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Mr. Thomas Attwood has required the ceremony of a public invitation before his contemplated return to "public life." A meeting was held at Birmingham on the 28th September, and a deputation was appointed to wait on Mr. Attwood with a requisition signed by 16,000 persons inviting him to reappear. He assented— "It was never my intention," he said, "to interfere again in any public movement of the people. For many years I have anxiously watched the slow but certain progress of the national nun. A great change now comes over the prospects of our country. I now think that the time has come in which I should be criminal if I did not cooperate with you in making one other effort to relieve the distress of the people, and to rescue the nation from the fearful anarchy which threatens it. The late great changes in the Corn and Provision laws, by removing in a great degree the buttresses which propped the powerful landed interest, have oven a prodigious accession of strength to the public cause. Those changes are now forcing the owners of land into a community of suffering and feeling with the owners of labour. * * * Holding these opinions and having your confidence to assure me, I do not hesitate to say that I will immediately consult the able and estimable friends upon whose assistance I must rely, and by whose counsel I must mainly be guided: and with their concurrence I will very shortly submit for your approbation the best Plan which my humble reason can devise, for restoring safety, prosperity, harmony, and contentment, to all classes of the people."
The important ecclesiastical office of the Arehdeaconry i of Manchester has at length been formally created; the necessary instrument having passed the Great &al and been confirmed by the Queen in Council. The Reverend John Rushton is the newly-appointed Archdeacon. The jurisdiction of the Manchester Archdeaconry will extend iover the whole of the county of Lancaster south of the Ribble; and the office is constituted as a precursor to the intended Bishopric to be seated at Manchester.—Globe. The Oxford ,Gazette relates a case of clerical intolerance. The Reverend T. Chamberlain refused to bury a child, on the ground that it had not been "baptized for the pardon of sin," it having only been baptized by a Dissenting minister. The father, who had four children buried in the church, urged that the one which was now dead had been baptized by the senior Wesleyan minister, the Reverend 31. Wilson, who was ordained by Dr. Coke, a presbyter of the Church of England. Mr. Chamberlain said, that if he buried the child, it would be in a way the father did not like " On the morning of Friday, the sexton intimated to the mother that a grave was dug in a corner of the churchyard : in the afternoon the funeral procession entered the churchyard ; the curate, also attended by three policemen, was on the spot, and pointing to the grave, said, 'There is a grave ; I mean to bury your child as a castaway.' After a brief dialogue, the excited and bereaved mother seized upon the curate, and a most painful spectacle ensued,— the clergyman desirous to escape, and calling for the police ; the mother demanding the interment of her child ; the father calling for a spade, and declaring be would bury his child by the other children himself. A large crowd gathers ; and for nearly three hours the churchyard is the scene of excitement, disorder, and tumult. In the end, the child was buried by the side of its relatives, and by another clergyman."
A meeting on Welsh grievances was held on Wednesday, at the summit of the mountain Ben Crugybalog, about two miles from Newcastle Emlyn. Mr. E. L. Williams, a County Magistrate, was in the chair ; and about 3,000 persons assembled from twenty-two different parishes. Petitions to the Queen and Parliament, setting forth the grievances, were adopted ; and a resolution was passed, pledging the persons present to discountenance violence and nightly meetings.
Two men of notoriously bad character were seized by a party of London Police, on Saturday, near Llanelly. The men, David Davis and John Jones, had been concerned in an attack on the Gweunyth Iron-works a few nights before ; and the party had threatened to shoot Mr. Slocombe, the managing clerk, if he did not leave the country. They were privately examined before the Magistrates on Monday, and remanded.
Rebecca and her Daughters have made their appearance in Radnorshire ; having destroyed the Penpistil toll-gate, near Rhayader, on the 22d September. Some other like violences have been committed ; but the ubiquitous Boadicea does not appear to have obtained a very extensive influence in Radnor.
The men who escaped recently from Castle Rushen, in the Isle of Man, landed at Amlwch, in Anglesey, and commenced their old practices. The consequence was that two of them were recaptured and lodged in gaol.
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