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London, England, 1838-10-17 00:00:00

WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED

SALE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.
DEPARTMENT OF THE STOREKEEPER-GENERAL OF
T.HE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE, OCT. I (I, ]333.
THE COMMISSIONERS FOR EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND
!o hereby give Notice, That on TnunsnAY, the Bth November
next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to receive sealed Tenders
for the PURCHASE of HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS under-
mentioned, and which are lying at the Dock Yards against the
same expressed, viz.:—

NORFOLK.

SAFE INVESTMENicVALUABLE ESTATE, AND
REVERSION.

MESSRS. MURRAY, TATTERSALL, and
MURRAY will SELL by AUCTION, on WEnziEs-
DAY, 24th October, in Lots, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich,
The valuable FREEHOLD (and small part COPYHOLD)
ESTATE, known as ST. ANDREW'S HALL, situated in the
Parish of Old Buckenham, within three miles of the market-town
of Attleborough, and fifteen from Norwich, comprising a mansion
of ancient date, in park-like grounds, with gardens and offices, and
al other suitable appurtenances; together with three compact farzns,
with farm-houses, and convenient outbuildings, containing in all
about 534 acres of good productive arable, meadow, and pasture i
land, producing, at low rents, a yearly rental of about 1,0501. per
annum, and offering a safe investment, with an ample return of
capital.

Guns. Tons burthen. Where lying.
Royalist
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Rainbow
No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day of
Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an Agent for
him, to make a deposit, of 1251. per cent. on the amount of each
purchase. _

- Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for
," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place.
Persons wishing to view the Ships must apply to the Superin-
)endents of the Yards for Notes of Admission for that purpose.
Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here, and at the
Yards.
DURS

Also the REVERSION of FOUR MANORS (dependent on
the Life of a Lady, aged 58), extending over 4,000 acres of Land,
or thereabouts, a great part of which is subject to arbitrary fines.
For further particulars apply to 11r. Nunn, St. Andrew s Hall ;
Mr. Peck, at the Cock, in Attleborougla ; Mr. Durrant, at the
Norfolk Hotel, Norwich ; Mr. Rogers, printer, Newmarket • Mr.
Barker, No. 1, Gray's Inn-square ; Mr. Fearon, 1, Crown-office-
row, Temple; at Garraway's Coffee-house; and to Messrs. Mur-
ray, Tattersall, and Murray, surveyors and land agents, 47, Parlia-
ment-street, London. Letters to be post paid.

UANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a Cause of MASSY against MOSS,
the Specialty Creditors of SAMUEL MOSS, late of Wrenbury
cum Frith, in the County of Chester, Victualler, who died in
the month of March, 1836, are, on or before the 10th day of No-
vember next, to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN.
WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Cham-
bers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or in de-
fault thereof they will peremptorily be excluded the benefit of the
said Decree.;

WANTS A SITUATION,
AS WAITER, Principal or to Share. Would
not object to Steward's situation, or the Management of a
House. Perfectly capable of every department in the Hotel,
Tavern, and Coffee-house Business. Can be well recommended
from his last employers, and give security. No objection to the
country, or to leave England. Age, thirty.
Direct to R. T., 74, Jermvn-street, !St. James's.

WRESS COATS, cut in the first style of Fashion,
30s. ; superfine, 40s. to 50s. ; frock coats, silk facings,
38s. and 475. ; superfine silk velvet collar and silk facings, 50s. ;
milled cloth great coats, 40s. to 60s. ; trousers, 6s. 6d. to 12s. Od.;
fashionable doeskin and kerseymere, 14s. to 255. ; waistcoats,
ss. 6d. to 12s. 6d. ; Petersham great coats, 255. and 30s. ; pilot
coats, 165., 215., and 30s. ; cloth cloaks, 30s. to 635. ; shooting
jackets, His. ; dressing-gowns, 10s. 6d. ; boys' and youths' cloth-
ing; cloth tunis dresses, 30s. to 425.
A Suit of Clothes, 21.175. ; Superfine Black 3/. ss.
At FISHER'and Co.'s, Tailors, 31, King William-street, City,
sen doors from London-bridge.

