The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-25 00:00:00

MARYLEBO-i-NEVESTRY.

On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone
Vestry, Mr. Gomm in the Chair, the Vestry entered
upon the discussion of the Minute, for confirmation,
agruing to accept' the proposal of Messrs. Margrove
and Esdaile, the proprietors of Rankin's Patent Wood
Paving, to lay down 600 yards of their specimen in
Oxford-street, between South Molton-street and Duke-
street, without subjecting the Vestry to any outlay, but
at an annual charge of 33. per square yard per annum.
Mr. FLOOD (the Vestry Clerk) said he had received
a letter from the proprietors of Rankin's Patent, more
clearly defining the terms upon which they proposed to
lay down their specimen than the tender of the previous
week. The Vestry Clerk having read the letter,
• Mr. HARBERT moved the conconfirmation of the
minute, on the ground that the Vestry had no right to
incur additional expense, whilst the specimen of the
Metropolitan Wood Company was still in a course of
being tested.,
Mr. GLastEn hoped, the vestry would give Rankin's
Wood Paving a fair trial. The proposition of the pro-
prietors was most straightforward ; they, in fact, as
the Vestry had seen from the letter just read, offered to
test their paving on a declivity, and in the very worst
part of Oxford-street. The proprietors too were to
lay down the wood paving at their owo expense, and
remove it whenever the Vestry thought proper.
Mr. GEORGE had previously opposed the adoption of
wood pavement, but believing the specimen now under
discussion would remove all the objections which had
arisen to the slipperiness of all the specimens of wood
paving hitherto laid down, he should certainly vote for
the confirmation of the minute.

Mr. SODEN and others supported the confirmation of
the minute in favour of Rankin's Wood Paving, which
was eventually carried by a majority of 25 to 14.

DISTRESS IN THE METROPOLIS

Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Hearne„ Roman Catholic
pastor of the chapel, Lincoln's Inn-fields, made a strong
appeal in behalf of the destitute poor of his district.
The details of misery and destitution, and to the truth
of which he pledged his sacred character, were of so
horrifying a character as to excite amongst his congre-
gation an involuntary shudder, and several ladies were
moved to tears by their recital. The Rev. Gentleman
solemnly declared that there were thousands totally de-
void of common subsistence, that the garrets were
crammed with the starving and the naked, that on his
visitations he found the rarents stretched upon the bed
of sickness, while their famished children were crying
for bread and there was none for them. Because so
occupied were the wealthier portion of his congregation
in assisting individual distress, and so crippled were even
they by the sad revulsion that had taken place in the
prosperity of the country, that they could not contri-
bute, as they had been accustomed, to the general poor-
box. In fact, he said, that there were not more than
Gs., or at the most Bs., contributed weekly to that bolt.
The clergy of that district were compelled to lessen the
amount that had been weekly allowed to certain pen-
sioners, and would he obliged to cease giving even that
reduced assistance to those pensioners if immediate aid
was not Oforded the clergy towards alleviating the
miseries that they witnessed at the beds of the sick and
dying.

THE CUR.ATE ACIA IN.—ln another part of this
day's .Mercury we have given a brief outline of the im-
proper conduct of Mr. Metcalf, one of the curates of the
Vicar of Huddersfield, at a funeral last week. We regret
to state that no signs of amendment are yet apparent in
this young clergyman, and we fear some blame attaches
in a higher quarter, otherwise he would not dare to out-
rage the feelings of the parishioners. This is the general
impression, and it would be well for the Vicar to take
timely warning of a line of conduct that may counteract
his usefulness, and disturb his own peace. For instance,
on Monday last, the remains of Mr. John Hanson, sen.,
an old and highly respectable inhabitant, were taken to
the church for interment. The funeral certainly was
much beyond the time, owing to the sudden illness of
ono of the deceased's sons. The curate was in the vestry
in no friendly mood, and it was not until twice earnestly
solicited, and the cause of delay explained, that ho would
consent to perform his duty and inter the corpse, which
he did in any way but a gracious and reverent manner.
Surely he and his patron mistake the character of the
neighbourhood where such unseemly acts are now so fre-
quently exhibited.—Leeds Mercury.
We are sorry to state that at the time of high
water on Sunday night last upwards of eighty yards of
the unfinished part of the New North Pier, Whitehaven,
where it abuts upon the north wall, was either washed
down or greatly damaged. More than sixty yards of the
inside breasting of the pier were thrown down to the
first tier of stones, and the other twenty yards, though
not so completely demolished, have, nevertheless, sus-
tained great injury.—Carlisle Journal.
During the past week, the wind blowing strong
to the south-west, a great many vessels have again taken
shelter in Ramsgate harbour, so that there is now quite
a fleet, amounting to nearly 200— among them a collier
which received great damage off Dungeness by another
vessel running
into her stern, which stove it in, whereby
two of the crew were drowned, fulling over by the colli-
sion.—Kent Herald

