The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

enable biro not only to arrest ono of the assailants of his
scn, but with the c viihitice of iiarticipation in the k &ace in
his possess:on, midis! t 3 the ma;.istrates at the Sessions
House for the requisite authority. We understand that the
!negotiates wt re willing to grant eict search warrant. but
justice is slow at Blackburn, anti at d o'clock Mr. Peter
Johnstone was still waiting in the Setaiinne House. without
the required domment, or a policeman ready to rid hint in
its use. By this time great numbers of ykople had been to
be sworn in is special constables, and for ~ther purpoaer, and
had become acquainted with the object of kir. Johnstone's
application, and there seemed every likelihood that informa-
-1 twit might have been conveyed to the proper quarter, to
prevent his success. When this was tcpresi t.ted to Mr.
Johnstone, he acquiesced in its probability, but, to use his
own expression, "things are dime in a hutegsralugieir way
here, and it is almost what I expected,"
In one or two cotes the riots are si rmigly traced to the
workpeople at Hornhy's mill. On Saturday morning the
daughter of a weaver working there, when she stint for
her wages, was hooted, and told by the workpv pto she
would nut be allowed to work there again. A'. ',iota het
father's house was attacked, and the front winiovrs en-
tirely broken in. Henry Eastham, another weaver in the
onli, was forcibly ejected from the auid after receising has
wages en Saturday, his house was at:acked on Saturday
night, awl Cu Monday when lie went to work the owner
and managers of the nthl allowed hint to be ejected from
the works, as on Saturday, by his assembled fellow-work-
p. le Fisch-in is not an elector, but is at liberal in poll-
tics, and had voted for the liberal candidate ut the last
, municipal eleet.s,n. The girl's father above referred to is
not as eke'. ,r, hut known to be of the wrong ‘,..litia. That
: landlord of the St. Albino Arms was Ob:iged : s desert his
house, al.d t..e mon threw nearly a cart.lo.,el t.f stones
' through his windows, destroying much of his toruiturc.

PAROCHIAL VESTRIES.
HACKNEY.

Yesterday morning the annual meeting of rate-
payers was h. Id in tne church vestry ; the Rev. T. 0.
Gooocn ILI), rector, presiding.
Mr. Pu:ley was re-elected vestry clerk. Mr. J. Barber,
of Clanton, was unanimously elected as liner warden, *ad
Mr. NV. C .le, with less unanimi'y, as unix'. warden.
All the other officers were re-elected without. on )sitien,
and the vestry proceeded to the choice of a gentleman to
fill a vacancy, caused by the death of W. li. Aalipitel, Esq.,
country magistrate, in the office of
PR. /WI:MITI/Wee{ CHARITY.

RP,. A. GORDON, curate of St. John'•, roar to propose an
honoured memher of a family distinguished for its munifi-
cent supr.ort of the charities of the parish, 4114 liberality
to the poor. I: was enough for him, he lic.iereti, to men-
tion the name of Arthur l'owell, Esq., or (Tipton. t) 'entre
the support or the vestry in electing him to MI tt.e vacant
office of trustee.

GEO GREENWOOD, Esq. (treesurr of the charity),
seconded the homination of Mr. rowilt.
_ .

Alter a sues/ration from J. It. D. Teaser, Esq., M refer-
ence to a supposed arrangement made last year in favour of
Mr. Powell,
Mr. C. GREEN said he was anxious to state his disincli-
nation to propose, by way of amendment, the name of any
one in opposition to Mr. Arthur Powell, than whom there
was not a more respectable gentleman ia the parish. Bat
there was a great principle involved in the qiiestion of DE.
Spuratowe's charity ; and, therefore, the name of the gen-
tleman wham he (Mr. Green) had to int. Mateo was that of
Samuel Morley, Esq., of Lower Clapton. (Cheers.) Mr.
Gram paid a warm compliment to the high persensl cha-
racter and social worth of Mr. Morley, and proceeded to
say, it was matter of history that the cuarity under (meets-
lion was be queathed, in 1666, by Dr. Spuratowe, on' of the
glorious two thousand ejected ministers, fur the shelter and
maintenance et poor widows of the pirivh. Now, that
cliori:y was :oft unencumbered with restrictions of a reli-
gious character; and it was a gross it justice to the memory
of the founder that its funds should be perverted to secta-
rian uses. Yet what was the condition of the &rail), ?
Why that. although the gift of au eminent dissenter, it was,
and had for many years been, entirely in the hands of
churchmen. An old lady who went to a dissenting chapel
had hitherto stood as poor a chance of stivcess as it she pro.
fessed the cothelic or Hebrew faith. (Shame.) lie shame
rested with the vestry, in not appointing impartial men to
carry out the donor's will. Let the trustees consist of an
equal number of churchmen and dissenter', and the poor
of both parties would stand a chance of justice. (Cheers.)
lle felt justified in these observations, owing to the coarse
pursued by the worthy chairman, two years ago, in con-
nexion with Bishop .Woud's almshouses. Two females were
eandidates f..r a vacancy therein ; the vestry, by a large
majority, placed the dissenting applicant at the top of the
poll. 'the names of the two women were returned to the
chairman, who, contrary to the policy wisely pursued by
hie predecessor, disregarded the markedly vspressed opi-
nion of the vs stry, and gave the nitwit, use to the old
" church lady." as she war called. (Laughter, " Oh,
oh !") The reason asssigned by the rector for this course
was, that as the founder of this charity was 3 I,olop, he
could never have meant that it should be enjoyed by a dia-
meter. Mr. Green concluded by proposing, amid applause,
"That Samuel Morley, Esq., he elected to nll the vacant
. office of trustee of Dr. Spurstowe's charity."
, Mr. J. ItamSAY seconded the motion.

G. GIME% wool), Esq., sail they had heard much about
dissenting charities being managed by churchmen, but not
a word as to Ili-, church charities swaliowei up h) dissenters
at Christmas. (Confusion, and a cry of " Tory are not
church charities.") Dissenters were very Emil of running
after other charities; but did they ever invite churchmen
to a share in the distribution of dissenting funds ? (" Oh,
oh:") With his sympathies, lie should of course regard
the Sourstowe as a church charity, and wouli ei.dtreour to
keep it so. -
Mr. GREIN was astonished to hear Mr. Greenwood talk
of the Christmas gifts as church charities. were es-
sentially parish gifts. (Cheers.) One pious t.stator, Jere-
miah Marlowe, was • Quaker, and he by wit expressly
provided, that no person "should be paid or refused this
charity on account of any religious or political opi-
nions." (Cheers.)
Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. G. Greenland, and others, sup-
ported Mr. Green's motion ; and the Chairman, in a g.tod-
tempered !pis it, replied to that gentleman's remarks, con-
chn.ing by an encomiastic notice of Mr. rowel!.
Upon a a.UR of hands Mr. Morley was eluted amid
much amdause, t.y a majority of two to one. il,er a coo,
kren7e with the rector, Mr. Greenwood, with evident dis-
satisfaction, declined to demand • poll.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro-
ceedings, which were animated throughout.