IHE GOLDEN TABLET ALMANACK
for 1839, splendidly mounted on Green Enamelled Boards.
—Gratis !—To facilitate the more complete introduction of the
POOR MAN'S PILL into every house in the kingdom, sad
which medicine has now justly become the National Medium of
Health, every purchaser of a box of this unrivalled antibilious me-
dicine, will be presented gratis with a most comprehensive Alma-
nack for the ensuing year, printed by Whiting, containing an ac-
curate Calendar (calculated expressly) ; also Comparative Morta-
lity Table; Tables of Stamps ; List of all the London Bankers ;
Lists of the Officers of the Chancery Court, Queen's Bench, Com-
mon Pleas, Exchequer, Bankruptcy, and Insolvent Court ; a Table
showing the time a person of a given age may expect to live ; List
of the Royal Family; Holidays at the Bank of England; Queen's
Ministers; Twopenny and General Post Office; Navy and Array
Agents; Sovereigns of Europe; with every other particular
usually found in the best Almanacks. All purchasers of a family
box, price 2s. 9d., containing three of the Is. lid. boxes, will be
presented with an Almanack splendidly mounted on enamelled
board, and printed in gold. And the Calendar, plain, with a 7id.
box. The whole is surrounded by a rich and massive border, and
is printed so that it might be hung up in every house as a General
House Almanack. .

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1838.

YORK AND LONDON BRITISH AND
FOREIGN ASSURANCE OFFICE,
KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.
LONDON BOARD.
GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG; Esq., Chairman.
MATTHEW FORSTER, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Alex. Bannerman, Esq., M.P. J. Bulkeley Johnson, Esq.
Lord Ernest Bruce, M. P. Thomas H. Kerfoot, Esq.
J. W. Childers, Esq., M.P. John Norbury, Esq.
Sir James Eyre, M.D. John Parker, Esq., M.P.
William Haigh, Esq. Edward T. Whitaker, Esq.
FIRE or LIFE ASSURANCE on the Lowest Terms.
No charge for Fire Policies.
Prospectuses may be had at the Offices in London or York, or
of any of the Agents.

CHELTENHAM AND GREAT WESTERN
UNION RAILWAY.
CONTRACTS FOR WORKS.
Notice is hereby given that the DIRECTORS WILL MEET
at their Offices in Cirencester, on THURSDAY, the lst day of
November next, at Twelve o'Clock, to'receive Tenders 'or the fol-
lowing Works:—
CONTRACT. No. 3.—Cirencester Division.—Tile excavation
and formation of all the earthwork and construction of all Bridges,
Culverts, and other Masonry, and,the entire completion (except the
laying of the permanent rails) of that portion of the railway ex-
tending from the termination of the contract, No. 2, in a field
numbered 33 on the Parliamentary Plan, in the parish of Minety,
to a point near the turnpike road from Cricklade to Wootton Bas-
sett ix the parish of Purton, being a distance of about five miles and
twenty chains.
CONTRACT, No, 4.—The excavation and formation of all the
earthwork and the construction of all Bridges, Culverts, and other
Brickwork and Masonry, and the entire completion (except the lay-
ing of -a theTermanent rails) of that portion of the railway ex-
tending from the termination of the Contract, No. 3, to a field at
or near the point of junction of this railway with the Great Western
Railway, in the parish of Swindon, in the county of Wilts, being a
distance of about three miles.
Plans and specifications of the above Works, may be seen, and
printed forms of tender obtained at the Railway-office, Cirencester,
on and after the Bth of October next. No tender will be considered
that is not sent in according to the printed forms in all respects.
The Directors do not consider themselves bound to accept the lowest
Tender • and they expect the parties to attend at the office, at
One o'clock, on Thursday the Ist of November.
Cirencester, Sept. 27, 18311. A. MERRICK, -Secretary.

39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,
SIGHT and HEARING.

