On Friday last week, upwards of seven hundred persons dined
at the Shire-ball, Chelmsford, on the occasion of preseetieg Lord Wes- tern with a piece of plate, as a testimony of their approbation of his political condurt during a period of forty-four years. Lord Petre, Lord Ifficre. Sir Thomas Leonard, Mr. Lennard, Mr. William Smith, atuh many other political friends of Lord IVestern, were among the coin parry. We last week noticed and contradicted the report of sonic busy Tory, circulated through the John Bull, and subsequently copied into other papers, that our worthy and independent Representative, Mr. Schuh field, was about to retire from Parliament. We are now au- thorized to state that the rumour is totally unfounded, being a " mere iovention of the enemy ;" as on a previous occasion, when we gave it a similar contradietion.—Hirednehunt Journal, March '2.2. We find by letters received from Earl Fitzwilliam, that he is favour- able to the redress of the I fissenters' grievances, except on two very important points, viz. their exemptiun from church-rates, and the ad- mission tp graduate at the Universities. We regret that this excel- lent nobleman should not see the propriety of relieving Dissenters from an unjust and vexatious burden, and of admitting them to the advantages of the great national seats of learnitig.—Lceds Mercury.
"A branch of the Bank of England is about to be opened at Plymouth. This will be the fourteenth provincial establishment in connexion with the Bank.
An insolvent applied last week for his discharge before the Com- missioners at Bristol. lie has been the father of thirty children, Lis wife having thrice given birth to twins.
Several skeletons have lately been dug up in the parish of Stowe, Bucks ; one of colossal size, and one having an antique gold ring round the bone of one finger.
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