The parishioners of 'Manchester held a meeting in the collegiate
church of that town on Wednesday, for the purpose of discussing the subject of a church-rate, proposed to be levied according to custom. 'T! tame atilt of the rate proposed was only a halfpenny in the pound; but it Iva:: resisted, on principle, by the Dissenters. 'lime rate was re- jected h■ a show of hands, and a poll was demanded by the Churchmen. After two days' polling, the numbers stood—for the rate, 1322; against it, a. tel. nit the poll will he kept open till next Wednesday; and the .Dieiters boast that they will still have a majority of three to one.
During the present mouth, 900 vessels have arrived at Liverpool, 300 ef which are from foreign parts, the remainder from Ireland and coast- wise. The docks are consequently crowded. The trade of the port continues rapidly to increase.—Lfrerpool Standard.
Aim extensive failure in the woollen trade was announced on Thursday. The firm ia that of Hicks Brothers, near Stroud, established upwards of forty years. The total liabilities are stated at about 80,0001. to 8I,( )0m, .
The quality of the new wheat is found to differ so much, that at Uxbridge market it has already varied in price front 31s. to 56s. the quarter, or nearly otie-half.
Last week, upwards of one hundred sheaves of wheat, standing in a field near Lymington, were completely thrashed and cleared of the corn, without the perpetrators being discovered.—Bristol Mercury.
Experiments have been made with luggage-trains down the inclined plane at Sutton, on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, to ascertain the distance the trains would move without the aid of engines. Some of the heavy trains acquired such a velocity in descending the incline, as to run a mile on the level tram without the aid of steam-power.— Bolton Chronicle.
There has been a general turn-out of all the moulders in Rochdale for an advance of wages from 288. to 30s. per week. The masters seem determined not to advance.—Lirerpool Standard.
A great number of journeymen stonemasons in Newcastle have had the infatuation to abandon their employment : not that they required ligher wages, but because several men not in the Union were earning bread for their wives and families upon terms which were disapproved of by the Union dictators. The consequence was, that the delegates first sent a mandate to the masters requiring that time poor fellows al- luded to should be discharged ; and on this tyrannical' and insolent dc- 4mand being treated with deserved contempt, it was resolved that time men in the Union should cease to work. The gentlemen against whom this measure was directed has acted with becoming spirit, and is deter- mined to employ no MCII in future in any way connected with the Union. We have satisfaction in adding, that a number of stranger.; have already accepted the good work and excellent wages discarded by the Unionists ; and as others are daily arriving, the individuals who have been duped by unprincipled delegates will speedily be brought to their senses.—Neweastle Journal.
Mr. Oastler has published, in the Argus and Demagogue of last Sa- turday, the first part of an argutnent to prove that Sir John Ramsdell has no claim in law or equity to receive the canal dutics paid by the inhabitants of Huddersfield. Mr. Oastler has commenced the exami- nation of the act of Parliament which originally enabled the Rannsderms to construct the canal in question, lie argues that Sir Jclimm is only the trustee of the public, and that consequently he has no right to ap- propriate the funds to his own purposes. The case is strongly mada out, and we have understood that great excitement has been produced by the disclosure. —Leads Times.
A pedestrian, who calls himself " the Rabone youth," on Friday accotnplished the following teat : be walked seven miles in one hour, ran eleven in the next hour, and again walked seven miles in the sue. ceeding hour, making a total of twenty-five miles in thrao hours. The ground over which Ile walked to and fro was from the Gaol Square, Stafford, to the road leading to Silkmore, near Radford Bridge.— Wolverhantptor Chronicle.
On the 16th, Mr. Robert Ilueter, of Hothead], attained Ids eightieth year ; on which occasion he lifted a twenty-stolie sack of flour from off the threshold of Mr. Carter's granary, and carried it a considerable diatance.—Lincoln Mercury.
A deserving young man, in Witham, having some time since applied for a situation ill the Excise, seas requested to be prepared with a me- morial as to character, from the respectable inhabitants in his neigh- bourhood. In this he was very successful. In the course of his comm. VIISS, he called upon a clergyman in the vicinity, who has generally looked upon himself as somewhat superior to his brethren. his reve- rence, alter a few inquiries, asked whether it was true the applicant wa; a Dissenter ? He said he was. " Then," said his reverence, " I shall sign no certificate to assist you to get a place ; but if I can ever prevent a Dissenter from doing so, I will gladly sign a memolial for the pur- pose ! "—Colel/csler Gazelle.
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