The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-22 00:00:00

PEDESTRIANISM.

CHARLES WESTHALL AND SMITH (OF IPSWICH)
14 Minl3s You 50/. This match came off on Monday
at the Flora Ciardens, Bayswater. It was advertised
as being for 50/., thus conditioned :—The "champion
walker" and his antagonist were to walk, fair toe and
heel, fourteen miles, and if the winner only should
complete the distance within two hours, he was to re-
ceive the whole amount; but if over that time but
35/. ; and further, if both should cover the stipulated
ground in two hours, the 50/. should be divided' adi.
to the first, and 151. to the second. At 6 minutes
after 4, the " old one" and Westhall showed in trim,
and on the firing of a gun rattled away at a pace
which was " a caution," as brother Jonathan says, to
all on-lookers. For four miles 'and a half there was
scarcely an interspace of a couple of yards between
the pedestrians; yet to the practised eye it was ap-
parent that, instead of West43ll "not being all there,"
there was, we 'should
say, "too much, of him ; a
word, he wilt &Pined to add another to the thiiusand
and one instandes,
olneglect or want of " condition."
He laboured, refired.,
an and occasionally "screwed" his
pe
manly couatence in the Par?x Yams .9f exertion,
for so we must call them, wade the " ould. un"
strode along like well-oiled clqek-work his lathy
frame exhibiting no more of the usual symptoms
of
pbysical exhaustion than some apvaratus contrived of
whipoord and whalebone. Just liefore completing the

The "Rateplyers' Priitreti.n Asie.4l:-.thm,"• aided
hitrthegadhesion Str. Joseph thine,. M.P.", 6,v, long
agitated- the borough i.iireebihl reform; 'or, in
'oeher words, have organited,an opp,OA)tivn:o .the pre-
sent vestrymen, with determination to tjrct them
from office, on the ground 'that, they haq"Carri'ed On a
system of expenditure which was notwarranted. &c.
iesterday, in pnrsuance-of the usual notice, a, public
meting of the ratepayers was held.th
.the yard of the
workhouse for the. purpose of ,tlecting vestrymen,
auditors, Scq., the ,ev,. Dr.. pry, recar of the parish,
in thocbair. Much..excitement prevailed previous to
the-meeting, and the Platforrn• was crowded with the
doughty Of the resPetiiiiie; Parties.
The Vestry Clark, Mr. C. FLOOD,: iettd over the fol-
:lowipg list of.the 40 Vestrymen whose periodot service
had expired, and of three candidates for vacancies one
;year 'Michael Rignoldi-Chstrles Beevor,
Esq., Jacob Bell, Esq:, Mr. James Bingley, Mr.
Joseph' •'Bird, Colonel William Bradford, Mr. Fre-
• ihtriolk siadggpiati, Mr. Busby,- k'rancis Calder,
Esq.y Dir.' William' Carr;•John -H 4 Chi Chester, Esq.,
Mr. David Davies; Mr: Gilbert S. EdWardii, Mr.
George Fry, Mr.-CharleaHerbert, Mr. Charles Hick-
Mari, Mr.' Richiird Ifickmani—To'seph HUrne, Esq.,
M.P., Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman, Mr. Richard
.Michell, Right Hon. Lord "Montfort, John Carnao
Morris, Esq., W. 11. O. PlOrdelii; Esq., .M.P., Mr.
-Thomas Potter, Mr. ThomisTowell, Mr. Thomas S.
Pritchard, Mr. David Ray; Francis 'Ricardo; Esq.,
Mr. George Rowney, Alderman Salomons, the Rev.
EdWard Scobell, Mr. Charles Henry Smith, Mr.
Henry Stewart, Martin "Thackeray, . Esq., James
Thompson, James Ruddell Todd, Mr. Robert Turner,
Mr. Joseph Wingfield, 'Mr. David Watts, aid Mr.
Henry Charles Wilson ' • the candidates for vacancies
one year were Mr. 'William Booker, in the room of
William Baillie, Esq., resigned ; Charles Colley,
Esq., in the room of Bentharn 'Chandler, Esq., re-
signed ; Mr. Charles Smith, in the room of Mr.
Matthew Jackson, dead.

