The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-15 00:00:00

ISLINGTON.

Yesterday a vestry meeting of the rate-payers
, of St.
Mary, Islington, was held in the church, Mr. Thomas
Walter Perry, sen., churchwarden, in the chair, to elect
churchwardens for the ensuing year, and upon the ge-
neral business of the parish. Messrs. Bentley, Lacy,
and Jackson were elected churchwardens. Mr. E. Smith
called the attention of the meeting to the disgraceful
condition of Islington-green, which had been granted
by the Marquis of Northampton for the benefit and or-
nament of the parish, but which was allowed to remain
in such a neglected state, that instead of being either
useful or ornamental, it had become a complete nuisance.
Several other parishioners having expressed a hope that
measures would be adopted to improve the green, it was
ultimately resolved that those suggestions should be
speedily acted upon. The vestry-clerk stated, that 2,247
worn-out horses and asses had been slaughtered in the
parish.
.Thanks having been voted to the churchwarden,
the meeting separated.

HACKNEY.
Yesterday the annual election of parochial officers
took place in the vestry-room of the church, the Rev.
T. 0. Goodchild, rector, in the chair.
Mr. ROPER proposed the re-election of Mr. Pulley as
vestry-clerk. No opposition was made.
A resolution empowering the churchwardens to make
provision for an increase of salary was then carried.
Messrs. Bonter and Man were elected churchwardens.
The other officers were chosen without opposition, an
increase of 15/. being made to the sexton's salary, in
compensation for decline of interment fees, &c,. arising
from the proximity of the metropolitan cemeteries. After
a vote of thanks to the rector, the meeting separated.
At four o'clock the inhabitants assembled at the com-
mittee-room, Church -street, to elect 18 commissioners
for the Tower Hamlets Court of Requests. A spirited.
discussion ensued upon an opposition raised by Mr. C.
Green to the re-election of Mr. G. Offor, magistrate,
whose conduct, with that of Messrs. Butler and Hum-
phreys, in relation to an alleged connexion, as provi-
sional committee men, with the Metropolitan Railways
Tunction Company, was severely animadverted on.
The accused gentlemen defended themselves ; and the
meeting deprecating the introduction of any further dis-
cussion on the subject, it dropped, and the board was
ultimately elected.

ST. MARY, NEWINGTON.
Last evening (Tuesday), the annual meeting of the
rate-payers of Newington took place in the vestry-
rooms, to elect a churchwarden to act with the one no-
minated by the rector, and for the appointment of other
officers for the ensuing year. Mr. Hemmings, the late
churchwarden, was proposed for re-election, and Mr.
Mulcot was also nominated for the office. A very warm
debate then took place on the merits and fitness of the
candidates for office. It was urged by many of the ves-
try who addressed the chair, that it was the invariable
custom of the parish to permit a churchwarden to re-
main in office for two years. This principle and prece-
dent was opposed, and after a very stormy bicaegion, Mr.

Mu!cot came forward, and said that rather than disturb ,
the parish by go:n2; to a poll, he would withdraw his
name as a candidate for the office of churchwarden, and
Mr. Hemmings was then declared duly elected to serve
as churchwarden for the ensuing year. Eight overseers
were then chosen, and t,ie other minor offices filled up.

ST. CLEMENT DANES.
The usual Easter vestry meeting, of this parish was
held on Monday at the vestry-room in the Strand, the
Rev. W. W. Ellis, the rector, in the chair.
The followin€, gentlemen were put in nomination for
the office of churchwardens, the election to take place
on Friday, viz. :—For the Upper Liberty, Messrs. Jud-
kin Bovell, and Partington ; and for the Lower
Liberty, Messrs. Woodward, Spencer, Younger, and
Jacqeet.

The ordinary routine business was afterwards dis
posed of, and the vestry separated.

ST. MARTIN-IN-THE FIELDS.

On Monday a meeting of the inhabitants of this
parish, according to ancient custom and usage, was held
in the vestry-room, for the purpose of electing church-
wardens, sidesmen, and other parochial officers for the
year ensuing, 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. Dukin-
field, Bart., the vicar, in the chair. For four or five
years the gentlemen nominated for churchwardens and
sidesmen have been chosen unanimously. Such was the
case yesterday ; and Messrs. Hall and Dalton were ap-
pointed, without opposition, as churchwardens. The
other officers having► been proposed and seconded, no op-
position 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.

B ER S EY.
Yesterday a very crowded MONmDeeting t,f the inhabitants
of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, was held in the
chapel, for the purpose of electing officers for the year
ensuing, the appointment of trustees of St. James's
Church, and also to consider what sum should be paid
to the rector in lieu of Easter offerings, and other very
important business ; Mr. Churchwarden Crisp in the
chair.

PARISI' OF ST. JAMES, CLERKENWELL.
Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, the parishioners of St.
James's, Clerkenwell, assembled in the vestry-room o
the parish church, to elect the churchwardens, vestry-
clerk, and the usual parochial officers for the ensuing
year; Mr. Sabel in the chair.
Messrs. Ellis and Whitelock having been chosen,
churchwardens, in opposition to Messrs. Mason, Mills-
and Thompson, and Mr. Wakeling having been res
chosen vestry-clerk, and the other parochial officere
being appointed, the vestry broke up, a very amicabl-
feeling having been displayed throughout the pro•
ceedings.

PARISH OF LAMBETH.
Yesterday being Easter Tuesday, the annual vestry
meeting was held in the Boys' School-room, Lambeth-
green, to nominate parish officers for the ensuing year,
and appoint new trustees to the various parochial chari-
ties, in the room of Dr. George D'Oyly, and of John
Field and John Caarles Stalschimidt, Esqs., deceased ;
also to elect duly qualified persons to serve as sur-
veyors of highways, and for the general dispatch of
business.
The chair was filled by the Rector, the Rev. Mr.
Dalton, and the matters brought forward were dis-
cussed in a friendly spirit not always observed at Lam-
beth assemblies.

KENSINGTON.
On Monday last a meeting of the inhabitant rate-
payers of the parish of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington,
was held in the large room of the National Schools, for
the purpose of electing churchwardens and other paro-
chial 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,

The reappointment of Mr. Bellworthy was carried by
acclamation.

The Venerable CHAIRMAN then nominated Mr. J.
Sheppard, of Kensington-square (Registrar to the
Bishop of London), as his churchwarden for the en•
suing 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.

ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, SOUTHWARK.
Yesterday a public vestry was held in accordance to
annual custom in the vestry-room, which was afterwards
adjourned to the church.

-Mr. DAY, the vestry-clerk stated that a communica-
tion had been received from the Rector, stating that the
Rev. Gentleman, in consequence of ill-health, would be
unable to attend ; but that he had deputed his curate,
the Rev. Mr. O'Neill, to be present to nominate the
rector's-warden, and sidesman, for the next year.
Mr. 11. thole was then re-appointed the rector's-
warden.

A resolution was carried for the appointment of a
committee to report to a future vestry as to the building
of a rectory-house.
The vestry then proceeded to the election of the
various parochial officers for the year ensuing.