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blished Church, and of those kept by the different
bodies of Dissenters, uniting one general registry for the
whole kingdom, a recommendation greatly to be de-
sired. The Committee feel it incumbent on them,
however? to recommend that the Vestry shall, by con-
sultation with the Church authorities, endeavour to de-
vise same plan by which those regista rs shall be placed
in a fit and proper custody. By the St. Marylebone
Local Act, 51 George 111., cap. 151, sec. 32, com-
monly called the Church Act, copies of registers of
births, marriages, and deaths, are required to be made,
and deposited in the Court-house. It appears that
the provisions of this Act were complied with until
the 52d George 111., cap. 146, carae into operation,
when the duplicate copies of the Court House were
sent to the registrar of the diocese, and . the
latter Act being a general statute, superseded
the necessity of depositing those copies in the Court-
house. The important point with the complainants is,
the safe custody of the old head and foot stone now in
the Paddington-street burial-grounds, but how to effect
this without the concurrence of the Rector is a difficulty
which the Committee are unable to surmount, though
they have no doubt of obtaining his consent to any pro-
per means proposed. If a faculty is required to remove
the stones to any place of safe custody, the complainants
would willingly bear the expense. The Committee have
had a communication with the Rector on the subject, he
having'met with an accident which confines him to his
house, or they believe he would have come to town to
assist in this inquiry. His correspondence with the
Committee is to that effect. His Curates, the Rev.
Messrs. Burgess and Coghlan, have attended the
meeting of the Committee at his request to
render any assistance in their power. It is recom-
mended that the Rector be consulted on the subject. In
the course of this inquiry the Committee have seen
abundant reasons to congratulate the Vestry and the
country at large on the existence of a recent Act of
Parliament for the registration of births, deaths, and
marriages, which will for ever put an effectual stop to
the future occurrence of transactions of so fraudulent
a character as the present. By the operation of this
beneficial measure, now in its infancy, it will be impos-
sible to effect any alteration in local or general registers
without immediate detection. No subject can assuredly
be so important to all classes of the commusiity as
the effectual security of such documents as those
in question. It is satisfactory to your Committee,
in closing their report, that they do it with the
persuasion that the course adopted by them in
pursuing this inquiry has been approved of by the
complainants, who have attended the several meetings
of the Committee, and have expressed their obligations
to its members for assisting them in their endeavours ;
and the Committee have only again to express their
unqualified regret that in the case of the disgraceful
alterations in the parish registers—whatever may be
said of the grave-stones—they are not in a condition to
point out the guilty parties, but they earnestly express
their hope that the complainants who have originated
this inquiry will feel it to be still their duty to follow it
on to conviction, knowing that the Vestry, together with
the clergy and churchwardens, will cheerfully continue
their assistance whenever called upon."
The following report of the sitting of the Sub-Com-
inittee of Thursday last was incorporated in the above
report of the General Committee :
" The Sub-Committee beg to state to the General
Committee that, in preparing the Report, it appeared
to them desirable that the registers should be further
inspected, and the Sub-Committee having met this day
at the parish church for such purpose, found that in a
book marked—' Burials, Ist Nov. 1799, to 17th Aug.
1811,' No. 10, under the date of Oct. 14, 1803, the
name of William Fendall' has been changed to Willis
Fuedaillei,' and in the small minister's fee book, marked
Burials, Ist May 1800, to 26th May 1805,' there is
precisely the same alteration. Under the same day, the
tee entered as received for the same is 6s. Bd. ; this is a
fee that is not taken for an adult in these grounds.
Again, in the first named book, under the date of
Oot. 19, 1809, the name of William Fendall' has
been inserted on the erasure of some other name, for-
merly standing as ' William T—; the name of Wil-
iam' is original, and the letter T' of the old sirname is
remaining, imperfectly converted into' F,' the letters' en-
dall' are apparently entirely new. In the small minister's
lee book of this date, marked 'Burials, 27th May 1806,
to 31st of May, 1810,' the leaf is missing, as also the
corresponding leaf in the binding at the late date ; they
nave evidently been torn out, as fragments of the backs
of them now remaining in the book will clearly prove.
In the small minister's fee book, under the date of Oct.
15, 1808, appears the name of William Murray ad.'
—this is the true and original entry. In the large burial
book before named at this date appears now the fol-
.owing ;—' William H--11,' and at the end of the
came, where the letters ' chd' were placed, the leaf
itself is cut away ; the Christian name is the original
entry, the name of Murray' has been erased, and the
name of Fendall' inserted, and again erased ; the first
letter F' has been converted into H,' and the two
last letters left remaining, and the intermediate letters
Left obscure and uncertain. In reference to, or explana-
tion of, the foregoing alterations, your committee beg to
observe, that the death of William Fendall on the old foot
stone is marked 1803 ; on the new head-stone it is
marked 1809. This agrees with the alterations in the
cooks at these two dates ; the alteration in the register
in 1808 was probably a blunder."
After some discussion the Report. was received and
adopted with only two dissentient voices.
Mr. RATHBONE then made a motion for the ap-
pointment of an extended Committee, to consider the
best course to be pursued towards the parties suspected
.1 being concerned in the above disgraceful affair ; and
Lisp, further, to investigate the conduct of other persons
high in parochial office.

