtainins competent Welch diocesans and clergy, abolishing pluralities; and silicon:me, eon- serving the revenues to the use of the parishes whore they are levied,
providing a CoMpetent resident pastor inn every urn sir, egoalising ITVC• milles and duties so as to give rotnpetent remuneration to all, and for advancing education.— Watchman.
A fleeting was held in the Reform Room:, Crown Court, Wake- field, on :timidity week, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the entire abolition of Chinch-rates ; C.
Crowther, Esq., in the chair. The meeting w is very respect- ably attended, and a petition was unanimously adapted.--lialejaz Express.
A requisition to the Mayor of Wigan is in course of signature, call- ing upon hi on to convene a meeting of the indiabitante of %%riga!' upon sonic early day, to take into consideration the propriety of petitiouing Parliament for the total abolition of dent abomineble ineenst the Church-rates. We are happy to state that the requisition, is already
very numeronely sigio.d, and that it contains the 11.1:110* of several Magistrates, Aldermen, and nearly the whole of the Councilmen, several manufacturers, and a considerable numlier of clout:Innen.— Preston Observer The Magistrates have ranged to make orders against the Dissenters of Chelmelord, who were smnmoned before them for refueing to pay their Church-rates, on their undertaking to dispute the validity of the rate before the Ecclesiastical Court.— Chelmsford Chroni, le.
On Monday week, a public meeting, very numerously attended, was held in the Town-hall, South Shields, when resolutiime in favour of an entire abolition of Church-rates were curried unammouely.—San- derland Herald.
A meeting of about 1000 persons was held in Liverpool. at the M ball in Bold-street, on Wednesday, and an Anti-Church-rate Society set on foot.
The proceedings in the cases of bribery arising out of the Ipswich election, notwithstanding the conviction of some of the parties, appear So be by no means settled. It has been discovered that conviction and imprisonment does not bar an action to recover the penalty of 500/. ; and accordingly writs were last week served upon Mr. A. B. Cook, Mr. Dusent, and Mr. E. B. Finch ; also upon Mr. Colchester, a soap and tallow-merchant, to recover 500/. against him for inducing a per- son named Edgely to abstain frdm voting. The proceedings are insti- tuted in the name of Mr. Hearsum, a carpenter and builder ; and ap- pear. from the tone in which they are spoken of, to cause great annoy- nee to the political friends of tine parties concerned.—Glote.
A very important decision upon the Municipal Reform Act has hesa given by the Sessions for the East Riding of Yorkshire on an appeal against a borough-rate for the town of Beverley. It seems it the Town-Council of that borough in resisting the passage of a through Parliament, affecting, as they considered, their title to cer- ts:a property from which they derived a net income of about 10/. per unmet), expended a sum of 7ti01. ; to defray which and other expenses, 'A borough-rate was made. The Sessions decided, that the Act does not sethorize a rate to meet expenses incurred in defending the property of lis Corporation. They further decided, that the Town- Council of a lawough have 110 pOWCI to make a rate to meet .expenses already it:- L. ail ed.—Standard.
In the Bedford Union, comprising 44 parishes, an area of 100,000 ants, itod a population of upwards of 30,000, there has been a saving, the introduction of the Poor-law, of 70; per cent, in the expen- diture : frieindly societies have rapidly increased, and the commitments to ri.on hoer be, n less by one-fiflh than in the preceding twelve months.
The increase of the Gloucester Customs Duties during the last cs Ire months, as compared with the preceding year, is no less than s s making a total of 166,000L—Macestur Journal.
It was a matter of curiosity whether the engine could continue to ss oils upon the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway during the continuance ot the snow upon the road. The possibility of so working was fairly Put to the test on the '26th ult., and the utility of railways demonstrated
a most striking manner. In the deep cutting through the Cowran I tills. the snow had drifted to the depth of four or five feet ; and when she Ilerenles came down on Monday morning, great numbers of country- people had assembled to see how it would act in such an emergency, and to render any assistance which might be necessary. On arriving at the spot, the engine made no bones of the matter, but dashed right into the drift, clearing its way through, apparently without the slightest difficulty, the snow at the same time flying over the top of the engine- s:billowy like foam from the broken waves of a violent sent ; and not- withstainding this and other similar obstructions, the train came down front Greenhead (twenty miles) in an hour and a quarter. The trains have continual regunrly to keep their time, winle all communication hy common roads has been more or less moss seriously obstructed, if not entirely cut off for a time.—Carlisk Paper.
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