The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-23 00:00:00

BEATING THE BOUNDS.

Yesterday the Churchwardens, Overseers, Guar-
dianF, Collectors, Beadles, and every other officer be-
longing to the parish of St. Mary, Newington, together
with about twenty of the inhabitants, assembled at the
Workhouse, in the Walworth-road, for the purpose of
reviving the ancient ceremony of beating the bounds of
the parish, aceordiftr to a notice which had been ex-
tensively circulated for the previous fortnight.
After hearing a sermon and partaking cf luncheon
the procession was formed, and, besides the above-named
personages, consisted of all the boys from the workhouse
and those belonging to the parish school, and two im-
portant individuals, whose duty it was to wade through
all the muddy streams which formed the boundaries on
the South and East sides of the parish. The day was
very unfavourable, but the ceremony being a new
one to many persons (not having been performed
during the last eleven years) there was n• lack of
spectators throughout the whole line. All persons
whose property abutted upon the bounds had been
warned to remove all obstacles to the free pas-
sage of all engaged in the ceremony—the injunction
had been pretty generally complied with, doorways
having been made through nearly all wooden fences ;
where the warning had not been attended
to, little ceremony was used in making an
opening by persons engaged fur the purpose. When
brick walls came in the way, the matter was more
serious ; too much time would have been wasted, and
the expense would have been much increased. In
order to save both, the grave-diggers of the pa-
rish accompanied the procession with two sets of
la Iders, with which all obstacles were overcome.
Although it rained almost incessantly, the whole
ceremony passed off in great good humour, and without
any accident, except to the ga) clothing of those im-
portant functionaries, the Beadh s, whose gold lace was
none the better for the washing it got.

RAPID TRAVELLING —Monday afternoon
tit Royal Highness Prince Ainert left Windsor Cacti...,
expre.s from her NLjostv, to proceed to Clarence House,
St. James's, on account of the alarming state of her Royal
Highness the Princess Augusta. fits Royal Highness
proceeded to Slough station, belonging to the Great
Western railroad, where there was in waiting a special
train, in which his Royal Highness, with two attendants,
proceeded to the terminus at Paddington, where they ar-
rived in the extraordinary short period of 21 minutes. His
carriage and four horses were in readiness to receive the
Royal party, tied they proceeded to Clarence House. In
the evening they returned, and reached Slough by the
same train in 23 minutes.

The Hon. William Cowper and George Tier-
ney.
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Geioemeni,,iscibumu.rso,vairtiadi,
tary, 11 r, Lethbridge, Secre-
.been sojourning,
inspecting the es-
the that
conditionnoble insti-
tution, some days. at Dilston House, andetoinsl)
tat,'s in the neighbourhoud belonging
having previously examined into
those in the mining district near Alston. TynPii of
BREAD FOR THE PEOPLE.—A • •
can full of
loaves, purchased from bakers of this city, at 6d. per 41b•
loaf, has left Lie (Exeter) fcr Tiverton this day, as ti,
baker* there are charging t?id, for the 41b. loaf, Westerns
Toed.