An Anti-Corn-law Conference of Ministers of North Wales is sitting
at Carnarvon ; having been promoted by a local Committee: it as- sembled on Wednesday. The clerical adherents of the cause number 96 Independent ministers, 50 Baptist ministers, 4 Calvinist Methodists, other 56 remaining silent, and a few out of the small number of Wes- leyan ministers. Of these avowed supporters of the cause, 40 were prevented from attending by poverty, indisposition, or imperative en- gagements. The most prominent speaker was the Reverend J. W. Massie, a clerical member of the League : his opening address had to be translated into Welsh to the meeting—whether for the benefit of the ministers or of the numerous lay spectators, is not stated in the report before us.
The Stockport Chronicle of yesterday gives a table of the allowances made to the poor of the borough, in bread, bacon, potatoes, meal, and butter ; from which it appears that the increase in the gross number of those allowances had averaged about 500 a week for seventeen weeks, amounting on the 25th November to upwards of 12,000. The same paper says that 2,000 cottages stand empty in the neighbouring town of Oldham.
A few more larger contributions to the destitute are announced. The Dutchess of Kent has sent 25/. to the Paisley Relief-fund. With that donation, the Honourable C. A. Murray transmitted 501. collected among "the ladies and gentlemen on duty at the Palace." And Lord Cornwallis has given 504 to the Spitalfields weavers.
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