The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-18 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

The State of t►e Weather at
Nine o'clock yeaterday
arranged in order of latitu,
Sewer of
WincL

TIIVREDAY, DEC. 18, 1851.
each of the following places at
morning. The stations are

Nam at limb.

Strewth of
Wand.

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Goons of Wind. tWoolln n, Wind. Mote of the Weather.
Gentle Breeze. F.or.

The returns from the fallowing pltets did not reach th.,
office in time for puhlicatian yesterday; they therefore
indicate the state of the weather oa Tueslay morning at
nine o'clock.

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4 •••• S.W. Light Ain Ocere.,,t,
1.1•I1POOL B.E. Gentle Breeze Foggy
I.u.ceAran S. Gentle Breeze Neud—Baßi
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A COURT OF DIRECTORS was held yesterday at
the Ea.t India-house, when ►Barnes Peacock, Eq., Q.C.,
was appointed fourth ordinary member of the Council of
India. . _ _

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CHURCH RATES AT fiItICIITON.—The Anti-Church
Rate Committee at Brighton have issued an address to the
majority who lately defeated a motion for a church rate in
that parish. They say :—" had you the ballot at vestry
meetings your majorities would be three-fold. As it is,
many,an honest man gives his vote with trembling, knowing
full well that, whether at Brighton, Rome, or Naples,
nothing is more vindictive than an enraged priesthood,
' stopped in its course of oppression and persecution. You
have achieved a glorious triumph—glorious because your
opponents were many and strong. Who were they against
whom you have contended ? The vicar and clergy of the
parish—the parish officers—a vestry-clerk, acting in the
double capacity of vestry-clerk and adviser to the
vicar and churchwardens—the chairman of the meet-
ing—the public puree to pay their expenses if
they won—the parish books to refer to for information—
s new poor-rate only just out, and nonpayment of which
was a voting disqualification—and that at a time (just be-
fore Christmas) when money is always scarce with the
tradesman, and the working man has a dreary time to look
forward to ; for with many of them not only money but
work—their means for obtaining it—is alm scarce ; but this
is the time considered most fit, and chosen by the vicar and
his churchwardens, to endeavour to make a church-rate
upon them ; so, because they are poor and unable to pay
one rate, they must be taxed again. The management of
the meeting and its proceedings were entirely in the
hands of your opponents, and of course, as might
be expected from them, no means were taken to
ensure the easy polling of a large number of voters.
From ten o'clock till four, on two days, was all the
time allowed to poll, although, had they any honesty
at all, and wished to obtain the full expression of the rate-
payers of Brighton on this subject, they would have, re-
membered that, at this time of the year, many of your
fellow-townsmen could ill spare any of the short hours of
daylight, and they would have kept the pull open on those
two days, at least, till six o'clock in the evening. But what
does your chairman care for this ? Bear in mind that it is
votes not voters that make a rate. For it will be found, on
an analysis of the poll sheets, that on the average 40 voters
make 100 votes fur the rate—while it takes, on the average,
62 voters to give 100 votes against the rate, so that the more
delay, the more confusion, the fewer persons polled, the
better chance of making a rate, or, at all events, of being
defeated by a small majority. You, who were present on
either of the days of the meeting, will remember
the conduct of your chairman, his unblushing par-
tizanship—his eager canvassing for votes ; by you he
will not speedily be forgotten—no language can ade-
quately describe him—he must be seen to be appre-
ciated—" Nuns but himself can be his parallel." Notwith-
, standing all these difficulties, you have nevertheless fought
and conquered—and the result of the poll stands as follows:
—Against the rate, 1,244 votes, 715 voters ; for the rate,
1,120 votes, 443 voters ; majority against the rate, 124 votes,
8/2 voters. You will do well to keep these facts in remem-
, brance, against another polling day, should they again wish
to measure strength with you. The only way to get abuses
; reformed isto expose them, and that fully. It must be ob.
vious to all that the object you have in view is the free sup-
port of Christianity, unshackled by that compulsory system
of forced exactions, which had its origin in the days Of
popish superstition, and against which you have, in the
recent memorable contest, so boldly and successfully pro-
, tested."

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