The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-31 00:00:00

ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.

Yesterday the ratepayers of the parish of St. Mary,
Islington, assembled at Islington Church, for the purpose
of proceedingi to elect, by poll, those who had been nomi-
nated for the various parochial offices on the previous day.
The Rev. DANIEL WILSON, the vicar, presided ; and Mr.
John Layton, the vestry clerk, and some of the other officers,
were elected without opposition. There was, however, a
poll demanded for the election of a burial hoard ,to fill up
vacancies in the trustees beard, for churchwardens and as-
sessors and auditors. The voting being by Sturges Bourne.
Act, giving a plurality of votes in accordance with rental,
the result of the poll cannot be known until its final close.
Mr. HILL moved that the estimate for a poor rate be re-
ceived for the half year, amounting to 16,0311. 13s. id.;
which having been seconded,
Mr. Smarmaam moved an amendment that 13,0001. be
granted, or equal to a 9d. rate for the half year.
Mr. M. GVEDALLA seconded the amendment, and went
into figures and statistics to show that such sum was amply
sufficient.

Mr. DANIEL llamas supported the amendment, and
showed that in one quarter the efficient rental of the parish
had increased front 376,3411. to 391,7921., on in fast a half-
penny rate.
The VICAR declared the amendment carried on a show
of hands, bat a poll was demanded by the church and
trustee parfy.
A lamp rate assessment of 3,3821. 10s. 81d. was carried.
On an estimate for the highway account for the half-year
to the amount of 9,7381., 13s. 3!d. being proposed by Mr.
Harvey and seconded by Mr. Wagstaff,
Mr. Mouse LEWIS moved, and Mr. Frura seconded
an amendment that the assessment granted for a highway
rate be but 6,9391. 4s. These gentlemen charged the trus-
tees with an extraordinary amount of jobbing and extrava-
gance, and in one instance in having charged an account
twice over, and with issuing false statements to the vestry.
The Turmas repudiated these statements, but de-
manded time in order to enable them to rebut the charges
made against them, as they said they were unaware that
they were to be preferred.
The amendment in this case was declared to be carried,
but a poll was also demanded.
The Chapel of Ease and Churchwarden's hate was then
carried, and after proceedings lasting the c utire day, the
vestry terminated, and the poll will be finally concluded
this evening.

LONDON MECHANIC:3' INETITETE.—Last night a
lecture was delivered at the London Mechanics' Institute,
Southampton-buildings, by Mr. William Rushton, on
" Plain English." Mr. Itushton divided his lecture into
three parts. In the first he showed the importance of say-
ing what wo mean, and the mistakes that are liable to arise
by departing from plain idiomatic Saxon terms, and em-
ploying words derived from the Latin and Greek languages.
In the second:portion he gave a brief outline of the elements
which constitute the English language, and illustrated by
the scientific terminology appropriated to botany, the diffi-
culties which the unclaasical Englishman had to encounter
before he could hope to under Land that or any other sci-
nee. These difficulties he thought were removable, and
as the Germans and the Dutch, whose language was of the
11i'tsn,granittuee,
same stock as the Anglo-Saxon, used compound words of
home manufacture for their scientific terms, he thought the
Ime ought to be done for the English. In the third part,
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4:14 ix particular Inc ht. !Awe of advertisements, of
which he quoted several amusing specimens. Mr. Rushton
would clesrly have the Saxon element in the language to
preponderate. The lecture was very well received.

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MUNIFICENT BEQUEST 10 THE CITY OF
LONDON CHARITIES.

