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THE LORD MAYOR AND THE , ST. DUNSTAN, STEPNEY.
GOVERNORS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. , A meeting of the rate-payers of the hamlet of Mile-
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and other mem- end Old Town, which forms a greater portion of the
bars of the corporation, being governors of the royal extensive parish of Stepney, wws held yesterday, at the
hospitals, assembled at the Mansion-house, to breakfast, Town-house, Mile-end-road, to elect churchwardens and
previous to the preaching of the Spital sermon by the other officers for the ensuing year. A society, called
Lord Bishop of St. David's, at St. Bride's Church. the Stepney Anti-Church Rate and Parochial Reform
The Lord Mayor had, in consequence of the refusal Association, sent oat placards, recommending Mr. Morse •
very distinctly given on a former day to recognise the and Mr. Howlett for churchwardens. The Church
power of the Lord Mayor to nominate a preacher of the party sent a requisition to Messrs. Head ,and Hawkins,
Spital sermons at Christ Church, directed that churchwardens for the past year, to allow themselves to
these sermons should be preached at the parish church be again put in nomination. The contest was looked
of St. Bride's, and had ordered summonses to be issued upon as a struggle between the church-rate and anti-
to all the members of the courts of all the hospitals to church-rate parties. After several speeches, the ques-
that effect. On Saturday, however, in a Court of Alder- tion was put to a show of hands, by the Rev. Mr. Van-
men; at the Guildhall, it was intimated that the authority drey, the rector, who presided on the occasion. The.
of the Lord Mayor in the matter was no longer ques- majority was three to one in favour of the old church-
tioned by the resident authorities at Christ's Hospital, wardens, aad they were declared to be re-elected for the
and his Lordship immediately directed, upon being in- ensuing year. The anti-church-rate party demanded a
formed of that fact, that the Spital sermon of Tuesday poll, but they abandoned their intention, and said they
should be preached at Christ Church the regulation as to should fight the battle of church-rates in another way.
the preaching of the Spital sermon at St. Bride's Church,
on Monday, to remain as it had been determined upon
the announced denial of his Lordship's jurisdiction in
the former institution.
It is necessary to mention that the resident authorities
at Christ Church had resolved to express their senti-
ments as to the exercise of any power by the Lord Mayor,
in such a manner as would not be likely to be mistaken ;
for which purpose they struck out of the report prepared
for the Governors the customary words, " under the
pious care of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Al-
dermen." In the copies of the report handed to his
Lordship and the other members of the Corporation,
being governors, yesterday, at the Mansion-house, how-
ever, these words were restored.
The following is an abstract :
A true Report of the Number of Children and other poor
People maintained in the several Royal Hospitals of
the City of London, under the pious care of the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Governors
thereof, for the year last past.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
Children put forth apprentices and discharged
from Christ's Hospital the year last past, 225 ;
eight whereof being instructed in mathematics
and navigation, were placed forth apprentices
to commanders of ships out of the Mathe-
matical School, founded by his late Majesty
Charles 11. ..• ••• ••• •••
Children buried the year last past ••• •••
Children now under the care and charge
of the Hospital in London and at Hert-
ford • ... ...1,362
To be admitted on presentations granted
at this time ..-

