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London, England, 1838-04-18 00:00:00

PARISH OF HACKNEY.

The inhabitants of Hackney met yesterday to elect the
usual parochial officers. For the office of churchwarden
Me=srs. Robertson and Nelme were elected without opposition.
Mr. C. H. Pulley, who has filled the office many years, was
re-appointed vestry-clerk.

ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN.
A vestry meeting of the inhabitants of St. Paul, Covent-
garden, was held yesterday in the vestry-room, for the election
of a churchwarden and the appointment of other officers for
the year ensuing.
Mr. CRIBS proposed that Mr. Ward be chosen the parish-
ioners' warden for year ensuing. „
There being no opposition, Mr. Ward was elected unani-
mously.
Mr. Clark was appointed the rector's warden for the year
ensuing ; and the other officers having been chosen without
opposition, the vestry adjourned.

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SAINT JAMES'S, CLERKENWELL.
The annual career of agitation commenced yesterday in
this parish, at a vestry held for the purpose of choosing church-
wardens, a vestry clerk, overseer, and assistants, sidesmen,
beadles, and other officers, for the next year, and also to raise
a sum for the relief of the poor for the same period.
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place on Friday, Saturday, and Monday. Mr. Selby was re-
elected vestry-clerk, after a slight opposition. The salary is
only 201., but he has 3001. also as clerk to the Board of
Guardians. Four sidesmen will also be polled for.
Mr. Sawn'„ the new overseer, moved for 21,000/. for the
poor for next year.
On the motion of Mr. THOMPSON, this question was refer-
red to a Committee of Inquiry ; and, after a hot debate, the
vestry adjourned.
ST. LUKE, CHELSEA.
Yesterday a public meeting of the rate-payers of this parish
took took place in the vestry-room of the New Church, for the
purpose
of electing churchwardens, sidesmen, and other paro-
chial officers for the year ensuing, the Rev. CHARLES KINGS.
LET, the Rector, presided ex officio, and appointed Mr. Rud-
lin, of Smith
-street, to be the Rector's Warden for the en-
suing yar.—( Chers. )
Mr. GREENWAY proposed that Mr. Crabb, of Sloane-street,
be the churchwarden of the parish for the following year.
The CHAIRMAN then asked if there was any amendment
to the name of Mr. Crabb ?

A PARISHIONER begged to propose Mr. John Maynard.
The CHAIRMAN submitted first the amendment for the ap-
proval of the meeting, which was negatived by a large majo-
rity ; and subsequently the original motion, which, of course,
was carried. Messrs. Mitchell, of Sloane-terrace, and Body,
of Church-street, were then elected sidesmen. Messrs. Cross,
floulden, Knight, M'Quoid, and Faulkner, were appointed to
supply the vacancies in the list of church trustees. Messrs.
Frampton, Jeffries, and Vincent were next appointed auditors
of the church trustees' accounts. Mr. W. Cornell was re-
elected yestry-clerk, and some other business having been
transacted the meeting separated.

COAL MONOPOLY.—The coal controversy in
the publ
London still goes on, apparently for the purpose of deludingic, as
no answer is attempted to be given to our
question why 700 cargoes of coals remained in the Thames
during the late frost, actually unsaleable, whilst the coal-
merchants were retailing coals at 50s. a ton? These cargoes
belonged to the northern coalowners and the shipowners, and
have since been sold at 18s. to 255. a ton. Surely it would
have suited both the proprietors of the coals and the public, if
the coals had been sold when most wanted. We are con-
vinced the consumers can never have cheap and good coals
until they are supplied direct from the north. The public
ought to combine and not purchase any coals offered for sale
on the Coal Ihchange. The coal producing and consuming
Company now advertised bids fair not only to benefit its sub-
scribers, but to destroy one of the most infamous monopolies
that ever existed—we mean as respects the system in London,
lin nowa swthie ndling practice,
manner, if
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someped where all the abuse really prevails. A public Company,
whose books would be liable to the inspection of a numerous
body of subscribers, could not manage such a plan of mixing
the best and worst coals together, and selling the whole for
liest, as i
business
scribers would resist any attempt of the kind, The magni-
tude of the concern would be a security against fraud.—Hull
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Observer.

