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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, JB4O.

PARLIAMEN TARY DI ir ISION.

HE RA L D.—To-day was the periodical settlement of
ttec
iounts in domestic stocks. It passed over very quietly,
ndeed the amounts to be arranged were not large, and
the differences inconsiderable, whilst money was extremely
a=y ; so that there was no difficulty in carrying over. Thu
drices of Consols were firm, with
some improvement ; the
'Potation for money being 91i to;, and for the account
on the 26th of next month 911 to The rate of con-.
,inuation is, therefore, per cent. only, or at the rate of
ibout three per cent. per annum. On the last account,
ending the 27th of February, the rate of continuation
.vas lon Consols, or equal to 5} per cent. per annum,
shows the great demand for money then, and
in an extraordinary improvement in regard to money
rates, and the abundance of money at the present
time, as compared with six weeks since. This is more
apparent still in regard to Exchequer Bills and Three per
Cents. Reduced, on the first of which no less than 10 per
aunt. was paid for money, a,pd on the last 8 per cent. on
he last settling-day. The variations during the Account
now closed have been of little importance. Consols closed
on the 27th of February at 901 for Money, and 90k- for
Account, upon which the closing prices of to-day are an
idvance of per cent. On Exchequer Bills the difference
is more marked, as the rates on the last day of setaement
were Is. discount to Is. premium, whereas the last quota-
tions to-day were 245. to 265. premium. This rise, how-
t.ver, is not attributable, excepting in a very inconsiderable
degree, to the improved condition of money affairs, but to
.he advance in the rate of interest, which at the last mo-
ment the Chancellor of the Exchequer was reluctantly corn.
pulled to concede. Bank Stock left off to-day 175 to

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(From the roles and Proceedings if the House of Commons.)
TUESDAY, Arum 14.
CHESHIRE CORONERS BILL.
Motion made, and 'Question put, " That it be an Instruc-
tion to the Committee on the Cheshire Coroners Bill, that they
have power to n-ake provision therein for compensating the
present Coroners of the County of Chester, for the loss the)
may sustain by any new appointments of Coroners under the
said Bill :"—The House divided :

MAJORITY-AYES, 39.
Ilindley, C. Sinclair, Sir G.
Hume. Joseph Steuart, R.
.ieryis, J. Stuart, Lord J.
Kemple, Henry Townley, 11. G.
Lushington, Charles Vigors, N A.
Lushington, S. Villiers, Charles ?.
Morrison, James Wallace, R.
Mcntz, G. F. Willia'ns, W.
Palmer, G. Wilmot, Sir J. E.
Parker, R. T. Wodehouse, Edmond
Pease, Joseph Woo', Benjamin
Plumptre, .1. P. TELI.V.KB.
Salwey, Colonel Stanley, E J.
Shell, it. L. Egerton, W. T.

Barnard, E. G.
Bradshaw, James
Broadwood, H.
Campbell, W. F.
Clive, E. B.
Craig, W. Gibson
Dunkin, Sir It.
Duncombe, T. S.
l)undas, F.
E ist bore, John
Ewart, W.
Grey, Sir C. E.
Hawes, P.
Hill, Lord 1. M. C.

:NORITY—NOES,
Urimston, I on. E.
Grote
G.
Hcatl;cote, Sir W.
Hodgson, R.
Inglis, Sir R. H.
Long, Walter
Maunsell, T P.
Maxwell, R.
Packe, C. W.

Ashley, Lord
Bailin:, H. J.
Cresswell, C.
Dalrymple, Sir A.
Davies, Colonel
Douro, Marquis of
Freshfield, .1. Vv
Gladstone, W. E.
Graham, Sir J.

Philips, Mark
Philips, G. 11
Sandon, Lord
Somerset, Lord G.
Young, John

TELLERS.
Esteourt, T. G. B.
Greene, T. G.

SPIRIT of t

be PUBLIC JOURNALS.

