The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-12 00:00:00

PARISH OF ST. NIARYLERONE,

Yesterday a meeting of the rate-payers of the
parish of St. Marylebone was held at the Horse
Bazaar in King•s'reet, for the purpose of having sub-
mitted to them the annual report of the parochial
committee.

Dr. HARRISON was unanimously called to the cl-air.
Mr. WATTS, the hon. secretary of the committee,
then read the report, which stated that twelve
months had elapsed since the last public meeting of
the parishioners of Marylebone had taken place,
during which time many material changes and im-
provements had taken place in the government of
the parish. The parochial committee had fought
the battle of the parish for six years against an irre-
sponsible ve-try, which, after having at their dis-
posal 160,0004 per annum of the parochial funds,
burdened the parishioners with a debt of nearly
200,0001. In the first place, a saving of 3,0001.
per annum had been effected in the expenditure for
\salaries immediately under the control of the vestry;
secondly, a saving of 6,0004 per annum had been
effected in the paving department. This saving
would have been still more considerable, but for
the great traffic occasioned by the omnibuses, which
in Oxford-street alone, during the last year, had
occasioned an additional expense of nearly
8001. The next department in which a saving
had been effected, was that of the district
churches, which in future would have to pay their
entire expenses out of their own pew rents. The
new vestry were also, according to the report, dili-
gently engaged in effecting a reduction in the ex-
orbitant police-rate. On this subject they had been
in communication with Government, and had every
expectation that a considerable reduction in the ex-
pense of the police force would be the consequence.
The committee had also directed their attention to

the subject of lighting the parish, and were con-
vinced, from the examination they had made, that a
saving of 1,0001 per annum might be effected in
that department without any diminution of light.
The state of the workhouse was the next subject to
which the parochial committee had directed their
labours, and they expected to effect great reductions
in that establishment, which had been a charge on
the parish of 70,0001. a year. The report briefly
stated that the committee had by their perseverance
and exertions relieved the parish of its annual charge
for heavy law expenses. These expenses had for
the last twelve years averaged a cost of 7001.
a year. In the first half year of their sitting the
committee had reduced this charge to less than
401., and in the second half year there was no charge
whatever.

Mr. THORN moved that the report be received
and adopted by the meeting.
Sir S. WHALLEY had hoped that a greater reduc-
tion even than had been made would have been
effected in the parish expenditure.
The report was then received with acclamation.

Captain BRENTON moved the second resolution,
which was, that the parochial committee be re-
quested to prepare a list of 40 vestrymen and 5
auditors, to be selected from the two classes of the
gentry and the traders.

Afrer a few words from Messrs. GOWAN, SAVAGE,
and METCALFE, the above resolution was carried
unanimously.
Mr. ROBINSON moved the third resolution, which
called upon the rate-payers to reflect that it was
owing to the exertions of the parochial committee
that the self•elected vestry system was destroyed,
and implored them, by their support and co-opera-
tion at the ensuing election, to consummate the work
they had begun.
APer a few words from Mr. COOK and Mr.
LANGHAM, the resolution was put and carried.
Mr. KENSETT moved the fourth resolution, to the
effect that the parochial committee were deserving
the confidence of the parishioners, and that they be
requested to continue their exertions to forward and
complete the object contemplated by the new Ves-
tries Act.

Mr. POTTER seconded the resolution at some
length.

The resolution was then agreed to.
Thanks were then voted to Mr. Allen, the pro-
prietor of the Baziar, for his kindness in affording
the committee the gratuitous use of his yard; to
the committee, for their praiseworthy exertions in
effecting reforms in the parish ; arid to the Chair-
man, for his excellent conduct in the chair ; after
which the meeting separated.