A Munificent bequest has just been distributed
amongst City charities by the trustees of the will of Miss
Madinat, late of Chesterfield, in Derbyshire. This latle '5
father was in early life a surgeon in the mercantile nave,
and fur some years before his decease carried on business in
bishopegate-stratt as a wholesale chemist. Miss Hardwick,
his only daughter at his death, withdrew herself entirely
from the world and lived ea eccentric life in a small cottage,
where her property was permitted ti accumulate, as sue
did not expend upon her establishment a hundred a year.
She died about a year ago, in the mayoralty of Alderman
Muster, leaving the bulk of her property to the Lord
Mayor of London, and the chamberlain for the time Lin;
to act a ith her executor, Joseph Shiptoo, Eaq , an eminent
solicitor at Chesterfield, as trustees, to be distributed
amongst such of the charities of the City of Louden as they
might in their discretion select for the purpose It was
thought that it world be necessary to iuvoku the aid
of the Court of Chancery by L friendly suit to
have trusts of the will recognised and expounded,
but two of the trustees being solicitors they were
not unacquainted with the consumption of time and
money that too oft.n has attended the procrers of
that mysterious proceeding " a friendly suit," in its way
through the siouosities of mat celebrated court. The ext.
cater therefore, ooened a communication with the next of
kin of the deceased, furniahing them with the names of the
respectable medical man who had attended the lady for
some yeses before her death, to satisfy them of het mental
capacity at the period the will was made, and up to the
time of her decease. The Tel ohms were as unwilling as the
trustees that any portion of her intended munificence
should be diverted from the channel in which she had de.
sired that it should Haw ' • it was therefore determined to
administer the fund in conformity with the construction to
be pot upon the will by Mr. Bedell and Mr Iliggeley,
the counsel retained by the City Solicitor to advise fur the
Wenn of all parties as to the limits which would properly
hound the discretion of the trustees in the selection of the
charities, leaving it to them to determine the proportions
M which it should be distributed. The executor einem:di.
stele placed at the disposal of the trustees Cie sum of
15,0001., the apparent amount of the residue, after the satis-
faction of trifling debts and legacies left by the ter
taton, and the following is a list of the cha-
rities elected as recipients, with the amounts awarded
to each. In consequence of advertisements several
times repeated in the daily and other papers nume-
roue applications were received from severUl meet
meritorious charities, with which the trusters would
have been glad to comply. It was, however, the opinion of
counsel that it was the intention of the testator to restrict
her benefactions to chanties within the City. The trustees
bad been occupied several days in making the requisite in-
vestigations previously to the execution of their award,
when, fortunately fur the charities, a letter addressed to the
deceased lady was received by the executor, to the effect
thet if she would send a guinea to the writer of the letter,
she "should bear of something to her advantage." Upon
application to the writer of the letter, whose conditions of
beneficial intelligence were immediately complied with, he
gave information which led to the discovery that there was
a sum of 2,250!. Four per Cent. Stock in Miss Hardwick's
name, with 21 years dividends, transferred to the Comma-'
sinners for the Redemption of the National Debt. The au-
thorities of the Beek of Eugland gave every facility in their
power for the reeivery of the amount, which (about 4,0001.)
as coon a. the nasal facilities can be complied with, will be
venire toed to the trustee,. The execution of the award, in
conseqeeace of the receipt of this piece of good news, was
delayed, and under the advice of counsel, the sum in hand
has been distributed amongst the various charities, and the
forst of the award Las been obtained so as to include the
appropriation of the 4,0001. as soon as it shall be received
ainoug4 the various charities in the same proportions as the
sums they have already received. It is one of the peculia-
rities of the case, that if either of the three trustees had
died bidets the ezecution of the award, or if they had dis-
agreed in the mode of distributing the money, the whole
amount would, in the opinion of the lawyers, have lapsed
in the next of kin, as the power to select the charities and
to apportion the inotiey having been vested in the discretion
of the three trustees, it was necessary that it should be the
discretion of the three conjointly, and the want of unani-
mity could not be supplied by any other authority :
EDUCVTIONAL CUMMINS. - Marine Society, 5501. ;
Christ's Hospital, 1,100!. ; City Sunday School, 1101. ;
Royal British School (boys), 1101.; London British School,
1101. ; Christ's Church School, 1101. ; Trinity Church In-
fant School (Gessagtrequart) 1101. ; Field lane Ragged
School, 2201. • Juan-street \Vahan Sunday School, 1101. •
National `School (City of London) 5501. ; City of London
School, 2201. ; Feorse-line Infant School, 1101. ;
Aageloilley Sunday sad Infant School, 1101. ; Loudon Pro-
testant Charity School, 110/. ; Sunday and Day Schools,
Ponitsey Chapel, 2201. ; Sr. Ann's Society Itoyal Asylum,
1101. ; Cripplegats Infant & ; hod, 1101. Barbican Chapel
Day School, 1101 ; Salter's-ball Chapel Sanely School,
1101. The following were apportioned 100 guineas each
Loudon Society Protestants' School, Silver-street Sunday
School, Plumate's-open Ragged School, New Broad street
Day and !afoot School, St. Swithin's Sunday School. Sew-
comet, Old Battey Sunday School, Bishopsgate Chapel
Gins' Day sad Sunday School. Two hundred guineas
each were granted to the Weigh-house Chapel Schools and
the Fox-sad-Koot-court Day and Sunday Schools.
MSDICIII. CIIMLITIII.-Hospital for Diseases of the
Chest, 5601.; St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1,1001. • ditto
Samaritan Fund, 300/.; ditto ditto Maternity Charity,
2701.; Royal Maternity Charity, 3304.• City Tram Society,
; Royal General Dispensary, 8301.; Western City
Dispensary, 2201.; City Dupermuy, Goma-street, 3301. ;
Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, 6601.; Farringdos Goa.-
ral Dispels 3301.; Metropolitan Free Hospital, 6601. ;
MetropolitanDlepensary, 3301. ; Landon Opthihnic Hospi-
tal, 5601.; Seamen's Hospital Society, 5'i01.; Relief of City
Hitcher., 2201 ; Sheriff Pend, 2201.
Waan Satoota.-Biabopigate-without, 3301. ; Cripple-
gate-witheut, 2201.; Farringdon-within, 2201. . • Tower,
2201. ; Bridge, Candlewick, and Dowgate, 2201. ; Crip-
plegatrwithin, 2201. ; Portsoken, 2201 ; Coleman-
attest, 2201. ; Coleman-street Infant School, 1101 ;
Bishopsgate-street Within, St. Ethelburga Society School,
220:.; Alderegatentreet, 2201. ; Broad-street, MIL; Corn-
hill and Lime-street, 2104. • Wintry, 2201. ; Aldgate, TAX;
Castle Baynard, 2201.; Goedwainers' and Bread-street,
2221/.; Inngboarn, 2201.; Billingsgate, 2201.; Oueenhithe,
2201. ; Perringdon Without, -; St. Sepulchre's Paro-
chial Girls' Scnnol, 2201.; St. Bride's and Bridowell Pre-
cinct Parochial School, 2201.; St. Sepulchres Boys' School,
2201. ; St. Sepulchres Infant School, 1101.; St. Brides and
Ilridlewell precinct Infant School, 1101. ; St. Dunstan-in-
the-West Parochial and Infant &heel, 2201.