A Diocesan Association, "in aid of building, enlarging, and endow-
milurches," has recently been formed in the diocese of Ripon.
At the Church Missionary Society meeting, held at Pwllbeli the other day, the number of clergymen present was either four or five; and the collection, including a sovereign from General Sir L. P. J. Parry, amounted to Arty.eight shillings ! A sermon was announced for the following day, to enable others who had not wended to subscribe, and to enable those who had attended to increase their subscriptions. The result, however, was nil—not a single shilling was collected ! So much for the state of feeling towards the Church in Wales, and the necessity of erecting new churches. Pwllheli is situated in the parish of Denis; the rectorial tithes of which, as well as those of the adjoining pansh of Llannor, are consumed by the Bishop of Bangor.— Carnarvon Herald.
There are now in Nottingham and its vicinity no less than nine patties from Calais, Lisle, and St. Quentin, who are purchasing or contracting for machinery to export to France: amongst the number are Pr arson, the patentee of the circular spot, Robert King, and Haden. It appears that not the least attention is paid to this subject either on the Kent or Essex coasts : these parties openly state, that they can export bobbin, net or other machinery with the utmost facility. Some of them have been down to Manchester, and they openly declare in all public companies that the French have determined to have tie trade from England. These parties, in most instances, give 101, lucre
f r a bol,biii.net mac hi ,e 11 Sta the cue r n Nottingham price. c appears from the assertioa of one ef th..se larreies, ti at the stnithsin Lisle are buillin.g steeki 1g-frames tipoa the English irine;ple, witit !laies, sole.car trucks, ea ter-1)44.1o, and hanging hits. if 8). the sub- ject %yin prove of greeter consequence than the making, of Saxony how, of which Mr. Porter, of the Board of Trade, tells such a laineatahlt story, for the purpose of obtaining a repeal of the Corn-laws.—Not. linghant Journal.
At a meeting held at Nottingham on Tuesday, called for that pur- pose, a series of resolutions were entered into to construct a canal from Gainsborough to Nottingham, at an expense of 200,0001.; and also to form a ship canal from Hull to Nottingham, at a cost of 900,000/. —Nottingham Journal.
It appears from a letter in the Tittles, that the London morning newspapers, which reach Liverpool on the night of the day of 66: pill.!ication, are not delivered to the newsmen till the next morning; the excuse of the Postmaster is, that they cannot iv "assorted and ready for delivery to the public earlier than seven o'clock in the morn- ing,"—although it is notorious that the papers are sent in bundles to the newsvenders, and require no sorting. But in all parts of the country the Post.oflive people seem to take delight In creating as much need- less delay as possible.
During the present year, a vast number of houses have been erected in the suburbs of Liverpool. The new houses, which range in rent from twenty-five to thirty.five pounds a year, are taken in most neigh- bourhoods as fast as they can be got ready for habitation. At no period, indeed, within our recollection, was the increase of the town in popula- lation, the result of the increase of its trade, more rapid than it is at the present. —Liverpool Albion.
A laughable incident occurred at a concert given'. by Mori, at South- ampton, on Thursday week. During the time that gentleman was giving a fantasia on the violin, e game-cock, which bad been hovering about the rooms all the moreing, had contrived to make his way into the antechamber ; where sounds of Mr. Alori's instrument reached
him, arid seemingly roused hint to emulation, for he began crowing rr t lustily, and would have continued his trial of strength agairrt the v in if he had not been driven from the field.—Standard.
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