The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-13 00:00:00

RYLEBONE VESTRY.

On Saturday, at the ordinr.ry weekly meeting of this
Board, Mr. DANIELL in tho Chair, on the Vestry
Clerk reminding them that they had last year passed a
rcsoluton that 120 vestrymen should annually put in
their claim to be placed as voters upon the County
Register,
Mr. KENSETT moved that the Clerk be authorised to
ply it, the cLairo for the Vestry.
Mr. GlBsox seconded the motion, but feared that if

allowed the votes, the number of Tory Vestries was so
great that the establishment of the principle would do
more harm than good. .

Oa the question being put it was lost by a large
m•jority.
Ur. FLOOD, the Clerk, read letters from Sir C. Scott
And Co., thc bankers,otrering to make up the parochial
accounts to the end of the month of June, kind to keep
them from that ti in conformity with the crder of the
V.cc-Chanceitor. each rate being separate!y drawn on,
and the bankers requested a cruderence on the subject.
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moved that a vote of thinks be presented
to Mr. for the handsome manner in which he
efLred to rescue the parish from difficulty, by proposing
1.;.; pay treat' the amount of the county-rate.
Tt4e Vestry liren drew a compari,son between the
coAtt:t and that of Lord Ken)on, highly
condemnatory of that noLternan.
The motion being seconded,
Earl MaNyEas said that, al_.bough he concurred in
the approbation of the Ch he must strenuonily
di-sent from the wlnecessary condemnr.tion of his Nol2!e
Et;entl, Lord Kcn3on.
Th.ia motion Navin; been unanimously carried, Mr.
S )(len moat rl, r)ntl Mr. Cochrane seconded, a motion
that this res,.:Lltion advertisLd in the papers.
The resolution Was adopted, and Mr. Daniell re-
turned :hanks in au appropriate speech.
Mr. THEonAiD tnevtAl that a treasurer or treasurers,
under the provisions of the Local Act, shou:d be ap-
poiatt!d, and that a deputation should wait upon Sir
tliaude Se,tt. and Co., to a-k thcin to accept the office.
Mr. KENSETT suzg:-..t0,..i that, in the present nude-
ci.led state of the law proceedings, the appointment had
~:tter be postponed, and that they should v.-ait until
Lord Chan:ellor's decision was known before they

ac! rl!,

'fhis was w!optcd, and the V, stry adjou:ned.

HOR}UJIIS OF CHANCERY.

A reverend gentleman, of the name, and, as was said, 1
of :i.e lousily of a certain admiral whose memory stands
couq;erious in the annals of our national fame, and who
was elevated to the peerage by the name of the cape otT
which his grand victory was achieved, was the principal
of a banking-house ia --s Lire, possessed of a large
landed estate, who, dying, left only one son and a
daughter, each of whom, however, had large families.
To his son and daughter lie bequeathed ell his real
and personal estate (but left his solicitor and a neigh-
bouring clergyman trustees and executors) with re-
mainder and reversion to his several grandchildren. Toe
testator died in 1824 or 1825, but, instead of his
children or grandchildren acquiring a property in pos-
.r.ession for their comfort and maintenance, the idfairs of
the deceased were carried into Chancery !—Mark the
frightful consequences.
'1 he banking-house became bankrupt, and has not
paid a dividend, nor is likely to do so (although it is
said to be eventually solvent !! !), until the affairs of
the deceased party get out of Chancery ; meantime, two
gentlemen, his partners in the firm, have, for nearly fif-
teen y cars been, and must remain, possibly, ruined men !
The creditors of the bank are indulged also, and equally
s.) the private creditors of the deceased, in the dead sea
of Chancery, which, like the bogs of Ireland, seems to
have no outlet,
" His children !—but here my heart began to bleed!"
—(as Sterne beautifully apostrophizes of the Captive)
ay, his children oft, and again applied to the trustees
for the means of subsistence for themselves and fami-
lies, but unavailingly, for the invariable answer they re-
ceived was, that until a surplus was declared over and
above the liabilities of the Bank and the other liabilities
(including, of course, some thousands of pounds for
legal expenses), it could not be assured that there was
any surplus for distribution from the estate ; and by
this legally-incontrovertible but immoral subterfuge, the
testator's children and grandchildren were left4en-
niTess!

The grandchildren were sent to school in expectation
of the means of payment, and were several times got rid
of in default of funds for that necessary purpose.
The son and daughter struggled with difficulties under
that hope which " deferred maketh the heart sick," and
eventually, the son (a captain of militia), availing in his
exigencies of facilities for discount, trespassed over the
strict legal bounds of paper currency, and found it expe-
dient to quit this country ; he died in Belgium, without
receiving any portion of his inheritance : what has become
of his widow, the trustees (!!!) perhaps only know.
The grandchildren have grown up to the estate of
man and womanhood, and have become parents, but
have not yet possessed the estate of their progenitor,
upon which—though yet obscured in the clouds of the
future—their hopes depend.—Woolsack.