Patronized by their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover,
and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia,
her Serene Highness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary
and Rosa, and his Grace the Duke of Manchester.
MESSRS. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians
and Aurists, late of Solomon's Terrace, during a profes-
sional experience of thirty years, have had ample opportunities
of verifying that the Organs of Sight and Hearing are sympa-
thetically related to each other in such a peculiar manner, that
when the former becomes imperfect, the sense of hearing be-
comes rapidly dull ; this fact is admitted by Scientific Authori-
ties, and must be observable by many thousands of individuals
thus circumstanced, which is deserving the Public's most serious
attention. The Messrs. Solomons, with a view to remedy such an
affection, and after they have devoted their whole lives to this inte-
resting branch a fscience, have succeeded in effecting for imperfect
vision a most scientific improvement in the manufacture of a Trans-
parency for SPECTACLES, and a Preventive and Cure in certain
cases of deafness, and where skill and art has no avail they have in-
ventedan OPERA'T'IVE VOICE CONDUCTOR upon a very
weakee there conversation.
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Lined with the long extensive experience of the Messrs. Solomons,
which will be found to effect such an extent of relief to those af-
flicted with defective vision and dulness of hearing that will far ex-
seed their utmost and most sanguine expectations. On placing those
lenses before imperfect vision either by day or candle light every
object becomes clear and distinct, and the most minute particle seen
with exact distinctness. The Messrs. Solomons have in their pos-
session, WITHOUT ONE EXCEPTION, Spectacles, and Ear instru-
ments of every kind which are offered to the public by other indivi-
duals, to point out the superiority of their improvements over all
others. The patronage of Nobility and Gentry, and recommenda-
tions of the principal Oculist Physicians and Surgeons in London,
and through Great Britain as well as on the Continent, would be
too expensive and numerous for insertion.
The Messrs. Solomons are anxious that the public should not
confound them with persons of the same name, it being admitted
by professional gentlemen of the highest character, and may be seen
by any individual, that their newly invented Spectacles and Opera-
tive Voice Conductors for deafness, surpass any thing of the kind
vet put before the public, they request attention to the first part of
their names and address, 39, Albemarle-street.
Consulted at No. 2, Park-street, Bristol.

32, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, and
No. 16, PRINCES-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
INERAL SUCCEDANEUM
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LOOSE TEETH FASTENED,
RUSSELL.STREET, BLOOMSBURY, and 16, PRiNCES-STREEIe
HANOVER-SQUARE, continue to restore DECAYED TEETH
with their MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, (of which they are the
Sole INVENTORS and POSSESSORS), without pain, heat, or
pressure, and FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether arising
from age, neglect, disease of the Gums, the use of Calomel, or
any other cause. They have also discovered a NEW COMPOSI
TION for ARTIFICIAL TEETH. A peculiar advantage attending
Teeth made from this SUBSTANCE is, that they are totally itnper
vious to acids. ARTIFICIAL TEETH have hitherto been found ob-
jectionable by INVALIDS taking MEDICINES which have a tendency
to DISCOLOUR them, and by persons of bilious habits. Messrs. M. have
been successful in obviating these objections by their NEW DISCO-
VERY, and they can fix the above without extracting the STUMPS, or
causing any incumbrance, and even en GUMS of the most tender nature,
,arotebting the adjoining Teeth, however loose. No WIRES or LIGA;
£0 10 t)
1 GRES are used, and they MATCH the ORIGINAL TEETH in point
of Shape and Colour. GUARANTEED for MASTICATION and AR.
TICULATION. In consequence of their improvements in the mocha.
nical department of Dentistry, they are enabled to reduce their charges to
the:following scale:—
where he has been established since
A Set. 5 5 0
Teeth, on fine gold plate
A Set of ........ , 1 15 0 0
A Set of Messrs. Malian s ncorrodible Teeth, highly
finished, with fine gold sockets,ln the first style
with Mineral 9
Filling a Decayed Tooth . uccedaneum
LAN Sen., may be consulted A Single Artificial Tooth 4
N.B.—Mons. MAL ,
Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury,
1526, and Mnns. EDWARD MALLAN at 16, Princes-street, H anover-
square.

OF GILEAD DIAI-:I3ALIVI
Is now considered the greatest Discovery that has been made in the me-
mory ok,man, being potent, safe, and pleasant. The great fame bestowed
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R. SOLOMON'S COR
on its author and inventor is the true andd only criterion to judge of the
merits of a medicine, which has been a ministered from the highest to
the lowest class of people with such happy and uniforrn success. As
many of the venders of this medicine frequently cannot get supplied so
qu• ck as the demand is for it; persons labouring under weakness or debi-
lity, mental or bodily decay, will do well to make an early application, in
demand which this medicineh has experienced, and its
order to prevent future disappointment ; and such as suffer under inward
wastings, loss of appetite, or consumptive habits, will find it peculiarly
and cheering the spirits, and strengthening
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fectual
body. as Obstinate Eruptions, Undue Evacuations, Chronic Rheumatism,
and the Consequences of Insidious Diseases.
Sold by Messrs. W. Sutton, Bow Chttrch-yarli
High-street,
Family and all other Medicine Venders;•lV
4, Chea side ; Mr. Sanger, 159, Oxford-street ; r. Butler
chapel ;P Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street, corner of Wells-street
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bottle is saved, with the words " Sarni. Solomon „ one I Is.
on the Stamp, to imitate which is felony.
.Bdeach, or four in one y Bottle for 335., by
,Liverpool, engraved
N.B. A'New Edition is just published, price 35., of .g A GUIDE TO
HEALTH in arariety of Complaints," some of which are treated
under the following heads, viz. : —.Advice to Nervous Patients, on
Barren Women, Deficiency of Natural Strength Fem , a e
_ , Asthma,
omplaints,
Gouty Spasms in the Stomach, Hypochondriac Complaints I
Sinking, Loss or Defect of Memory, Rheumatism, Scurvy,, nternal
Turn of Life, Venereal Diseases, Weakness, Youth, &c. Scrofula,
By S. SOLOMON, M.D.

