In the Consistory Court of Hereford, on Thursday week, the

Re- verend Arthur Whalley was charged with unclerical conduct. The articles read in Court contained twenty-one separate charges, to the end principally of charging him with having preached and prayed in the open highways, and also in unlicensed places of worship, in company with an itinerant and Dissenting preacher; with having separated front the Church of England, and combined in a new brotherhood ; with having impugned and reviled the doctrines of the Established Church ; and with having otherwise acted contrarily to the rules and regulations of the Church, as laid down in the Thirty-nine Articles. Mr. Whalley admitted that the charges were substantially correct.

" I know" (he said) "that the spirit of Anti-Christ is abroad ; and I knew, before I appeared here before the judges of Anti-Christ, what the result would be. But I fear not: I have the divine authority of Christ and of the head of all power for my conduct."

The Chancellor-6' usher, Mt. W bailey, that there is wine decency ,e-

quired in such a court as this, and on such an oecasion." Mr. Whalley—" I make nu scruple of saying what I have; and I will not flinch one iota from it. I know that I am persecuted by the judges of Anti. Christ for the sake of my opinions ; and irk) that the Lord who appointed them might permit them to persecute roe." The Dean of IIrefriI recommended the defendant to consider the impor- tance of the matter before him, lie had paused before he entered on his minis- try ; and he would act well to .pause awhile before he resolved on a course the consequences of which were so important to religion and himself.

The defendant, after some desultory remarks, prayed for a future hearing, which was fixed for the 6th of March.—Abridged from the Rerrybrd Times.

The Berkshire landowners and farmers met at Reading yesterday week, to petition for the repeal of the Malt and /lop duties, and for the removal of other burdens affmting the proprietors of the soil. Air. Walter was engaged on his Parliamentary duties, but wrote to promise his support to the objects of the meeting. Mr. Palmer was present. Several gentletnen made speeches, illustrative of the distressed state ef the landed interest. Mr. D. Lousley, of Blewbury, reminded the meeting, that if the Malt and Hop duties were taky4

be in-loosed : we. off, a Property- 'tax um.- • - • • they prepared for that? It does not ap-

pear that much attentrou was paid to this view of the subject by the meeting. A petition, in which the objects of the meeting were en-

forced, was agreed to ; and the County Members were reque to support it. Mr. Palmer said that he could not !latter tiro 7.ctitioners with the hope that ;As prayer would, In granted. At a meeng of the Common Council of Bristol; on Saturday, the INtk.o1 Beaufbrt was unanimously elected Lord High Steward in the dace of Lord Grenville.

A report has reached us that two under graduates of one of our su- perior colleges, men of family, have been expelled the University, within these ten days, for very high gambling in their rooms. It is stated that upwards of 800/. was lost by one of them in one night's play. The severe example made on the delinquents is praiseworthy,

as we have been long convinced large sums are still played for by young men of family at their college-rooms, in " night's darkest hours." These transactions so seldom meet the light, that when discerned, im- mediate and condign punishment should be the result.—Cambridge In- dependent Press. One of the gamekeepers of the Marquis of Anglesey recently killed very fine yellow hare in one of the preserves near Burton-on-Trent. The Earl of Durham has this winter distributed 2,000 tons of coals amongst the poor people of Sunderland, Bishop Wearmoutb, and the neighbourhood.

A gentleman of Bnrnstaple, on his journey to Braunton, a few days since, had arrived almost at Wrafton village, when his horse shyed at something, mid !nude a start. On pulling tip suddenly, the bit urtually parted in the animal's mouth, and the rider being thus deprived of com- mand, the horse started off at full speed. The gentleman, very fortu-

nately, had some little remains of the gout ; and, in consequence, had furnished himself with a stout stick with a large crook at the end of it. With this crook he luckily caught the animal by the nose, and stopped his gallop. Had he not succeeded, the result would, in all probability, have been &tel.—Devon Advertiser.

A private of the 1st Dragoon Guards has been apprehended at Brighton, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Joseph Snarr, alias Joseph Appleby, on the Ilth October last, at Southwark.

An apprentice girl, aged only eleven, belonging to a respectable yeonem of the parish of Witheridge, was committed to Exeter Gaol, a few days since, for attempting to poison the whole of her master's family.

An individual, whose name we forbear mentioning, and who is un- derstood to be related to a noble family, was committed on Thursday week for trial at the Assizes, and required to find bail, himself in 1,000/. and two sureties in 500l. each, on a charge of committing an in- decent assault on a person 'named Hewitt, in the pit of the Theatre, on Wednesday. Rumours are prevalent that he is insane. —Brighton Paper.