SUN.—The Tea market was rather firmer to-day,
Company's Congou having been quoted this afternoon
at 2s. 6id. per lb. The next public sale will be much
smaller than the previous one was. British Plantation
produce is very firm.
Tue Foreign Exchanges did not manifest the least
symptoms of improvement this afternoon. Bills were
negotiated on the following terms :—Paris, 25f. 52ie.
to 55c.; Hamburgh, 13 84 to 9 ; Frankbrt, 14 9i to
; and Amsterdam, 12 1 to !.
The Funds- closed firmly, Not a single party was
put hors de combat by his speculative operations in
Consols since the commencement of the account ad-
justed to-day, which indeed was altogether a trivial affair.
The balances were in favour of those who have been
operating for a rise. Consols left off at 91i to ifor
Money, and 91i to for the 26th of next month Ex-
chequer Bills were worth 245. to 265. premium ; and
the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. touched 99k.
The Foreign Securities were not buoyant this after-
noon. The account which will be settled to-morrow is
expected to be against the Bears. Spanish Actives
closed at 284 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. at
354 ; Colombian at 25i ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. at 54.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS HAY.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
We seize the occasion of an advertisement, announcing
a Polish ball at Greenwich, to repeat our appeal to
Englishmen in behalf of our suffering brethren in the cause
of European Reform. We have always looked upon the
Poles as the vanguard of British Reform—as having suf-
fered in a cause, English as well as Polish, and as having
fought an Entilish battle, when they rose, in 1830, against
the anti-English despotism of the North. The Czar has
officially said, " England's friends are my foes, and her
foes are my friends." This being the case, shall we deny
to our soldiers—the soldiers of British and European li-
berty—the hire which they have so justly earned by shed-
ding their blood in our cause—the fair indemnity which
they deserve for the lasses they have sustained for our sake ?

The Railway Shares continue to advance, while the
demand is tolerably brisk. The Great Western were
quoted 10, the New 31, the Birmingham and London
73, the Quarter 204, the New North Midland 8-1, the
New London and Birmingham 22, and the South
NY estern 44 prem. ; Manchester and Birmingham
Shares brought 13 discount, North Midland 2f dis-
count, and Brighton 10- discount. Provincial Bank of
Ireland Shares at 181 prem,

PUBLIC MEETING OF THE RATE-
PAYERS OF ST. JAMbS'S, WESTMINSTER.

A public meeting of the rate-payers of St. James's,
Westminster, was held last night at Willis's great room,
Brewer-street, Golden-square. The meeting was con-
vened " in consequence of proceedings adopted at a packed
and exclusive meeting of a portion of the parishioners,
styling themselves ' Friends of the Church,' held at the
Thatched House Tavern, on the 30th of March, for the
purpose of passing resolutions attributing to the vestry the
exercise of an unfair system of aggression towards the
Rector, and otherwise impugning their conduct." The
meeting was well attended ; the hour announced for com-
mencing proceedings was half-past six.
W. Mata.a, Esq., was moved to the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN, after reading a letter from his colleague
Mr. Beckett, in favour of the purposes of the meeting, stated
the circumstances which called them together. A portion of
the parishionrrs,styling themselves " Friends of the Church,"
held a meeting lately and accused the vestry of having
robbed Mr. Ward, their Rector, of a just endowment. The
vestry were at first inclined to let the calumny die of itself,
and to allow impartial persons to decide whether the re-
construction of the parish church, and many other services,
were nut sufficient proofs of the attachment of the vestry
to the cause of religion.—( Hear, hear). It was, how-
ever, afterwards thought advisable to appeal to the public
against unmerited condemnation and censure.—(Cheers).
Fur many years the old select vestry had squandered the
money of the parish. A new vestry was afterwards
tormed, for the put pose of doing justice to the rate-payers.
—( Hear, hear). Under former vestries, Rectors had laid
claim to a certain portion of the church, on which a pulpit
had lately been erected. This was a fair proceeding, but
had been treated as an unjust encroachment. He should
say, however, that the conduct of former Rectors wore in
his eyes, the appearance of a
pie(c of simony, and a bar-
tering away, not gods in the temple, but the temple itself.
—( Hear, hear). The lion. Gentleman concluded by im-
pressing on the meeting the necessity of an absence from
personality, and by begging them to give a fair hearing to
any persons who might address them.—( Hear).
The Hon. F. BY NG alluded to the former meeting
a hich had taken place at the Thatched House Tavern.
An honourable relative of his, with whose opinions he.
had on almost all occasions agreed, had presided at
,hat meeting, but he (Mr. F. Byng) was assured that his
having done so was to be attributed to an ignorance on his
part of the object of the parties who had got up the meet-
ing.—( Hear, hear.) He believed that the relative he had
alluded to was mistaken in the reasoning he had put for-
ward, and that he had been totally in error in talking as
tic had done of a Church endowment, in reference to pews
in the parish church, Ile thought that the other gentle-
men who had spoken at the meeting showed themselves to-
tally unacquainted with the matters they had met to dis-
cuss. He wished to allude to the statement of an injus-