On Friday night last a very awkward accident hap-
pened to a steam towing-vessel, called the Tam o'Shanter, in
the West India Dock basin, at Blackwall. The steamer,
which has been long used as a tug on the river, was fitting up
in the basin, and was moored close to the bank, with her stern
towards the land. During the day, and also in the evening,
several vessels entered and left the Dock, and in making levels
at the dock entrance the water in the basin became lower, and
the stern of the Tam o'Shanter took the ground, and her bow
becoming lower and lower in the water as it decreased, the
vessel ultimately slid down the bank, head foremost, towards
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wards the steamer was under water. Immediate measures
were adopted to weigh the vessel, and she has been since lifted
and is afloat again.
10d, for the 41b. loaf—that is, 6d. per head was paid by every
man in this city for bread, more than was paid at this time of
the year in 1835—and more than 6d. per head, than would be
X
paid if the Corn-laws were repealed. ' Did Powerscourt or
Bruges give to the poor men who voted for them, a tenth part
of the sum which these poor men have already paid for the
support of the aristocratic and starvation principles " of our
Members ?" The sum contributed by this city as a bread tax,
calculated upon the principles explained in the past numbers
The contribution of this city last week, to the maintenance of
been spent in bread, which, in 1835,
the bread tax, amounted to 9371. 10s., making since the week
Paper, published upon September 1, and September 8.
oendingthis June 2 the sum of 16,566/. This sum has this year
various trades in this city. How many pounds to enrich this
city have our Tory Members paid ? We should consider the
inquiry improper, if the promises made in their names, by their
political godfathers, upon this subject, had not been mighty,
and like many vices, tempting.—Bath Guardian.
was expended among
The new pier at Aberystwith is progressing stea-
dily. It is about 300 yards in length, commencing at the
New Bridge over the ystwyth and carried on a straight line
into the sea, on the south side of the harbour. About the
fourth part of the whole has been completed since April last,
and at the same ratio the whole pier will be Auisbed in_ the
course of next year.—Combrian.

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PARISH OF ST. MARTIN IN THE

FIELDS.