On Sunday, at the conclusion of high mass,
at the church of St. Germains-des-Pres, a gang of from
20 to 30 thieves, who had mingled in the dense crowd
which filled the church, raised a cry of sauve qui peat,
which induced the congregation to Imagine that some
part of the building was falling, and make a general rush
to the doors. The passage being blocked up, and the
elaiis overthrown, an indescribable confusion reio2sl
for some minutes, during which the originators of the

tumult found means to ease a number of ladies of their
necklaces, chain., reticules, &r., and got eleii off with
their :•doty. We haVe not beard that any of them have
been arrested. The Abbe de RICASOLV, who was officia-
ting at one of the side alter., was so much alarmed that
he fainted away, and was carried into the sacristy in a
state of insensibility Galigartni's Mestehger.
ST. JOHN'S, CLERKENWELL.—The vestry
of this parish met, as usual, on Easter Tuesday to chdose
parish officers. There was, as is usual mm such occa-
sions, a good deal of personal bickering and desultory re-
mark, which kept the vestry assetnhled from 11 till half-
past 5 o'clock. The palish of cett wet appointed with

little opposition. A lon, dis, ussion took place on the
propriety of saving the expenses of the gentlemen who
execute the office of guardians of the infant poor. Some
of the parishioners were for having the duties performed
gratuitously; others thought the payment of the offi-
cerst expenses wax nrceskai7. At length, as thert
were several persons nominated for the office who had no
ohj-etion to serve gratuitously, it was decided by electing
them. The increase of the county rate, which was stated

to amount to 1,0001. during the last year, for the parish
of Clerkenwell alone, excited great dissatisfaction; and a
motion to appoint a committee to co-operate with other
parishes in resisting the applicatiOn *high is bow to be
made to Parliament, to give the chairman of the Mid.
dlesex sessions 1,2001. a year, was willingly acceded to.
The committee was appointed. Other parishes are moving
in the same direction. The expense of the poor alone in
this parish amounts to 26,0001. a-year. In a neighbour-
ing parish it amounts to 28,0001.
CRIME.—The West Riding Sessions com-
menced on Monday at Pontefract. There were 174 pri-
soners for trial. The total number of prisoners in the
West Riding house of correction is at the present time no
less than 542. The Leeds Mercury contains an impor-
tant document, which shows the receipts and p tyments
made by the treasurer of the West Riding from the year
1821 to 1832, and also the number of prosecutions at
the assizes and sessions fur each year, from which it appears
that the increase of crime is firmidable and alarming. In
the year 1821 the number of prosecutions at the assit,s
was 66, and at the sessions 251 ; in 1832 the number at
the assizes was 88, and at the sessions 976! Thus within
twelve years the total number of prisoners for criminal
offences has increased from 317 to 1,064, or more than
threefold ! The increase of population in the same space
of time has not much exceeded one-fourth ; and, if we
may consider that the same class of criminals is now tried
at the assizes as in 1821, the increase of crimes of high
magnitude would only be about in proportion to the in-
crease of population. It is therefore in the lower class of
felonies and in larcenies that the frightful increase must
have taken place. We confess we are unable to account

fur this rapid progression of crime, but it is deserving of
every attention being paid to it by the Magistrates and by
' the Government. W fear the West Riding of Yorkshire
is not singular in this respect, hut that the same pheno-
int na are presented throughout the country. It will be
found that the greatest increase has taken place during the
very last year ; there was little increase from 1828 to
1831, the prosecutions at sessions in the former year being
716, and in the litter 711 ; but in 1832 the number
suddenly swelled to 976. The next greatest increase within
this period of twelve years was in 1826, when the number
of prosecutions increased in one year from 451 to 595.
The expense of prosecutions at sessions is small compared
with that of prosecutions at the assizes. In the year 1832,
there were 88 at the assizes, which cost 4,5551. and 976
at the sessions, which cost 7,7201. ; eeven times as many
prisoners are tried at the sessions as at the assizes, and yet
the expense of the greater number is not double that of
the less. The enormous sum of 85,3961. bas been paid
in eight years, by the West Riding only, for new build-
ings at the Castle of York, which, in our humble opinion,
is a molt unjustifiable waste of the public money.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION ROUSE.

