The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-28 00:00:00

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MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT,
BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

(From the London Gazelle.)
T. and W. Layfield, tailors, Silver-street, St. James's I at 11

The account of the death and burial of the Michi-
gan chief's squaw has naturally excited the public curiosity re-
specting him and his Indian companions who are attached to
the corps dramatique of the Victoria Theatre, The rifles
shooting of the chief has particularly attracted attention, anti
from the skill he displayed, some kind of deception was at
first suspected in the exhibition. This. suspicion, however, is
wholly unfounded. It may be imagined that the exhibition is
not one of the safest in a crowded theatre, hut the precautions
which are taken render an accident almost impossible. At one
side of the stage,. and close to the orchestra, is erected wilt
plank, cut into the form of a tree, and having in its centre a
solid piece of wood about two inches and a-half in thickness,
which precludes the permeation of the rifle-ball. An apple
,lightly squared at each end, and having in the centre of the
part e*pPSed. a. bled wafer, is then placed by Mr. Gale on a
short skewer, projecting- fr9re 049- P1i4'419 of Riegq of wood
already described. The chief now takep ititivitcft4PPl3ce,
site side, coolly levels his rifle, which is of " pretty consider-
able" length, touches the trigger, and with the greatest nicety
imaginable pierces the very core of the apple. On Saturday
week a person named Hall, who was in the pit, requested
permission to held the apple. His request was granted; but
kyq peryoustiess of his hand while holding the apple it
ippea ed. tpa,i, he t'!'o3 Fewrpt,ted having made the applica-
pion: • •gc,..h4evce,.cscaped ; but the apple was no
Bogner hit Il an thp 4.914cr dropped laiifiand'aystiddeply ay
Wit had been 41410 off, much to `the-amilsement of the audience,

The following is the Report of the Committee of Vestry
of St. George's, Hanover-square, laid before the Meeting
of Magistrates of Middlesex on Friday, and referred to in
our report of their proceedings on Saturday last :
" REPORT, &c.
" The attention of your Committee has been applied to
the subject contained in the following minute of Vestry of
the 7th of August, 1834, viz.—' This Vestry are of opinion
that they would not perform their duty to the rate-payers
/ of this parish, were they not to institute an immediate in-
quiry into the receipt and expenditure of the rates of the
county of Middlesex. Because, in every department of the
expenditure of the rates of this parish, over which the Ves-
try have a control, reductions to a very great extent are
continually being effected ; but the county rate, over which
this Vestry have no control, is the only portion of the ex-
penditure of this parish which is on the increase. The two
last county rates made by the Magistrates in the parochial
year 1833, affected this parish to the extent of 2,1641. 17s. ;
tut the two county rates made on the 24th of April and the
10th of July, 1834, amount to 4,3241. 25., although the ac-
counts of the Treasurer of the County, sent with the orders
for the payment of the rates, exhibit the expenditure of the
county, from the 28th of June, 1833, to the 28th of Dec.
1833, to have been 36,553/. 1 15.5 d. ; but the expenditure
from the 28th of December, 1833, to the 28th of June,
1834, was only 28,623/. 4s. 9d.
" This vestry, therefore, resolve, That a Committee of
Vestry, consisting of Messrs. Leslie, Gunter, and Hodgkin-
son, be now appointed to investigate the receipts and ex-
penditure of the county of Middlesex, with power to add
to their numbers, and to report from time to time to this
vestry.'

" Your Committee, having to a considerable extent in-
vestigated the receipt and expenditure of the county of
Middlesex, present the following as their first report.
" As the subject referred to them for examination is of
a most extensive character, branching out into a variety of
large expenditures of the public money, it consequently re-
quires a somewhat lengthened detail even to afford a mere
outline of so important a subject.
" The object of your Committee will be, to give as clear
and condensed a view of the whole subject as the informa-
tion already obtained will enable them ; and in the progress
of their Report, they will direct the attention of the Vestry
to those points, which they deem defective or erroneous.
" The county-rate is made by the Justices of the Peace
in Quarter Sessions assembled, under the powers given to
them by a local Act for Middlesex, the 3d of Geo. IV.,
cap. 107, Royal Assent July 22d, 1832.
" By the 6th section of which Act, the treasurer is re-
quired en the first day of every general quarter sessions of
the peace, to exhibit to the justices of the peace, then and
there assembled, true and exact accounts of all moneys re-
ceived and expended up to the day preceding ; whereupon
the justices are to appoint a committee of themselves, or
any three of them at the least, to examine the accounts and
vouchers, and to report in writing, the result of the exami-
nation, at the same general quarter sessions, or some ad-
journment
thereof ; and the said justices, or the greater
part of them then and there assembled, are then to audit
and allow the said account ; having done which, they are
to proceed to make a general quarterly rate, or assessment
on the county.
" Your Committee are of opinion, that on so important a
subject as the making of a rate on the county, sufficient care
is not, taken- by the justices to prevent an unnecessary and
an extravagant rate being made. To illustrate their opi-
nion, your Committee take a whole year's receipt and ex-
penditure of the county, from the 13th day of October,
1834, during which period four rates were made upon the
county.

