" The disgraceful spectacle, which Was lately exhibited in this
town, of the broken windows at St. Peter's Church, proves, unhappily but too well, the ex- istence of a party resolved to destroy, if possible, the Church of our fathers."
There is nothing on earth so utterly disgraceful and contemptible as this whining of wealthy Churchmen, because the Dissenters will not repair their places of worship. Who calls on Churchmen to mend the broken windows of Dissenting chapels? All that is asked for, adds the Brighton journalist, is simply the means of maintaining "the decent worship and service of a Protestant church." So—unless the Dis- senters aid the Churchmen, the latter will be at a loss how to keep up the decent worship of God in Brighton ! Shame on such meanness !
The appoiatment of Mr. Williams to the Lord-Lieutenancy of Brecon, in the room of the late Duke of Beaufort, has given great satis- faction to the Reformers in Wales. The Cambrian says- " Hitherto the Principality of Wales has laboured under the ban of twelve Tory Lord-Lieutenants, who have exerted their direct and indirect influence to suppress the rising spirit of Reform amongst the population of our hills and vales ; and however much we may regret the decease of the amiable and re- spected nobleman, noticed in our last, we are politically consoled by the positive assurance, that two wealthy Commoners, of Reform principles, are to preside over the Lieutenancies of Brecon and Monmouth. The public press of Wales have now cause to rejoice that it has one Lord-Lieutenant, out of twelve, favour- able to support its disinterested principles of Reform for the good government of the British empire at large, and who will also support his Majesty's Govern. meat."
The subscriptions in aid of the monument to Earl Grey, in New- castle-upon-Tyne, amount to very nearly 2000/. It has been deter- mined by the Committee, that the memorial is to be a column sur- mounted by a statue of his Lordship, to be placed in a conspicuous situation in the town.
A proposition has been made in Hants to raise a subscription, at the rate of one sovereign each subscriber, to present a splendid shield to the Duke of Wellington, as Lord-Lieutenant of that county.
Four hundred pounds have now been subscribed at Leicester for erecting a monument to Wickliffe. The sum required is 600/.
The iron trade of Staffordshire and the neighbouring districts is, at the present moment, flourishing beyond all precedent. It is said that there is not one house in the manufacture within thirty miles of Bir- mingham which has not more orders on hand than they can possibly execute within the next three months. The following further advance of prices took place from the first of the present month. Bar, rod,
and small rounds, 20s. per ton ; hoops, sheets, and boiler plates, 30s. per ton. Many houses refuse to take orders at even these prices.— Birmingham Advertiser.
At a public meeting held at Tamworth on Tuesday last, to consider the projected railway from Birmingham to Derby, Sir Robert Peel avowed himself favourable to the principle of communication by rail- ways, and on all occasions disposed to give them his cordial support, provided he was satisfied that they presented a fair prospect of afford-
ing a profitable investment for capital ; and further, that it appeared to him to be indispensably necessary to the maintenance of the present superiority of this country, that such undertakings should be en- couraged.
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