POPULAR. PREACHERS IN PARIS.
In appreciating the congregations of the various
churches of Paris, we might learn the character of the
quartet, the ideas, the habits, and the social condition of -
the population who dwell there. The various quarters
of Paris do not resemble each other, and each parish has
its distinct character, and its peculiar physiognomy.
The conferences at Notre Dame form the exception.
The auditory who throng to the interior of the cathedral
belong to all quarters of the city. Each parish is repre-
sented by a deputation of the elite—they who should
assign this numerous and distingue assemblage to the po-
pulation of the parish of Notre Dame would fall into sin-
gular error. The inhabitants of this quarter, for the most
part, go very rarely to church, and, except during the
conferences, the vast aisles of this edifice witness the
performance of divine service in comparative solitude.
The Abbe Lacordaire and the Able de Ravignan,
whose characteristics are so utterly opposed to each
other, of talent so different, present a remarkable con-
trast with the Abbe Bautain, the preacher this year at
Madeleine. M. Bautain is a thinker of the German
school, is in the pulpit the philosopher who discusses,
the logician of close argument who presses you forcibly
with his reasonings, but who does not move, affect you.
M. de Ravignan has a manner peculiarly his own—me-
thodical, austere, and somewhat cold, but lucid, close,
precise : he addresses himself to the understanding, and
endeavours to enlighten and convince. His reasons are
not always the most conclusive, but he speaks with con-
viction, and this conviction seems so deeply identified
with himself, that he ends by persuading his hearers.
Alter the triumph of most exalted eloquence, we believe
that there is nothing more admirable than this, and we
hardly know if it be not the more effective of the two.
A brilliant orator of the Chamber [of Deputies (M
Thiers), who covets every kind of glory, became a pro-
phet with regard to M. de Ravignan. The Hon. Mem-
ber predicted, at the beginning of Lent, that the cele•
braced Jesuit would preach in the desert, and that Notre
Dame would bewail her solitude. But M. Thiers was .a
false prophet, for the conferences are quite as much fol-
lowed as those of last year.
The Abbe Lacordaire has a vivid imagination, full o
vigour arid impulses. Under the white gown of the Do-
minican we find the young mid impetuous Rditor of the
Avenir of 1831. M. Lacordaire appeals to the imgina-
tion, excites, affects it; he has fire and enthusiasm, and
he would influence his auditory, if in these our times
such a thing were possible. Yet his style is something
too free, and his sallies, which are not always in the
best possible taste, are sometimes eccentric. He amuses
his auditory at times even to laughter, and derives his
ideas from it instead of inspiring it with his personal
feeling. At one of his late discourses, M. Odilon Barrot,
as he quitted Notre Dame, characterised him thus—
"He is neither Christian enough nor Catholic enough."
The honourable member conforms this opinion with one
of the most distinguished prelates in France, who lately
remarked at a clerical meeting, that the Pere Lacordaire
was dangerous, from the character he gave to his con-
ferences, departing, as he did, so much from the the?-
logical severity and gravity of a sermon. It may be said
that the Abbe Lacordaire is an orator, Peal Bautain, a
philosophical thinker, and M. de Ravignan, (who left the
bar for the pulpit), a preacher. The first interests—the
second attracts—the third persuades.

- 1,617
The report of Christ's Hospital expresses a hope that
all charitable people will readily contribute to an institu-
tion which is not only of local, but of national good. It
states, also, that the fund originally established for re-
building the whole fabric had been completely exhausted,
and that a very considerable sum had been expended
from the general funds of the charity; but the governors
were willing to hope that the generosity of the public
ould afford the means of completing the great work,
and prevent the necessity of encroaching further upon
the permanent income of the Hospital, and thereby
diminishing the scope of its usefulness.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.
Patients admitted, cured, and discharged, during'
the last year, 5,419 in-patients ; 17,808 out-
patients ; and 22,088 casualty patients, most
of whom were poor, sick, and lame persons,
and many of them, being destitute of all re-
lief, have been supplied with money, clothes,
and other necessaries, to enable them to re-
turn to their several habitations, amounting
together to
Died

... 45,315
... 356
Remaining under cureln- patients ... ..• 484
Out-patients 3,299
The report, after stating the necessity of enlarging
the building to meet the additional exigencies, says:—
" All fees upon the admission of patients have been abo-
lished, the sisters and nurses placed in situations better
adapted to the nature of their duties, and the accommo-
dation for the in-patients now so extended as to admit
550, while their diet and general comforts have been
very materially improved. The accomplishment of these
otjects, so essential to the welfare of the patients, has
occasioned a very heavy increase of annual expenditure.
The Gdvernors, therefore, earnestly represent the strong
claims of this ancient institution on the public."
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.
There have been cured and discharged from St.
Thomas's Hospital, in Southwark, the last
year, of sick, wounded, maimed, and diseased
persons, 3,552 in-patients, and 41,816 medical
and surgical out-patients, including casualties,
some of whom have been relieved with money
and necessaries at their depurture, to accom-
modate and support them in their journeys to
their several habitations ••• ••• •••
Buried from thence, after much charge in their
sickness ... ••• •• • •• • •• •
Remaining under cure In-patients ...
Out-patients
So that there have been during the last year, of
poor miserable objects under the care of the
above hospital, and destitute of other care ... 46,733
The report concludes with a strong appeal to the
public to enable the governors to extend still further
relief.

