The 21funchester Times says--" We venture to predict, that giving
a Bishop to Manchester will destroy Episcopacy, and that any attempt to fasten the repair and support of churches upon the Consolidated Fund, will destroy the Whig Administration."
The inhabitants of Mahchester have determined to erect on the site of the present Exchange Buildings a spacious Exchange-room, a News- room, Lloyd's-room, Post-office, a room for the accommodation of the Chamber of Commerce, a room for public meetings, a room for public sales, brokers' offices and chambers, and a library, and also apartments for such other purposes as may be considered advantageous to the public.
The Church party at Gildersome, mortified at the non-allowance of the church-rate, have deprived the inhabitants of the village of the benefit of the church-clock, by refusing to have it wound up !
A contest has sprung up between the town and University autbori. ties of Cambridge. Notice having been given by Messrs. Humphrey and Coe, as justices for the borough, of a petty sessions for licensing public-houses, the Vice- Chancellor has issued a notice, claiming" the sole and exclusive right of granting such licenses," and warning all inn- keepers and victuallers against keeping any inn or alehouse without his license.— Cambridge Post.
At the last meeting of the Town-Council of Beverley, Yorkshire, a Mr. Nutchley moved tm address to the Secretary of State for the Home Department against the Mayor, for conduct which he termed "factious and political," and demanded that the Corporation seal should be affixed to it. This was met by a countersresolution ; and, after a stormy debate, the memorial was carried with only four votes against it.
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