The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-04 00:00:00

FARISII OF

'EL-TITHES.

Yesterday a public vestry wan held in the pariah
church of II ritechapel, un the requisition of several of the
Tarp:din, for the purpose of considering the question of
the ...the' claime 1 by the rector, the Rev. Mr. Chamsoneys,
ig..l ....Aug such reps regarding the same as might be
requisite; Mr. LIWKIINCR, one of the church-
vuaj!ll4. Hi the chair.
Mr. Sunnis:a, one of the requisitionists, said that the
present 'meeting bad been convened in COOktplenee of •
vlaita f.r tithes, now, for the first time during several years,
soeaht to be enforced against the reluctant parishioners.
Tb? taw. of the excellent rector of the pariah, the Rev.
Champneys, against whom he did not wish to speak in
the brut thin spectfully, had been put forward in the bill
uhith had btu filed in Chancery fur the purpose of corn-
row( pliant of these tithes, but Mr. Clionionejo, nut
umbi. g to create dimitaion amongst the different parties and
sects iu has pariah, bad publicly stated that he would rather
'coign h.. living than introduce law and all-feehug amongst
the parishioner.. It was sail, therefore, that although his
owe was used, he disavowed all knowledge of
tn, proceedings, and that they were iu reality
row..ea.eed t, Br:lreton? College, to whom the ed-
emas./ of the pari-h belonged. He thought that
this was • worthy determinate in on the part of the
rector, and if he hail been rut forward I-y otheis, he hoped
elan' the rev. a. 'Altman would adhere to Ids resolution.
▪ y were now in this poitian, that seven of the parish-
ins. had been sers..l wits b.lls in Chancery fur a year's
tithes, amounting to or IGs., and he understood that
me of these irdivi lush had no notice given or demand
wade ore them p.cvisnas to the receipt of these Chancery
bolls. (clear.) One of thew, a member of the Jewish per-
mission. bad been screed on Lis Saliaath with the bill.
(near) These persons not well knowing via it to do, and
6.4 trightene,t by the prospect of a Chanzery suit, pail
the many and IL costs each. (Hear.) Having succeeded
thus tar, Sweaty uthca s —and be, Mr. Simmons, was one of
• twi nty—Wert ettaeked, and had bills served upon
ti ne ) This was a case, therefore, in which all
Th. rout eq. r. wore concerned, and it was their duty to
• iorward on 1 resist by all the legitimate
wan. a their power this unjust demand and
orpn,..no on th.: part of the motor or the college. (limn )
The h• v. Mr. Champneys' name was also at the head of
•• c. Camases, bills, and after hi. deeleratioe it
I .cry strange to sse his name thus used iu order to
awn that of his parishioners, who objtcted to tithes
aA re• . ted his Olisietratinn., to make these payments.
(User. heat)
Jr rua proposed the ant resolution, esteeming the
vas:aunt indignation of 'he meeting at the proceedings
se,.,a- brl been instate eel a„ hint the parishioners by the
• after the public deereration of the reel and also
espreriag lately sympathy with the parishioners who had
rue. 4,iiags taken against Chin. Ile said that be quite
eeccurred in what had been said respecting the excel:int
dinette of the rector of the rends of Whatehopel, hut as
we rev. gentleman permitted his name to be made use of
by ti. "liege, and to appear in the legal proms:digs
arrale-• the parishioners, it must be assumed that it was he
who these at. ps against them. Here wore persons who
gave the rev. gent,. man an trouble and who sought for no
spirve-1 mainstrations p'aced in the purgatory of Chancery
h.cm-e they refused to comply with an urjust demand.
Whit could be more oppressive than such conduct 1
(Ile lie hoped the rate-payers of the parish generally
wv I n 4dt this claim. (Hear.)
Mr On rawnuusecondod the motion.

LIDOLS bore te►timony to the exemplary lionduet of
the niter, who, he undervtoorl, ',rent the whole of what he
received from the palish on the poor. (gear) But he,
as &member •ii tic Sco:ch church, would nut in future pay
what the collector oemandial of him, but only what he
could be legally compelled to ply. lie was sure that if the
thous of the rector were put fairly before the rate-payers,
not one of them would refuse to pay his dues, or even to
double them, it nase•:ir)-. Bat 111 matters stood at present,
men ...old bold to their strict rights, and he hoped that
(celiac pervaded all the pariehivners. (Hear.) Ile thought
it but ftic ti Mr. Chumpneys to ask if a requisition
signed by WO of the parishioners had not been presented to
him, requesting him net to leave the parish, and to allow
his name to be used by the college for the purpose of pro-
iscutirg them proeseihogv ?
rItIRMAN said, that after the declaration made by
the rector, that he would resign rather then plunge the'
yari.hioners into law, he and the other churchwardens. '
(vapid, riug that it would be a great hardship and lom if
Mr. Chaniputys were to leave the parish, seat round a re-
qui.iti,a, which was signed by a large number of the
parishioners—he could not ray how many exactly—re-
questing him, that rather than resign, he would allow his
name to be used, if the college were determined to try the
question of right •o tithes. After a long consideration, the
rev. gentleman replied that he would accede to the request
made to him.

