The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-20 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S, CLERKENWELL.

ELECTION OF INCUMBENT TO THE PERPE-
TUAL CURACY OF THE PARISH.
Yesterday slamming at eleven o'clock, a public meeting
of tte inhabitants of the parish of St. James's, Clerken-
well, was held, pursuant to notice, in the Vestry-room of
the Parish Church in Clerkenwell Green, for the purpose
of receiving the report from the Committee appointed
by the Vestry on Thursday last, as to the right of
presentation to St. James's, St. Mark's, and St. Phi-
lips's, Clerkenwefl, and to proceed to the election of a
Minister, in the room of the Rev. Thomas Sheppard,
deceased.
FRANCIS LARARD, Esq., Senior Churchwarden,
having taken the chair, it was moved and carried, " That
in consequence of the crowded state of the Vestry-
' room, the meeting do adjourn to the parish school-room
in Amwell-street." The meeting having re-assembled in
the school-room in Amwell-street, the report, which
stated the presentation to be in the parishioners, was
received. A long, stormy, and most disorderly discus-
sion their ensued. Each person present seemed desirous
of speaking, and provided the came/hes Icquendi were
gratified, cared very little whether others listened or
not. Listeners were, during the whole morning, at a
high premium ; in fact, with the exception of ourselves
and our brethren of the press—all, of course, lis-
f teners by profession—we much doubt whether
/ there was a silent individual in the assembly. Even a
/ large bull-dog which had by accident obtained admis-
sion, seemed to have caught the prevailing infection,
and joined in the general discord with his deep-toned
I ay. The Cnairrnan, unable to restore order, at length
resign.. d his seat to his brother churchwarden, Mr. Ben-
nett, who seemed quite as unable '. to ride the whirlwind
or direct the storm" as his predecessor. During
the conftk,i.n we saw several gentlemen rise, and
after sAwing, the air with their hands most ener-
getically, and moving their lips for a certain
space of time, sit down again, looking very hot and red,
and then a questio❑ was put from the chair, and hands
were held up, and then the ceremony was repeated.
The meaning of all this was understood to be, that
Mr. Lovell propose?, the Rev. R. C. Dillon, D.D., as
a proper person to he elected t,) till the vacancy, and that
Mr. Paris seconded the nomination ; and that Mr. Nicho-
lson proposed the Rev. W in. Elisha Law Faulkner, M.A.,
and that some parishioner seconded that nomination,
t'iat thereupon a show of 'lauds w .s taken, which was
declared to be in favour (Attie Rev. R. C. Dillon, D. D,
I whereupon the friends of the other candidate demanded
Ia pull, which was appointed to commence this morning
at nine o'clock, at the Clerkenwell workhouse.

ELOPEMENT IN DUBLIN.—A very interesting
oung lady, niece to a Q. C., eloped a few nights s;lice
with a follower of Esculapius. At a late hour a hearse
drove up near to the mansion of the lady's father, and on a
given signal the-fair one fluttered through the shrubberies
troth-Lke, and reached the ant s of her adorer in safety,
ensconced as he was in the hearse. Pursuit was unavail-
ing, fur the hymeneal knot was tied before the locus in quo
whither they had fled was discovered. —Post Correspon-
dent.

' THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND SIR
i .I„aants Cisaers.—A correspondent inquires, as we have
beard several other persons inquire, wby the Marquis of
i Hastings did not horsewhip Sir James Clark, the prime
1 offender against Lady Flora, instead of wrangling and
Ibeing wrathful with Ladies Portman and Tavistock ? We
suppose the reason was, for we can see no other, that be
might have violated the etiquette of the Court.
4tEPRESENTATION OF THE INVERNESS
Bypans.—Mr. Mackenzie of Scatwell, has signified to his
friends that he will not contest the Inverness burghs at the
next election. The Honourable Gentleman is understood
to be on the eve of his departure for the Continent, where
he will reside for some time. The present Liberal repre-
sentative of the burghs, Mi. M'Leod, of Cadboll, is not,
however, to be allowed to walk the course. A requisi-
tion is at present in course of signature, and has been
signed by a number of the Conservatives, to Mr. John
Fraser, a gentleman long resident in India, as a merchant.
Mr. Mackenzie, of Scatwell, has issued an address to the
electors, in whichhe states that a circumstance of a domestic
nature has occurred, which be could not control, and
which will oblige him to sojourn in Italy for an indefinite
period. We regret to learn that the circumstance alluded
' to is the delicate state of health of Mr. Mackenzie and his
i lady.—Glasgow Courier.
MR. PAULTON.—This gentleman has now al-
most completed his tour of Scotland ; and we observe he
lectures in most of the towns in the stewartry of Kirkcud-
bright before he crosses the Border. We are sure we
speak Mr. Paulton's mind, and that of the patriotic gentle-
men who sent him here to enlighten and rally our popu-
lation against the hated bread tax, when we say, that his
success has come up to, if it has not exceeded, their most
sanguine expectations. Here and there he has met with
opposition from ignorant or infatuated individuals, but that
opposition has been so paltry, and based on grounds so
futile and irrelevant, that it has only helped to place in
more favourable contrast the determined and increasing
zeal of the great mass of the intelligent middle and work-
ing classes to pull down the leviathan grievance. We
augur, from Mr. Paulton's reception, their hearty co-ope-
ration with their English friends to save the commerce of
the country from ruin, and its trade from the paralytic
shock which every now and then attack it. The lectures
of Mr. Paulton, and the events of the last few weeks,
have made many Corn-law repealers in Scotland.—Scot-
tish Pilot.
COACH ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday afternoon,
as a two-horsed Southampton coach, loaded with passen-
gers, was proceeding to town, it suddenly came in contact
with a cart belonging to M. Clark, limeburner, of Brent-
ford, when, by the force of the collision, the pole of the
coach was broken, and the coachman and an outside pas-
-1
senger were precipitated with great force to the ground,
but were not seriously hurt. Another pole being procured
the coach proceeded to its destination.
SUDDEN DEATH.—An inquest was taken on
Tuesday evening before Mr. Wakley, at the house of Mr.
Taber, banker, No. 58, Russell-square, on the body of
Ann Newman, aged 51, a nurse in the above gentleman's
family. It appeared that about eleven o'clock on Monday
morning the deceased was in the act of dressing Mrs.
Taber, when she suddenly fell with her head across her
milottess's shoulder, and before medical aid could be pro-
moted life was extinct. Verdict—" Natural Death."
b CARGE OF ROBBERY.—Jeremiah Humphries
„i
I'll*tit A-
Clarke,
„..„
.a and George Langley Clarke, were finally
7ml t Hatton-garden ;on Wednesday, charged with
/C2_ll. wtmeerned in robbing Thomas Henry Roper, Esq., of
full;Pezdeteekt-ilecilt.ill. The particulars of the case have been
prosecutor's
Roper alight at
and another witness
fro possession of apost.boy new proved that he saw the
tett btahg, containing the property, when Mr.
e Bell Tavern, Henley-on-Thames ;
eproved having seen them on the road
committed for trial.
margelisesa!ed in the above eha,:ge
Apmetailimplicated
. The prisoners were fully
recegsly died in a state of
as ißler lerk.enwell prison.
OPil Wednesday morning
in hischaise - Richard Gude,
Bagshot where
of the Gity, was driving
tdumbledvery
, and lt,lr
he is building a shooting box, the ho'rsneear
much
Gude was thrown out. His face and heas
lacerated and bruised, but we are glad to thatstatweer
he has lost a great deal of blood the injuries although
he sustained
i are not dangerous.
MURDER OF A WHOLE FAMILY. 0n
the
ilO6 instant a man named Romain was convicted b
Court of Assizes for the Indre et Loire of the murdery the
i ofe
family namedßoileau, at Rifle, near Tours, consisting of the
husband and wife and they daughter, in January last; and
also of a previous attempt to murder a M. Petit Nau, with
whom he had, two years before, lived as a servant, as he
afterwards did with the Boileaus. The latter crime
was an act of revenge, M. Petit Nau having failed in
Aging Remain some wages that were due to him. The
second crime, first mentioned, was attributed to the insti-
gation of a man and his wife, named MirAcau, who had
complained that a robbery had been imputed to them by
the Roileaus, and had declared that if tney heard any one
murdering them they would never come forward to give
Fevidence. The Mirebeaus lived in the house adjoini g
that of the Boileaus, and the wall between them was so
thin that no noise could take place in the one without being
heard in
the other. The Mirebeaus confessed that they
heard a noise in the night h hthe murderof the Boi-
leaus,,on w e
was co •
which frequently occurred
1 committed, but attributed it to a family quarrel, I
the .till-cheaus could he
their trial. Romain was adduced,
_ As no positive evidence eg,,inat
they were not put on ;
'4
condemned to death.