SPORTING INT EL I, r.GENCE.
NEWMAEKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

EWMARKET, SATURDAY: ArrzuNooN.—The follow-
ug list of the races for next week includes all the new
matches :

MONDAY.--llandicap Sweepstakes or 25 sovs. cash,
for threc yrs old and upwards. d). tit.
The Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, for three
yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; the second horse
to save his stake, &c.
Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre (71bs extra)—Lord Bruce's
Rostrum (21b extra)—Mr. Treen's Barrier (21b extra)—
hir. Thornhill's Eusebia—Lord Albemarle's Robin—Mr.
J. Day's Curator—Lord Exeter's Albion, Patchwork,
Revulsion, and Revision—Mr. Forth's Vibration—Mr.
Litchwald's b c by Langar, out of Manta—Mr. Shackel's
Meal (211, extra)—Mr. Connop's Marshal Biron, Mid-
Day. and Miss Wicked—Colonel Peel's ch c by The
Colonel, out of Hester (71b extra), and Rochester—Gene-
ral Yates's Seahorse—Mr. Rogers's Prosody—Mr. Pet-
tit's eh c by St. Patrick, out of Moor-hen—Mr. Prince's
Rook with—Lord Orford's Bridal—Mr. F. Wood's Timo-
leon—Mr.Ridsdale'sLucullus—Mr. Newton's f by Jerry,
out of Fanchon—Mr. Byng's Ca Ira—Lord Albemarle's
Dorothy (paid)--General Yates' Strap (paid)—Lord
Chesterfield's All-my eye (paid)—Duke of Grafton's
Canadian and Utopia (paid)—Mr. Greville's Edgworth
Bess (paid)—Mr. Etwall's Palladium (paid)—Lord
Lichfield's Miniature c and Sister to Portrait filly (paid)
—Lord G. Bentinck's Misdeal, Firebrand and Pelopon-
nessus :(paid)—Wiseacre, Robin, Hester, Barrier, and
three or four others are expected to run.
The Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, and
5 only if declared, with 100 added, &c., last mile and a
distance of B. C.

The Doctor, aged, 9st 21b—Orelia, 5 yrs, Bst 9lb
Calypso, 4 yrs, Bst 91b—Roscius, 5 yrs, Bst 7 Ib—Wardan,
4 yrs, Bst 71b—Garry Owen, 4 yrs, Bst 61b—Rory
O'More, 5 yrs, Sst 41b—The Currier, 5 yrs, Bst 31b—
Cruiskecn, aged, Bst 31b—The Corsair, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—
Remnant, 4 yrs, Sst 21b—Melody colt, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—
Retriever, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Welfare, 4 yrs, Bst Po-
cahontas, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Johnny, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b
Miss lleathcote, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Recorder, 5 yrs, ist
101b—Compensation, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—Broadwath, 4 yrs,
ist 61b—Vulcan, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Miss Stilton, 3 yrs, 7st
31b—Diana, 4 yrs, 7st llb—Zelmyra, 4 yrs, ist 21b—Te-
leta, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Sir Hans, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b
The Knight of the Whistle, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b
—Belgrade, 3 yrs, Est 131b—Iliona, 4 yrs, 6st, 131 b
I-am-not-aware, 6 yrs, Est 111b—Emma colt, 3 yrs,
Est 1 lib—Stamboul, 4 yrs, Gst 111b—Silistria, 4 yrs,
Gst 91b—The Ruler, 4 yrs, Gst 91b—The Young-'un, 4 yrs,
6st 91b—Dromedary, 4 yrs, Est 81b—Langolee, 3 yrs,
Gst 71b—VVirrestrew, 5 yrs, 6st 71b—Ermengardis, 3 yrs,
Est 61b—St. Colomb, 3 yrs, Gst 41b—Scarf, 3 yrs, Gst 2lb
—Henri Quatre, 3 yrs, Gst 21b—Diversion, 3 yrs, Gst lib
—Portsolten, 3 yrs, sst 1 lib—Miss Mary Ann filly,
3 yrs, sst 1 llb—Clementine, 3 yrs, sst 1 11b—The Dey of
Algiers, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (paid)—Gibraltar, 4 yrs, Bst 1 llb
(paid)—Taurida, 3 yrs, Gst 91b (paid)—Mustapha,
3 yrs, 6st 21b ,paid)—Bracelet, 6 yrs (paid). The rest
declared forfeit. Nearly the whole of the horses are on
the spot.
Mr. Greville's Palmmon agst Lord Exeter's Cesare-
witch, Bst 7lb each. T.Y.C. ; 100, li ft. _ _ _

Mr. Byng's Garry Owen, Bst 1011., agst Mr. Good-
man's Sister to Glencoe, Gst 101 b, T.Y.C., 50,. h ft.

