Its 4 , mq:qui:ere of the assertion lately made in l'arliament that

Cersisie etas opoo-ed to tin alailieitsi of hutch-tams, a no Laing was Leld Iiiatockpuit Olt W"talstesday looming, ill the Count-house, to take

the sense of the inhabitants upon the question ; when a most tri. *amphora rofutution of time falsehood, as far us this town is concerned, was the consequence ; and the meeting declared their entii e satisfaction with the measure introduced by Ministers.

A meeting was held at Leeds on Monday. and resolutions agreed to for the abolition of Chutch.rates.

At Bungay, a poll for and against a Church-rate is to commence on Monday.

At Leicester, on Tuesday, an attempt WAS made to procure a rate; but in vain. The Vicar kept the chair in the principal church, amidst a scene of uproar and violence till it was dark; and then he moved off, Another chairman was elected, and the rate postponed for six months.

At Birmingham, on Tuesday, a pitched battle was fought in St. Martin's Church, when the election of Churchwardens came on. The Rector refused to put the question its to whether the first Church. warden should be elected by a show of hands. Ile opened the poll, and called upon the electors to vote. A scuffle ensued, in consequence of one party wishing to see the minute- book, which the Rector would not give up, and the other setting them at defiance. According to the account in the Times, there was a battle royal in the church, only terminated by the police.

It appears from the Wolverhampton Chronicle, that when the rate. payers assembled on Tuesday, fur the purpose of electing Church- wardens, the Chairman found it necessary, in order to disarm opposi. tion, to state that the candidates who were proposed, if elected, did not intend to ask for a Church-rate for the ensuing year. Under these circumstances, the election took place without difficulty. There was a greet deal of excitement until this conciliatory course was an. 'meowed.

A rate of ninepence in the pound has been voted at Stamford.

A meeting was held at Cantelbury on Tuesday, to petition against Ch reit • rates.

On Thursday, a nutnber of Essex Tories assembled at Chelmsford, and passed resolutions in favour of Church-rates. . _

Edward Arnett, Elizabeth Arnett his wife, and Isabella Arnett his sister, were tried at Liverpool on Tuesday, for coining. Isabella Arnett is the fine, intelligent-looking woman, wins acted with such nenchafance at the time of her arrest, when, sitting down to her piano, she exclaimed, " Well, it's all over, but I will have one other tune ;" und played " Over the water to Charley." She displayed the same intrepidity on the trial. Elizabeth Arnett was acquitted, us she was presumed to he acting under the authority of her husband. The

Forelnall of the Jury, by mistake, an the acquittal of Isabella ; whereupon she made a low curtsey, but did not show the least emotion when the verdict was set right mid she was declared guilty. She and her brother were senteticsd to transportation for life. Slw then made auother formal curtsey, und left the duck. Mrs. Arnett mailed and wept.

Lord Abinger was taken ill, while on the circuit at Warwick, on Saturday, but recovered sufficiently to resume his duties on Monday.

At the .Monmenth Assizes, on Tuesday, a Juryman asked to be excused from service.— Mt. Baron Bolland—" On what ground, Sir ?"

Jut') man —" I ain deaf, Inv Lord."

Mr. lltron Holland—" Cml pill bear what I say?"

Yes, my Lord, but I can only hem: with one ear." Mr. Baron Bulland—.‘ Then you may go, Sir. A juryman ought to have two ears; it is his duty to hear both sides."

At the Kingston Assizes, on Thursday, six medical students of Guy's Hospital were tried for a riot with assault at St. Thomas's Hos. pital, on the 16th of December last. The riot was occasioned by the attempt of the studentsut Guy's to force themselves into the dissecting- room at St. Thomas's. Three of the prisoners, Messrs. Carrington, Linwood, avid Musgrove, were found guilty of the assault, fined 101. each, and bound in their own recognizances of 401. each to keep the peace. The three others, Messrs. Tomlinson, Harris, and Edmonds, were acquitted. The trial lasted nine hours.