The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-29 00:00:00

COUNTY RATES EXPENDITURE.

An aggregate meeting of representatives of the
several metropolitan parishes in the county of Surrey took
plan last evening, at the vestry room of St. George's, South.
wark, " to consider the beat means of promoting the move
meat in favour of county tin►ncial boards." The attendance
comprised members of the hoards of guardians, church-
wardens, overseen, and vestry clerk., from the following
parishes; St. George, Southwark; St. Mary, Newington;
St. Saviour, Southwark; St. Mary, Battersea; and Mary-
lebonr.

Mr. E. COLLINSON, chairman of the board of guar-
dians of St. George's, presided. He said it was absolutely
necessary that some step' should be taken, on account of the
great increase in the county rate expenditure. Last
union a bill bed passed a second reading in the Commons,
I but had been shelved by ministers, because it appeared only
to be supported by the county of Lancaster. Lord J. Rus-
sell, however, had stated to a deputation, that if the opinion
of the metropolitan parishes, and those in other parts of the
country, were strongly expressed, it would no doubt have
weight with the government. For this purpose the present
meeting had bee. convened; and by united action the
object might be attained. That it was highly desirable no
one could doubt who noticed the large proportion of parish.
expenditure which was occasioned by the county rate. In
the parish of St. George it was a penny in the pound in
each quarterly rate; and the Surrey county rate had been
increased in the last ten years from 14,7001. to 49,0001.
(Hear, hear.) This movement had been undertaken out of
no disrespect to the magistrates of the county, but en the
simple ground that the ratepayers ought to hove a control
over the expenditure of their money. At present, owing
to the expensive way in which prisons were built and con.
ducted, the oust of a prisoner was three times that of a
pauper. (Hat hear.)
Mr. J. DAY, vestry clerk of St. George's, the honorarysecretary stated that he had received communications from
the parch officers of Lambeth, Christ Church, Epsom, and
other parishes, expressing their full oancarreace in and their
dears to smut the object of the meeting. In 1837, the
pariah ef St. George had paid only 8231. 81. Bd. as county
rate; in the tut year it was 1,9101. 81., being en increase
of 1,0471. le. 411., or upwards of 100 per cent. in 11 years.
The total of the county rate last year was upwards of
49,0001.; and its expenditure was very imperfectly detailed in
the amounts rendered by the magistrates, of which only one
copy was 'applied to each pariah. Some of the items were
of a very lumping description, for instanoe :--sundry dis
bureements for the four gaols, 6,1001. 6s. 7d., of which
1,6391. 131. was for the county gaol alone; repairs and
additioas for the same, 1,1191. Ge.; repairs to Britton gaol,
6121. 16s. 3d.; repaint° the Lunatic Asylum. 2,1491. Os 2d.;
salaries of the officers of the foes gash, exclusive of turnkeys
and watchmen, 3,1821 81. 101. These were the only details
which were vouchsafed to the ratepayers. When the parish
officers were called on for their quotas of the county rate,
they must pay It immediately; otherwise they were subject
to a penalty of 10 per cent., which mast be paid by the
overseers themselves, for es it was assumed that they could
ley a rate soh it was necessary, the auditor would not
allew it out of the poor rates.
Mr. CARVER, churchwarden, of Battersea, moved al
resolution, approving of the steps that had been taken on
this question, and pledging the pariah officers present to use
their beet endeavour to tarry out the ousels their respective
parishes, by using the necessity of vestry meetings, and of
petitioning parliament.
Mr. MAY, of St. Saviour's, seconded the etiolation.
Mr. FENTON, a deputation from the *nutty of Lancaster
Union, stated that the aunty rate throughout the country
had been doubled sines 1836. The magistrates, as a body,
emotion on the subject, though needlessly so; for they
admitted the principle, which indeed was at the basis of the
English eonstitation, that taxation and representation ought
es go together. Mr. Roberta, of Rochdale, the secretary
of the Leaman% committee, had come to tows to assist in
drawing up a bill whisk should be free from the defects of
that of last year; and he trusted its provisions would secure
the approval of all the metropolitan parishes.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. PIKE, of Newington, moved a etiolation, requesting
each perish to send on. delegate to the Surrey union, es co-
operate with the Middle's: parochial officers.
Mr. BARON seconded the resolution.
Some other etiolation' were adopted, end a vole of Ulnae
to the chairman cloud the proceedings.

APPREHENSION AND COMMITTAL OF

MRS. SLOANE.

