The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-29 00:00:00

ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS.

NOMINATION OF CHURCHWARDEN.

Yesterday being Maundai Thursday, a numerous
meeting of the inhabitants of this parish was held in the
Vestry-room, pursuant to annual custom, to nominate
Churchwardens for the ensuing year. It will be recol-
lected that last year a long and angry contest took pLce
between the two parties, and that during the struggle,
or at its close, the polling papers were abstracted from
the parish box, a proceeding which led to the most
bitter acrimony, and it was quite evident yesterday it
had not been forgotten. Mr. Churchwarden CUFF pre-
sided.

After some preliminary business had been disposed of,
Mr. Churchwarden Staunton was proposed as Senior
Churchwarden by Mr. SMITH and Mr. BARRON.
Mr. GAIIEGAN proposed Mr. GILBERT POUNCEY,
which was seconded by Mr. WitsoN.

_ . .
Mr. LAING, of the Haymarket was proposed by Mr.
JONES ; and Mr. HUDSON, of the Haymarket, proposed
Mr. RICIIARD CORBETT.'

After a long discussion, carried on with much warmth
and party feeling, which led to no result,
Mr. SiNtrsoN said he saw it was of no use going on
further ; thPy had better adjourn and have two candi.
dates each.—(Cheers, and cries of " War, war, on
Monday.")
The motion was put and carried, so that another vex-
atious contest must now take place.

ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN.

ELECTION OF_T HE COMMITTEE OF MA

NAGEMENT UNDER THE LOCAL ACT.
Yesterday forenoon the Rate-payers of St. Paw
Covent-Gm-den, assembled in the Vestry-room of the
parish church, for the purpose of electino• 27 persons to
be the Committee of Management for the year ensuing,
and to appoint officers and apportion the salaries of the
officers.

Mr. CHARLES WARDELL, senior Churchwarden in
the Chair.

Mr. MOSELEY, the Vestry Clerk, having read the
minutes of the last Vestry, which were confirmed, of-
fered the resignation of the office. He observed that he
had filled that situation nine years, and that he was
compelled to resign it in consequence of the increase of
his private business. He thanked the Vestry for the
courtesy he had always experienced from the parish.
Two lists being severally proplsed and seconded, it
was agreed to select the third of the remaining names of
the old Committee, which being done, eighteen new
members were appointed from the second list. A dis-
cussion then ensued upon the propriety of increasing
the salary of the Vestry Clerk, from 100 guineas to
1501., a-year, when a Committee was rppointed to take
the necessary steps upon the subject, and report at their
next meeting.
Mr. WALKER moved that the Collector of the Rates
should be paid 1 in place of 11 per cent., upon
which,

Mr. CRIBB moved an amendment to continue the
old allowance.

The amendment was carried, when the Vestry was
dissolved.