Last evening, in pursuance of a requisition signed by the
Overseers of the Poor, and directed to the Vestry Clerk of
the above parish, according to the 44th George 111., cap. 85,
a meeting of the Trustees of the Camden Town Burial
Ground, was held at the Vestry-room, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the statement of Mr. Simpson re-
lative to the legality of the burial fees, and of adopting such
measures thereupon as might be deemed most advisable.
At six o'clock Mr. WEST was unanimously called to the
Chair.
The CHAIRMAN on opening the proceedings of the evening
said, that the present meeting had been convened under the
sanction of an Act of Parliament. At the last meeting of the
Vestry, the Churchwardens were requested to call a meeting,
for the purpose cf bringing the question fairly before the
parish ; but these functionaries declined doing so, and it was
in consequence of that refusal that the Trustees found them-
selves called upon to act as they were at present doing.
The CHAIRMAN then read the notice by which the meeting
had been convened, and having done so, stated that a letter
had been received from the Churchwardens by the Vestry
Clerk, containing a protest against the proceedings which the
meeting were about to adopt. This document was dated the
16th of October, and set out by stating, that the Church-
wardens had received the notice convening the meeting, and
that they protested against all acts emanating from such meet-
ing, because the requisition was signed by persons illegally
calling themselves trustees. It stated that the ground was
vested in the Vicar, the Churchwardens, Overseers, and
Members of the old Select Vestry; and the Churchwardens,
therefore, contended that the parish had no right to act as
trustees for themselves—that their meeting was not a legal
meeting of trustees—and that, even if it were, they could take
no cognizance of the matter.
The protest was signed by Messrs. Cluff and Stanton,
Churchwardens.
At the request of several Gentlemen, the Chairman read
the Clause of the Act, which authorised the calling the meet-
ing, and concluded by saying, that Mr. Simpson would lay
before them an elaborate detail of the circumstances which
gave rise to the proceedings of the trustees.
Mr. SIMPSON said he confessed that he felt no surprise
whatever at the protest which they had just heard read, and
which was signed by two persons calling themselves the
Churchwardens of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
It was not to be wondered at that men, who could act as they
had done at the last election for Churchwardens, should adopt
the course which they were at present pursuing.—( Hear,
hear.) But he would ask, were Messrs. Staunton and Cluff
really the Churchwardens of the parish ?—( Hear, bear.) No,
they held office merely by virtue of having forcibly taken
from the strong-box the papers which would have clearly
proved that he (Mr. Simpson) was the legal Churchwarden
--( Hear, hear.) The meeting must be aware, after having
heard the clause of the Act of Parliament read, that it wes
competent for five or more of the trustees to call a meeting of
the whole- body, and it was equally clear that the gentlemen
who had signed the requisition were recognised by law as trhs-
tees. Up to the moment while he was then speaking the ques-
tion remained to be tried whether he (Mr. Simpson) was not
the Churchwarden, for he contended that he was as much so
as Mr. Staunton.—(Hear, hear.) But let them see what the
protest was--anti he might there observe, that it was all very
well to be Churchwarden of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields, for they got the funds of the parish into their hands,
wherewith they could employ lawyers to draw up protests
against the proceedings of the very persons out of whose
pockets the expenses were defrayed, and, but for this circum-
stance, he would venture to say they never would
have heard of a protest.—( Hear, hear, hear.) [Mr. Simp-
son here proceeded to read the protest, commenting on the
several passages of it as he went along.] As far as regarded
the old Select Vestry, to which the protest alluded, why he
could tell them that the courts of law had already decided that
that body had no legal existence.—(Hear, hear.) He con-
tended that the overseers and others now acting were the
proper parties to take cognizance of the matter. They were
the trustees of the burial-ground ; and if deficiency in the
fees occurred, they would be obliged to supply it out of the
poor-rate. It appeared to him that it was not now difficult to
ascertain the real cause of the hard fighting for the churchwar-
denship. These gentlemen had taken a week to consider
whether they would call the meeting or not, and then they
turned round, and said that the parish had no legal right to in-
terfere. Independent of the Vicar, the Churchwardens seemed
to think that they would be in a dilemma for want of money
to support the Church. He could show them, however,
that they were at present in the receipt of illegal fees to
the amount of 6001. or 7001. per annum for pew rents.
They had at present three services in the church, whilst he
found that only two services were required by the canons
made by the early Reformers. The cost of gas he could
show for the third service, led to a very great expenditure ;
but as the Vicar had a personal interest in the matter, he
did not like to be supposed to take any step that would
militate against him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Simpson then pro-
ceeded to read his printed statements, as regarded the
buriil fees, by which it appeared that .the parish burial-
ground (upon which the workhouse now stands) was first
given by James the First, by letters patent; that it after-
wards reverted to the Crown, but on the petition of the
parishioners was afterwards re-granted to them by Charles
the First, by letters patent, to the intent that it should be
converted and applied to the use of a church-yard for the
burying of the dead, and that no rector or curate, church-
warden or other officer should demand for the burying of
any corpse more than twelve-pence of the lawful money of
England. Mr. Simpson, therefore, contended that to that ex-
tent, and no greater could fees be taken at the cemetery of
Camden Town, by virtue of the eleventh clause of the Act,
making it the burial-ground of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
Mr. Simpson then produced a Parliamentary return, by which
it appeared that a single burial now might, under certain cir-
cumstances, cost more than 121. The present value of the fees
of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, was stated to be 1,2581. ; St.
George's, 1,5501. ; St. James's, 1,4681. ; St. Anne's, 9091. ;
and St. Paul's, Covent-garden, 5801., although in the time of
Henry the Eighth the value of St. Martin's, which then com-
prised all those parishes, was set down at 121. per annum.
The present Vicar, Sir 11. Dukenfield, paid First Fruits and
other dues, not according to the increased value of the
living, but according to the value in the time of
Henry the Eighth. Was it therefore more than just,
lie would ask, such being the case, that he should be
paid upon the same scale.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Simpson con-
cluded by stating, that there was no custom in St. Martin-in-
the- Fields to pay burial fees, nor any prescriptive right in the
Vicar to demand them, and that at the present moment, but
one shilling was due and payable for the burial of any corpse
under the Act of the Ist of Anne. In the course of Mr.
Slinpson's statement, he produced innumerable proofs from
Ecclesiastical law in support of the view which he had taken.
The statement which he made had been submitted to Dr.
Adams, and the Vicar admitted that it was altogether correct,
with the exception of one part, in which it was stated that the
burial-ground in Drury-lane was for the benefit of the
paupers. With that exception, all the other parts were correct.
Mr. PouNcEv then moved that the statement submitted to
the vestry by Mr. Simpson, be received, and printed, and a
copy of it delivered to every trustee.
Mr. GIIAGAN seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously.
Mr. NEWBURY said that the charges made on burial fees
were most extravagant. He alluded particularly to the sys-
tem of charging for what was called extra-digging. He said
that those exactions brought the Protestant religion into dis-
repute. At present, if he applied to have a relative of his
buried in the burying-ground at Camden-town, and if he
thought the price asked too much, and insisted on procuring
a burial there without payment of those high charges, he
would immediately be taken into Doctors' Commons, and they
all knew how merciful they were there.
Mr. SisirsoN•said that the best course to pursue in such a
case, if too high fees were demanded, would be to pay
them, and then to take proceedings, not in the Ecclesiasti-
cal Courts, but in the Courts of
.Common Law. The only
plan would be to carry the matter into the Court of Queen's
Bench.
It was then moved by Mr. POUNCEY, and seconded by Mr.
BARTON, that Sir Henry Duckenfield be requested to furnish
Mr. Staunton with a copy of the case, and the opinion pro.
nounced thereon by Dr. Adams.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. POUNCEY said that it had been suggested to him to
move a vote of thanks to Mr. Simpson for his exertions on
the subject ; but he thought it. would he better to defer it
until the matter was altogether completed.
Mr. SIMPSON said that he could not but be thankful for
the intended honour; at the same time he begged leave to
say that he had done more important services on other occa-
sions without seeking any such compliments. He had been
mainly instrumental in making the St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Vestry an open one, and there had not to this day been a
single minute entered on the books of the Vestry of the fact,
so that if in a short time the Vestry should become again a
close one, there would not be the slightest document in ex-
istence to show that it had ever been an open Vestry.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and the
meeting adjourned, upon the understanding that another should
be called, when the Committee thought sufficient time had
been given to the parishioners at large to make themselves ac-
quainted with the important facts contained in the statement
of Mr. Simpson ; and at which meeting they would be called
upon either to adopt or reject that statement.