Mr. °nen said, that he had a few days since received a
letbr from the rector in which he said, "Being canvineed
that my leaving would in no way tend to a settlement of
the question, 1 felt it to be my duty to comply with the
requottion, and not to stand in the way of a permanent
decisimi " He (Mr. Otter) did not think that this was quite
in harmony with his public declaration.
The 1t,,. Mr. Bt.sca (a dissenting clergyman) said it was
clear from the evidence of the Reetor himself, given before
a parliamentary committee in 1842, that the parish of
Whitechapel was not liable to tithe, for he said that his
" income was derived partly from fees ia the church, and
pariy from the tithe, or, more pro:serly, the EAster offerings
from the par.shioners." Agaio, when iu 1819 he Intro-
duced a bill into parliament Inc the purpose of c, mmuting
his alleged rights for 1,0001. a year to be charged on the
poor Lite, that bill, after a most searching investigation,
was rejected by the Ensue of Commons (Hear, bear.)
On that occasion also the cpininn of Mr. Eagle, an eminent
authority on the questi• n of tithes, was taken, and he ad-
vised the parishioners that the rector had no title to the
customary tithes claimed by him from the inhabitants gene-
rally. (Hear, hear. For himself, he was so clear of the
illegality of the demand that, come what would, ha would
resist it whenever made, and he had no doubt he would do
so successfully. (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was then put and carried with but one
dissentient

Mr BLACK then moved that a committee be appointed
to consider of the best means to be pursued to resist the
claims now set up.
Mr. MuAg, one of the seven who had been served with
the order of the Court of Chancery, seconded the motion.
lie believed it would turn cut to be true that these tithes
were imposed at a hole-and-caner meeting of a few parish-
ioner+ under the late rector. The rector was promised
Niel. a year by the college when he came amongst them,
bat if he got all the tithes that were now claimed, the
amount would be double SON. He had been served with
co !mice previous to tho receipt of the bill in Chancery.
(Ileer, hear.) The rector had been placed in a false poet-
LA, sod he hoped these who put him there would be able
to eel him out of it with clean hands.
The motion was pat and carried unanimously, and a Com-
nine., consisting of Messrs. Evans, Offor, Simmons, Bleak,
Bates, &c., wvs appointed.
Mr. PoWILL moved the next resolution, expensing the
ferret and shame of the vestry at the destruction of the old
eellieton books by:a former rector, and proposing that a
neuvs:be sect to the present rector for the oldest cottontail
boils now in his possession for the use of the pariah. He
believed that the date of the oldest collection book 11011 is
sentence was 1730, and ho did not expect that the ruble
would refuse the request made to him. He raked re
demand for tithes not because of any objection he Ind to
them, but because he believed the rector had no legal dedna
8P" his. HI Kid the Sty, prendeman, with whom sod
with whine good noels in the pansh he win acquainted, of
this his determination ; and Mr. Clusaspneys said that if he
were in his position, and held the same opinions, he would
get ia the same way. (Rear, hear.)
Mr. CCL•IitiOCIII seconded the motion, which was car-
ried anaahnously.
Mr. CiU.ll.. in proposing a resolution in fawns' of the
adoption of the voluntary principle as the beet mob of
fissuring peace, said that he could not agree in all that MI
been said with respect to the rector of the parioh, lbw, diet
baring made a public declaration that he would ll
nther than allow law and strife to be introduced intort
pariah in rennexion with his name, be found the awn 61
the rev. gentleman at the head of those in whose olowepoit-
medlars were taken. (Hear.) It seemed to him that HMO
liai great equivocation in such conduct.
Kr. Bern seconded tbe resolution. He would advise
theta on no account to let the power which they evidently
possessed to escape from them, for though it might he true
that the present rector was en estimable man, even the
inhers of the Established Church themselves did not
w how soon they might have quite a different character
piv.ed over them. They should take warning by the can of From sad Rochester, and keep the power when they
he I a: in theirosin hands,
resoluion parsed unanininesly.
Oa the motion of Mr. Dacca, seconded by Mr. WALK the n solutions were ordered to he advertised la
the bully Sere, Times, and AkrAing Adrertissr.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro-
ceedings.

Da. CEIIMINO ON TIIE CASE OF THE
Lin night Dr. Cumming delivered a lecture on the cam of
the Madisi, to a crowded auditory, at the Caledonian
Church, Hunoway. The rev. gentleman improved the °c-
astle° to point that moral which he has already developed
14 hi, newspaper letters—that the persecution of the Diadiai,
sad all such similar cues constantly occurring in Italy, if,
the logical consequences of the canonical law of the church
of Rune, which insists upon the persecution and extirpation
of hereties as • primary seclesiaetieal duty.
St MAAELE9OI4E BASE FOR SAVISIDS. —The
teenty•third annual g I meeting of this institution wee
oa Thursday, the 3rd of thia month, at the affirm, No. .3, Welbeek-street, Carendish.strest, the Rev. John Hume
Skrf. D.D., in the chair. It appeared from the several re-
18,rts read
.to the meeting, that the progrem of the bank
daring the past year bad been of a
satisfactory deseriptsoa,
soles. than 2,504 new deposits having been mule in the
r.h
!km ; 23,774 deposit accounts remained open on the
of November last, of which 17,284 held balances aye-
IL "44 los then 2L 7d. each. The sum iu the hands of
government on the 20th of November, 1862, 55 per re-
ev,pt ham National Debt Office, !signed by Sir A. Spew
Bin, and laid before the meeting, war 3611.5261. 121- ;
Sain the hands of the treasurer, Sir Claude Edward Scott,
!n , whom acknowledgment was likewise produced.
..1/41. 18s.; in the hands of the actuary, IU. 3s. ; the
okaaee due t^ &imitate at that date, as per balance-sheets
364,fil a. 10'.9d.; surplus, 8301. 1:31. 7d. The
seceder to depositors has since risen to 375,8311. 4a. 7d.