... A CLERGYMAN IILLING TifE OrrIcE or CIIURCuI- IV.UDEN.-The rector of Ackworth, Yorkshire, has this year appointed the Rev. R. E. Batty, curate of Wragby, as his churchwarden, and the rev, gentleman has accepted the offiee, PRE-REFORMATIoN SERVICE BOOKS-An attempt is made in certain quarters to revive the use of service- bools anterior to the Reformation. Anew 'Companion to Confession and ...

... ADYOURND MEETBUNG, WEDNZSDAY, MARCH 30. There being a vacancy in the Jesus Hospital, there were five candidates. Mr Ald. Lowiusy proposed, and Mr SPOOR seconded, Jane Banks, aged 68; no other being proposed (which the Town Clerk said he never recollected before) she was chosen unanimously. It appeared that the deceased inmate had attained the age of 91. A motion by Msr Aid. WthTHeILlow, to ...

... HANDs5Om Gcirn.-The Lord Bishop of Lichfield hav- ing made an appeal on behalf of the Diocesan Church Extension Society, Mr Hardy, of Dunstan Hall, has contributed the munificent sum of 500 to the funds. TnE GALLY KNIGHT FUND,-The late Mr H. G. Knight left his Firbeck estate to the ecclesiastical com- miesionere, to augment the incomes of clergymen, or to build churches and ohapels. It appears ...

... NEWCASTLE, Amu 22. The financial statement of the Chancellor of the Ex- | chequer, which was made on Monday evening, in a speech occupying five hours in the delivery, com rises so many details, that the reader must be referred, for particulars, to the parliamentary intelligence i but it outline is as follows :-An estimated surplus Of 807,00l (the smallness of which arisesfrom the inreased ...

... WIDNESDAY, April 6 The usual monthly meeting was held to-day, Mayor (George Potts, Esq.) in the chair. El Reports were brought up from the Finance andW; I, Committees, and adopted without diecussios. Mr Ald. TOSHACII brought up a report fran the Po 9( mittee having the charge of the Town Inprovtm tl Bll] reporting on certain petitions presented on00e te ol the manufacturers and others against ...

... ADJOURNED MEETING.-THURISDAY, APIL 28. A report was read from the Northumberland Dock Com- xmittee, stating that, in a short time, an inspector and a resi- dent sub-'rginecr would be required. ! . rep(*rt was read from the Mooring Committee, recom. mending a number of additional ?? book- keeper, MAr Guthrie, read a calculation, showing Ihat whenall the works ordered should be completed, there ...

... THE LATE ADKIRALTY SECRETARY AND THE I DOCKYARD PATRONAGE. Two parliamentary papers relating to this subject w ere made publio on March 30th. The first consists of copies of Admiralty circulars, issued in 1847 and 1849, relating to-dockyard promotions, and of the correspond- ence between Sir Baldwin Walker, the surveyor of the navy, and the admiralty, in reference to the'resignation of his ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY, APRIL 7. An address to the Crown for a commission of enquiry into the Cambridgo election was agreed to. Earl GitEY begged to ask whether it was the intention of government to institute any inquiry into the allega- tlions made last session in the other house, relative to the misappropriation of the public money by the New Zealand Company ?-The Duke of NEBvCASTLE thought ...

... The select collmoittce appolinted to inquire into the aliega tiens contained in the ?? agairnst the retotrs of ikrtthcw Forster, EIsq. and the Hleo Jhln Stipleton, s et nil I ri ly for tle first time. The nieimbers were Mr Whitt-s~e, Mr ii1-. S. Keatig, Mr Booker , Mr Wilcox, and Mr 11. Ii. Seymer, chnairiman . The counsel in support of th peltition wt r Mc SatQ.C., and Mr Itawkinl ; for Mr ...

... PUBLIC MEETING RESPECTING THE INDE- PENDENCE OF TURKEY. A meeting, oalled by the Right Worshipful the MayoT of this town ?? G. Lambert, Esq.), on a requisition from numerous individuals who deemed it important to make a demonstration in support of the independence of the Turkish empire, now threatened ?? Russia and Austria, was held, on Tuesday evening, in the Lecture- room Nelson-street, ...

... LETTERS FROM EMIGRANTS FROM THIS LOCALITY IN AMTITRALIA. Ur Charles Blvons, 'it of Mr Blyton, Tyne-street, North Shields, who went out in the Gambia, proceeded to the gold-fields; hnt, one of his companions falling ill, and being in danger from want of proper attention there, he kindly ret uned with him to Melbourne, and, having had the sa.-luetion of seejiug his friend recover, he took a ...

... MIGRANTS. The Rev. William Harbutt, independent minister, a native of this town, writing to his brother, Mr Thomas Harbutt, North Shields, in a letter dated Port Philip December 22nd, says :-At Melbourne, life is not safe Emigrants are pouring in now at the rate of eight and ten thousand weekly. Twenty pounds a week was offered for a single room to receive a young man dying, but not one could ...