DENISE OF AN AGED RADICAL.—At Parkhead, in
the house of his son, on the 29th ult., after a long period of ill
health, which terminated in dropsy, Mr. John Allan, in the
64th year of his age. It may be said of this excellent man, '
that throughout the whole course of his life his mind was de-
voted to his God, his country, and the human family. Reli-
gious, but not fanatical—patriotic, but not visionary—and
glowing with a generous wish for the emancipaion of his
fellow-men in every land. His sympathies, and his efforts,
as far as his humble rank permitted, were uniformly enlister
in every righteous movement. About the end of the last
century, when but a very young man, he became the un-
flinching advocate of civil and religious liberty. In 1815,
his whole energies were directed against the enactment of the
corn-laws, and the description which he then gave of the
ruinous consequences of that measure was truly prophetic.
Two years afterwards he appeared at Thrushgreve, and the
series of splendid meetings that succeeded testify against
oppression ; but his high-toned and discriminating mind
saved him and those under his influence from becoming the
victims of the hired emissaries of Government. In 1819,
urged on by the spirit of the age and his ardent love of jus-
tice, he was found among the foremost in the agitation for
Parliamentary Reform. A few weeks prior to the crisis in
the history of that movement, he was delegated to England
to ascertain the state of public opinion there, and on hie re-
turn he assured his constituents that they were deceived,
and reiterated his former exhortations in favour of enlight-
ened and peaceful agitation. Unfortunately, however, his
judicious counsels were not attended to, otherwise the con-
vict-ship would not have been required to convey its poli-
tical victims to a penal colony, nor would the gibbets of
Stirling and of Glasgow have been stained with the blood of
their martyrs. 1831 came, and he was again in the ranks of
freedom rejoicing in the prospect of his country's deliver-
ance, and from that time till the period of his dissolution he
maintained, without a blemish, the character he had ac-
quired, of being an upright, uncompromising Reformer; even
when he felt himself drooping to the grave, he was thankful
to his Creator that he had lived to see the day when the
iniquitous monopoly of the people's food was about to be
numbered among the things that were.— Glasgow Chronicle.
NARROW ESCAPE.—About ten o'clock yesterdaf
morning, as the Hampton Court steam-boat Locomotive visa
leaving the Old Shades Pier with several passengers on
board, a small boat, which was crossing the river froth
Dyers' Hall Pier to the Surrey side, with three men in her,
was unable, in consequence of the number of Greenwich and
Woolwich steam-boats which crowded the river, to get out
of the way. The captain, after calling several times to the
men, stopped and backed the steam-boat, but it was too late
to prevent the Locomotive from capsizing the small one,
and precipitating the three men into the river. The boat
immediately sunk, and the men sprang to the side of the
steam-boat to get on board, but in this they filed. One Of
the crew leaped into the water, and succeeded in rescuing
one man ; the other two were picked up nby the men on
beard the steamer.
A SOLDIER. FOUND WITH HIS THROAT CUT.—CHAT
HAM, APRIL 13.—0 n Saturday afternoon, the 11th inst., J-
Hinde, Esq., coroner, held an inquest at the Canteen, St-,
Mary's Barracks, on the body of James Grant, a private 01
the 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, who was discovered by a
private soldier of the 40th Regiment lying in one of the
empty casemates in a quantity of congealed blood. The
soldier gave immediate alarm, when it was found on exami-
nation that the deceased had cut his throat with a razor, as
that instrument was lying covered with blood about two feet
from where the body lay. The wound of the throat eX-
tended from one ear to the other, and it appeared that the
deceased, after cutting his throat, had stuffed his pocket
handkerchief into the wound, as it was firmly cemented and
stiffened with gore. The man had been missed from the
barracks for several days ; he was first found absent on the
sth inst. at tat-too, and no tidings could be gleaned as to
where he had gone, until the 10th inst., when a private of
the 40th, wishing to exchange his tin can for a better,
applied to one of the staff sergeants, and he was directed to
go into the said empty casemate to change it, and in doing
so he discovered the body in the position above described-
Evidence was given that the deceased, since his return front
Halifax to this depot, had been noticed by his comrades to
be silly in his conversation an* eccentric in his conduct.
Death was caused by the loss of blood, as the cut in the
throat had not divided the windpipe, or any of the principal
arteries. Verdict—'• Temporary insanity." The decease!
hall been 16 years in the service, was 35 years of age, tand.
was waiting at the depot to receive his discharge. On 111'
person was found 1/. ss. 2d. He was a single man.
EPIDEMIC AMONG RABBITS. The rabbit-fanciers
have had great losses from a disease now prevalent among
fancy and other rabbits.
EARTHQUAKE IN NORWAY.—Three violent shocks of
earthquake were felt at Nannstad, near Christiana, on the
night of the 14th ult. Each shock lasted three seconds, lull.
was accompanied by a loud rumbling noise; the direction of
the shocks was N.N.W. to S.S.E. The intervals between
the shocks were not more than two seconds. Five houses
were entirely destroyed at Nannstad, and many others much
injured. There had been several preceding shocks of earth'
quakes in various parts of Norway, but none comparable ja
point either of duration or violence to the last—Christiana
Journal.

