17 JANUARY 1829, Page 1

Meetings to petition against the Catholics continue to be held

in different quarters of England. The "whole of Cornwall," says the Standard, "has come forward, one and all, in support of the • on&tefilin;" and the county of Devon was to meet yesterday The subject has become trite.

The Standard is gladdened by the accession of what it seems to think a new auxiliary, in the Presbytery of Glasgow. This reverend body of ministers and lay elders have doubtless agreed to petition against emancipation ; but they do the same thing year by year; and if a motion were made to declare, not Popery, but the stained glass windows in the Abbey or St. Margaret's, idolatrous, it would find supporters in the Presbytery. of Glasgow.