The following additional particulars regarding the
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pprehension of hire. Sloane will be read with interest'

The statement that Ws. Sloane left this country
immediately alter the first examination of Ur. Sloane, is,
there is reason to believe, correct. Since the finding of the
true bill by the grand jury against Mr. Sloane, Superinten-
dent Hodgson, of the City police, and Sergeant May, of the
detective force, to whom the person of Mrs. Sloane was
known, have been indefatigable in their exertions to trace
her whereabouts, and have visited Twickenham and various
parts of this country in search of her ; but in consequence.
of the repeated statements, and the conviction that she war
residing at Boulogne, those officers proceeded to that port
on Thursday.
On arriving at B inlogne the officers proceeded to institute
• close inspec.ion of the several hotels and lodging houses,
but satishictory tidings could not be obtained, and the
seclusion of the Sloanes apparently defied detection. Towards
the legir part of last week, the Boulogne police communi-
cated to the City officers their belief that a party answering
the description of the Sloane' were in the town, but as no
conclusive information could be elicitad,• stratagem via
devised to get the landlord of the house in which they were
supposed to be located to a cafe, and interrogate him, if
possible, on the subject. After some time he admitted that
there were three parties answering the description furnished
him, residing in bin house. They consisted of a lady and gentle-
man, and &stout young lady, and that they went by the natne
of Smith. They led • very secluded life, and that the lady only
tektite house at an advanced period of 'he night fora walk
As one of the officers was known to Mrs. Slam, it was ne-
cessary for him to adopt some disguise, and IA accordingly
adorned himself with rather • prominent pair of moustachois,
and on Friday eight, shout 11 o'clock, they placed them-
selves on watch for the Mrs. Smith, and she shortly appeared
pursuing her usual nocturnal walk. As her face was closely
concealed with • veil, the officers had some difficulty in
seeing her features, but on passing by one of the
street gas lamps, they contrived by same mean., as
if the result of accident, to raise her veil, and
she was at once recognised to be Mrs. Sloane.
She was allowed to return to her dwelling, and as the laws of
France require a ascend witness to establish identity, an
express was forwarded to London for one to come over. The
party arrived on the Sunday, and on Monday morning the
officers proceeded to the lodgings of Mrs. Sloane. On going
into the second floor, they found Mr. and Mrs. Sloane and
Miss Bevan:. The French authorities then demanded!
their passports, and it being discovered that they,
had assumed a name not their own, they were
informed that they had rendered themselves liable'
to the operation of the French laws, and that they
must quit Boulogne. Not being permitted to travel
through France with • false passport, they had no
alternative but to take their passage by the first steamer for
Falkstone, and at 5 o'clock they were escorted by the police
of Boulogne to the quay aide, where the steamer was moored.
Although Mrs. Sloane's discovery was kept as secret as pos-
sible, the fact by some means got wind. Some hundreds of
the principal inhabit‘nts collected on the quay to witness
the departure of the Sloanes, but not a murmur or
expression fell from them. Fortunately the passengers
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on board of the steamer were unconscious of their being
on board, and they thus escaped observation. The moment
the steamer reached Folkestone Harbour, Mr. Hodgson, the
superintendent of the City police, who we. accompanied by
Sergeant May, a detective officer, announced to Mrs. Slows
that she wee his prisoner, producing the judge's warrant for
her apprehension on the charge of cruelty to her servant. I
That she was prepared for the announcement there is little
doubt, as Mr. Sloane was acquainted with Mr. Hodgson,
he having in a great measure been the mesas of rescuing
him from the violence of the mob alter his examination at
the Guildhall police-court. Mrs. Sloane wu wretchedly
dejected thriughout the passage, and became much affected, •
se did Mize Meaux, on leaving the steamer.

Mrs. Bloaas was dressed in an old black silk bonnet and
thick black veil, the lower part of her face being covered ;
she also wore as old and faded black silk cloak; and her
appearance wee altogether most pitiable.

FEMALE EMIGRATION FUND.-DEPARTURE

OF FEMALE EMIGRANTS.

