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Mr. O'Connell is to dine with the Reformers of York on the 7th instant. It is expected that not only the inhabitants of York, but many of the neighbouring gentry, will be present on the occasion. In the course of the next week, the Member for Ireland will also be en- tertained by the Liberals of Nottingham, hull, and Whitby. Ile has been obliged to decline an invitation to Lincoln.
The " Society of Friends of Chelmsford" have published an account of the losses they have incurred in a conscientious resistance to the payment of Church-rates since 1828; and a statement of their reasons for refusing to comply with a demand, which they consider as unscrip- tural, and at variance with the spirit of Christianity. From the table of losses, it appears that in resisting the payment of 4s. 6d. an expense of I/. 17s. has been incurred ; and that the refusal to pay 2s. &I. and Is. 4d. has cost the recusants respectively IL 9s. 3d. and 11. 7s. Id. This is about the common proportion of costs to the original demand.
LONDON, SALISBURY, EXETER, PLYMOUTH, AND FALMOUTH RAIL, WAY.—Nothing can exceed the enthusiasm which prevails from London to the Land's End in favour of this gigantic undertaking, which is pregnant with advantage beyond the most comprehensive mind to grasp. The spur given to manufacture, agriculture, and the surplus population on the line, is incalculable ; and the extension of the line from Exeter to Falmouth and Redruth, through the heart of the county of Cornwall, a-ill facilitate the conveyance of the mails, troops, baggage, &c. The line from Exeter to Falmouth, by way of Crediton, Oakhampton, Launceston, Bodmin, Truro, and Redruth, where it will unite the existing Portreagh Railway on the north coast, and Devonian on the South, the proposed Victoria and Padstow Railway at Launceston, and the existing Wadebridge Railway at Bochnin, with a branch from Okehampton to Tavistock, Plymouth, and Devonport, on the South, and to Bideford and Barnstaple on the North, are being sur- veyed, and will shortly be laid before the public.—Exeter Flying Post.
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