The Hon. Charles Howard has left town to
stand on the reform interest for East Cumberland, in the place
of Major Aglionby, whose awfully sudden death we have re-
corded elsewhere. Mr. Howard is well known to his frends as
a gentleraan of profound knowledge, as one who has within
him such mental force as must raise him to a high place in any
deliberative assembly ; and most happy
.shall we feel in seeing
him beside•his brother, Lord 31orpeth, in the great council of
the nation. We need scarcely add that Mr. Howard has
been for some time a confidential private secretary of Lord
Melbourne—. Observer.
MAIL CART DRIVING.—Lord Lyttleton had
an almost miraculous escape on Friday evening from fracture
of limb, if not loss of life, arising from the dangerous velocity
with which the mail carts are now driven. The Noble Lord
was driving at a slow pace in his cabriolet, along the corner
of Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, when a mail cart dashed
furiously towards him, and before his Lordship had time tO
pull up, the horse, a fine spirited grey, was struck by the cart,
which caused it to rear nearly upright, bringing the back part
of the vehicle level with the ground. His Lordship, with
great presence of mind, threw up the apron, and sprung out, 1
without sustaining the slightest injury. The tiger jumped
down when the collision took place and secured the horse,
otherwise the consequences would have proved fatal. i

PROGRESS OF MODERN TR A.-
VELLING.

Our fathers were—and that within the memory of
men—contented to convey their goods from tcwn to
town oa pack-horses. Narrow roads, which 6,1 ely ad-
mitted a string of these beasts, burdened with the
needs of many towns, run on over hill and d le, and
often were found worn deep between steep banks by
the persevering traffic of ages, and overhung by trees,
which had spontaneously sprung and grown over them,
rendering them cool and pleasant. But the affairs of
our worthy ancestors became sensibly on the increase.
The string of pack-horses, slowly progressing over the
welds and through forests were found not equal to the
demands of commercial exchange and speed ; and they
set their wits to work, and 10, Pickford's and Pettifor's
waggons, and others, their contemporaries, appeared,
piled up in ponderous stateliness, and drawn by horses
in bulk next to elephants. For their convenience, the
old roads were deserted as too narrow, or filled up as
too slumberously profound. New roads, of an airy
width were laid down, and Mr. M'Adam showed him-
self, with his necromantic hammer and pebble-guage in
his hand, and coaches came galloping after him at ten
miles speed per hour, loaded with eager and still im-
patient negotiants ; roads of granite, or of limestone,
however smooth, or however wide, or however covered
with waggons, coaches, mails, horsemen, and the in-
finite variety of carriages of pleasure, travel, and pa-
rade, which now appeared on them, were found too
few ; and canals were cut ; locks—wonderful things in
those days—were invented ; and heavy boats and light
barges hastened to convey their freights of living things,
and things for the livin,g--market goods and market
people—to the places where they were wanted, or
where they wanted to be. Well done, Englishmen !
Things were come to a pretty good pass, it was thought.
People said, wondering, to one another—lf our grand-
fathers could but rise from their graves and see all this,
how they would stare.
But it was soon found that the population and the
needs of the country had outgrown even these accommo-
dations. There was a cry for more conveyance and
more speed. Some talked of balloons, some of veloci-
pides, and some of perpetual motion. The old and the
orthodox said—" Let well be. Things move fast
enough. There is no rest, no repose, no steadiness in
this generation—all is hurry, hurry, hurry. It is per-
fectly distracting ! They even looked back to the
old hollow roads and string of pack-horses with affec-
tionate yearnings. Nevertheless, a set of pig-headed
fellows were busy with their brains ; and began to ut-
ter strange speeches about the powers of steam. It
was a thing which was to work our mines and mills,
impel our ships, and convey us, with the velocity of a
comet, from one place to another. Old men, znd wise

men too, laughed at such Quixotic vapourings ; 3et
spite of their laughter, there were heard great hammer-
ings, and filings, and fizzings, in the workshps of Watt
and Bolton ; and presently that mighty monster—STEAM
ENGINE—was seen pulling up buckets of water and
heaps of ore out of the earth, and turning a thousand
spindles in our factories. It has become locomotive,
has mounted the roads and the ships prepared for it, and
is now flying from town to town and country to coun-
try, with us and our concerns, in a manner so wonder-
ful, that we shall 50011 find ourselves past wondering at
anything. Do we not ride at the rate of thirty miles
an hour and grumble at such a snail's pace—step over
to America in ten days, and think it about five too
long—and hear news from the East Indies in little
more than a month ? Well done, Englishmen ! as our
fathers said, so say we—that is pretty well for another
fit.—l dawn Hewitt.