A duel was fought on Tuesday, near Mallow, by
Mr. H—s and Mr. C n. Three shots were expended
without effect. The former combatant was principal in an-
other affair near Cork during the Assizes, on which occasion
he fired two shots, one ball passed then through the lappel of
his antagonist's coat, the other through his hat.—Cork Con-
stitution.

--" DINNER at LEEDS.

CONSERVATi v

Since the period it was publicly announced `'"!;
Burdett and other distinguished individuals had accepted
invitation to attend the anniversary dinner of the Leeds Ope-
rative Conservative Association the demand for tickets has
been so great that no public building in Leeds could be found
sufficiently large to accommodate the persons anxious to be
present. A magnificent pavilion had, therefore, been erected
at considerable cost for the purpose. The building presented
a Grecian exterior, having the entrance fronting to the east.
Within the portico was a spacious hall, leading on the left to
the gentlemen's room, adjoining the saloon, and the ladies'
cloak room, communicating with the gallery. On the right
of the entrance ball was the receivers' room for tickets,
waiters' apartments, bar, scullery, pantries, wine store, capable
of holding four pipes of wine in bottles, and other conve-
niences for the attendants. The saloon, which was 120 feet
long by 80 feet broad, contained nine rows of dining tables,
placed lengthways, the side tables gradually raised from the
centre ; and all these were covered with light blue. At the
west end was the cross table, standing on a platform,
raised three feet above the centre of the saloon. This table
was covered with pink, and was appropriated to the accommo-
dation of forty of the principal guests. The President's chair,
an ornamental one, was placed in the centre of this table. At
the east end was the gallery over the ladies' and gentlemen's
rooms, &c., which comfortably accommodated 500 ladies. The
festival took place on Monday last. Sir Francis Burdett and
Sir George Sinclair have been staying at Kirkstall Grange,
the seat of William Beckett, Esq. ; Lord Maidstone has been
the guest of the Earl of Mexborough. The dinner was an-
nounced to take place at five o'clock, but it was considerably
after that time before the whole of the company had assembled.
About twelve hundred persons sat down to it, among whom
were—W. Beckett, Esq., of Kirkstall Grange (Chairman) ;
Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Mexborough, Sir Francis Bur-
nett, M. P. ; Viscount Maidstone, M. P. ; Sir George Sin-
clair, M. P. ; Hon. E. Lascelles, W. Busfield, Esq., M. P. ;
Colonel Wallace, the Vicar of Leeds, T. H. Lowther, Esq.,
M. P. ; Hon. Philip Saville, R. Hall, Esq. ; Alderman Hall,
W. Roby, Esq., &c. &c. &c.
After the cloth was removed the ladies were introduced.
A gallery immediately opposite the Chairman, at the extre-
mity of the Pavilion, was appropriated to them. They were
loudly cheered upon entering. The first toast proposed by the
Chairman was " The Queen."—( Loud cheers. )
Song " God save the Queen," the whole company joining
in chorus. The lines " Scatter her enemies, confound their
politics, frustrate their knavish tricks," were loudly cheered.
The next toast was, " The Queen Dowager and the Royal
Family."—( Great cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said that
whether they looked to the duration of their glorious Consti-
tution, or whether they considered the blessings and benefits
it conferred, they never could forget that it was bound up in
strict alliance and mutual defence with our national establish-
ment of the Church. He hoped that that union might long
be preserved to them.
Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR replied to the toast. He ascribed
the cordial reception he had met with to a knowledge of the
cordial friendship which had for so many years subsisted with-
out alloy or interruption between himself and his revered
friend ( Sir F. Burdett)—(Cheers)—whom all present vene-
rated and adMired as the most unflinching, the most chivalrous,
and the most disinterested patriot. Gentlemen, proceeded
the Honourable Speaker, I have been called upon to address
you upon a toast of which it is impossible to overrate either
the solemnity or the importance. It is one to which my re-
spected friend the Chairman has already done ample justice,
when he represented the connection between Church and
State as the basis upon which our polity and our happiness
may be said to rest. It is the less necessary to dwell upon
this subject at any length in your presence, when I consider
you are met here to testify your adherence to the Conserva-
tive principles of which they form the elements and the basis;
for what do those Conservative principles involve but these—
reverence to the Church, attachment to the Throne, and a de-
termination to maintain unimpaired the rights and privileges
of all orders and classes in this great nation?—( Cheers.)
And, Gentlemen, is it in England alone that I would expatiate
upon the blessings of the connexion of the State with our
national Establishment ? Surely not —(Cheers)—and least
of all would it be necessary in Leeds, the place where you ex-
perience from week to week, from day to day, the manifold
and distinguishing advantages which arise from it.—( Hear.)
Let me ask, for one moment, what would be the consequence
if the Establishment was swept away ?—( Hear, he'ar.) Would
you like to see your Clergymen placed upon the same footing
as Dissenting Ministers even of the most eminent character
are placed ? How often are they obliged to accommodate
themselves to the inclination and caprice of their hearers ? We
have already tried the experiment of encroaching upon the re-
venues of the Church. We tried it at the period of the Re-
formation ; and what has the country gained ? I would ask
whether the best use has been made of the property of which
the Church was robbed ?—( Hear.) Without meaning anything
invidious, I would ask whether the Dukes of Bedford have done
more good than the Archbishops of Canterbury?—(Cheers.) I
consider the Church of England to be in two senses the Church
of the poor. In the first place, it is the Church from which
the poor derive instruction ; and, in the next place, it is the
Church to the honours and advantages of which the children
of the humblest may aspire.—( Loud cheers.) The Hon.
Baronet then adverted to a charge made by the Leeds Mercury
that the principal guests at this meeting were political rats,
and replied that they would not be deterred from a course
which they deemed honest by all the "rats'-Baines"in Leeds.
The " Army and Navy" was the next toast proposed.
Colonel WALLACE returned thanks.