The total quantity of foreign wheat entered for
consumption in the port of London alone, previous to the last
rise of duty, was 658,787 quarters—of which 600,007 were ad.
mitted at one shilling, 36,340 at two shillings and eightpence,
and the remaining 22,440 quarters at ten shillings and eight-
pence.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held for the despatch
of public business.
Sir P. LAURIE had a memorial to present from Mr. Hum-
phreys, a member of the Court of Common Council, com-
plaining that unfortunate persons were subjected to solitary
confinement in Newgate before they were found guilty. He
was glad to have an opportunity of expressing his abhorrence
of the infliction of solitary imprisonment, and he knew that if
the charges contained in the memorial were correct, a speedy
remedy would be applied. It was his intention to move that it
should be referred to the Police Committee for examination
into the truth of the details.
Alderman LUCAS had no idea that untried prisoners were
placed in solitary confinement in Newgate.
Alderman T. WOOD said that there was no such thing as
solitary confinement before trial, except the persons com-
mitted desired to be alone. As for the bedding, prisoners
were allowed to bring in their own beds, and they were also
permitted to provide their own food, although there were not
facilities of cooking. There was, in fact, an immeasurable
distance between the prison under the present, and the prison
under the former Governor.
The memorial was then referred to the Committee.
THE GUILDHALL DINNER ON THE 9TH OF NOVEMBER.
Alderman WILSON (the Lord Mayor elect) brought up the
Report relative to the preparation in the Guildhall for the
grand entertainment.
The LORD MAYOR elect, in addressing the subject as a
matter in which he and the Sheriffs were so much interested,
adverted to the resolution of the Court of Common Council,
that there should be no hustings erected in the Hall on the day
of the feast. There had, he said, been active conferences
between a deputation from the Court of Aldermen and the
Committee of General Purposes on the subject, and he trusted
that a judicious arrangement would be the result. He would
be willing that the Hall should be fitted up without any eleva-
tion at the upper part, according to the plan adopted when her
Majesty visited the City, if it could be contrived without an
encroachment upon the table at which the distinguished guests
w:-re to be placed. There was no doubt at all that upon
former occasions individuals seized upon the seats appointed
for high personages, and that three of the Judges were obliged
to dine at the Guildhall Coffee-house. Indeed, if adequate
protection were not given, he should not send out any invita-
tion, nor give any dinner in the Hall.
Alderman JOHNSON (Sheriff) concurred in most of what had
been said by the Lord Mayor elect, and hoped that the dis-
tinguished guests would be adequately protected from annoy-
ance.

