The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-18 00:00:00

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REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

M/IDDLESEX.
Messrs. COVENTRY and TAMLYN held courts yesterday,
at the Court of Requests, Osborne-street, Whitechapel,
for the purpose of revising the lists of the parishes of St.
George in the East and Mile-end Old Town, which were
adjourmd from the former day.
The only case possessing interest was the following, which
came before Mr. Tamlyn, relating to the trustees of Beulah
Chapel, Commercial-road, whose claims were opposed :
Mr. Dunch, one of the trustees, examined---The chapel is
freehold. There were originally thirteen trustees. That
number has been reduced to eight, two of whom only re-
ceive the rests and profits. I receive from 30/. to 401. I
apply as wal as receive rents. Mr. Turner—ls the pro-
perty mortgaged ? Mr. Dunch—lt is, for 8001. Mr.
Turner—When the outgoing expenses are paid, what sur-
plus have you ? Mr. Dunch—Frequently a deficiency—
(Laughter) Mr. Turner—Who pays the minister ? Mr.
Dunch—The trustees, out of the pew-rents and other
sources. Hr. Bayles—From endowments ? Mr. Dunch—
Yes. Mr. Turner pressed for the production of the trust-
deed. Mr. Dunch observed that he had not the deed with
him, but 'hat he would with much pleasure answer any
question int to him respecting it. He would beg to oh-
ierve that he was a trustee for life, and that he could not
removed, except for immoral conduct. Mr. Baylis—Of
course, you cannot be a trustee when you are dead—that
is what you mean ? Mr. Dunch—Yes. Mr. Turner again
pressed fir the production of the deed, observing that Mr.
Coventry had decided upon having the deeds before him
in ssch cases. Mr. Baylis said that the decision of Mr.
Coventry referred selely to the appointment of ministers.
Mr- Turner remarked upon the absence of proof as to a
b..=,-.Lould be proved.
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Mr. Turner—Yes ;
decision.
The Vestry Clerk observed that this was on
Mr. TAmt.ltst said he should retain the names.
objections ; the Overseers,
To-
ries made 106, and sustained
24 objections ' ections • and the deci-
of 26. succ
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THE LIVERPOOL and BIRMINGHA
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

In reply to various attacks which have been made upon
the management of the Grand Junction Railway in diffe-
rent newspapers, the following apparently authorised vindi-
cation has appeared in a Contemporary :
" The Grand Junction Railway, exclusive of its merits
as a work unequalled in extent and utility, has solid and
tangible claims to the kindly consideration of Birmingham.
We need not point to the pecuniary advantages that have
already resulted to the town from its opening—to the crowds
of strangers that it has attracted hither, and that, too, at a
period when, from the unexampled pressure on trade, re-
tail as well as wholesale, any influx of trade, however
trifling was to be received with gratitude. Had inquiry on
the subject been instituted, it would have at once been
found that the reports circulated in the metropolis to the
injury of the railway, were in nearly every instance ground-
less : that the statements made had seldom any foundation
except in the misinformation of the writer ; that instead of
any imputation of remissness, the Directors had in reality
received, both from the public and the shareholders, the
highest commendations. Since the railway has been
opened—no further back than July—some fifty thousand
individuals have been conveyed, the greater part the en-
tire length of the line, in a manner altogether unexam-
pled for convenience, cheapness, and expedition. There
have been on a few occasions, a very few, an accidental
delay. Still, taking the whole of these into account, the
journey from Birmingham to Liverpool has, on an average
of trips, fallen short of five hours. If the Directors have
been guilty of an error, it goes to this extent, no more—
that they calculated the journey at four hours and a half,
to which, there is no doubt, it will very soon be reduced.
As to the paucity of engines, before that is made a ground
of inculpation, it would be well to estimate the difficulty
with which a supply of engines is procurable. In Bir-
mingham, the spot where the steam-engine originated,
there is not a single Company or individual competent to
the making of a locomotive. It is said the Company
ought not to have opened the railway until every point
and particular was completed. Who say so ? The pub-
lic ? Do they count for nothing the high benefit of suoh
an undertaking, whether for pleasure or business, that they
would willingly have consented to forego it for another six
months, and that without the smallest ground of expedi-
ence or necessity ? Nothing need be said of the thousands
that the opening of the railway has added to the funds of
the shareholders, though even that circumstance enhances
the value of the opening, inasmuch as it will enable the
Directors to execute improvements which otherwise they
might not have ventured upon."—Aris's Bir»zingham
Gazette.

The amount of subscriptions to the monument of '
the late Duke of Gordon, is about 2,500/.
An American paper gives the following as the sum-
mary of Louis Buonaparte's opinion on those national mur-
ders called war : " I have been as enthusiastic and joyful
as any one after a victory ; but I also confess that even then
the sight of a battle has not only struck me with horror,
but even turned me sick ; and now that I am advanced in
life I cannot understand, any more than I could at fifteen
years of age, how beings who call themselves reasonable,
and who have so much foresight, can employ this short ex-
istence, not in loving and aiding each other, and passing
through it as gently as possible, but, on the contrary, in
endeavouring to destroy each
_other, as if Time did not
himself do this with sufficient rapidity. What I thought at
fifteen years of age I still think : war and the pain of death,
which society draws upon itself, are but organised barba-
risms, an inheritance of the savage state, disguised .or orna-
mented by ingenious institutions and false eloquence."
Tho American paper adds :—" It was for the poisession of
such feelings as are here evinced that Napoleon dispos-
sessed him of the sceptre of Holland, where bis amiable
disposition endeared him to the people whom he governed,
and rendered their thraldom less insupportable than the
French Emperor intended after the fall of the Nether-
lands."