The opponents of Church-rates at Birmingham, having signed a re-
quisition to the High Bailiff to call a public meeting, Wednesday last was appointed ; but the Church party determined to oppose the resolu- tions, and signed a counter-requisition. The two parties assembled in great force at the Public Office at an early hour ; when the High Bailiff decided, in consequence of the numbers assembled being too large to meet in the public room, to adjourn the meeting to the open air. This was strongly objected to by the Church party, who consee quently held a separate meeting; the anti-Church-rate assemblage being collected outside the building, and the Chureh-rate payers in the public room. Resolutions and petitions of directly opposite cha- racters were then agreed to by the two separate meetings.
In the Northampton Town-Council, on Monday, the •Liberals moved and carried a proposition for the town seal to be affixed to two petitions to Parliament, praying the abolition of Church-rates. The petitions are strongly worded, and pray for entire abolition. The Council last week came to the determination, after a violent opposition fur twelve months on the part of the Tories, to throw their chamber open to the reporters and the public.
Previous page
