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The Dissenters of Manchester held a public meeting on Wednesday and Thursday last week, at the Exchange Rooms in that town, far the purpose of discussing the grievances under which they labour, and pe- titionieg Parliament for their removal. This meeting was most nu- merously and respectably attended. 3Ir. J. C. Dyer, the chairman of Mr. Poulett 'Thomson's, and Alr. Edward Baxter, the chairman of Mr. Murk Phillips's Committee, at the last election, acre among the gentlemen present. The spirit which actuated the meeting may be judged of by the following resolutions, selected from those, thirteen in number, which were passed in the course of the twodays' discussion. " That in the deliberate (opinion of this meeting, all civil establishments of religion ate an infringement of the rights of conscience. at variance with the spirit ;old opposed ter the progress of Christianity.

„That although such establishments are indebted for their power to a union with the Stale. and might therefore be expected to cooperate uniformly with it, yet they too frequently employ the intletence deemed trout this uuiuu in thaarting the Gov-moment, ".lien its measures are featly calcillati41 to promote general education, to extend the liberties, and to angmetit the happieless of the p•ople.

" That the law which authorizes Bishops to sit in the l'pper Ifouseof Parliament to represent the interests and ...lees of their own denominations on all holt ee• elesiastival and relit i .1, I•onpromi•rs the distracter Of the ry, is a par.

nisi and unjust pieferenee be one rheas of Iii. Majesty's subi.s•ts oeor :III ethers. and a epecial grievance to the In.: waters. Presbyterians, nun thetloolie, or elighest. seat- land. and Ireland, who compose at large majority of the peopl.• or the United iogeloim "'flirt shiest Disseaters in all parts of the United IV ingdorn, by their ■ ['lowboy efforts, erect and keep in repair their lest II places ‘11,1,ii I II, -ippon their Ins II M nos- tern, twiintain. to a great extent. their nwu issss ...as ill wise vast numbers of the poptilat ion, extend their exertions hit. it,' Pritish t

and thus euie ribette largely to the selfare of their tellies sod t nes meet iir; con-

siders it is heavy gfielilllet• that Dissenters are conipellisl In aupjsit :a', estaidish- rm tit of religion ley tit lies, ,hunch-rates, er any other 111016.."

A petition founded on these resolutions was agreed to. It is to be presented to the Lords by the Earl of Durham, and to the Commons by Mr. Mark Phillips. In this petition it is expressly declared, that nothing short of a separation of Church and State will satisfy the Dis- senters. It concludes with preying, therefore.

That there may lie • repeal of the act of Parliament which authorizes the PrelatNi of the Established Church to pit ill Ms Upper I beige. That all laws compelling sup.• port of any religious edemomination It hate‘cr may be repealed. That ot universal civil registration of hirtha, marriages. Mill burials, may lie established. That the marriage- contract may be legalized, and the burial,service performed in parish betrial.places, apart from all obligatory compliance with the forms of the Established Church and that Dissenters may have ;weer,* to the English Universitier without submitting to sus religions test."

At a meeting of " Dissenting Deputies," held in Birmingham on Tuesday last week, it was unanimously resolved to memorialize Lord Grey and Lord John Russell in the following words—" That this meet- ing are no less astonished than mortified, that a Reforming Adminis- tration should hazard their political honour by the introduction of such a' bill of relief' as the one that has been announced in the House of Cononons; and rather than accept it with its present unmeaning, un- necessary, cumbetsome, and humiliating provisions,. they would prefer remaining in their present degraded condition."

The Bristol Dissenters also met on Wednesday week to petition Parliameot. Lord John Russell's Alarriage Bill was spoken of in strong terms of disapproval, and its withdrawal recommended. Reso- lutions similar to those passed in other parts of the kingdom were also agreed to at this meeting.

A crowded meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle was held on 31onday last, to take into consideration the conduct of the two Repre- sentatives for that town, Sir M. W. Ridley and Mr. Hodgson ; in the vote given by them in the House of ("moutons against the motion of Mr. D. AVItittle purvey, for an inquiry into the Pension List. Reso- lutions were unanimously carried, condemning the Pension List as "one of the most revolting fisitures of the present corrupt system," and de- signating the conduct of their Representatives in voting against Mr. Harvey's motion us " the very acute and height of political impro- priety ; " therefore, not deeming them any longer worthy of confidence, Sir M. W. Ridley and Mr. Hodgson are called upon to resign their trust into the hands of the electors.

On Tuesday, a lengthened examination of the men in custody, charged on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mr. Richardson. took place at the office of Messrs. Everest and Harding, at Epsom, before several of the County Magistrates. It will be remembered that two men were seen on Walton Heath on the day of the murder, who were suspected as the parties. On being confronted with the witnesses, however, they were unable to prove their identity. One of the pri- soners, Cottrell, was then examined on a charge of highway robbery in June last ; during which month Mr. Hart, a solicitor at Reigate, was stopped by two footpads, who threatened to shoot him if he did not give up his money. Mr. Hart, on closely examining the features and person of Cottrell, expressed a strong conviction on his mind that he was one of the two men by whom he was stopped ; and on beingsworn, stated that to the best of his belief Cottrell was the man who presented the pistol at his head. The Magistrates, on hearing the whole of the evidence (during which no new facts relative to the late murder tran- spired), again remanded the prisoners; who were brought back to town, and lodged in the County Gaol. They will be examined again in the course of a few days.

At the Lincoln Assizes, on Tuesday, a man was tried for setting fire to a straw and wheat stack belonging to a farmer at Holbeach, in December last. The evidence against him was defective, and he was acquitted. The announcement of the verdict was hailed with hearty cht ering by the people in court.

At the Warwick Assizes yesterday week, William Rose, aged seventy-four, was found guilty of, and sentenced to death for, the murder of a woolen whose name was unknown, with whom he cohabited. The deceased had been dreadfully beaten with a large stick, and wounded with a sharp instrument.

At the Worcester Assizes, on Monday, five men were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, for rioting at the last Dudley election.

The number of prisoners for trial at the Lancashire Assizes, which commenced on the 10th instant, is seventy-five; of whom twelve are charged with murder; and nineteen with manslaughter.