The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-04 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

On Saturday the Rev. Dr. Spry took the chair,
and the usual weekly business was disposed of, when—

Sir BENJAMIN HALL read a letter from the secre-
taries of the " Royal Commission for the Exhibition
( f the Art and Industry of all Nations," in which
they begged that he and his Noble Colleague would
exert themselves in promoting the objects of the Com-
mission. In compliance (continued the Honourable
Baronet) with that request, he gave publicity to the
intended exhibition, at the vestry meetings of St.
Pancras and Paddington, and with that view laid that
day the letter he had just received before the present
vestry. Both he and his Noble Colleague pledged
themselves to advance the great object which the ex-
hibition contemplated.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., thanked the Hon. Ba
ronet and his Noble Colleague for their assistance in
forwarding the success of the exhibition. He moved
that Captain Holland, R.N., and Messrs. Plowden,
M.P., John Williams, Broughton, Bridgman, Nico-
lay, Daviss, and Graham be appointed a committee to
co-operate with the other parishes in preparing for
the exhibition.
Mr. GRAHAM seconded the motion.—Cirried.

Mr. HUME said that authorised reports and state-
ments of the most startling charges of mismanage-
ment and reckless expenditure by the parochial autho-
rities reached him, which, in his opinion, demanded a
strict and searching investigation. According to
those authenticated statements the parish was in a
much worse condition under an elective government
than when it was governed by a self-elected body. It
appeared that, in 1832, the rates only figured 111,0001.;
while last year they reached 170,0001., although the
number of pauper bastard children dwindled from
4,688 to 1 last year, and the police-rates fell from Bd.
to 6d., and the church-rates from 3id. to a ld., which,
with other similar reductions, should have lessened
the parochial burdens 39,000/., with a proportionate
reduction of the per centage. In St. Pancras, which
contains 150,000 inhabitants, the average cost of each
pauper was Si.6s. Bd.; while in Marylebone, which
numbered only 160,000, each pauper costs 71. 12s. sd.
In St. Pancras the coals cost only 405/. ; and in Mary-
lebone, 1,084/. In the latter parish five articles of
food cost 10,5651., which, in the former, amounted to
5,7521., making a difference of 90 per cent. The
out-door relief in Marylebone averaged, during the
last three years, 63,248/., and in St. Pancras only
33,5211., making a difference of 40 per cent. During
six months, in 1848, the meat for 2,048 paupers cost
4,070/. 1 ls. Bd., of which one and-a-half pound were
once a week given to each pauper, while the same
quantity was daily given to each of twenty• six officials.
From January to June, 1849, the meat cost
2,848/. 6s. 3d., although the consumed amounted
only to 1,674/., leaving 1,073/.,t0 be accounted for.
It was also stated that, contrary to Act of Parlia-
ment, certain vestrymen held lucrative parochial
situations. He, therefore, moved the appointment of
a committee to investigate and report upon those
charges.
Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion.:
Mr. H. C. WILSON pronounced all those accusa-
tions as false and groundless.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., moved an adjournment
of the debate, and the vestry accordingly adjourned.

VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S
SOIREE. —On Saturday evening Viscount and Vis-
countess Palmerston had a brilliant assembly at their
residence in Carlton House-gardens, the announcement
that Lord Gough would, in all probability, be present,
tending, no doubt, to attract a more than ordinary
gathering of the aristocracy. A dinner preceded the
reunion. The following were the guests:—Lord Edwasd
Howard, Lord Howden, Lady Minto, Marquis and
Marchioness Clanricarde, Earl of Powis, Mr. Greville,
Lady Jocelyn. Baron Roller, Mixon and Baroness Bru-
now, Lord and Lady and Miss Foley, and Miss Loch-
man, &c. Soon ef:.er ten o'clock the company invited to
the evening assembly began to arrive, and a number of
the visitors having teen at the Speaker's levee, the
different costumes added much to the brilliancy of the
gathering. Lord Gough, on his arrival, was received
with many con,gratulations. Several hundreds of the
nobility and the elite of the fashionable world were
present.
BRUTAL CHILD MURDER IN THE GREEN PARK.
—Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, the constable
on duty in the Green Park, in passing round the reser-
voir, bad his attention drawn to a dark substance lying
at the bottom of the water, and on getting it out It was
found to be the body of a male child, about one month
old (evidently cruelly murdered, the head being beat in,
and marks of strangling round the throat), wrapped in a
black silk apron. It was removed to St. Martin's
workhouse, where it awaits the inquest.

Recently a hawk pounced upon a weasel, and was
carrying off its prize in triumph, when it was observei
to spread out its wings, and both came gradually to the
( arch. The hawk was dead, but the weasel, after turning
round onoe or twice, began deliberately to Make gt meal
on the eereftle of his wow.