The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

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POOR-RATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE t
V 6411
out request. ci by the °twofers to .3-
insert ihe fo!.owing stateznent of fBcts in you „ pub-
amain, Sir, your obpdzpot servant,
DANIEL CIIAND.LER.
Tewicraury, Nov. 14, ISSI.

Sits,--Having seen a leading article in your paper of
tho 10th inst.ut, respecting a police report at the Man-
sion-house on Friday and Saturday, the 7th and Bth
instant, concerning Itichard King Fletcher, a white-
smith from Tewkesbury, at that time in the employ of
Mr. James Chadnor White, harness manufacturer, of
Liverpool-street, London, we beg to say that Fletcher's
statement in that report is not correct. The circum-
stances of the case are as follow:

The rate was granted on the 11th day of April last,
and personally demanded of Fletcher, previously to his
leaving Tewkesbury, by Mr. Daniel Chandler, collector
of the poor-rates, who also served him with a printed
notice, that unless the amount of his rate was paid by a
certain day he would be summoned without further
notice. He left Tewkesbury on the 13th day of June,
the whole of the rate being expended, and another rate
granted in July. He was afterwards applied to by letter
in London, as was also his employer, Mr. White, from
neither of whom an answer could be obtained. At the
following audit the auditor demanded the reason why the
rate was not paid, the overseer stated that a sum-
mons had been taken out and served upon his
wife in Tewkesbury, and after that a distress warrant
against his goods had been issued, and a messenger sent
therewith to London, who could not find any effeetampon
Which to levy ; the auditor replied that the parish officers
had not any alternative but to proceed in a legal
manner, that it was a case of pounds, shillings, and
pence, and that he could not pass the accounts until
every effoz t had been made to recover the amount of rate
and expenses.
Fletcher states that when he left Tewkesbury he was
sothorethda
poore that ho was not able to pay his rate, although
vperresveieoruss to
thehbi his
md eopfa
four
uurre
phoeu
nrdesce
ai vuedd
tire on ah
tr one
l-
hugs, for a sow and pigs sold to him. Up to the time
of leaving Tewkesbury, he resided in a front home in
c(b)onuon.ot:
athe d
lef t
principalf,)r the Sterxe eptsre'
the employment of Mr. Whi
usiness of a whitesmith and gunsmith his ow" ae.
pally worked in Tewkesbury), atwages of two
t es
express
(phorrrepwoshheeo
soolnh carriedentering
u.o
riitnhgtoie•
or two guineas per week, and net, stated by him, to
seek for work, His houta- hold f
with us that, as parish officers, we have only
Tewkesbury about the time uhreniture was removed
From the left.
above statement, we think you peannds
wacillteadgreine
of this case.—We remain, bie,
conformity with our duty under the
your obeitient
particular circum-
stancesservants,

THE OVERSEERS OF THE PARISH
OF TEWKESBURY.
mint is strictly correct.
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that
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the Nov. 4 l
above ,
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DANIEL CHANDLER,
Collector of Poor-rates, Tewkesbury.

CORPORATION OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.
TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—l shall be obliged by the corrt ction of a mistake
in your report in this day's paper of the recent arsunal
meeting of the Governors of this Corporation. you
have given the income as 1,1641. only, which is bat one
item. The actual 511111 which was given away daring
the last year, in the immediate objects of the
andCo worthyrporat on, we.csi,rglyo24,2e9n2,l.,
svuffri
iz,:--Jounld6e9r
spicookr.
ness, mental affliction, the infirmities of ago,
or the expeLscS of large tamili:•s, 3,5501.; to 444
widows of clergymen, in pensions and donsqons, 4,4151.;
to 419 aged and hdpleis orphan, unmarried daughters of
clergymen, also, in pensions and donations, 3,760 L; to
five r.dult sons, under peculiar and very distressing cir-
cumstances, 451.; ter apprenticing forty one children,
1,3151.; and for outfits to sixty-seven others, 1,2071.
These particulats cannot fail to interest many of your
renders, and I wish that whilst the Corporation has been
enabled, by the confidence of the public., to effect so
much good, there did not remain a great many cases of
distress which the funds were inadequate to relieve.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
CHARLES JOHN BAKER, Registrar.
2, Bloomsbury-place, Nov. 14, 1851.