Mr. Treen's Fitzroy, Bst 71b, agst Lord Albemarle's
Ralph, 7st 71b., DJ., 300, h ft.
Mr. Goodman's Mungo Parke, 4 yrs, Est 71b, agst Mr.
Byng's Ca Ira, 2 yrs, 6st 71b ; T.Y.C., 50, h ft.
Duk• of Bedford's John o' Gaunt, Bst 51b, agst
Goodman's Belgrade, Bst. Ab. M. 100 soys ; h ft.
All the match horses are here, but that between Cesare-
witch and Palmmon will not be run.

TUESDAY.—Handicap Plate of 1001. for three yrs old
and upwards. D.I.
Fifty Pounds, for two yrs old, a feather ; three, 7st 51b;
four, Bst 91b ; five, 9st 31b ; six and aged, 9st 71b. Last
three miles of B.C. Winner to be sold for 300 guineas.
Mr. Gardnor's }Ethon, Bst 121 b, agst Mr. J. Day's
Viola, Bst ;lb., T.Y.C., 100 h ft.
WEDNESDAY.—Handicap Plate of 501. for three yrs
old, &c. A.F.
Subscription Plate of 501. for two yrs old, 6st 71b ;
and three, Bst. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two yrs old, 7st 21b ;
and three yrs, 9st. T.Y.C. The winner to be sold
for 1501.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 30 sm. each, 10 ft if de-
clared, &c., for three yrs old. Last mile and a distance
of B.C.

Mr. Byng's Garry Owen, Bst 71b, agst Lord Miltown's
Cruiskeen, Bst 51b., D.M., 200, h ft.
Lord Exeter's Scutari, Bst 7st, agst the Duke of Bed-
ford's John o' Gaunt, Bst 41b., D.M., 200, h ft.

Duke of Bedford's Taurida, Bst 71b, asst Lord Exeter's
Scarf, ist 131 b., T.M.M., 100.

THURSDAT.—Subscription Handicap Plato of 501. for
three yrs old and upwards. D.I.
_ _

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for two yrs old, 7st,
and three, Bst 121 b ; fillies allowed 21b. Winner to be
sold for 80, &c. T.Y.C.

Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, h 11; for two yrs old;
colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. Ab.M.—Lord Or-
ford's c by Jerry, out of Pettito's dam—Mr. Wreford's
Wiseacre—Lord Bruce's Rostrum—Lord Albetnarle's
Robin—Col. Peel's c by The Colonel, out of Hester, rnd
Seahorse—Mr. Etwall's Palladium—Lord G. Bentinck's
Misdeal, Peloponnessus, and f Firebrand—Lord Lich-
field's c out of Miniature, and f out of Sister to Portrait.
Not more than two or three likely to start.
Capt. Rous's Nicholas, Bst 71b, agst Lord Aliltown's
Zelinyra, Bst lib, T.Y.C., 50.
Lord Exeter's Abydos agst Mr. Greville's Palmmon,
Bst 71b each, T.Y.C., 100, It ft.

Lord Exeter's Albion agst Lord Albemarle's Nuncio,
Bst 71b each, T.Y.C., 100.
The first of these matches is not expected to be run.

FRIDAY.—The Audley End Stake; of 30 sovs. each,
for all ages but two yrs. A.E.C.
Nursery Stakes of 25 sovs. each; for two yrs old, D.M.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for two yrs old; colts,
Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 51b. Winner to be sold for 501,
&c. First half of Ab.M.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each; for three yrs
old, &c. T.Y.C.

Lord Exeter's Cesarewitch agst the Duke of Rutland's
Sir Hans, Bst 71b each, T.Y.C., 200.

Lord Albemarle'i Ralph agst Mr. Bell's The Squire,
Bst each, DJ., 500, h ft.

The first of the matches will not come off.

Amongst the recent arrivals are the Melody colt,
Iliona, Barrier, Fitzroy, Diversion, The Nub, Jessica,
Palladium, &c.

THE ARMY.

We earnestly beg the attention of the authorities to
the present position of the old Majors of the Army, many
of whom were Field-officers before some officers now
holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel entered the
service !