The CHAIRMAN in proposing the next toast said, that it had
been alleged that the House of Lord; were occupied only in
supporting their own privileges and in defending their own
rights ; but could they have a better proof of the fallacy of
such statements than in the example /of the Noble Lord
who was then present? The Peels had the happiness of
the whole people at heart, and it was to secure that happi
ness that they exercised those privileges with which they were
so justly invested.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE returned thanks. It had been the con-
stant endeavour of those who had bece opposed to them.in po-
litics to represent the House of Lords as enemies to the peo-
ple. He appealed to the history of the country, to all present,
whether the House of Lords had not been the firmest sup-
porters of the liberties of the people ?—( Loud cheers.) They
had not flinched from their duties, though they had been as-
sailed with the cry of " Down with the House of Lords."
He was happy to say that that cry was now passed by, and he
believed that the conduct of the House of Lords stood in
higher estimation than it did before,—( Cheers.) The fault
found with them had been, that they had resisted the march
of democracy.—( Hear, hear.) It was their duty to do so.
They had said to the people, so long as they were a House
of Peers, they would resist encroachment upon the Consti-
tution at all hazards.—(Cheers.) It was said that we had a
liberal Government, which had the support of the people,
and that the Lords were wrong in pursuing a course adverse
to them. He would examine what there was in the course in
which the Government were following, to show whether the
Lords should have confidence in them. They had made an
absolute surrender of one of the first principles upon which
their Government was founded. It was framed on a corn-
pact between the enemies of the Church of Irelarrd and them-
selves, by which they agreed to surrender to those enemies
part of the revenues of that Church.—( Hear, hear, hear.)
Had the other measures of the Government tended to remove
suspicion, and to give confidence to the Lords? They had
from year to year attempted to apply the revenues of the
Church to other purposes than those of the Church ; but the
Lords had refused it ; and this year they had been told they
were to have a plan laid before them by the very men who had
declared they would not allow the Church to live. He would
now call attention to the situation in which we were placed
with regard to Ireland. In the last Parliament the Govern-
ment was supported by a majority of the representatives of
England and Scotland, and the last election had shown that
the Protestant Church was popular in England and Scotland,
as there was a considerable majority against them in the new
Parliament. But, on the other hand, there was majority of
Irish Members, obtained by the influence—he would say it
there--of the Priests and the power of one man.—( Hear,
hear.) He desired that they would not conceal it from them-
selves that their own representatives were not willing to de-
stroy the Church. Look at the Committees of the House of
Commons. See bow on every occasion they had united, in
order to prevent inquiry. The Irish Members complained that
they had been charged with perjury in voting for those mea-
sures which affected the Church. He Mould not say that he
did not think that many of them voted conscientiously, but
there were among them men who were giving their votes,
though they had taken an oath not to use their influence to
subvert the Protestant religion while they were declaring that
their object was the destruction of the Church.—( Hear.)
The next toast proposed by the Chairman was " The Duke
of Wellington," which was received with loud and continued
cheering.