Alderman T. WOOD (Sheriff) also concurred in the senti-
ments of the Lord Mayor elect.
Alderman VENABLES was of opinion that it would be just as
proper to interfere with the arrangements which a gentleman
made to give a dinner at his private house, as to interfere with
the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs on such an occasion.
Sir PETER LAURIE said neither he nor the other members of
the Court of Aldermen cared one straw for the dinner. There
were 26 members of that Court, and he would say, what-
ever might be the reports to the contrary, that 26 more abste-
mious men could not be found.—( A laugh.) There was not,
in fact, an atom of gout in the Court.—(A laugh.) It was
the gratification of the eye, and not the palate, they sought.
Those who went to the Guildhall dinner in expectation of a
delicious feast, were mistaken. They were obliged to put up
pith a cold meal.
Sir Wst. IlEvcArs was convinced that it was quite unne-
cessary to say that they did not care a pin about the dinner.—
( Hear, hear.) The great object in giving the entertainment
at all was to keep up the ancient custom by a festival, which
a former President of the Royal Society (Mr. Davies Gilbert)
told him was the only memorial of hospitality now in existence,
with the exception of the coronation.—( Hear, hear.)
The Report was withdrawn, in the expectation that the two
Courts would come to an understanding on the subject ; but
the Remcmbrancer was instructed to make the usual prepara-
tions for the feast-day.
The Rev. Mr. Davis was elected Chaplain of Whitecross-
street prison. Alderman Humphery attended the Court, and
voted for the successful candidate, who obtained the situation
by a majority of one.

Adjourned.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE

REV. H. E. HEAD.

(From TVoolmer's Exeter Gazette.)
[A want of space prevented us before to-day from inserting
the essential parts of the Bishop of Exeter's Address to
Mr. Head.]
Tuesday last was appointed by the Lord Bishop of this
Diocese for holding at the new Church of St. Paul, in Honi-
ton, a Confirmation for that town and the adjoining parishes.
The whole of the body of the spacious church was set apart
for the young persons, and it was quite filled, the galleries
being crowded with a highly respectable congregation. The
Bishop entered the Church a few minutes after eleven o'clock ;
his Lordship being received by the Rev. V. H. P. Somerset,
Rector ; the Rev. W. Latimer Neville, Curate ; and about
twenty-five of the neighbouring Clergy, among whom was
the Rev. H. E. Head, of Feniton.
The night Reverend Prelate desired that some of the chil-
dren from the parish of Feniton might be brought before him,
on which three girls and two boys from this parish were
placed in front of the rails of the altar, and questioned by his
Lordship,
BISHOP—Have you been instructed in the whole of the
Church Catecism ?

One of the children—l have learnt the Ten Commandments.
Bisuor —Have you been taught your Catechism ?
Children—Yes, my Lord.
Bisnop—By whom ?
Some of the children—l learnt it when I went to school.

Bisnor—Bv your schoolmaster, then?
Children—Yes.
BISHOP-Were you examined in the Church Catechism by
Mr. Head, your Rector, previous to your coming here to be
confirmed ?
Some of the children replied—ln the Ten Commandments,
and my duty towards God and my neighbour.
The Bishop then asked the children separately, and each
returned the same answer.
BISHOP-Have you been examined or instructed at all in the
doctrines of the Church Catechism, or in the nature of either
of the sacraments ?