Mr. CHARLES EREETH said they were met tbat day
to carry out the great principles of representation with
taxation and the ballot. He would only say that no
man could bee friend to any cause who disturbed the
meeting by any personality or vituperation.-- (Mar,
bear.) Now Mr. Bridgman being a churchwarden 111
well as a vestryman, in communication with another,
had. really the nomination of the inspectors of votes,
and it was clear that if the churchwardens were op-
posed to the Ratepayers' Association, the parochial
authorities would have already got the four inspectors
booktd ; and Mr. Bridgman, too, was a candidate for
the office of vestryman. He would, therefore, pro-
pose to the ratepayers for the tour inspectors, Mr.
William 'Welters Mr. Thomas Saunders, Mr. Wil-
liam Steele, and Walters,
Henry Charles Shields, and he
Moved that they be elected.
Mr. LANGHAM seconded the motion.

Mr. CHARLES CARR moved, as an amendment, the
names of Mr. James Stevenson, Mr. John Martin,
Mr. Edw. Herbert, and Mr. John Edward Chapman.
Mr. Tifiturrseconded the amendment, amidst much
„.
.uproar.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN proceeded to put the amend-
ment, and then the original motion, when he declared
the amendment to have been lost by a large majority,
and the gentlemen named by Mr. Fterth were de-
clared to be elected.

Mr. Joint Winsames, M.P., amidst great uproar,
proceeded to propose the list of 43 vestrymen as given
above ; and in the course of a speech, the greater part
of which was not beard, declared that he had not the
slightest particle cf ill feeling to those on the opposite
side. He reminded the meeting, that when the Li-
beral party went into office in 1832, the borough was
hampered with a debt of 120,0001, but that since that
period 50,0001. had been been paid off. The vestry-
men of Marylebone had ever been the first to give a
tone to the agitation upon all great public questions,
and they had uniformly opposed the principle of the
Poor-law Act.

Mr. CasaLes Nixox seconded the list proposed.
Mr. CHARLES FREETH, in a speech of very great
length, containing very strong assertions as to the
conduct of the vestry, proposed to the meeting to
elect forty 'three men as the elements of a system,
and the commencement of a better system of parochial
government. He then read the following list of the
f .rty-three vestrymen :—Mr. Charles Baddeley,
Walter Barker, Erg , Mr. George Beacon, Mr. Fre-
drrick Bousfield, Archer-Burton Burton, Esq.,
Francis Clarke, Esq., John J. Coham, Esq., Mr. Ro-
bert Daws, Mr. Thomas D'lffanger, Johu Dunnell,
Esq., Mr. James Dwyer, Mr. William Eddington,
James Foulger, Esq., Mr. James Frewin, Thomas
Gibson, Etq., Nathaniel Grant, Esq., Robert
Green, Sprengal Greaves, Esq., Mr. Joseph
Hammerton, Mr. John Heyliger, Mr. Binijamin
Holden, Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., Adolphus William
Hume,. Esq.,' Mr. Charles King, Henry Stopford
•Kyle, Esq., Sir Peter Laurie, Peter Laurie, Esq , Mr.
John Le 'Cheminent, Mr. Henry Miller, Francis
Mowatt, Esq., M.P., William Henry Chicbeley
Plowden, Esq., M.P., Mr. George Poland, Robert
Martin Staplyton, Esq., M.P., George Spencer
Smith, Esq., Mr. Henry Weston, John Whitmore,
Esq , Brodie Mac Ghie Wilcox, EN., M.P., Mr.
Thomas Wilmshurst, Mr. John Woodall, Mr. Ed-
ward Woodroffe. Candidate for vacancy, two years
—Mr.
.Samuel Steele, in the room of William 11.
E,4., resigned. , Candidates for vacanciee,
one year—Mr. Dennis Capps, in the room of Ban-
tham Chandler, Esq., resigned; Mr. William 'Laing-
don; in the room of Mr. M. lickson, deceased.
The motion was seconded by Mr. LANGHAM in
very elaborate speech, in whieh he entered into a mass
of details connected with the conduct of the vestry.
Sir James Hamilton and Mr. H. C. Wilson seve-
rally attempted 'to address the meeting in reply to
the charges which bad been made against them ; but
they could not obtain a hearing, in eptte , of Mr.
Pi-sell% efforts to keep the suditory quiet.
The list. pr.oppied by Mr. Freeth was carried by an
immense majority.
The CHAIRMAN stated that ?Taper 'had just been
put into his hatids, signed by a number of ratepayers,
deinanding a pi]. The Rev. Gentleman then gave
notice that the polling would commence to-morrow
(this (la%), and he continued the two followin, days
at the several polling b .oths, from eight 'in the morn-
ing till four in the afteincan on each day.' •
Mr. Wit,LtAsts, M.P., moved, and the motion was
seconded, thiv the follewieggentielnien be the
auditors :—Mr. Charles F Clark, Mr. Gilbert Gil-
bert, Mr. John Cole, Mr. Frederick Darby, Mr. Silas
Dollin.