There are forty-eight Majors of the year 1826, twenty-
six of whom were in the Peninsular war, and nine of them
at Waterloo ! This is anything but encouraging.
It is to be hoped that some sympathy may exist in the
breasts of the guardians of the profession. and that upon
the event of her Majesty's accouchement an opportunity
will arise to give these old officers their just reward.
We know that a promotion of Majors to the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet incurs no expense ; there-
fore there can be no excuse as far as finance is concerned
for their being neglected ; and it is painful to think that
the dirty consideration of a few pounds should militate
against the claims of the old Captains.
The Army look to Lord Hill and Sir Henry Hardinge
as their supporters ; and it is presumed that after a lapse
of nearly two years the feelings of Sir Henry are not
changed upon the subject of a Brevet. He is represented
to have stated in the House of Commons, " that he
wished the Brevet could have taken place on her Ma-
jesty's wedding ; but he begged to remind the lion.
Gentleman that there would shortly be another oppor-
tunity on the occasion of her Majesty's birth-day,---
Naval and Military Gazette.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The Styx steam frigate. Captain Vidal, which arrived
on Sunday, sailed on Wednesday, with his Excellency
Sir Charles Bagot, the Governor-General of Canada,
and suite, on board. She anchored in Yarmouth Roads
that night, and proceeded on Thursday morning.
The Volcano, steam-vessel, Lieut. West, arrived yes-
terday from Woolwich, and proceeded the same day for
the Mediterranean, touching at Plymouth.

Captain Purvis is to hOist his blue pendent in the
Alfred, 50 guns, and not in the Fox as at first intended.
The Illustrious, 72, has had her complement of men
increased to 628. She is to receive on board 140 super-
numeraries, for distribution among the ships on the station
to which she is destined, and is to be got ready for sea
with all despatch.—The Comet steamer arrived on Wed-
nesday, from the Eastward, with volunteers, having been
some days blocked up in Newhaven Harbour, by the
shingle thrown up by the gales.—The Prospero steamer
conveyed volunteer seamen from Pembroke to Plymouth
on Monday. Lieut. Ellicombe, of the Excellent, has been
sent to Gloucester to raise landsmen for the ships fitting
out.—The complement to be borne by the Queen, 110, is
fixed to be 900. Of these there are to be 13 boys of the
first class, and 18 of the second. She is to bear only one
clerk, being a reduction of one.—The Siren, 16, Com-
mander W. Smith, was taken out of the basin, at Wool-
wich, on Tuesday, and, it is understood, will leave in a
few days for China.—The Apollo troop-ship is forthwith
to be paid off, and will be re-commissioned by a Com-
mander, fora special service.—The Thunderer survey-
ing vessel sailed from the Little Nore on Friday at noon,
and was riding in the Downs last evening, with about
120 sail of merchantmen. Wind from S. to S.S.W.,
blowing hard. The Thunderer left Chatham on Thurs-
day.—The Numa transport is about to embark, at Wool-
wich, Captain Kendall's company of Royal Artillery, for
Barbadoes. She will also take out detachments to com-
plete the companies in the Windward and Leeward Islands.
Sir George Seymour and the Right lion. H. 'l'. L.
Corry, Lords of the Admiralty, accompanied by Captain
Brafidreth, having inspected the Naval Departments
here, lefton Tuesday for Plymouth. They travelled by
land, though the Firebrand, steamer yacht, was waiting
on them, the weather being very boisterous.
The Geyser steam-vessel, fitted with her machinery by
Messrs. Seaward and Co., is ready for trial, and will
leave Limehouse in a few days for Sheerness.
The Emerald, tender, sailed on Wednesday for Brid-
port and Poole for newly-raised men ; and the Rapid, 10,
on the following day, for Cork and Waterford, for the
same purpose.
The St. James, New York packet, arrived at Spithead
yesterday in the short space of 27 hours from the Lon-
don Docks, a distance of 242 miles—one-third the dis-
tance in an easterly, and two-thirds in a westerly direction.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Queen, Excellent,
Illustrious, Vindictive, Warspite, Madagascar, Belvidere,
Royal George, North Star, Driver, Hazard, Pantaloon,
Viper, Apollo troop-ship, Echo, Alban,
Sylvia, and
Mercury.
A diving apparatus has, this summer, been set to work

off Cape Bear, _Prince Edwards IsTand, to raise the guns
and shot thrown overboard from the Malabar, about two
years since. Eighteen guns had been weighed and sent
to I a iihx. with several shot, and the remainder be
recovered next summer.

Lang, Fincham, and Atkins, it appears, have
surveyed, in the last fortni,(!ht, thirty-three ship.; in the
ordinary at this port, note ithstanding the tempestuous
state of the weather, blowing, and raining every day
more or less ; these officers have previously visited
Sheerness and Chatham, and examined the ordinary at
each port ; they will now proceed to Plymouth on a
similar service, having been selected by the Admiralty
for the purpose.