The children made no reply, and
Mr. HEAD said they have been instructed in their duty
towards God and their neighbour.
The Bisnor —I have asked a plain question, Mr. Head, and
I expect a plain answer, without equivocation.
Mr HEAD (to the children)—Then answer, No, my Lord.
The Bisnor—l do not ask you, Mr. Head, what you have
done, or what you have not done, but I ask you is there
either of the 30 young persons you have brought before me
to be confirmed who has been examined by you in any part of
the Church Catechism, except as to the Ten Commandments
and their duty towards God and their neighbour?
Mr. HEAD said, " I conceive, my Lord, I have examined
them in the Ten Commandments and their duty towards God
and their neighbour, which I conceive to be right ; and, so
help me God I have laboured constantly to instruct them.
This young girl (pointing to one of the children) can answer
any question."

The Btu-tor—At present I shall not say more, but after the
service I shall make a few observations on what has occurred
in this respect.
The Bishop, after the service, ascended the reading-desk,
and delivered an affectionate and truly Christian address to
the young persons, which occupied full an hour, and evidently
produced a deep impression, not only on the minds of those
who had been confirmed, but upon the congregation, from the
solemn stillness which prevailed throughout the Church. The
children were then dismissed with a solemn benediction, and
the clergy and congregation remained.
The Right Rev. Prelate, from his chair, then addressed
the Clergy (among whom was the Rev. H. E. Head) nearly
as follows :

Reverend Brethren—After the gratifying scene we hare
just witnessed, it is particularly painful to me, and I am
sure it must be painful to you all, to follow up a service of
such deep interest with a matter to which it is now my
duty to advert—you all, doubtless, know to what I allude,
A publication, signed by one of your body, has been issued,
impugning, as I conceive, the Liturgy, and parts of that Ca-
techism, particularly the office of baptism, which you have all,
by solemn promise and vows, declared to be agreeable to
God's word, and have bound yourselves faithfully to use in
your ministrations. I am told that the individual did
not intend to impugn these services of the Church. He
best knows whether this is correct or not—man can only
judge of his intention by what he has written. I confess,
however, that I cannot understand how any one seriously
weighing his obligations as a minister of the Church, and
considering what he was about to do, could hare put forth
what the writer of this letter has put forth without intend-
ing to impugn portions of the Common Prayer and the
Catechism. Be this as it may, I will now tell you what
course I have thought it right to pursue respecting it. A
copy of the publication was sent to me, about the time, as
I suppose, that it was first issued from the Press, and
it being a printed paper without any written signa-
ture, it was thrown aside, with other documents
of that kind, as is very commonly my practice. I
will add, without desiring to say anything contemptuous of
the alleged author, that his name being attached to it did
rather induce me so to deal with it. I thought no more
of the matter ; but on my return from the Scilly
Isles, where I had been in the discharge of my
letter
copal duties, I found, to my surprise, that
had excited much public notice ; my attentiothnishavinign
been thus especially called to it, I looked for tsbeent paper
to me
vain. Another copy, however, having be
from some quarter, I examined it ; and
subscribed to
I wrote to the clergyman whose .vas,
nr
examining it
it, giving him an opportunity
the communications
be the author ; and I will readdinygouwhich I am sorry I
which passed between us, in of acincannOWledging himself to
shall have to detain
as follows you some time.° -His Lordship then read

Pilton, near Barnstaple, 26th Sept., 1838.
REV. SIR—I some weeks ago received by the post a
printed tract in the form of a letter from you to me. Being
occupied at the time when it reached me, I did not read it;
it was laid aside, and was lost or destroyed.
I in the course of last week received another copy of the
same letter (as I conclude it to be) by the post from Col-
un i
have
thoand ,
and I now avail myself of the first leisure which I
to transmit this latter copy to you.
If you are the author of the letter,
ma
authenticated
hues n suchtiat e d
by y Isuppose that you wish
l
; in that case, you will
copyproba-
to
our own signature.
proba-
bly avow
return
the
I understood that letter, among other matters comprised.
in it, as impugning the office of Baptism in the Book of Cow.

A parish clerk, not far from I3anbury, a few Sun-
days since gave out as follows :—" The in-habitants of this
parish arc to take notice that a public vestry will be held on
Wednesday, to consider what colour the church shall be
whitewashed."—Sufrolk Chronicle.