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

POOR-RATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,--I am requested by the overseers to beg you will insert the following statement of facts in your mat pub-
licstion.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
DANIEL CHANDLER.
TevikesLury, Nov. 14, 1851.

Six,—having seen a leading article in your paper of
the 10th instant, respectieg a police report at the Man-
sion-house on Friday and Saturday, the 7th and Bth
instant, concerning Richard 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
igararjndo
notedinn,July. He was atterwards applied to by letter
as was also his employer, Mr. White, from
neither of whom an answer could be obtained. At the
45 following audit the auditor demanded the reason why the
28
;03 rate was not paid, the overseer stated that a sum-
)63 mons had been taken out and served upon his
;15 wife in Tewkesbury, and after that a distress warrant
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,72 therewith to London, who could not find any effects upon
/2 had not any alternative but to proceed in a legal
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31 lings, for a sow and pigs sold
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From the above statement, we think
with us that, as parish officers, we have only
conformity with our duty under the particular circum-
stances in
stances of this case.—We remain, Sir, your Obedient servants,

THE OVERSEERS OF THE PARISH
OF TEWKESBURY.
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DANIEL CHANDLER,
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CORPORATION OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I shall be obliged by the correction of a mistake
mineyettounrgreepforttneinGtehviesrdnaeyrs's peafpethrios Corporation.
rreacteinent.annyueattl
have given the income as 1,1644 only, which is but one
item. The actual sum which was given away during
tbo last year, in the immediate objects of the
Corporation, was 14,2924, viz.: —To 189 poor
and worthy clergymen, suffering under sick-
ness, mental affliction, the infirmities of age,
or the expenses of large families, 3,5504; to 444
widows of clergymen, in pensions and donations, 4,4154;
to 419 aged and helpless orphan, unmarried daughters of
clergymen, also, in pensions and donations, 3,7601.; to
five adult sons, under peculiar and very distressing cir-
cumstances, 454; for apprenticing forty-one children,
1,3154; and for outfits to sixty-seven others, 1,2074
These particulars cannot fail to interest many of your
readers, 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, 1951.

