The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION•
the contingencies to be provided for, the repairs and
.ist, hell; rmaers, &c.,
winding t'p of the church clock, the salary of the orga
chase of brooms, and other articles required for the use
the washing of surplices, the pur-
ot the Church ; and concluded by estimating the use
necessary to be raised at 4001., for which a peanY
would be required, which he forthwith propoed.
Mr. RIPINGHAU seoonded the motion, whi:th being
put to a show of hands, was, to the amazement 0.. f everr
one, declared by the Rev. Chairman to be carried.
It k ing evident that the Rev. Gentleman must :have
been mistaken, the question was, after a noisy di! cul.
rate
sion, again put, when
The Rev. Mr. QUICKETT, the curate, saids
now eve'
that the
Chairman had been a little mistaken; it wa
dent that there was a majority ainst the rate.--
(Lauehter and great cheering.)
Mr. RictNnataat then demanded a poll.
Another lengthened and noisy discussion here
to took:o-
-place, the Churchwardens having
rom limten tops tx
as on the-
e to
days, and the hours, instead o
former occasion, to the time between the hour of ten int
the morning to four o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr. BALLARD said stwh conduct was infamous ; a'
fair poll of the parish was taken only two months abut"
Lion. The shortening of the time
and why was the parish again disturbed with this 900'
poor rate-payers of an opportunity to come and recor
their vote against the extortion. was only to dePril
Mr. CLARKE (a solicitor) said that he believed
and:that
insisted upon the right of every
the time of polling was in the hands of the meeting'
opportunity to record his vote. ise
clerk tog
Mr. BADDELEY—I appeal to our VeSrY
us the law of the case.—( Hisses.) •
;,, lets
Mr. HOWLETT, the vestry clerk, said that -,_ 0,0
inivii,,itant having all-
opinion the time and place of polling rested olt" '',o
.Chairman, and read an extract from Lord gentl"'
judgment in the case of the Queen v. the Parish of. 1\141.14:
lebune, in which the Learned Chief Justice says that a Pehie
if demanded, cannot be refused either by the vestry or t...
Chairman : that if convenient it ought to be talon
,Jr:
mediately, and that the Chairman ought to
time and place, so as to give convenient and reasone4l.:
opportunity to every rate-payer to record his vete."
(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The chief-justice, how,.
ever, adds, that the Chairman is only answerable to tba ;
Court for his conduct in ordering the time for poiliq•e,
A desultory conversation, attended with great
andnott:t..
tempts were made to induce the Chairman
and clamour, was for some time carries on, the'
appoint t.aa_
request. of the parishioners to keep open the pt re.
s,x o'clock each evening , many Acts of Parliament we
appealed to, and clauses read bearing linen the gra4
tiou, but the Rev. Doctor remained inflexible. and to.
',Algal rose amidst the uproar, and declared the rwit.i.
be opened, to close at four o'clock ; to cornea enenlgock..
this day at ten o'clock, and close finally at lour o'clock"
Mr. BaLLaau and seveval other geotlemen
.1°
senci
protested against the whole roceedings as illegal ;
rr ern,'
Reform Associations bold their
a large party then adjourned to the George 0 e,ii,
n3ccti'tl:ogstl;le a:113.11.1.r! oif
to goal
tiw
Bick-road, where the committee of the St. Ginlr.
Fraser, wharfinger, having been caned
law Awt lfioi colri
o'clockh
statethe morning.otthe
poll
was determined to seek legal advice ti
declareel t°
be—Fur the rate, 207 ; against it, 126 : tWalerl9
P:
the
h.cl3til't:4l.

THE WINDOW DU'rY•
$ll.
MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS or
PAUL, COVENT GARDEN. • Ai
Last evening a numerous meeting of the inhabitcrii"(
of the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, conveec,
the Churchwardens, in pursuance of a requisition, 51gTes.
by several respectable parishioners, was held at th_cakia
try room, adjoining the church, for the purpose of to
wtn,.
into consideration the increased assessment of the
st
dow duty in that parish, and to determine on the
__ci!tnf
advisable course to be adopted, in order to obtaili
for the rate-payers. tok
Mr. JAMES COOPER, one cf the Churchvtardens,
the chair.
briAn'gir.bAc.ifoors:
theEv (ameCeltiiunrgehtwhaerdsuenkicesto7hi
met to consider, and concluded a speech displ!tying:o,..,
siderable information by proposing the following re
tiloug
tions :—That it was the opinion of the Mee or
that the tax on windows was at all times
prissive one ; that it was a bar to good venttlilllctsi°::
which would prevent the generation of
that the duties on glass and other matters used in 018:nr:
it fell more heavily on the productive than on the
beuePe
surning classes ; that opinions to this effect h d
repeatedly expressed and generally admi;ted ie Ptora
aefhterthreols,ehostnes:
ment, and particularly in the year 1833, when lit
hrougf
Aithorp the then Chancellor of the Exchaqu';*,
forward his budget, and lamented the impossibiil=Y
disease, L,..tot,
yieb
total repeal at the time, owing to the large incoale W 0„.
it produced. That under these circumstances any oly
tempt to increase the duty at the present lime not %,
showed a contradiction anl contempt of former
e
pressed opinions, but imposed a fresh burthcn
v
class of persons whose relief appears gencrallY; hA
have been borne in mind, and which it should 'in"
the desire of every Liberal Government to effect
•
every possible way. That the meeting dcPl.-:,
catcd any intention to consider this matter r
a political sense, and only wished to view it'
on one hand, in the light of income to the Govery
ment, and, on the other, as to the proposed
from
which it should be derived. That it was soothell
further opinion of the meeting that a deputation slot
appointed to wait on the Chancellor of theit
chequer, to point out the reasons for the opinions
had expressed, and the injustice which was about to be
done to the parishioners of this parish and to the roe.
pa)crs generally.
Mr. WALKER seconded the motion, and the rescitv
tions were unanimously adopted.
A Committee
mittee of St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish, and to ferumor.
was appointed to confer svith the C_oni;
deputation to wait on the Chancellor of the Exeheq
The thanks of the meeting having been voted to the
Chairman, the proceedings termioated.

