The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

On Saturday the question of the payment of the
costs in the late Chancery suit against the vcs!ry by
the Tory Association of Wig.nore•street, amounting. to
983/. 15s. 9d., was brought specially under considera-
tion.

Mr. GIB3ON sail that if they considered fora. month

they would have to ply all the same. He would there-
fore move that the amount be raid as soon as the pa-
rochial funds enabled them to take the step.
Mr. SODEN, in seconding the motion, characterized
the suit as a barefaced robbery perpetrated by the Tory
party.
Mr. GOMM thought the least said about it the better.
He congratulated the Board on having ❑o more than
1,0001. to pay. It was more likely to have been 1,5001.
Mr. BIERS regretted that the loss had not fallen on
those who brought the Vestry into Chwicery. The
Chancellor had said " that it was a pity they had not
something better to lo than to occupy his Court five
days hearing nothing."

After come further discussion the motion was carriol.
ELECTION OF MR. KENSETT TO BE POOR-RATE COL-

LECTOR.

The ballot for the election of a poor•rate collector
in the room of Mr. Clarke, deceased, the emoluments
derivable from which office is said to be front 2001. to

3001. per year, commenced at twelve, and closed at one
o'clock, and as the latter hour approached the Vestry
became crowded by its members. At one o'clock
Messrs. Skinner, Joseph, and Sapsford, were appointed
scrutineers of the ballot, and retired with the balloting
glasses. After the lapse of about a quarter of an hour
they returned, and tho state of the poll was decl wed
to be as follows :—Mr. Kensett, 79 ; Mr. Wail, 1 ; Mr.
Lamb, 1 ; Mr. Day, 1.
This announcement was rece:ved with loud cheering.

Mr. Gomm then moved that Mr. Kensett be declared
duly elected, subject to the Report of a Committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the eligibility of his sureties.
The motion having been seconded and carried, Mr.
Kensett was called in and the resolution and the state
of the poll read over to him.
Mr. KENSETT said he begged to tender his sincere
and grateful thanks for the confidence and esteem
which hail that day been bestowed upon him by his
late colleagues and fellow rate-payers. It was said
that the public was an ungrateful master ; he we', never
a convert to that opinion, and the position in which he
stood that day showed that such a principle was erro-
neous. They all knew that he had for nine years
taken a most active and prominent part in the parochial
affairs of that great parish, and consequently had been
subji ct to all sorts of animadversion and misrepres'nta.
tion. A certain portion of the public press had even
through the entire of the present week heaped upon him
volumes of abuse and vituperation, but it
was gratifying for him to reflect that all the
calumnies of that great and powerful engine
had not effected him in the opinions of those
who knew him, who, protected byethe ballot, had done
him the honour of recording their conscientious and ho-
nest votes in his favour that day. He hoped that (lu-
ring the nine years he had held a seat in the Vestry his
conduct was such as to justify the Board in the selec-
ton they had made ; and he begged to assure thein
that in taking upon himself the office they had been
pleased to appoint him to, he should endeavour to do
justice to the integrity of the Vestry, and everything for
the benefit of his fellow parishioners. He concluded by
again thanking the Vestry, and, amidst loud cheering,
handed in the names of his securities to the sum of
1,5001. each, which were Mr. James Coxhead, of 278,
Regent-street, and Mr. Edward Clements, of Marine-
place, New Kent-road.

HIS CUSTOM ALWAYS OF AN

AFTERNOON."
(From a French Paper.)

Remonier, a journeyman plasterer, was one day sus-
pended aloft by his rope, and, armed with brush and
pail, whitewashing a house front, at the same time re-
galing his ears with the sound of his own melodious
voice. As his work proceeded R.imonier gradually let
himself down, 'lntl he soon found himself directly oppo-
site a first-floor window, which by some accident was
left open. No sooner had he arrived at this stage of
his descent, than he was startled by a loud scream pro-
ceeding from the room before him ; Remonier looked in
and immediately exclaimed," Good heavens, my wife!"
The unfortunate plasterer had caught sight of his own
wife, whom a stranger held encircled in his arms in a
manner very unpleasant to a hthband's feelings. In an
ectasy of rage Remonier sprang into the room, and,
without entering into any superfluous explanations, fell
upon the crirdnal stranger and furiously belaboured him
with his brush.
His wife would doubtless have come in for a share of
this treatnizmt had she not prudently, and with the
swiftness of a deer, made for the door and effected her
escape. _ _ _

if,monier having assuaged his fury by exacting an
ample account from the inhabitant of the room, made
for his home in order to inflict similar chastisement on
his faithless spouse. On reaching his house he knocked
at the door, which was opened by his wife, whose fea-
tures exhibited the most nedis:urbed tranquillity as she
addressed him, " My dear, why what's the matter ?
how heated you look !" " Heated, indeed ! never you
mind whether I'm heated ; where have you been to, toll
me that ?" " Me ! dear ?" returned the wife with con-
tinued sang /raid; " why, I have not stirred out all
the morning." Not stirred out ! Well, that's a good
one, when I saw you just now in a gentleman's arms in
the Rue de It Hechette." "Mo ?" " Yes, you."
" My dear, you're not well, something unpleasant has
happened to you ; what is it ?" " You know well
enough ; unpleasant, indeed! but I'd have you before
the Magistrate, and you shall answer for your pranks."
In consequence of this. scene Remonier soon ap-
peared on the prisoners' bench at the Police Correc-
tionelle. The stranger of the fourth flour appeared as
plaintiff against him.
Reinonier is shocked at his position ; he doubts if
there be any justice in France, when he, an injured
husband, is dragged to the bar by the very man who
dishonoured him. Remonier's wife persisted in affirm-
ing that she had not been in the stranger's apartment,
and that her husband was mistaken when he took the
person who was with the plaintiff for her.

" This is too much !'' cries Rernonier : " this is a
plot, a conspiracy. 01 course I hail no other er.cuso
for giving the gentleman a thrashing, if I had not seen
him kissing my wife. And what proves that it was
her is, that she denies it on purpose that I may be
conde►nned."

Plaintiff—Come, my good fellow, I'll do you a kind-
ness. 1 own it was your wife that was with me.
ltNnonier—There, he owns it, you see—he owns it.
Now, what do you say to that, madam ?
Wife—Very well, what of that ? That's no reason
ou should raise your voice, and roil your eyes in
that way.
Remonicr—No reason ! No reason !
Plaintiff—Certainly not. Nor was it tiny reason that
you should fall upon me as you did.
Rnmonier—What ? Well, 1 never! Why, I ought
to have annihilated you.
Wife—Not at all. There was no harm in my
being with the gentleman. It was perfectly honourable.
I am the gentleman's washerwoman, and of course I
must bring home his linen.
Plaintiff—Of course, that's all. _ _ _

Husband—And you paid your bill with kisses?
Wite—The gentleman kissed me, of course ; but it
was all perfectly honourable. He always does it. It's
a habit with him, and one can't affront a customer.
_

Plaintiff—Really it's the last thing in the world I
should think of as to behave at all improperly to your
good lady.
really ! What, then, you only kissed
her becaise it's a habit with you ?
Plaintiff—Certainly, for no other reason.
Husband—Well, if that's all, then, I'm sure I for-
give you. Pay me for the brush I broke on your back
and we'll say no more about it.
Plaintiff—Stay, stay, you forget that you are the
person accused.
Husband—Ah I Oh, well, never mind that.

Plaint ff—With all my heart ; I withdraw my com-
plaint, since you acknowledge your Eel in the wrong.
The Tribunal, on considering the circumstinees
the case, disn.issed Remonier.