TfIE MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN LAMBETH.—
Wednesday afternoon an inquest was bald in Carlisle-lane,
Lambeth, on the body of Elizabeth Cuthbert, the wife of a
journeyman tailor, a notice of whose death has already ap-
peared in 7he Sun. It appeared that on Monday
morniros her husband left home, and on his return between
nine and t. n o'clock at night he was unable to gain admit-
tance till he got in the window, when he faund the deceased
lying on the floor, quite dead and cold. It was rumoured in
the neighbourhood that she had been severely ill-treated
by her husband, but, the evidence did not support the
charge. Mr. Wagstaff, a surgeon, having made a post
mortem examination of the body, every indication of the
deceased having been addicted to drinking gin presented
themselves. The immediate cause of death, however, was
the rupture of a blood-vessel between the heart and lungs.
Verdict accordingly.
EXECUTION AT MAlDSTONE.—Yesterday
morning at the usual hour the wretched man, William
Seagar, underwent the last sentence of the law, in front
of Maidstone Gaol. The unfortunate convict, it will be
recollected, was tried and convicted at the late Maidstone
Assizes, for the brutal murder of a female with whom he
cohabited, near Otterden, in Kent, in the month of Ja-
nuary last. Seagar slept well on Wednesday night, and
when awoke was perfectly resigned to his fate. He
mounted the scaffold without the least assistance, and when
the fatal bolt was drawn, he appeared to die without a single
struggle. There were upwards of 3,000 present in front
of the palce of execution.
The commercial traveller, Staples, to whose
mysterious disappearance from the Clarence Hotel, about
a month ago, we have twice alluded, has not been heard of,
although hand-bills offering a reward for his discovery have
been extensively circulated. The last place at which
there is any information of his being seer, is Hove ; and a
hat having been picked up a few days since by one of the
Coast Guard, near the Wish, it was at first conjectured
that it might afford some clue to his fate. Neither the
landlord, nor servants of the hotel, however, have any re-
collection of the hat which he wore at the time he left, and
these is no mark or name on it by which it can be traced to
him. The hat, which is a fine one, is broad-brimmed and
turned up more than usual at the sides ; the binding is very
broad, and its appearance leads to the presumption that it
has been some time in the water.—Prighton Gazette.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CORPORATION OF
LONDON AGAINST THE POLICE BILL.—Tile Lord Mayor
has, at the request of Mr. Humphries, one of the Members
of Farringdon Within Ward, ordered that the following
motion should stand at the head of the paper for discussion
at the next Court of Common Council :—" That this 1
Court do agree to petition both Houses of Parliament
against the Bill now pending in the House of Commons,
entituled A Bill for Regulating the Police Courts of the,
Metropolis.' " Mr. Brace, another member of the Cor-
poration, has given notice of the following motion :
" That a deputation from the Court be appointed to wait
on the Right Honourable Viscount Melbourne, for the pur-
pose of recalling to his
.Lordship's mind the assurances made
by his Lordship on various occasions of supporting and pro-
tecting the rights and privileges of the Corporation, and
requesting, on the faith and dependence of each assurance,
that his Lordship will counsel the withdrawal of the Bill,
entituled A Bill for further improving the Police in and
near the Metropolis.' "
DEATH FROM BURNING.—AII inquest was
taken before Mr. Payne yesterday afternoon, at Guy's
Hospital, on the body of Jane M'Cleod, aged four years,
residing at 24, Lynn-street, Southwark. It appeared that
the parents of the deceased went out on Wednesday after-
noon for the purpose of supplying their customers with
milk, leaving the deceased child and her brother, a boy six
years of age, in a room by themselves. They began play-
ing with the tea-kettle, and the lid having got inside, the
boy told deceased to get it out ; she got over the fender for
that purpose, when the fire catching her pinafore, it com-
municated to her frock, and burnt her in a dreadful man-
recollected
thats
p ao fewse d weeps
ne adte hr.
It man-
ner. The flames having been extinguished, she was con-
veyed to the above hospital, where she died at 12 o'clock
the samenight.
thaegop,l a e a lad
of
of the name of George Beel, was brought before the Lord
Mayor,will lie
whose
mother,Verdict—Accidental
was it supposed,
inducing him to go into the Canal to look after golden
fishes, intended to have destroyed him. Yeae-day, by order
of the Lord Mayor, the lad was taken to him' by Mr.
Bookes, a parish officer of the Parish of Bishopsgate,
being the intention of his Lordship to place him in some
charitable institution. It is stated that in this case h7sLord-
ship acts under the authority of a personage high' in the
land, who has promised to interest herself in the future
welfare of the lad. Ten guineas were, on the occasion,
given to the female, who fortunately preserved the life of
the lad, and who had him under her protection.
POPPING THE QUESTION.—The desperate
struggles and flounderings by which some endeavour to get
out of their embarrassments, are amusing enough. We
remember to have been much del ghted tha first time we
heard the history of the wooing of a noble lord, now no
more, nat rated. His lordship was a man of talents and
enterprise, of stainless pedigree and a fair rent-roll, but
the veriest slave of bashfulness. Like all timid and quiet
men, he was very susceptible and very constant, as long as
he was in the habit of seeing the object of his affections
daily. At the beginning of an Edinburgh winter he lost
his heart to Miss —; and, as their families were in habits
of intimacy, he had frequent opportunities of meeting with
her. He gazed and sighed incessantlya--a very Dutnbie-
di
herkes,but,theavterhybe ;
ewhearda larger allowance of brain; he
followed
he felt jealous, uncomfortable,
savage, if she looked even civilly at another; and yet, not-
withstanding his stoutest resolutions—notwithstanding the.
encouragement afforded him by the lady, a woman of
sense, who saw what his lordship would be at, esteemed
his character, was superior to girlish affactation, and made
every advance consistent with female delicacy—the winter
was yet fast fading into spring, and he had not got his
mouth opened. Mamma at last lost all patience ; and one
day, when his lordship was taking his usual lounge in the
drawing-room, silent, or uttering an occasional monosyl-
lable, the good lady abruptly left the room, and left the
pair alone. When his lordship, on essaying to take his
leave, discovered the predicament in which he stood, a des-
perate fit of resolution seized him. Miss sat bend-
ing most assiduously over her needle—a deep blush on her
cheek. Ills lordship advanced towards her; but losing
heart by the way, passed in silence to the other end of the
face
o
room. Ile returned to the charge, but again without
effect. At last, nerving himself like one about to spring
a powder-mine, he stopped before her—" Miss --, will
you marry me ?" " With great pleasure, my lord," was
unfalter-
ingt
he
voice,answe whileglv
a d
given, ino
deeper
leorwc, r somewhat
time
speaker. And a right good wife she made to him.
Twored in the
R BODIES
iver FOUNDThes
terday afternoon the crew of one of the gravel machines,
moo
off Barking Creek, disco_
am, IN THE
sd id io but
f the
vered, apparently lying on the mud, on the,s
foundEssexto sidee,
some linen. On proceeding to the spot it vva
the clothes of a man, who was completely embedded ;n the
mud, and had been for at least a week He was dug out
and conveyed ashore. At about six o'clock last evening
the body of a female child was picked up by some water-
men, off Deptford. It was given up to the parish.
ACCIDENT ON TIIE RIVER.—About. half-past
eleven yesterday morning, as one of the iron steam-boats,
called the Starlight, was proceeding up the river from Lon-
don-bridge to Hungerford Wharf, with thirty passengers,
she struck upon a coal-barge which had been sunk in the
bed of the river opposite Honduras Wharf, and became a
complete wreck. Her cabins almost immediately filled
with water, and her engines have been considerably dr.
malted. By the activity and promptitude of a few gentle-
men on board, all the o4s3engers were got off caith safety
into hosts and skiffs, which lay near at the time. The
sunk barge belonged to Honduras Wharf.

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