Mr. Gill, the city of London passmaster, caused
two Scotchwomen and an Irishwoman and three
children to be brought before the LORD MAYOR
yesterday for having endeavoured to procure passes
for the road leading to Scotland, by which they
were guilty of fraud.
The complainant's statement excited much cu-
rios;ty. The three women, 111'Gregor, Brown,
and Pearmain, were brought to him by an officer of
Surrey, for the purpose of being passed to Scotland.
They told him, afrer having severally deposed that
their husbands were in Scotland, that they had each
of them two children. He suspected that they ex-
aggerated in their account of the number of chil-
dren, because he saw no more than one with each,
and was aware that the penny a-mile, granted for
every individual on the pa,s, was a temptation to
paupers to add to their families by artificial means.
He therefore told them that he could not give a
single pass without seeing the absent children.
" Oh, you shall see them, Sir," said they, and off
they sent one of their little boys to bring in Jacky,
and Mary, and Susan. In about half-an-hour the
boy returned with a male and two female children.
" Here they are, if you please, Sir," cried the three
paupers. It happened, however, that during the
boy's absence the complainant ascertained that the
women had actually sent to Wentworth-street to
borrow children, and that they and other paupers
made a very decent livelihood by carrying with them,
on short journeys, children whom they adopted the
moment they saw them.
The LORD MAYOR proceeded to question the
borrowed children, and sent for a man named Hurst,
whom one of them called " father," and with whom
the paupers lodged.
" Pray, Mr. Hurst," said his Lordship, "what
kind of a house is that which I understand you keep
in Wentworth-street ?" Hurst—lt's a decentish
house enough, my Lord, of a lodging-house.
The LORD MAYOR—How many beds do you
keep in a room ? Hurst—How many ? Let me
see. I don't think there's upon the haverage mote
than eight or nine, my Lord.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Andy how many do you
stow away in the beds? Hurst—Why, we puts
man and wife into one bed, at 4d. a head.

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, but if they have fi% e
or six children ? llurst—Oh, then, my Lord, they
must take all their children into bed to themselves;
and that's easy enough, for they a'nt troubled with
bedsteads.—( Laugh ter.)
The LORD MAYOR—And do you fill the other
beds in the same room with married people also ?
Hurst—Surely, ray Lord; I suppose them as comes
is married, for I dare say they wouldn't tell no lies
about it.—(Great laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—SO, you have eight or nine
couple and several children of both sexes in one
room together all night ? Hurst—Just so, my Lord ;
when my house is what I calls properly attended.
The LORD MAYOR—But don't you think it would
be more decent and proper to put the men into one
room and the females into another? Hurst—Not
by no means VI hatsomdever, please your Lordship.
We never separates man aHd wife. We puts the
single men into a room by themselves always; but
then if one on um comes home married of a night,
why, we puts him and his wife in along with the
steal), old couples.—(Great laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—What abomination ! What a
sink of vice and infamy!
Hurst—No sich a thing, any Lord. There's no
racket in my house. It all goes like clock-work.
It was a coalshed at one time, but the business gave
way in the neighbourhood, for the lodgers was so
thick together they couldn't bear no fires.
The LORD MAYOR—But you drive a roaring trade
between letting lodgings and lending children ? It
is a good double trade.

Hurst—l never lend children. Children may lend
themselves, but I have nothing to do with that.
The LORD MAYOR—Here's your little boy, what
was he to have had for the loan of himself ? Come,
my boy, tell me the truth, and don't mind the winks
or rinds of anybody.
Young Hurst7—Please you, my Lord, we was to
have 6d. a-piece. We always gets that, and not a
farden more, for the loan on us.—(Laughter.)
Hurst—Aye, my Lord, that's the way these here
people gets over the poor children. They don't care
who they disgrace so they gets their own ends.—
(Laughter.)
The paupers denied that they had hired the
children, and declared that their object was to get
home.

The LORD MAYOR—You are a set of vile im-
posters; and as for you, Mr. Hurst, )ou are worse
even than they. The house you keep is nothing
better than a brothel, and you are bringing up your
children in the most disgraceful manner. You have
been aiding those women in a conspiracy to defraud,
and in the most horrible way eneouraging them to
proceed by perjury.
Hurst—l speaks only candid what's true, please
your Lordship. These people comes and coaxes
away the children, for to pertend they was their
own, and I'm sure I knowed nothing about it.
The Loßb MAYOR—Your lodging-house shall be
watched, you may rely upon it; and if you do not
take care who your inmates are, you shall hear from
me. As for these women, they shall be brought
up on another day.