The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-19 00:00:00

THE CITY CHARITIES.

Mr. SCOTT, the Chamberlain, read a communica-
tion which had been addressed to him by the charity
commissioners, to the effect that they propose to
institute an inquiry into the charities of the corpora-
tion of London, and whether any and what improve-
ments may be made in the management and appli-
cation of them. The commissioners requested tha a
day might be named for entering upon the inquiry.

The matter was referred for consideration to the
City lands committee.

STATE OF THE CLERGY IN SOUTHWARK.

Mr. Deputy DE JERSEY presented a petition
from the Rev. Charlton Lane, rural dean of the
deanery of Southwark, and Mr. Charles Sumner,
treasurer, and other members of the Surrey Church
Association. They stated that, owing to the great
increase of population, a number of ecclesiastical
districts had been formed in Southwark and in the
parts adjacent, for which little or no emolument had
been provided ; that for many years there resided
in those districts many merchants, manufacturers,
and other persons of substance, by whose pew rents
and charitable donations provision was made for the
support of the clergy, for the maintenance of
schools, and other charitable institutions ; that
lately, owing to increase of railways and other
causes, such persons of substance had left those
parishes for more distant stiburbs ; that in many
such districtparishes, containing from 5,000 to 9,000
people, all poor, the income of the clergyman, from
all sources, had scarcely, if at all, exceeded £lOO a
year, while the labours thrown upon him were too
onerous for any one man to discharge ; that in
several of such district parishes the clergyman was
the only resident gentleman, and therefore the
only person who could devote the time and
attention requisite for the creation and maintenance
of schools and other charities, and for personally
superintending the visiting and relieving of the
thousands of poor and sick by whom he was sur-
matter before the court because of the la
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they must become estranged from their superiors in
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dangerous classes.
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in the event of their recommending a grant, the
money be devoted to educational purposes within
the deanery of Southwark.
STATUETTE OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

In the course of the sitting some explanation
passed between the Lord Mayor and Mr. Aneerten,
from which it appeared that the statuette of her
Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, executed by
Mr. Marshall Wood for the Lord. Mayor, was in-
tended, r.ot, as has been erroneously stated out of
doors, for the Council Chamber. but for his own
private residence ; but that one which was being esti-
cuted at the expense of Mr. Anderton, was designedto adorn the Council Chamber.
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DEATHS BY VIOLENCE OR ACCIDENT IN 1862.
,:a9rss '7 Eleven persons were executed by hanging, 1,317 committed
suicide, 320 were murdered, and 13,187 were killed by acci-
dents. 120 violent deaths were Rot, described SO as to be
classed. 3,053 persons died of burns and scalds, of which
1,620 were males, 1,433 were females,
1851 AND 1862.—The number of foreign exhibi-
tors in 1851, was 6,566, and in 1862, 16,456, au
increase of more than 150 per cent. The number of letters
wbieh passed between England qnd France in 1851, was
2
and in 1862, 6,175,181, an increase in eleven
years of per cent; and the increased number of
foreigners who
visited Loudon, but of which there

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official record, may be estimated by • the numLers o
visited the Dockyard and Arsenal at Woolwich, winch,
were 437 only in 1851, and 9,`195 in 1862,