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Yesterday a very interesting spevaclo was afforded
in the embarkation of about 30 teusele 'emigrant., under the
auspices of the Female Emigration Fund Society, on board
the ship Stately, laying off Gravesend, and bound for New
Zealand. This interesting little colony formed the eighth
detachment of deserving young women rescued from the
miseries of London needlework, and the horrors sod tempta-
tions of London destiqtion by the benevolent exertions of
Mr. Sydney Herbert and the ladies and gentlemen
who hove co-operated with him in the formation
of the society. Previous detachments had been de-
spatched to Australia, to the ,Cape of flood Hope, and to
oar North American Colonies, and la.ve all arriv..d sale at
their destinations, and obtained imm. diets and satisfactory
employment. The committee, L.,wever, thought it more
advisable to break new 'ground on the present occasion,
and accordingly enraged the whole after put of the ship
Stately, a fine new v. ssel of 700 tons, and booed for Auck-
land. The completeness of the arrangements on board the
vessel yesterday, and the care and humanity with which
every available comfort bad been accumulated for the
benefit of the poor voyagers, was evident and satisfactory.
Everything, in fact, has beendoce to render a voyage of four
months as little irksome as possible. The emigrants are all
young women, between 20 and 30 years°, age, many of Hunt
of pleasing features and genteel appearance; but all, not,-
wVhstatidiog a month's careful nursing at The Home,"
bearing in their faces indelible marks of the privation and
misery from which they had been rescued. Of course every
individual present had her tale of gallery to recount; but the
ewe of two sisters, aimed Wilson, 'which we had from the
lips of the elder, forms too forcible an illustration of the life of
a London needlewoman to he pseud without some notice. The
elder of these two young women is about thirty, and the
younger about twenty-two years of age, and about ten years
ago they were deserted by their father and mother. For
several years they supported themselves at peak binding,"
one of the minute sub-divisions of London labour, until at
last • machine was invented by which the operation could
be performed, and the peaks for boys' cap. (the material of
their trade) completed in a moment. They struggled with
adversity, getting from bad to worse, for some yens longer,
until at last they were found literally dying from want of food,
in a wretched garret in Lantstreet, kept from the workhouse
by honest pride, and from suicide only by a s•rong sense of re-
ligion. Through the kind exertions of the legal committee
they were rescued from their dreadful situation, and atter a
month spent in recruiting their broken health at the Home,
they went on board the Stately yesterday, fell of gratitade
to their preserver., and of hope u to their future prospects.
It is but justice to them to add, that their character bad
borne the strictest investigation, both their . mployers and
their neighbours testifying that their only crime was extreme
poverty. The emigrants were accompanied to Graves-
end by the Right. Hon. Mr. Stuart Wortley, Hon.
A. Kiaraird, lion. Percy, Key. Mr. Queckett,
Mr. Hely, secretary to the fund, and some other mem-
bers, lay and clerical, of the general and local com-
mittees, who minutely inspected all the arraogements,
and ascertained the presence and quality of all the requisites
for the voyage. The emigrants were feelingly addressed by
Mr. Kinnurd on their future duties and prospects, and
encouraged to good conduct by kied advice and admonition.
Mr. Queckett followed with some practical hints, among
the rest one not to forget writing to their benefactors, at
the same time mentioning the rather singular fact, that of
the whole five or six hundred already seta out, only one had
written back to the c-,mmittee. The young women listened
with deep attention, and many seemed much affected at
some of the obetrvations addressed to them. A kind fare-
well was then given, end the committee left for town, while
the poor girls who had been in. objects of their care crowded
the gangway, and waved theft handkerchiefs until the
steamer was out of might.

DEATH OP MR. WILLIAM DOLMES.—This gentle-
man, who for so many yeah acted as whipperin to the tory
party, was a native of the county of Sligo, born in 1779.
His father, an opulent brewer, wag the eldest descendant of
• family long settled in the King's County, acquired consi-
derable property in Slip, filled the iffice of High Sheriff of
that county in the year 1810, and after • long and rather
prosperous life, bequeathed some portion of his possessions
to his son. Mr. Holmes entered Trinity College, Dublin, at
the usual age, and after completing his education, obtained
' a commission in the army, served some years in the West
Indies, and was military secretary there to Sir Thomsa
Hislop. In 1807 he married Lady Strong. (widow of Sir
James Strong., Bart.), retired from the army, and obtained
a f seat in the House of Commons It was in 1808 that he
came in for Grampound, and during twenty-three years
he continued to be a member of the Lower House; but
from 1832 till 1837 his parliamentary career was inter-
rupted, and in 1841 brought to its final ekes. He an
successively for Grampoend, Trope', Bishop's Castle.
Henbane, and Berwick on Tweed. In the high and
palmy days of Toryism the peculiar talents of Mr. Holmes
were is great request, for in the private assuagement of the
members of an unreformed House of Commons he wait
without a rive/. Mr. Holmes was by the side of Mr.
Percival when he sank ander the hand of an assassin, and
he also happosed to have been within • few yards of Mr.
Heskisson when that well known statesman came by •
violent though accidental death. Lord Liverpool succeeded
Mr. Pereeval as First Minister of the Crown. and having
held office during the long period of 15 years, Lis administra-
tion was followed by the several governments of Mr.
Canning, of Lord Goderich (now Earl of Hip,n), and of
the Duke of Wellington. Of all then Mr. Holmes was a
supporter in the House of Commons, taking no part in the
debate, bat excellent sate of the division. Gradually his
health declined, and on Banday nal, to the great grief of
his many friends, be died.