(From Punch.) dear Mother Church is just now undergoing a species of barmless persecution—harmless, because it is simply one of the sports of the Parliamentary vacation, and will cease when there is something else to fill newspaper columns—touching the inadequate pay received by

the vestries of Clerenwell, St. Luke's, and other parishes within the borough of insbury, appointed to confer as to the measures be apopted obtaining park for the borough of Finsbury, has received communication from Lord Palmerston asking be furnished of a n ro P° Be d park, and

We beg to call attention a new legislative regulation affecting the individual interests of a large class of traders this parish. Section 30 of the Metropolitan Market Act enacts, that no slaughter-house within the Metropolitan Police District, with the exception of the new catt

Whitehall, and Bloomsbury, Chairman. Lieut.-Colonel H. M. Clifford, M.P. for Hereford, Eaton-place, Belgrave square, and Ross, Herefordshire, Vice-Chairman. Thomas Emmerson Headlam, Esq., Q.C., M.P. for Newcastle, Ashley-place, and Gilmonby-hall, Barnard-castle, Durham. Sir Jame

flows from its presence! Without it, wealth, honours, the possession of a kingdom, or the acquirement of world-wide renown, little else than mockery; and life, considered in relation to our present state, becomes a weariness to its possessor. As health, then, is to be highly pri

It is now generally known that the incumbency of St. James', Clerkenwell, has recently becoiue vacant, in consequence of the death of the lie v. W. E. L. Faulkner. The living, which at present is worth about £l6O (not £3OO erroneously stated in the Times) is in the gift of the p

Mrs. Cherry, wife of the rector of Burghfield (about four miles from Reading), left her husband's house, domestic differences having led to this separation. Mr. Cherry made repeated efforts to induce her to come to his home, but in vain. On Sunday evening, in St. Giles's Church,

Monday last the Chartists of London assembled large lumbers on Primrose-hill, to welcome John FrOst his return from transportation, after an exile of 15 year*.- Mr. Ernest Jones was elected chairman of the meeting, and spoke at considerable length, urging the necessity of the Ch

During .the past year several of these useful Institutions have successfully been established in our parish, affording the operative classes an opportunity for spending their evenings in a way at once rational and. profitable. The one we speak of was commenced in June last, in p

A body shareholders in the British Bank had interview with the directors on Thursday last; to ascertain the result of an investigation into their accounts. It appears that the liabilites of the Bank will be about £540.000 and the assets about £340,000. The Directors have resolve