45,36

BRIDEWELL HOSPITAL.
Received into this hospital during the last year
under commitments by the Lord Mayor and
the Aldermen of the City, as criminal or dis-
orderly persons, who have been kept to hard
labour or rtceived correction... ... .•
. . '

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Apprentices sent by the Chamberlain for con-

finement... :'' :'' '': ... •••
Received into this hospital during the same
period sundry poor persons who had been
found wandering abroad and begging in the
City of London... ... ..• ••• •••

BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL. 1,066
Admitted during 1845: Curables—Males, 110 ;
females, 205. Incurables—Males, 5; females, 2. Crimi-
nals—Males, 7; females, 4. Discharged cured—Males,
62; females, 118. The details show the amazing effi-
cacy of the admirable system adopted in this glorious
institution, of which Sir Peter Laurie is the indefatigable
president.

PARI;,4I OF KENSINGTON.
Yesterday a meeting of the inhabitant rate-payers of
the parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, was held
in the large room of the National Schools, for the pur-
pose of electing churchwardens and other parochial
officers for the ensuing year.
The venerable and Rev. John Sinclair, M.A., Arch-
deacon of Middlesex and vicar of Kensington, having
taken the chair,
Mr. Hanson said as no inhabitant had come forward
to propose a gentleman as the parish churchwarden for
the ensuing year, he begged to propose a tradesman,
well known to all present, who, on the recent election
for Guardians, stood fifth on the list, who had served
all the minor offices in the parish, and who had on all
occasions done his duty fearlessly and faithfully. He
meant Mr. G. H. Sasse, of the High-street.—(Hear,
hear, and cheers.)
Mr. HARLEY seconded the nomination.
Mr. S. Cousins, as no one else had come forward to
do so, would propose that Mr. J. Bellworthy, the late
parish warden, who had so ably and efficiently performed
the duties of the office during the past year, should con-
tinue the office for another year.
Mr. BELLWORTHY then said he had been so pressed
by his friends around him to fill the office for another
year, that, though opposed to his own wishes, he would
consent to do so.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. MILEY said, he must confess he felt considerable
reluctance, as a new inhabitant of the parish, to come
with the complaint he was about to make, but he felt it
to be his duty to do so, and he would fearlessly perform
that duty. He had not yet been an inhabitant two
years, but on entering the parish he felt it to be his
duty to attend worship in his parish church. He had
accordingly done so, and had asked for a seat, but was
refused, although he saw seats vacant on the right and
left of him, into which he was refused admittance. Now,
by the statute of the Ist of Elizabeth, chap. 2, sec. 14,
it was enacted that every parishioner not resorting to
his parish church was liable to be fined one shilling, and
it appeared monstrous to him that when the parishioners
are compelled by law to resort to the parish church, they
should, through the arrangements of the churchwardens,
be refused a seat. A case in point bad been decided by
a high Ecclesiastical judge. It was the case of the parish
of Wingfield, Berks, tried in Hilary Term,
he would read to the vestry extracts from the judgment
of the Judge. 1825, and
Mr. BELLWORTHY begged to a iinthfoorumuhthheevensotwryctohma!
he had found Mr. Miley a seat,
a the seats were kept
. ha irman if he had
empty, and he appealed to the Rev C
Ho had allotted all the
plained. He denied that any
ever seen any of them empty
sittings in the best manner
to the pew-openers were,
congregation they were
to fill all the vacant seats.
htheactoounldt,haendfihrsits irnissteruocftiotteies
ad for three onths past ob-
Mr. MILEY declared he
into a pew, leaving th e persons to whom
truded himself b
it belonged to prove their right thereto either by faculty
or otherwise.
The re-appointment of Mr. Bellworthy was then car-
ried by acclamation.
The Venerable CHAIRMAN then nominated Mr. J.
Sheppard, of Kensington-square (Registrar to the Bishop
of London), as his churchwarden for the ensuing year.
Several of the leading inhabitants having borne testi-
mony to the eminent qualifications of Mr. Sheppard for
the office, that gentleman explained at some length the
principles on which he should act while churchwarden,
and the other appointments having been filled up, the
vestry broke up.