-Mr. JOSEPH seconded it.
The resolution was carried unanimously without any
,liscussion, and the vestry separated.

DUTCH AND .FLANDERS MAIL

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 12.—The meetings of the mixed
Commission at Utrecht continue. The Avondbode
.ays, " that the complex subjects of the discussions pro-
mise to be brought to a speedy and satisfactory con-
Ausion."
General Gerard, who lately quitted the service of
Belgium, has already taken the command of the de-
nartment of the Lower Seine, the head-quarters of
,yhich are at Rouen.

We are assured that the Fort du Nord, and the bat-
teries without the gate of Slick, will not be dismantled
till after the complete disarming of the forts of Lillo
and Liefkenshcek.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 13.—1 n consequence of the re-
luction of the army to the peace establishment, we
-laity see militiamen returning to their homes. We
hear, on the other hand, that the necessary preparations
,ire making in the offices of the War Department to
call out the militiamen of the class of 1838.

This measure, which restores to agriculture and the
manufactories disciplined troops, whose place willbe sup-
plied by young men to be instructed in their military
duties, appears to conciliate the interest of the public
with what is required by the necessity of providing for
the safety of the State.
The Augsburg Gazelle contains the following passage
respecting the marriage of the Queen of England :
" The speech of Queen Victoria on proroguing the Par
liament makes no mention of her marriage. As some
journals have inferred that the matrimonial alliance with
the Coburg family was still doubtful, we can affirm on good
authority that the meeting of several members of the
house of Saxe Coburg at London is for the purpose of set-
tling the necessary preliminaries which must precede the
marriage; that is to say, everything relative to the pre-
rogatives and the revenue of the intended husband
As for the question of the marriage itself and the mu-
tual affection of the parties, all this has been some time
decided. The Duchess of Kent and the King of the
Belgians have been the most zealous promoters of this
alliance."

VIENNA, SEPT. 4.—We hear from Hungary that a
proposal will soon be made in the Diet for the founda-
tion of a Society for Hungary and its dependencies,
for the purpose of opening in England a market
for the produce of the kingdom, especially wool.
With this view it will be proposed to send a
Hungarian Plenipotentiary to England, and to
invite the English Government to send on its part a
commercial agent to Hungary. On the whole the Diet
appears, since the mixed sitting of the 21st of August,
to have devoted more attention to practical objects ; the
misunderstanding seems to be partly removed, and it is
hoped that the Deputies will act with more calmness,
which will be highly beneficial to the country.
FLORENCE,AUG. 31.—Cardinal Lambrusehini has issued
a circular letter to the councillors of the Roman Universi-
ties, by which the Professors are forbidden not only to visit
Pisa during the meeting of the naturalists in that city,
but even to have any correspondence with the learned
men assembled there.
AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 11.--Messrs. Paul Van Vlissin-
gen, and P. Van Eik, have issued a prospectus with pro-
posals for establishing a new Steam Navigation Com-
pany for the communication between Amsterdam and
London.
These gentlemen expect the most favourable results
from this undertaking, as connected with the commercial
treaty between the Netherlands and England, and the
intended railway to Arnheim.
DANTZIC, Ace. 24.—During the last few months
there have been considerable sales of timber, and still
more of corn, though the scarcity of money and the
high discount in England have had an unfavourable
effect.
The stock of corn, particularly wheat, which was
trifling in January, has been greatly augmented by
numerous arrivals from Prussia, Poland, and elsewhere.
The dealers were partly disappointed in their expecta-
tations, as England received large supplies of corn from
the Mediterranean, which caused a depression in the
prices.

It would be difficult to • state the quantities of
corn that have been latterly expected from this
place, but it may be ent, rtaining to annex the
!)riees f-om t!,O Ist of J nmary 0 !:,,1
from Euglaud. In the six months 8,268 cwt. of salt meat