The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-14 00:00:00

AIARYLEBONE VESTRY.

On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Ves-
try, Mr. Salomons stated that the sheriffs had taken the
opinion of counsel on the power of a returning officer to
resign his trust, and that the opinion bad been against
him, lie now begged to draw the attention of the ves-
try to what he considered a very important subject ;
that the notices and lists which had been sent him for
signature from the officers of the various parishes were
addressed to him as " Town Clerk of the Borough of
Marylebone;" he would ask whether he was town clerk?
There was another important subject, which was this:—
The law compelled him to servo as returning officer, but
it did not compel him to pay the expenses of the office
out of his own pocket. Parliamentary returns had been
called for, and when he (Mr. Salomof is) sent to the
vestry clerks of the parishes, they replied that they
would not incur expense, and that they had no funds at
their disposal for such a purpose. He bad, therefore,
paid for them himself, running the chance of getting re-
paid. Ilis successor might refuse to do that, and the
parish'would then be placed in a strange position. He,
therefore, urged the whole subject upon the attention of
the vestry.
After some discussion the matter was referred to the
Committee.

On the deferred motion coming on, which was passed
on the Bth of May, for obtaining the sanction of the
vestry towards the necessary arrangement for purchas-
ing a site for the baths and washhouses, a memorial
was presented by 230 rate-payers, calling on the vestry
not to sanction the expenditure of so large a sum to-
wards the completion of the proposed plan. A letter
was read from Mr. Staunton, complaining of the
statements made by Sir Peter Laurie at this vestry, re-
specting the establishment of baths and washhouses in
the parish of St. Martin. Sir Peter had stated, that the
parish of St. Martin had taken a mews for their build-
ing; that they were going to have water turned off from
the reservoir in Trafalgar-square, after the fountains had
been worked by it all day; that it would be necessary to
pull down several houses; that they were involved in
difficulty, and that the thing was at a standstill. All
these statements he denied most positively. The ground
which the pariah had rented for ninety-nine years never
had been a mews. The water to be suppled was not to
be that from the reservoir in Trafalgar-square. It was
not contemplated to take down any houses; nor had the
commissioners of St. Martin's been in any difficulties,
nor had they been brought to a standstill. On the
contrary, all their proceedings hitherto had met with
the unanimous concurrence of the rate-payers in open
vestry.

After this statement bad been read,
Mr. ARMSON moved the non•confirmation of the mi-
nutes of the Bth of May, on the ground that the extent
of land being so much curtailed, it would not be politic
in the vestry to purchase the site.
Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, and said that
what he had stated about the baths and washhouses of
St. Martin applied to the baths at Whitechapel.
Earl MANNERS supported the non-confirmation; and,
after some discussion, the motion was non-confirmed by
a large majority.

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INQUEST ON TOE REV. MR. STARR.—An inquest
was held on Monday at Llanberis on the remains of the
above-named unfohunate gentleman, lately discovered
among the precipices of Snowdon, and the Jury returned the
following verdict :—" That the Rev. Henry Wellington
Starr, in the month of September last, was ascending a
certain mountain in the said county, and died on the same,
without any hurt or injury having been done to or committed
upon him by any person or persons whatsoever; but the said
jurors are unable to state whether his death was occasioned
by a fall, by cold, or how otherwise in particular, although
they incline to the belief that it was caused by his acci-
dentally falling over a precipice during the hours of dark-
ness." On Tuesday last the remains of this unfortunate
gentleman were buried in Llanberk the service being read
by the Rey. William Wales, of Northampton.
GREENOCK, JUNE 12.—Two logs of timber, apparently
North American, were picked up, and a large quantity
;missed, by the Ravenswood, arrived in the Clyde,