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The IiAIRDIAN then said that he had the honour of pro-
posing, as the next toast, the health of that champion of their
liberties—that intrepid patriot, who, throughout a long politi-
cal life, had ever been guided by the dictates of an honest and
conscientious mind, and his own pure and benevolent feelings—
" Sir Francis Burdett."
This toast was received in the most enthusiastic manner by
the meeting, and the cheering lasted for several minutes.
A new song, entitled " A health to Burdett," was sung by
Mr. Walton.

Sir F. BURDETT then stood forward. Ile said he firmly
believed, and therefore did not flatter himself falsely, that the
general feeling, sentiments, and sense of the people of Eng-
laud confirmed the line of conduct which he had at all hazards
pursued ; and brought to his heart the comfortable reflection,
that all he had attempted to do, whether successful or not, had
not been attempted in vain, and that the estimation in which
he thought he stcod in the eyes of his countrymen had not by
that conduct been in any way diminished. But although he
regarded the approbation of his fellow-subjects as one of his
best possessions, and which had been attacked by misrepre-
sentation and clamour, he must confess lie had a still higher
motive in his breast ; though he had a great regard and
esteem for his countrymen, there was a higher arbiter ; and
if these two came in contact the one with the other, that
other high arbiter he must not reject, for " honour was a
principle that is sole judge and umpire for self."—(Cheers.)
It was not in these enlightened, days. when history was
become almost common to the most ordinary persons, who
had any industry, or desire for insti uction, or to seek
after truth ; it was not now only for the enlightened por-
tion of the people to know that a man might be a great man
though he had fallen, by whatsoever calumny and prejudices
he was assailed. lie was satisfied that the miserable abuse
and calumnies poured upon him by, lie would not say a cor-
rupt, but, he would assert, by a factious, Press, were poured
upon him upon the mere suggestions of ignorance or preju-,
dice. but which had not the slightest influence on him. It was
Like the idle wind, which I regard not." 'lf he was proud