Mr. FII REET moved, and Mr. LANGIIAM teconded,
as an anundruent, the following gentlemen as au-
ditors :—Mr. Frederick Giff)rd, Mr. Richard Good-
hugh, Mr. 'Walter Hall Mr. Daniel Lucas, Mr. Peter
Martin.
The nmenimPnt was carried; and thanks havivg
been voted to the Rev. Chairmen, the meeting sepa-
rated, all eager for the coming battle.

FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.--YeSterdsx the annual
meeting of the Foreign Aid Society lvas held in the Hanover-
square .Rooms. The Marquis of. Cholmondeley !resided.
The Noble Chairman having opened the business of the
meeting, the Secretary proceeded to read the tenth annual
report of the committee, which commenced by saying that
there had not, perhaps.: been a year since the society en-
tered into ,relationa
with, their Protestant. brethren of the
Continent, in which their• faith and
hadpatience had been more
severely tried, nor in which they been so graciously re-
warded, and if. the friends of the cause of the Gospel in
,
this country haVe looked on the conflict between darkness
and light with somewhat less interest than before, it has
been because of the increased difficulty of evolving things
pertaining to the kingdom of Cod, from the confusion of
prince', Politic°' and powers, and rulers of the world, and
of spiritual wretchedness
.in high places. The benefits of
the Foreign Aid Society were at present almost limited to
France. and Belgium. The financial positionof he • t
was stated. The income for the first year had beent'
25(4.5121.7,_
and in this sum was included a legacy of 200/ and another of
221., yet the receipts, notwithstanding, fell abort of those of
the preceding year by about 3601. The
society had gained
admission to two new places
in P.amsgate and Hastings, and
they now reckoned 188 1c ei gymen who were its friends and
supporters. The report concluded .with a strong appeal to
the religious public for increased support. The report was
then ad ,pied, and was ordered to be printed for circulation.
The niee;ing was addressed by Earl Galloway, Pasteur Aude-
bat, M. Petal, the Rev. Mr. Nolan, the Rev. Mr. Burgess,
rind Others, and' several resolutions having been agreed to,
founded upon t a report. thanks were given to the Noble
Mai girls in the chair, and the ,meeting separated.
ISJONEIf MinKla.--The 'premium on gold at Paris
is 21 per milk., which, tit •tlao English Mint price of
31. 17, r ()mice for r:tandeld k (lid, gives an ex•
ehango of. 25.0 ;...Pd the r xelitti•ge at P:.ris ou.London
ayshort , being 25.6.21. it tilinws that gold is 0,21 per
:debt:. dearer: in,raris than in London. By, advice-. trust)
price .of gold -is 4451 pel mytk,.wi)ich,
at the English Mint price n' 31 17 -. 10F. per ~,biecc for
standard gold. gives nn of 13 Hi; am.l ,x-
-clia,•.ge rifallbn,;4ll ).n-d+,,l s!,(Nri Ireir.g 13 10 .
it f011.,w, that gold is 0.1.1. p r L0,,,i..0
than in Hsmburgb.

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