The members of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association had
their annual meeting, in the Essex Street Chapel, on Wednesday. Dr. Armstrong. of Dublin, preached a sermon; and subsequently the report was read and discussed. It appeared that, for several years, the expenditure had exceeded the receipts ; and this year the deficiency was about SOL In the evening, the friends of the Society dined together at the London Tavern, the great moth of which was quite filled. The Reverend Mr. Aspland presided, in the absence of Mr. Mark Phillips, M P., through indisposition. Speeches were delivered by the Chairman, Dr. Carpenter of Bristol, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. 'E. Wood ; and several allusions were made to the attempts which have been recently made by certain sects of Dissenters to deprive the Uni- tarians of their chapels anti share in the bequests of Trinitarian Non- conformists.
A meeting of the proprietors of the National Bank of Ireland was held on Wednesday, at the City of London Tavern ; Mr. O'Connell in the Chair. The Secretary having read the report, which described the favourable state of the Company's affairs, stated that the Directors were engaged in the formation of a National Bank in Dublin, and recommended an increase of capital upon additional shares, which were not to be issued at a less premium than 501. Mr. O'Connell read a few items from the balance sheet, and stated ;hat the amount of the Company's manual profits was 25,567/. 14s. The report having been in1,-nted. the Secretary stated, in reply to a shareholder, that the profits ot the he bank since January last mere 16,3301., and since that time a great number of branches had been opened. A shareholder having inquired if application had been made for a charter for the Association, Mr. O'Connell said that there was no notion at present of applying for a charter. The meeting, after voting thanks to the Chairman and Directors, separated.
There was a grand sailing-match of yachts belonging to members of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, on Thursday. The distance was from Greenwich to a boat moored off Gravesend, and back again to Greenwich. The following boats started—the Ada June, Princess Vittoria, Telemachus, Rob Roy. Alert, and Lady Louisa. The Ada Jane beat the Princess Victoria, which was next, by seventeen sect/MIS;
the other following at intervals of eight or ten minutes. The prize was a silver cup worth fifty guineas. The City of London steam boat conveyed a large !tarty from the Tower to Greenwich. 1 he shove was listed with spectators for a considerable distance, and the scene was very joyous and interesting.
The steam-vessel Manchester arrived at Blackwall on Tuesday, from Malta, %%lib four giraffe-N. it lion, a lynx, and two pzt Iles, far the Zoological Gardens. The giraffes are remarkably well ; the tallest of them is eleven feet high.
Mr. Coke of Holkham, accompanied by the Duke of Norfolk, the :Marquis of Treeistoek, Lord Lysiedoch, Mr. Whitbread, toed a large party of their friends, spent a great part of Friday last in viewing the new cattle-market, at Islington ; and unanimously declared than it far surpassed every idea they could have formed of it %%idiom reviler it, and that it only required to be seen by agriculturists to rolivince them of the gross fidsehoods whit h have been so activi ly circulated by in- terested parties to its prejudice .— Morning Chronicle.
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