The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-08 00:00:00

PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.

A meeting of the inhabitant householders, &c.
was held yesterday in the vestry-room. Mr. Mil-
bourne, the churchwarden, took the Chair. The
first subject which came under discussion was rela-
tive to the boundaries of the parish. The 20th
instant is the day far performing that ceremony. It
was stated by several gentlemen that the boundary
marks of the parish had in many places been obli-
terated, and in others entirely removed. Some of
those boundary-stones and marks had been inter-
mixed with those of St. Mary-le-Strand, and that
parish, taking advantage of the confusion, had made
several encroachments upon St. Clement's parish.
After some discussion, in which the vigilance of the
parish officers of St. Mary's was praised, arid the
carelessness of the officers of St. Clement's parish
was blamed, it was agreed that a Committee of
seven persons should wait on the parishioners of St.
Mary's, and endeavour to come to some arrangement
respecting the boundaries.

A conversation then arose arose respecting the
sum of 50/., which is usually allowed for wands and
ribands fur the charity children, nosegays and re-
freshments for the gentlemen, and a dinner for those
parishioners who attended the ceremony. Several
gentlemen objected to so large a sum being ex-
pended in eating and drinking. Mr. Clarke, of
Portugal-street, said, if the gentlemen wanted a din-
ner, let them pay for it out of their own pockets.
Some cold meat, he thought, would be quite suffi-
cient after the business of the day was over. It was
eventually agreed that the allowance should be re-
duced to 301.

The Report of the Committee appointed to in-
quire as to the expediency of retaining any or all of
the four parish beadles in office, in consequence of
the introduction of the new police, was then read.
The Committee proposed that Smith and Terry,
the two most active beadles, should be retained at a
salary of 301. a year each ; and that Birks and
Crumpton, the other beadles, should have a reduced
allowance, one of 2:31., and the other 1.5/. a year.
The Report was adopted.

SURREY TNEATRI.—A new piece entitled
Old Heads on Young Shoulders, was brought outlast
night at this theatre. Young 13u1x:a was, of course, the
hero of the piece, and went through the various characters
connected with it with astonishing spirit and talent. He
is really a very surprising lad, and was received with warm
applause by a crowded house.

The President of the French Board of Trade
has lately addressed a circular to the different Chambers of
Commerce in France, calling the attention of French
merchants to the utility of a commercial intercourse with
the lonian Islands. He is of opinion that French mer-
chants would find it worth ttwir while to avail them-
selves of the freedom of the port of Corfu, in order to
supply Albania and the Illorea with corn and other neces-
saries. The Board of Trade in Paris would seem to be
blessed with the gift of supervision, for which the mer-
cantile community in France ought to feel very grateful.
Nevertheless, it is somewhat extraordinary that the ad-
vantages held out by an intercourse with Albania and
Greece, through Corfu, should not have occurred before
to any one else.— Times.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY !—At a vil-
lage three miles from Taunton, a poor girl, about 18 years
of age, is now fast approaching the grave, after a long il!-
ness, from decline. Her mother, such are the deplorable
superstitious effects of besotted ignorance, regularly places
at night open pen-knives under her patient's pillow, and
well-sharpened 'scythe-blades under the bed, with a view
of keeping off the " witch," to whose baneful influence she
attributes the whole of her daughter's indisposition.—
Bath Herald.

SEATS IN STAGE COACHES.—Every person
who is in the practice of travelling with stage-coaches,
knows that there are certain seats, both in and outside,
to which passengers give a decided preference, and some-
times travellers lay down their plaids or great coats, and
presume that by so doing they have secured their
favourite seats for the journey as certainly as by Act of the
Legislature. Nothing can be more absurd. It is not
quite three years since a dispute of this sort led, in the
first place, to fistycuffs between two gentlemen, and was
ultimately brought before a Sheriff in a northern. county.
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