At Bedford, and at Whitchurch in Shropshire, there have been
public meetings and subscriptions in aid of the Irish Clergy : at the former place 3201. was subscribed, at the latter 2431.
There have been agricultural meetings within a few days at Lincoln, Oakham, and Worcester ; but their proceedings have been very briefly reported, and seem riot to have possessed any especial interest.
A correspondent has pointed out an error into which we fell list week in giving an account of the agricultural meeting in West Somerset. Instead of stating that the West Somersetshire Agricul- tural Association had their anniversary dinner at Sherborne, we should have said, " The great West Somerset cattle show and agricultural meeting was held at Taunton,"—Sherborne being in Dorsetshirc.
Our correspondent also mentions, in reference to a remark of Sir T. Lethbridge that the clergy are easy tithe-owners, a circumstance honourable to the character of the Reverend Mr. Lance, a clergyman who resides near Taunton. At his late tithe-audit, a butcher re- quested some abatement, as times had been " cross" with him : he was told to pay what he could afford ; upon which " a sort of tithe- steward," who was in the room, reminded Mr. Lance, that the butcher supplied his family with meat, and therefore made a profit out of him ; but Mr. Lance replied, " I make it a point never in any way to allow tithes to interfere with my dealings with tradespeople." We join in our correspondent's wish that " there were more such clergymen."
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