First—Oct. 24, 1834, One Halfpenny Rate £11,071 3 6
Second—Jan. 9, 1834, One Halfpenny Rate 17,071 3 6
Third—April 24, 1834, One Penny Rate ... 21.997 17 4
Fourth—July 10, 1834, One Penny Rate ... 21,997 17 4
" Your Committee have ascertained, that an estimate of
the anticipated expenditure for each quarter is made out
prior to the making of the rate ; and they are of opinion,
that some great oversight or inattention does occur in the
framing of these estimates, and which is certainly one of
the most important duties connected with all public taxa-
tion, as upon the due performance of it depends the justice
or injustice of the sum to be levied, to meet thu actual ex-
penditure.

" The four Estimates for the year, 14th October, 1833.
to the 13th October, 1834, amount to 97,364/. 13s. 71d.,
while the actual expenditure for the year was only
66,246/. 4s. 8-Id. ; the estimated expenditure exceeding the
actual expenditure 47 per cent.

" It follows, then, of necessity, that the erroneous data
which the estimated expenditure affords, will occasion a
corresponding unnecessary taxation ; and to show the im-
proper manner in which this duty to the county is per-
formed, your Committee add a statement of the finances
of the county at each of the four quarters already cited, to
which they will add such explanatory observations as may
be necessary to elucidate the subject.
" The printed accounts, required by the Act of Parlia-
ment for each of the quarterly periods, show the following
amounts of expenditure, of cash balances in hand, and of
uncollected rates.

FIRST ACCOUNT, FROM 14TH OCTOBER, 1833, TO 28TH DECEM-
BER, 1833.
" The whole expenditure of the county for this period was
16,140/. 3s. 7id. The actual financial state on the first day o
his quarterly account was as follows :
Cash in the treasurer's hands £8,099 12 3/1-
Uncollected rates made at and previous to
the June sessions .

_
12,913 1 7

—£21,012 13 10i
" Your committee request the vestry very particularly
to observe, that there was on the first day of the quarter,
by cash in hand, and rates made at, and previous to
the June sessions, a sum more than sufficient to pay the
whole expenditure of the county of the 28th of December,
1833, leaving a balance in favour of the county of
1,8721. 10s. 3d., without any additional burden being im-
posed upon the county.
" Under these circumstances it appears to your commit-
tee, that it was clearly the duty of the magistrates to have
enforced the payment of the 12,9131. ls. 7d., as an act of
justice to the parishes who pay the county-rates ; they did
not so, but, on the contrary, imposed an additional rate
on the county (ten days after the above balance of
21,0121. 13s. 10A-d. was declared), on the 24th October,
1833, in a sum amounting to 11,0711. 3s. 6d. ; and which
rate your committee are of opinion for the reasons they have
adduced, was an unnecessary rate.

" SECOND ACCOUNT, FROM 28TH DECEMBER, 1833, TO .STH

APRIL, 1834.

" The whole expenditure of the county for this quarter
was 13,501/. 9s. 04d. ; and the finances of the county on
the 28th day of December, 1833, were as follow :
Cash in the treasurer's hands £1,441 7 6
Uncollected rates
11,686 12 9

£13,128 0 3 •
" SO that the county had been assessed at and previously
to the October Sessions, 1833, in a sum, which, on the
28th December,.lB33, was sufficient to meet the actual ex-
penditure of the county to the sth April, 1834, with the
slight deficiency of 3721. 18s. 94d. ; notwithstanding which
the Justices, on the 9th January, 1834, assessed the county
in a sum of 11,0711. 3s. 6d. ; and the condemnation of
such negligence and injustice is to be found in the fact,
that the, balance in favour of the county on the sth of
April, appears, by their own voucher, to exceed by
5461. 14s. id. the whole amount of the rate made on the
9th January, 1834.

THIRD ACCOUNT, PROM STH_ APRIL, 1834, TO' 28T11

JUNE, 1834.

" The whole expenditure of the county in this quarter
was 15,1211. 14s. 81d., to meet which, on the sth April,
the treasurer had,

Cash in hand £4,127 13 61
Uncollected rates

£11,617 17 74
f 4 In this account a rate appears to have been necessary,
because the income would not have been sufficient to meet
the actual expenditure, by the sum of 3,403/. 17s. Odd. ;
but your committee think the vestry will coincide with,
them ip opinion, that the at tpa4e by clip justicot an
the 34th of April, for 21,9971 17s. 4d., 'was extravagantly
high.

" FOURTH ACCOUNT, FROM 28TH JUNE, 1834, TO 18TH

OCTOBER, 1834.
" The whole expenditure of the county on this, accput
;yak 181484 Mi. 30.1 to meet which •the treasurer had,
an the first day of t 1 quarter—vix., on the 28th June—
Cash in hand
.£7,497 17 81
Uncollected rates 11,075 19 3

£18,573 16 1141
" Your committee again request the vestry particularly
to observe, that the Treasurer had, on the first day of the
account on the 28th June by cash in hand, and rates made
fit ilnd previous t 9 tile April segions, a. sum more thiVt
sufficient to meet the whole expenditure of the county to