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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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mataining the results of the day's Races, is pub-
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Soma of our readers must know Shrewsbury. It
ban interesting place to visit ; interesting foe its
picturesque half-timber houses, not merely lodges
and cottages, but substantial dwellings of the olds
time ; interesting for its remnants of ancient walls,
and the castle, and the monasteries with their histo-
rical associations interesting for its Elizabethan
market•hoose, and its churches and bridges, and its
half-Welsh character ; and not least for its fine pro-
/ =etude, " the Quarry," bounded by the red-flowing
Severn, and graced by noble avenues of limes,
casting their cool shade upon the grass which makes.
every townsman the pomeesor of a garden. While!
pacing those broad walks, or pawing through the
clean and quiet streets, a stranger might suppose this
old town to be the abode of dignified tranquillity, and
neighbourly peace. But if he should happen toper
mar the vestry-door of Bt. Chad's at the time when
a meeting was held, he would be convinced—and
especially if the meeting was composed of three-parts
clergymen--that wrath and wrangle, reproach and
recrimination, can wax as mighty there as in any
factory town when Dissent runs the Church hard.
The eld-fashioned residents have, to be sure, by
their own account, kept the Dissenters at arms'-
length as long as possible. They do not recognise
their presence as citizens; they never me them
except in the streets, nor there, if they can look
another way : they would never hear of them if it
could be avoided : and the eleven or twelve Dis-
senting chapels in the town, with their influx and
'Max of population on Sundays, can be overlooked
by those who are determined not to perceive such
vulgar objects. But there is a fatal necessity
which breaks up the ignoring method, and
compels the most excessive and complacent of
the townsmen to admit that Shrewsbury has Metho-
dists among her population, and Independents, and
Quakers, and Baptists, and Catholics, and Unita-
rians. The occasion is when a Church-rate is wanted,
of when some penetrating rumour informs the
trembled gentry and the exasperated clergy that
Chmelostes are in danger. Such an occasion has
anima now. On the 4th instant a meeting of the
r clergy and churchwardens was held in the Vestry of
St. Chad's, to consult what should be done in the
present crisis of peril to Church-rates : and it is to
be hoped that the reports of Cm speeches uttered
then and there will be preserved as one of the curi-
osities of the place. Care must he taken that a
genuine report ia selected for preservation ; for corn-
, plaints are, we observe, bandied about that liberal
clergymen are made to talk blasphemy, sedition, or
nonsense in conservative papers; while liberal papers
declare themselves ashamed to reproduce the conser-
vative speeches at all. It will be worth some
little painstaking to secure the best report; and the
record should then be put away carefully under the
foundation stone of a bridge, to interest and astonish
• some remote generation.
At a former meeting of the officials of this rand
deanery it was resolved that a meeting should be
held about this time, that opinions might be ex-
pressed by clergymen and churchwardens on the
subject of Church-rates, with a view to sending up
a petition to Parliament. Thus there had been time
for preparation ; time for the lawyers to refresh
their law, and for the clergy to revive the history of
the dues of the Church. Yet it stems as it a score
of persons summoned from their stands on market-'
day to talk about Church-rates could scarcely have
manifested a more complete ignorance of the history,
nature, and incidence of the impost than was exhi-
bitted by both clergy and laymen on the °sea-
• lion we refer to. We kuow nothing of any
person present beyond the representation of the
report ; but, judging each speaker out of his own
mouth, we must say that, however great may be our
1 ?ceders' familiarity with Church-rate debates, and
their enjoyment of Mr. Taottore's novels, they
would be considerably astonished at the speeches
uttered in St. Chad's vistay on the 4th inst.
The proposal being made that not "an isolated
" petition" but "a goodly number" from the neigh-
buurhood should be sent up, praying the Legislature
to preserve the law of Church-rates in its present
state, an unfortunate clergyman hazarded an
intimation that the law cannot remain as it is;
that Government intends to alter it; and that
the practical object now is to obtain the beat
terms that can be had. A ehurchwardeo, named
Motet,, who appears to be of the legal pro-
' fesvion, declared that "he could not sit still and
" hear a body of Churchmen called on to make
" terms." It seems, Indeed, that this gentleman
• cannot sit still to hear anything, for he interrupted
the speakers so often, and treated them so rudely, as
I to have constituted himself the nuisance of the
meeting, though it was pointed out that he was
wrong in his law, in treating Church-rates as a
charge npou the land, strong in his account of the
objections of Dissenters, wrong in his view of the
01 history of Church resource'', and in his counsel as to
the policy of Chinchuien at the present time. The
interesting point ef the ease is, that two or three
clergymen spoke in a reasonable way, explaining
the nature of the charge, relating what had been
bone in Parliament and decided in tho Courts and
the Privy Council, and how the case stood in various