THE LUDLOW CAS '•
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN"
J sl
1111 e„,
SIR,—I have seen several letters in your v
respecting the adoption, by a few commercial trarer ths
of a subscription to compensate Mr. Mackretiff for
suffer
ing and inconvenience he has undergone in e."
qucnce of the Lae attempt upon his life. roe Pf
l am sorry to observe that, notwithstanding.ol. they
the writers profess indignation at the insult whic,,,.etlit
are pleased to say is thus offered to Mr. lgac"; foo
h there seems in the expression of their sentiments, ,ther
y these very sensitive writers, very little regard °been
to his feelings, or to the feelings of those who have, es'
instrumental in promoting this attempt to obtoin a
pre_ssion of sympathy from his fellow-traveliers, r
advised
lwish these gentlemen to reflect that, bovr ill
evatir to
the mode may be, the attempt doesibt°,3t;lank"
the of the originators, and I think o.'"hat bas
rb t has shown his good feeling by accepting w."-‘lO.
eeln proposed in kindness and consideration for
me little v
would just remark that, having had so fit the
perience in collecting subscriptions for the bolo can 6°
distressed, I have ever found those gentlemen 'I itb
easily flourish sovereigns out of their pockcts7-orcl
stroke of the pen, among the last to collie 'or .ity•
with the cash when called upon in cases of real one's-
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
13.
Doacaster, Oct. 28.
DR. JOHNSON AND DR. "P.

SIR,--In IT
nO
yourT HE EDITOR
papero Of
an extract no
occurs, _,
the last number of the Edinburgh' Review.,
of unfortabas,
which is contained an
account an
FSTatitErdsacy°,
my its •
rencontre," said to have taken place in 9135,g-ai hie
1773, betwixt Dr. Johnson and Adam Smith. anti, -1,100.
appears to be scarcely correct, if not entirely fai)Ll,-0..
TstAN. ~__lo
By consulting Stewart's Life of Smith, it does 07773,
pear whether or not he was at Glasgow i° he
or even whether he saw Dr. Johnson durielf 0
time he was in Scotland. But as his name iS pot
cill
be found in Boswell's Journal (where it unciouhtc ,
rosoe
would have appeared had they met), it maY
t at
ably he concluded that they did not meet, at leas
the time referred to. Besides, Dr. Johnson's intfe roe
gatory—•-•' Dr. Smith, hew came you to say that 11:00
was nearly the hest min you ever knew 'I app ears
rather premature, as Smith's letter, in which this.,tep
not writs
racier of his illustrious friend is given, was droll"
till November 1776, a few month's after ii tlle's
The only " reneontre" which Boswell rcoords took
_0
Robert:4)o
plaec in London, thin same day in which Dr.
was introduced to Johnson's acquaintance, which kiog
doubtless long before his visit to Scotland. 13Y ta lett..
these particulars into consideration, i.t seems our ce,
viewer has been somewhat mistaken, and that the en.pe,
dote in question, before it can be received as o°lloo
would require to be duly authenticated. I truAstost
apology is necessary for this communication, on' 1.....
you wi 1 give it a plrce in your very valuable journa •
I am, &c. A LOVER OF Tlttrril.
. _
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET. There has bee"
great dullness in all description; of British plantation sugar;
and transactions have Leen very limited. The account
gioool9
received by the Hope packet from Jamaica arc very
the canes being burnt up by an un recedented drought '
in some of the other islands the prospectP of the sugarcroPs
is more favourable. An ord .r Ireceived at th°
has been
ti e at
CuEtorn-house to admit all ' ' ' foreign sugars for home 5 d
a duty
3. p, r cwt., and 5 per cent., whether elaYe.
Hums ar.
or not, which will include white Elgvannah.
more in request, and large sale h• b ale at the late •
redact:ea.—Bristol Ga'zett- s have
been
ni
'
Gazelle.
It was mentioned, a few clays since, that gr.
Frederick Reynolds, the veteran dramatist, had had a
pat:ce accepted at Covent. garden Theatre. This is a rnis-
t_ke,and arose from the following circumstances :---Mr•
Reynolds wrote a letter to the management of Ce"nt;
garden, which stated " that in his leasure hours he ha'
cw_reitten a piece which he ccesidercd (by reason of his !Ph'
'sing years and infirmiticc) -Id be lis last and %ch.c
he felt IY,utvi to yff r, , r,-,- s.'°' (1, lb, rrr.'- ,i; '-''''''
`,,
~ .., ' .: ".' r *2". ' ' .
said no '" has• 'cab lis. s
answer been returned, although sone ti
now elapsed.