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A deputation of noblemen and gentlemen,. connected with Ireland, waited on the Archbishop of Armagh on Wednesday; and presented a declaration to his Grace, in which they expressed their attachment to the United Church of England and Ireland, and their determination to resist all changes in its liturgy, formularies, rites, and ceremonies. They called upon the Bishops and clergy to defend the Church of Christ by every means in their power, and faithfully maintain the dignity of their holy order. The Archbishop declared his own determi- nation, and that of his brethren, to 'maintain inviolate the holy apos- tolic Church of England and Ireland ; in the full belief, nevertheless, that if it should please the Almighty "to permit the subsisting con- nexion between Church and State to be dissolved," his ways will be justified to his children. [Not a word is to be found in the address, or reply, of sinecures, pluralities, tithes collected by the bayonet, and the other enormities of the Irish Church.]
TheUnitarian congregation of Lewin's Mead, Bristol, have presented an address to Earl Grey, in which they express their gratitude for his Lordship's past services, and satisfaction with his measures both as re- gards the Dissenters and the general interests of the country. They consider it the duty of every one to "yield time and confidence" to Ministers ; and declare their disapprobation of the impatience and dis- trust manifested by some of the Dissenting body. The tone of the address is such as Ministers of State are in the habit of hearing from humble dependents.
A Court of Directors was held on Wednesday at the East India House ; when Mr. Robert Grant was appointed Governor of Bombay.
Lord Brougham, the Duke of Richmond, almost all the Judges, and several Members of Parliament, dined on Saturday, according to cus- tom, with the Sheriffs of Middlesex at the Vintners' Hall.
The anniversary dinner of the noblemen and gentlemen educated at Harrow School took place on Saturday Mr. G. R. Dawson in the chair. It was proposed, by the Earl of Ripon, that a subscription for a public monument, in honour of the late master of the school, Ili.. Drury should be entered into which proposal was warmly seconded, and a considerable sum was collected for that object. Sir It. Peel was appointed President for the ensuing anniversary.
The collection at St. Paul's Cathedral, on the occasion of the 1;:te anniversary of the London Clearity Schools, was upwards of ;all.; being very considerably above the usual average.
In the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, John Cleave was found guilty of publishing the Weekly Police Gazelle, an unstamped news- paper ; and on the same day, Mr. Hetherington was charged with sel- ling the People's Conservative and the Poor Man's Guardian. The Jury found a verdict for the Crown upon the Clmservalive, and for the defendant on the Poor Man's Guardian. Hetherington said—" I am glad of that, for it legalizes the publication. Lord Lyndhurst then ob- served—" Mr. Hetherington is anxious that it should be understood that the Jury do not think that the Poor Man's Guardian comes within the act." Both of these defendants spoke at length, and abused the Government and Sir J. Campbell very roundly.
The case of the King versus Lord Teynham and another, for a con- spiracy to defraud a Mr. Langford of 3000/. and upwards, upon the pretence of procuring him a place under Government, was called on Tuesday, for a new trial ; but no person appeared to prosecute, and a verdict of Not Guilty was returned.
William Jackson, the supposed robber of the Bungay Bank, was re- examined at the Mansionhouse on Monday. The Cashier of the Bank swore positively to his having entered the Bank with him on the morn- ing of the robbery; when as usual, he opened the iron chests, &e., where the cash was kept. The whole amount taken was nearly four thousand pounds. Other persons from the neighbourhood of Bungay also recognized the prisoner. Norris and his wife denied having ever seen the prisoner, or that he had ever lodged in their house. Young Charles Norris also denied that he had ever seen him, or that he was the person who had forced him into the hackney-coach ; but a woman who lived in the same house with the Norrises, swore positively to the prisoner having lodged there, and to his having told her that young Norris had robbed him of a heavy sum. Another woman also identified the prisoner as a lodger at Norris's. The hackney-coachman, who had carried off Norris, swore positively that he acted in the affair by the prisoner's direction ; that Norris had given a false account of it ; and that the prisoner had told him he had been robbed of 5001. The pri- soner was again remanded.
At the Thames Police-office, on Wednesday, the captain of the steam-boat Adelaide, which has recently been running between Hunger- ford Market and Greenwich for the conveyance of passengers, to the great injury and annoyance of the Thames watermen, was fined Si. under a by-law of the Watermen's Company, for acting as master of the steam groat without being duly approved and licensed by the Watermen's Company. It is understood that this verdict will go to put a stop to any further steam conveyance to Greenwich ; as it is the intention of the Watermen's Company not to grant a licence to any steam-boat which shall run to Greenwich.
A Mr. James, a schoolmaster in Whitecross Street, was fined fifteen latillings and costs, at the Worship Street Office, on Wednesday, for
striking one of his scholars, a child of between four and five years of age, so as to knock him off his scat, and make his ear a "complete mass of black and blue."
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