1jc Countrg. There was a very large meeting at Birmingham,
on Tuesday, of friends to the Established Church. The object of the meeting was to! promote the building of churches in the diocese of Coventry and _Lich- field, to extend religious instruction to the lower classes, aad to call , upon the kingdom at large to follow the example that was to be set to them. 'The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry was chairman ; and se- veral long, but exceedingly stupid speeches, were delivered by bisi Lordship, Lord Aylesford, Viscount Clifford, the Archdeacons of Salop and Stafford, Sir J. Wrottesley, and others. It appeared that ‘0,000/. have been attliscribed towards erecting chapels in the diocese ; but io seventeen parishes only, according to the Bishop, 18,000 persons wanted accommodation. . This is certainly the proper way to go to srork 1st Churchmen support their own opinions,ard contribute for their diffusion, without compelling the Dissenters to pay their clergy- me a, and Itik( chapels for them to preach in.] hors!. Saturday keiug the day appointed for the annual conferring of sleareesiat Carribritagsa the body of the Senate house and the Under-Ora. duates' galleries, which are capable of containii g from 150Uto aitalieer- sons, were crammed to overflowing. As some time is teceasarily tip by preliminary ceremonies previous to the actual vonferring of the degrees, a little impatience was manifested by the numerous assemblage which crowded the Senate-house ; and several obnoxious characters received marks of disapprobation. At length, a voice from the galleries eiteed for " Three cheers for his Majesty's Ministers." An unanimous and enthusiastic burst applause followed from all parties present ; *faith lasted upwards of three minutes, and was prolonged till the old walla rang again. The names of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wel- lington were received with similar enthusiasm. On the name of Joseph Ilinne's protege'', Lord Althorp, being proposed by some solitary Radical, it was greeted with a round of hisses. The loyalty of feeling manifested on this occasion is well known to be universal among the educated youth of the empire. And though their sentiments have little weight in themselves, yet they are important as an indication of'tire feeling which pervades all intelligent classes at the presetit moment. Such feelings are not unlike those which gave birth to r'Je " Jainism Doree" of France, who were so mainly instrumental in ciaa•keeig the madness of democratic revolution in that unhappy country. May their effect be similar in this 1—Morning Post. [ Pretty success -the " Jeunesse Doree" hadan their attempt to cheek the French Revolution! The ebullition of Tory feeling ascribed to the young gentlemen at Cambridge might provoke anticipations the very reverse of pleasing to the Aristocracy. In fact, the insolence of the Jeuiresse Doree Wag mainly instrumental in bringing about the reign of the guillotine, and making the French Revolution the bloody business it turned out.]
A dinner was given at Newport Pagnell,on Wednesday, to the Tory Members for Buckinghamshire. The speeches contain no passages worth extracting. The Marquis of Chandos again promised to brirg forward a measure for the repeal of the Malt-tax.
The annual meeting of the Northamptonshire Association for • the Protection of Agriculture, took place on Saturday sennight, at North- ampton ; Sir It. Gunning in the chair. It was stated that the Earl of Westmoreland and Mr. W. R. Cartwright, M. P. had accepted the offices of President and Permanent Chairman of the Association. •A letter was then read from Lord Milton, in which he offered to become a member of the association ; but several gentlemen objected to his Lordship's admission, because of the opinions he entertained in regard to the Corn-laws. The question that his Lordship should be exekuled, was then put to the vote and carried. Sir George Robinson,- upon this, said, that as the majority of the members bad abandoned-their prim- ciples, by voting the rejection of a nobleman " interested in the pros- perity and protection of agriculture," upon which principle :Ake Association was based, he should have nothing further to do •ivitii it.— Courier.
A very elegant vase, value 80/., is now exhibiting in the shop ol'efr. Damerel, ironmonger, Exeter, bearing the following inscription" tribute of respect for private worth and political integrity, presented,to Lord Viscount Ebrington, Member of Parliament for the Northern Division of the County of Devon, being purchased by a subseriptiozeof one penny each from more than 18,000 inhabitants of that county, in order to return their grateful- sense of his Lordship's firm conduct no the House of Commons in procuring the passing of the Reform Mill, thereby securing to the People the right of choosing their own. Repre- sentatives."
The net proceeds of the Christmas Festival will not much exceed IOU—Birmingham Jontrial.
The present Vicar of a parish not a hundred miles from Faring- ham, has demanded, and under a threat of legal proceedings Obtained payment of, a paltry fie of three guineas from the children ef ads " immediate predecessor," for putting up in the parish-church a small tablet to their deceased parent's memory!—Stamford Mercury.
The Lancashire Tories and Reformers are on the alert. A warm; spondentof the Times, who writes from Manthester says—" Meetings, (of the Reformers) numerous and wealthy, have been held at the York Hotel since their defeat, with a view to a struggle when next his bits- jetty's writ of election shall summon the constituency to the exercise of
their prerogative. One gentleman, formerly but little known, but now a great man in point of property, and moreover brother to a Member fur a neighbouring borough, has put down his name for 1000/. in aid of their cause. The Conservatives, on the other hand, are not inactive : on the contrary, they anticipate their next aniversary will be celebrated in the Conservative Ilan, of which the plans have been submitted and approved by those who have the interest, the power, and the authority." [The gentleman alluded to as so munificent a subscriber, is, we pre- sume, Mr. Thomas Potter, brother of the Member for Wigan.]
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