The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-29 00:00:00

RESISTANCE TO PAROCHIAL RATES.

A most respectable meeting of the inhabitants of
the district of Trinity, in the parish of Islington, as.
eettibled last evening at White Conduit House tavern,
Hodgkiss, Esq., 'n the chair," for the purpose
of considering and adopting the best means of legally
resisting the payment of the new district church
rates, now first ordered to be levied by certain newly
elected Select Vestries; bodies before unknown to
the parish." It appears that the parish of Islington
has been subdivided under the Church Building Act
into the districts of Trinity, St. John's, and St.
Paul's; and in addition to the rates for the mainte-
oanco of't he parish church (St. Mary's), and a chapel
of ease, the inhabitants are burdened with heavy
rates for the churches, in the new districts. These
rates, they contend, have been illegally imposed
by a Select Vestry, not appointed according to
law; and the object of the present meeting was
to resist the payment of rates upon the new
districts, until it .shall be decided that they are
legal, and that the pretended select veslies are
authorised, to make them resolutions to this effect,
and elso to raise money by stibt.cription, for the
purpose of protecting those individuals whose goods
might be seized for the rates, and to defray the ex-
pences of any law proceedings that might be insti-
tuted in the Ecclesiastical or other Courts against
such individuals, were moved and seconded by
Meesrs Skelding, Green, Ilawtrey, and others, and
were all carried unanimously. Mr. Desormeaux
moved that a deputation of six be appointed
to confer with the Churchwardens upon the
legality of the rate lately imposed (fivepence
ill the pound) and to endeavour to come to an
amicable adjustment, but the motion was negatived
by a great majority. A. most determined spirit of
resistance prevailed amongst all present; and Mr.
Bawtrey expressed a hope that if the goods of any
person should be se:zed, the inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood would all accompany the cart in which the
goods were aonVeyed to the " place of execution,"
and explain to the people as they went along the
cause of tha seizure. It was illegal to say that they
would not pay, but it was not illegal to say that
they would 'not pay in money. The meeting was so
numerously attended, that after the chair was taken
it became necessary to adjourn to an open space in
the garden, the speakers addressing the meeting
from the orchestra.

CHELTENHAM, SEPT. 28.—Last evening
thae was a grand RA= dinner given at the Assembly
Rooms, at wVikb Lord SEAGRAVE presided, supported by
Lords SialthOttliE and Ducts, the Hon. Mr. Mowros,
Sir WILLIAM GUISE, and other gentlemen friendly to the
Bill. now before the Howe of Lords. Between three and
four hundred perioJas sat down to dinner, and a variety
of loyal and appropriate toasts were proposed and drank
with enthusiasm. The meeting separated between ten
and eleven o'clock.

We aro g;ren to understand, on excellent au-
thority, that nearly 300 writs have been issued within the
last few days by the lessees of Trinity College, Candnidge,
against the owners and occupiers of land in the parish of
Keudal, compel the payment of the monstrous tithe de—
man,is lately set up by those friends of the church. —lfen—
dal Chronicle.

A RouND ROBIN.—In consequence of the
llPNar4nce of Mr. Maims and his collection of wild ani-
tAals te. Drury-lane Theatre on Thursday next, the gentle-
men of the orchestra have sent in a round robin to Captai❑
Poutim.. requesting tl-at they may remove their instru-
'neute and music books into the gallery on that evening.

ELOPEMENT.—For several mornings past,
betweebreamnhs:l hours
been
t,nuof
observed
rvedsewvaen o'clock
waiting with
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the
eight and
gentleman, irt a military cloak, walking. &bona m, Mac'
Neittear;ellll4.:gidegGe:tex,
by the governev, when
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, the. a.stonishinent of her go-.
at a furious rate, in
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wen, %mug their pan 1 pm-
one of them soddenly disapinawed nea the bridge, and' in Et
few seconds afterward.,
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the cabriolet, *long ea # atelNitirtlgaid, leadtug to
Rune Ina few min- h0;:...' -ib":7 11` .f sight, and
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