The Lords of the Treasury having certified that the actual
expenditure for the year ended the 10th October 1847 exceeded the revenue by 326,608L, the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt notify that no sum will be applied on account of the Sinking-fund during the present quarter.
Dr. Hampden will be confirmed Bishop of Hereford on Tuesday next, at eleven o'clock, at Bow Church. We believe that the day on which the consecration will take place is not yet fixed.—Times.
Mr. John O'Connell comes to the rescue of Archbishop M‘Hale, in a letter to the Freeman's Journal, commencing thee- " I have just read with feelings of the utmost astonishment, and with the in-. digestion that I think it must give rise to in every Irish mind, the insulting dic- tatorial, and disgraceful letter which Lord Shrewsbury has presumed to address to the Lord Archbishop of Team. I do heartily trust that his Grace will not condescend to answer it."
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