The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-25 00:00:00

THE ISLINGTON TORIES.

We made our readers acquainted some weeks ago with
the scandalous conduct of the Islington Tories, who hastily
placed the son of the late Vestry-clerk in his father's place,
as if to huddle up all the accounts and keep them in secresy
and safety from investigation, the said late Vestry-clerk
having laid violent hands on himself; and died a great de-
faulter to individuals and the parish. We then stated that
the Islington Tories were so eager to put the son of the
wretched delinquent in his father's place, that they out-
raged all decency by their haste, and all legality by a depar-
ture from all precedent and rule. The whole metropolis,
as well as all the right-thinking persons in the parish, felt
insulted and disgusted by the outrage. Some of the Vestry-
men who take an interest in the question, immediately after
the election was over sent a requisition to the Church-warden,
requesting him to submit this subject of the legality of the late
election to the Vestry the next time it assembled, which he
flatly refused, on the ground that he would not "desecrate"
the Church. On the occasion of the election this very
Churchwarden, especially, bad desecrated the Church by
partiality and injustice, and his party by the most unseemly
violence, and then he refuses to have it" desecrated " by any
attempt to do justice and set right his own illegal proceed-
ings ! Nnt deterred, lmwever, by this refusal from prose-
cuting the subleet, an the Vestry being usembled on Thurs-
day night to make a rate, Mr. Itcdgskin rose to move that
the rate be postponed, but before he could get half through
his observations, the patrons of the late defaulter and his
successor broke into loud clamours, and the same Church-
warden, who had formerly refused to put an amendment
which had been legally submitted to him, proceeded to put
an amendment which had been only announced, and never
placed in his hands, nor formally made, and, on his own au-
thority, decided that it was lost and the rate carried.
Against such arbitrary and tyrannical proceedings the party
which impugns the legality of the late election had nothing
to do but protest, and declare the rate which was so voted
by the clamour of the Tory Trustees against an amendment
which had never been actually made, to be illegal. The
party, protesting against the whole proceedings, then left
the Church, after it had been again, in the language of the
Tories, " desecrated" by their scandalous injustice, clamour,
nod violence. There is now nothing left for the inhabitants
but to refuse the payment of the rate, and throw on the
Tory Trustees the onus of defending their illegal conduct.
The public will learn, we believe, without surprise, that the
hasty, scandalous, and illegal election of the son of a de-
faulter to fill his father's place, while all inquiry into the
public accounts was illegally shut out, is thus likely to in-
volve this parish in litigation, confusion, and expense, and
in the end bring shame and disgrace on the violent authors
of this gross outrage on public morals and public decency.

BLAvNAvoN.—On Thursday five more bodies were
found also in a side-stall, similarly and nearly situate to
the place where the othora were discovered, Another body
is yet missing which, when found, will complete the
number of the ill-fated victim to the late calamity,--Here-
ford Times.

On Wednesday, Mr. Wombwell, of the menagerie,
Rhet4eld, treated 544 boys, and 380 girls, attending the
Lancasterian schools, with a view of his exhibition.
Christmas week, and that in which Lord Mayor's
Day takes place, are always the two weeks when the apo-
thecaries and the sellers of pills have the most business.
Last week a potatoe was drawn by Mr. Francis
Plyming, of St. Clements, near Truro, weighing 2lbs.,
and measuring 14 inches in circumference.

On Wednesday an explosion (O,IA place in a coal-
pit at Moxley, by whiett OA individuals were serio444
burned.