SPOR TIN G INTELLIGEN CE.
LIVERPOOL NOVEMBER MEETING.—FRIDAY.
The Optional Selling Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 30
added, for two yrs old and upwards. One mile. (14
Subs.)
Mr. J.Bayley's Once More, (20/.), Bst 131 b (Denman) 1
Yr. Lawson's Happy Queen, 6 yrs (201.), lOst 71b 2
Mr. Cotgreave's lanihe, 4 yrs (201.), 9st 131 b
Mr. Brown's Harkover, aged (201.), 10st 71b
Mr. Roberts's Young Thalia, 3 yra (201), Bst 131 b 0
Mr. Johnson na Rose, 3 yrs (201.), Est 131 b
Mr. Wright's Emma Jemima, 6 yra (20/.), lOst 71b 0
Mr. Whittaker's mby Jereed, 6 yrs (201.), lOst 101 b 0
Mr. Tempest's Nightstar, 3 yrs (201.), Bst 131 b
Mr. Haye's Pioneer, aged (201.) 104, 71b
Mr. Johnson's Duxbury, 4 yrs (401.), lOst 121 b
Mr. Peace's Latitat, 6 yrs (201.), lOst 10lb
Mr. Martin's,Shilroalier West, 4 yrs (201.), 9st 131 b 0
Won cleverly by a length; two lengths between second
and third.
The Grand Autumn Steeplechase Handicap of 15 soya.
each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 1001. added;
the second to receive 251. out of the stakes. Four
miles. (25 Subs., 8 paid.)
Mr. E. S. Davenport na Peter Simple ...(T.olliver) 1
Mr. Elliott na Chieftain, 5 yrs, lost 21b ...... • ......... 2
Lord Waterford's Lord George, 6 yrs, l2st 21b
Lord Waterford's Duc-an•Durras, 6 yrs 11st 71b
Mr. Hutton's Lucy Neale, aged, llst 21b
Lord Lurgan's St. Helier, 6 yrs, lOst 121 b
Mr. Tiernan's Isaac, aged, lOst 81b
Mr. Murphy's Lamienne, 5 yrs, lOst 0
Mr. Higgius's Loddington, 4 yrs, 9st
Mr. G. S. Davenport na Half-and-half, aged, lOst 81b 0
Betting-5 to 2 agat Lord George, 4to 1 agat Lucy
Neale, and sto 1 sgst Peter Simple. Wen cleverly by
two lengths, Chieftain obtaining second place by half a
length.
The Scurry Handicap of 3 sous. each, and 20 added;
the second to receive 10 sovs., and the third to save
his stake. Half a mile. (17 Subs.)
Lord Lurgan's Tightwaist, a yra, 7st 51b ...(Arnold) 1
Mr. Thompson's Augean, 4 yrs, 7st 2
Mr. Bayley's Once-more, 3 yrs, Est
Mr. Thomas na Sister to Fencer, 4 yrs 7st 101 b; Mr.
Brown's Harkover, aged, 7st 51b ; Mr. Roberts's
Eccentric, 3 yrs, 6st, and eleven others also ran. Won
by half a length.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE,
CROSSE SCHOLARSHIP.
CAMBRIDGE, NOV. 14.—There will be an examination
for this scholarship on Tuesday, the 25th of November
inst., and following days.
The candidates tor this scholarship must be Bache-
lora of Arts in the first year from their degree.
Candidates are required personally, or, if non-resident,
by letter, to give notice of their intention to each of the
electors, who are—the Viee•Cbancellor, the Margaret
Professor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Divinity,
the Regius Professor of Hebrew, the Regius Professor
of Greek, the Norrisian Professor of Divinity, and the
Profesor of Arabic, on or before Tuesday, the 18th inst.,
stating their names at length and colleges.
NORRISIAH PRIZE.
The late Mr. Norris baying left 121. a year for the
purchase of a nude' and some books, as a premium fur
the beat prose English essay on a subject selected
agreeably to certain directions contained in his will, the
Norrisian Professor has given nOtice that the subject for
the present year is "The analogy between the Miracles
and Doctrines of Scripture."
with a sealed letter containing the name
of Thetheessay,author,
is to be i sent,
ti or
week, 1852,
h to e tenth
o°
eday
f
preceding the Sunday ps s
the three stewards of Mr. Norris' Institution, who are—
the Master of Trinity College, the Provost of Ring's
College, the Master of Caius College.
A candidate for this prize must be above 20 years of
age, and under 30, at the time when the prize is ad.
judged. He must be, or have been, a student of this
University; and must produce a certificate, undLr
the
hand of the Norrisian Professor, that he has attended
twenty of the Divinity lectures in the course of some
one year.
That essay to which the prize shall be adjudged must
be published by the author within two months from the
time of his receiving the medal and books.
Any opinion advanced in the essay of a candidate for
this prize contrary (in the estimation of the appointed
judges) to those Articles of the Church of England
which relate to our Saviour's divinity and the perannau'',
Y
of the Holy Spirit is to disqualify such candidate.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 1851.
SECOND EXAMINATIOONFFMOREDTIHCIE
END.
James,EGREEOr:::::
FIRST DIVISION.—Duthoit, Thomas King's College;
tholomcw's Hospital; Griffith, Samuel,
'
Head, Edward Abraham
coilege; May, George,
Hancock, Ring s College;
Jackson, Edward, University
Henry,_ King's King's College; DavidMoncktoplcwiere;
Odling,
Col-
lege; Neale, Richard, University
Reynolds,
John Russell, Uni-
versity College; Steele, William, Guy's BesPilt_a William Palmer, King's Col-
lege; Stocker, John Guy's Hospital; Thornp-
sen, Henry, University
N.—
Beal, Lionel Smith, King's Col-
lege; Burche
Ilrieter Lodwick, Westminster Hospital;
reSithercwo
SECONDIIege.
DlviS
Richard, Gee's Hospital; Keyworth, John
Dub-
lin; Hunt,
Thomas's Hospital; Lakin, James Henry,
Courtenay, Richard Hudson, Richmond Hospital, Dub-
CSot'llege; Vaux, James, King's College,

PROSECUTION FOR VENDING SPURIOUS TEA..---A
series of prosecutions have lately taken place in the provin-
cial districts against vendors of spurious tea. John Bellan-
tine, a giocer at Northampton, was fined by the borough
magistrates in the sum of 6151. for having in his possession
12.21b5. of imitation tea leaves. They adjudged one-half of
the fine to go to the parties who made the seizure, and the
other half to the poor of the parish. In default of payment
to be imprisoned for twelve months, with hard labour.—
Armstrong and Brittens, tea dealers of the same town,
pleaded guilty to the possession of 81,41b5. of similarrubbisb,
and were fined 4a., or six months' imprisonment. The
money to be apportioned in a similar manner.
SLEEPING AMER DINNER.—Dr. Combe, a high
authority on all matters of hygiene, says:—Sleeping after
dinner is a bad practice. On awakening from such an in-
dulgence, there is generally some degree
of digestion being
excite-
ment, in consequence of the latter stages of febrile
harried on; it is only useful in old people, and in some cases
of disease. Sleep becomes wonly
wholesome to the healthy
when taken at those hours pointed eut by nature; an excess
of it produces lassitude and
corpulency, and utterly debases
people should sleep little,
and stupifies the mind. Corpulent
and upon hard beds, whilethey should take abundance of
exercise and live abstemiously,
that their unhealthy bulk tatty
be reduced.