tice having been done to the Rector. It was perfectly true
that 601. a year was taken out of the hands of that gentle-
man, but might it not be possible that instead of
the vestry having robbed the Rector, the Church itself
might have been robbed heretofore ?—( Great cheering.)
lle contended that the Rector had no claim to the pews of
hich it, was complained he had been deprived. The case
of all the neighbouring churches proved that. It was a
~elect vestry which had first granted the pews in goes
ion. But they knew what select vestries were, and how
many abuses they had connived at.—( Hear, hear.) The
vestry had not since used the pews for money purposes,
but had appropriated the ground for a pulpit, and for the
nvcnience of the clergy.—( Cheers.) He thought it
could not be denied that the letting of the pews was
and that if they were returned to the Rector, he could
nut atterrip to let them. The object of the meeting at
!he Thatched House Tavern was, he believed, to cff..ct a
'Twin to the old and improper system.—( Hear, hear.)
lle should content himself w th the statement he had
made, and he would leave it to the meeting to decide on
•ha conduct and the merits of the vestry.—( Cheers )
Mr. G. SkENCE, Queen's Counsel, entered into a legal
11'1;13[1214 to show that the rectors of the parish, even by
the terms of the az;reement on which they had founded
their claim, had not a right to sell, let, or exchange the
pews of the parish church. The Learned Gentleman, after
having quoted authorities to show in addition that such an
,t,reement as the one in question would be illegal, con-
eroded by moving the resolution which was submitted to
he meeting. and which was to the effect "that the agree-
ment of 1804, making over the pews to the Rector of the
parish was invalid ; that the churchwardens were therefore
hound to dispose of the pews in question, as of the other
pexs under their control f.r the benefit of the parish, 'and
that the meeting entirely disapproves of the first and second
-c,olutions passed at the Thatched House Tavern on the
30th of March last."
Mr. G. CawFoun seconded the resolution.
Mr. J. PIKE opposed the resolution, and said ha had
been one of the minority of the vestry who had disagreed
with the majority on the subject under the consideration of
the meeting.
Mr. JOSEPH Bnows spoke in favour of the resolution,
and defended the course which the majority of the Vestry
had taken.
After a few words from Mr. FULLER in opposition to the

resolution,
The resolution was put to the meeting, and carried
amidst cheers by a large majority.
Mr. KEMP then came forward to move a vote of thanks
thanks to the churchwarden and vestry " for their manly
And consistent conduct in their management of the affairs
of the parish."
Mr. W. F. AUSTIN seconded the motion.
The motion was carried with only three dissentients.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and
the meeting separated.

MR. YA RWORTH.--ThiS unfortunate young
man, who has been lying at Pin -%lm in a dangerous state ever
since the night of the 11th of January, when he Wa; robbed and
attempted to be murdered on his way from Comb-hill to Chel-
tenham, has so far recovered as to be able to bear the fatigue of
removal to his father's house in the Forest of Dean. One of
the balls by which he i# wounded still rem. ins ui extracted, his
right side is still considerably paralyzed, and he is:extremelv de-
bilitated, Poor Yarworth's sufferings have been and still aro
very great; his expenses, too, independently of the 1 ‘rge sum
of money he was robbed of, have been very con,ideral:le : he
has, however, found abundance of friends, who, in addition to
any other kind offices they could render him, have originated
and collected subscriptions to make up, as far as they could, for
his pecuniary losses. He has received altogether in this way
--
about 190/., a sum as creditable to the neighbourhood, as it
must be gratifying to Mr. Y. and his family. Cheltenham
Journal.

,
ROBBERIES AT• THEATRES.--011 Monday
night last, as Mr. John Henry Benham, of
No. ti, ~taple Inn,
was leaving Sadler's Wells 111, atre with the audience after
the performance, he was hustled by three fellows, one of whom
seized hold of a diamond pin in his shirt and a guard chain,
which he tore from him, and handed them to his companions,
who made off and escaped. Mr. Benham, however, seized
hold of the thief and kept him until the arrival of an officer,
who took him to the station-house, where he gave his name
Stephen Ballini. He was on Tuesday fully committed for trial
from Hatton garden Police Court. On the same evening a
-
gentleman was robbed under similar circumstances at the City
of London Theatre. •