of any circumitance besides the good opinion of his country.
men, it was that of having found that, notwithstanding all
sorts of misrepresentations; he still retained their good opinion.
his Hon. Friend (Sir G. Sinclair) had adverted to what was
intencie,d for a joke to the people of England in the Leeds
Mercury. He :lever heard of the paper before, and he must
say that, if it was an attempt at a joke, it was a miserable one.
The Mercury called the building in which they were assembled
" a rat-trap." There were two sorts of rats. His Hon.
Friend had alluded to Sir James Graham and Lord Stanley
as having been counted as rats. We were told tifat it was
an instinct in rats to run from a falling house. Th 0613 two
gentlemen gave up all that might be considered desirable--
power, emolument, and everything that was an object for ho-
nourable ambition, and desirable to a man who wished to serves
his country—because they could not conscientiously consentt
to adopt certain measures. They might be Conservative•
rats, but he would venture to predict, without pretending to
the spirit of prophecy, that the country would never find any
rats of that description.—( Laughter and cheers.)
Maugre the weak and imbecile directors of a weak and imbe-
cile Government—maugre the unnatural connection of Popery
with Protestantism, and all that both could scrape together c
what were called Radicals—though he bad more respect for
the Radicals than he had for the Whigs, or for Popish Priest;
and their great agitator Mr. Daniel O'Connell—the Conserva-
tives would proceed. When he was a Reformer—when he
thought it a monstrous abuse that any person should be sent into
the House of Commons on the nomination of persons—when be
thought the English Constitution gave to the people in a body
their portion in the Legislature, and was anxious to clear that
Constitution from what he supposed to be its greatest imper-
fections—that was called Radicalism. He was called a Radi-
cal because he was for extirpating what he thought radical
abuses in the foundation of Government itself ; but he owned
th t there were always arguments which staggered him on that
point, because, after all, the persons who had the nomination
of those who were to vote, however theoretically it was opposed
to the principles of this great republic, they had no prominent
interest of their own in view, but only that of the public at
large, and thus adding to the great weight of the peopite them-
selves as the foundation of the whole ; therefore, he said, now
see the magnificent structure of a political edifice, the witeintn
of which was never before seen in any country ; and whether
in this country it might be owing, as historians concluded, to
a little short of accident, which he would rather call Provi-
dence, it was owing to the sense, understanding, courage, and
wisdom of our forefathers never outstepping the lines of reason
and common sense, by refusing human rights, founded upon
just reason. We were now in such a state of society that the
poor would be glad to return to the old system, and be released
from their present condition of partial security. His Hon.
Friend had most ably stated the great importance of the Na-
ti
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lsCuttie orurc argument and placed
; butcedit he on a ground which admitted of
no
(Sir F. Burdett) would place
it in another point of view. The Church of England was essen-
tially the Church of the people. Its weaNi, influence, and zeal
were devoted to their uses. When he spoke of the people he did
not speak of all individuals, but particularly of those classes
of society, the operatives, who had done him the honour, and
a greater he could not have, of inviting him upon that great
occasion. He said it was in vain for a miserable, wretched,
and selfish Ministry, though backed by impudent paid patriots
and Popish priests, to think of subverting or shaking the
Church if the people had the courage to do their duty to their
glorious Protestant institutions.—(Cheers.) He would take
another view of the subject, and speak to the very hum-
blest of Englishmen. The wealth of the Church of Eng-
land was the wealth of the people ; the honest man, in the
humblest station, was benefitted by the benevolence of our
forefathers, and was grateful to them for leaving establishments
for the education of the poor. Sir Francis then recapitulated big
advice relative to the defence of the Church, and bestowed some
further remarks on Lord John Russell's policy. The present
Ministry, he contended, had deserted the principles of the
Whigs, for no old Whig would ever have consented to disturb
the foundation of the Church. He then sat down amidst the
most enthusiastic cheering.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health of Viscount
Maidstone.—( Loud cheers.)
Lord MAIDSTONE, in returning thanks, said that when he
read Mr. O'Connell's speech in the public papers, ho thought
the language so gross, so ungentlemanly, and so insulting, that
even if he had stood alone he would not have suffered it to
pass unnoticed, but would have got up and protested against
it.—( Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell pretended to laugh at the
censure he received, but he (Lord Maidstone) could see that
he writhed under that conviction. A physician, when a pa-
tient came to him, felt his pulse. Mr. O'Connell's pulse was
in his tail—(Laughter)—and the writhing and contortion of
that tail showed pretty plainly the bad habit of body under
which the patient laboured. When the opinion of the majo-
rity of the House of Commons condemned the conduct of
Mr. O'Connell, the whole tail got up and spoke at once, and
such a scene as he then witnessed he never wished to see
again in the British House of Commons.—( Hear, hear.)
He would now leave Mr. O'Connell for a person who sup-
ported him through thick and thin. Ho meant Lord John
Russell, who bounced up as though the Treasury Bench had
fallen from under him, and, instead of meeting the motion,
said that if the Noble Viscount persisted in it, he should feel
it his duty to bring forward a similar motion against another
p .rty.l 'The present Ministry were inconsistent and incompe-
tent. The only point in which they were not vacillating was
in their hatred to the Conservatives Look at their consistency
now. They were about to despatch Lord Durham to Ca-
nada, giving him a caste blanche as regarded his expenses.
See the mean shifts to which they were put to make up the
money. To the Queen, whom they had always flattered, and
to whoni they had pretended so much, they were about to
give a cheap Coronation.—( Hear.) They bad reduced the
yeomanry, in order to give the money to Lord Durham—to
pay for the tea and sugar and the crockery of the Canadian
Lycur,gus.—( Loud laughter end cheers.) It was lamenta-
ble to see the mean and pitiful shifts to which they had re-
course. He wished that meeting could see the way in which
Sir Robert Peel managed them in the House of Commons—
that they could see the look of scorn which he gave them,
withering them on the Treasury benches, and regarding them
rather in the light of culprits, whom it was his duty to exe-
.cute.—(Laughter and cheers.) He hoped the kindness ex-
tended to him that day would extend to the last hour that it
might please God to enable him to make use of the humble
talents he had given him to lend his aid to preserve the Con.
stitution in Church and State, handed down from their an-
cestors, and now about to be pulled to pieces, though none
have yet handed in a prospectus to build a better edifice upon
its ruins.—( Loud cheers.)
Several other toasts were drunk, and the meeting separated
at a late hour.