The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-22 00:00:00

THE MARTLREIONE VESTRY AND CHURCH
RATES.

On Saturday, at the meeting of the representative'
tvberloirf St. laaryleboue, Mr. C. CARR, churchwarden, is
Mr. Micant. moved a resolution, of which he had gives
notice, that they should petition the legislature in favour of
the total &befits= of church rates. ylebooe, from the
large sums of mousy it had paid for church rates, had some
reason to be interested is the final settlement of the user
too, which the gnat bulk of the ratepayers desired should
be by an unconditional abolition. From 1811 to 1860 in-
clusive that parish had raised and paid nut the sum of
373,067 f. ; and in *year 11r28 the *gest sum was paid in
one year—vie., 17,2971. This parish had bees most severely
mulcted. His strong point was, that since the church was
unable to afford the accommodation necessary, they had no
right to be called upon to pay this impost.
Mr. Plum's seconded the resolution, and contended that
greater opposition to church rates came from the people of
the establishment than from dissenters.

Sir J. J. HAMILTON, BITT.,diffef;iIVOIII Mr. Freeth as to
the opposition, but admitted it was time that this bog
vexed goodies should now be settled by the abohtiou of the
rates, but oot without a quid pro quo. The hon. barons/
moved man amendment —" That a petition be presented to
the House of Common expressive of the earnest desire of
this vestry that some such measure may be adapted by the
legislature in reference to church rates during the present
session of parliament as shall meet the fair claim of all
parties, and lead to a peaceful adjustment of the question."
Mr. TAVERNS" seconded the amendment.
The Rev. J. H. HORNET supported the amendment. The
other day he Waded • large meeting of cleell7Mee 00 the
question, and they °sly decided not to miss it bemuse they
did not want to be the originators of strife. The total end
uncouditional abolition of church rates would be attended
with dimatrous results, and would be a gross wrong to the
peasantry of the rural districts. The effects might not he
bad in Mai7lebone, but they would be so in the villages of
England, from perish to and tounlT to comity far
the voluntm•
cuuren soroughotit the rural districts.
After several other gentlemen had addressed the meeting,
on the motion of Professor Bachhoffner the debate was ed.-
jourued to 12 o'clock on Saturday next.
Previous to the commencement of the regular business,
Mr. Harvey Lewis, the newly-elected member for the
borough, entered the Mart, end was introduced by Mr.
Nicholay.

THE LONDON 11/7LIS VOLUNTEERS AT ST. PAVIAL
—Yesterday afternoon the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, aldermen,
and other members of the romantics, 'Mewled in state at
St. Paul'. Cathedral, for the purpose of doing honour to
the Ist corps of the City of Loodoo Rise Volunteers, who,
it had been arranged, were to attend the service. As it was
also the day for "thumbing the Judges" (the first Sunday
in Faster Term), vast crowds of personas assembled, and at a
quarter of an hour before the commencement of service •
large printed placard wss diaplayed, announcing that the
b was full. The Lord Mayor stai tea from the Mansion.
home at half-past 2, and was accompanied by several mem-
bers of the Court al Lieutenancy. Her Majesty's Judges
usetabled at Serjeantedno, Chancery-lane, at the rue
hour, and were conducted by the City Marshal to the ca.
thedraL There were present, Lord Chief Jams* Erie, Mr.
Justice Vaughan Williams, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Jostles
Willer, and Mr. Baron Channel!. Two or three serjeaats.
at-law accompanied their lordsliipa Many thoessode of
persons wapdered about the cathedral yard, in the vain
hope of obtaining admission. Full choral merrier was per-
formed, and at its close the Lord Mayor and civic func.
tionaries, togther with her Majesty's Judges, left the cathe-
dral in the same order in which they had entered it.
THE SPECIAL SUNDAY EVENING SIRVICILS.
Yesterday evening, the Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Villiers,
Bishop of Durham, preached the sermon under the dome of
St. Paul's Cathedral. At Westminster Abbey there was a
very large congregation. Full choral setwies was per-
formed, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Janes
Skinner, M.A.,Fellow of Durham University, and lately
curate of St. arnabssi Pimlico. The sermon at the Abbey
next Sunday evening will be preached by the Rev. Francis
Vansittart Thornton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
rector of Brown.Candover, near Andover, and Head Master
of Candover Grammar School. The special Sunday evening
services at Exeter-mill have been suspended.
LYcgole THRATILL —Madame Celeste rather un-
expectedly brought her first season to a close on Saturday
night, on the occasion of her benefit, when she reproduced
the drama of the House on the Bridge of Notre Dame. The
rent depressed state of theatricals, and the little proba-
bility of a revisal before the ensuing
_annum"' was her sole
reason for this mane. In a brief ad&ees to the audience,
at the close of the opening drama, she thanked them very
timothy for the support they bad afforded her, and trusted
she should meet them under better aospioes next year.
THE Hitithita.—Ho far as the position
of Meems. Loess and Co. sad Mears. Kelk is concerned, the
strike may be said to have come to a termination ; but
with respect to the workmen, the case is still, we regret to
say, very different. Of the plasterers sod masons who
reosatly struck but few have returned to their work ; and
although some of them have obtained employment else-
where, there are others who still adhere to their detonates.
tion to oppose the new mode of payment by the hour. Bah
of the firms which hod introduced the new system have as
many hands employed ea enable them to carry on their or
works, and they have applications from various parts
of the country from several hundreds of workmen willing
to accept the terms offered, of payment by the hour com-
bined with the Saturday half holiday. There was consider-
able excitement on Saturday at Messrs. Lucas's at the time
of payment of the men, and the pickets hooted and yelled,
while the workmen who left the yard cheered lustily. It is
understood that, at a meeting of the masters, held on
Friday, a resolution was weal upon to adopt the system of
hour payment and the half holiday ea Saturday, which has
been inaugurated by Messrs. Lucas. and they resolved to
leave it to the men in their employ to decide whether they
would or would net adopt the new system.-06sereer.
CONDEMN= Cuisicrrn.—The law is left to take
its alone in the case of William Williams, who was con-
victed at the last Brecon Assizes of the murder of his aunt,
and sentenced to be banged on the Mind inst. Appeals have
been made to the merry of the crown on the ground of his
youth and ignorance, but the crime was of so heinous •
nature as to render a commutation of the sentence altoge-
ther incompatible with the doe administration of justice.
In the case of Elizabeth Grine, convicted at the last Salop
AWistil of the murder of her infant child, the clemency of
the crown has been extended so far as to commute the see-
teeer of death to penal servitude for life. It is some years
since any execution of a female has taken plum for am
asses of this damription.
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