BIRTHS,
On the 7th inst., at Omega-terrace, Regent's-park, Birth
Dyer, of a son.
On the 2d ult., at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, the lady of John
Newman Tweedy, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., the lady of John Penkivil, surgeon, Wad'
hurst, Sussex, of a son.
On the sU:inst., at Guy Harlings, Chelmsford, the lady
of Dr. Badeley, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Leicester-place, the wife of Janie
Nichols, Esq., of a son.
On the 6th inst., in Albion-street, Hyde-park, the wife
• of
the Rev. M. D. French, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at Union-place, City-road, Mrs. Henri
Pawle Ree, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 9th inst,, at Chesham, William N. Walker, Esq.:
surgeon, of Crich, Derbyshire, to Emma Martha, younges'
daughter of Francis Pellatt, Esq., of Thorne House, Bucking'
hamshire.
On the 9th inst., at Brading Church, Isle of Wight!
Charles Meeres; of Islington, Esq., to Clara, eldest daughto
of the late Thomas Cholwell \V ilkins, Esq., of Newporti___,

DIED.
On the Bth inst., at Clifton after receiving all the constr.
lations of religion, as prescribed by the Catholic Church'
Charles Knight, Esq., of Cannington, Somvrsetshi re, aged 63
On the 24th of December, at sea, on board the Miners's'
Captain T. E. Geils, Mddras Artillery.
On the 7th of March, at Barbadoes, Mr. James Wedder
burn Simpson, aged 37.
On the 10th ult., at Barnsbury-terrace, Islington, Harriet
Frances, wife of Captain J. C. Hillman, aged 29.
On the Gth inst., Isabella Rose Breach.
On the 7th inst., at the Parsonage, Merton, Surrey, Wl'
the widow of the late Essex Henry Bond, Esq.
On the 7th inst., at Shrewsbury, Rice Wynne, Esq. a
On the Bth inst., at Homerton, Mrs. Augusta whaling, r
lict of the late Mr. John Whiffing, aged 72. Cr.
On the Bth inst., at Haywood Lodge, Cobham, Surrey'
F. C. Ammerschuber, Esq.
On the 9th inst., Mary Jane, youngest daughter of Chsrles
G. Jones, Esq., of Gray's Inn.

PARISH OF ST. MARTIN-IN-THE
FIELDS.

Yesterday a meeting of the inhabitants of this parish,
according to ancient custom and usage, was held in the
vestry-room, fur the purpose of electing churchwardens,
sidesmen, and other parochial officers fur the year en-
suing, and also to receive the accounts of the Committee
for paving, cleansing, and lighting of the parish for the
last year. The Rev. Sir R. H. Duckenfield, Bart., the
vicar, in the chair. For four or five years tee gentle-
men nominated for churchwardens and sidesmen have
been chosen unanimously. Such was the case yesterday;
and Messrs. Hall and Dalton were appointed, without
opposition, as churchwardens. The other officers hay-
ing been proposed and seconded, no opposition was
offered. A desultory conversation took place upon the
Paving Committee's Accounts, with respect to the Health
of Towns Bill, and the good that might be done by the
Committee in inquiring into the nature of the drainage,
&c., in some of the crowded courts in the parish, which
seemed to be the general wish of those present.

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14, 1846.