The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

on the Ist of January, having been sent to Mr,
Johnson, the latter sends the following letter to Mr.
Pratt

[ROCHDALE RANK.]
" Albion Inn, Rochdale, Jan. 4, 1850.
Sir,—l am in receipt of yours of the tat inst. and

its enclosures, which I will take au early opportunity of
laying before the friendly societies haring funds in the
savings' bank. As they will wish to be informed whe-
ther your investigation into the affairs of the bank will
be considered a Government inquiry, or each individual
applicant have to pay the fee fixed by the statute, where
yea aro call( d upon to arbitrate between the trustees and
the depositors, your early answer will much oblige
yours most respectfully,
" F. L. JOHNSON, Sec. to the Friendly Societies.
" J. Tidd Pratt, Esq."
We understand that the friendly societies intend
addressing a strong memorial to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department on the subject of
their claim upon the bank.
An adjourned meeting of depositors was held last
Friday evening in the Public Hall, Bailie-street. On
the assembling of the meeting Mr. Edward Taylor
was called to the chair.

The placard calling the meeting having been read,
Mr. HUNT, solicitor, read his correspondence with
Mr. Tidd Pratt, and stated that he had been at the
savings bank that day, and bad learned that the claims
upon the bank amounted to nearly 100,0001, that
there was cash in Government security to the amount
of 29,0001., and that in all probability Mr. Haworth's
efidcts would realise 15,0001. more.
Mr. LUKE SCOTT theta moved, and Mr. Jour

IToymi seconded—" That there be a committee of five
appointed on behalf of the depositors to seek an
interview with the trustees and managers of the bank,
with full power to take such measures (not legal) for
ascertaining the state of the funds of the bank, and
the position of the depositors, as they may think
proper, and to report to the lepositors at a future
meeting, and that Mr. Edward Taylor, Mr. T.
Livescy, Mr. John Ashworth, Mr. James 111ellor, and
Ilcnry Armitage form the committee."
The meeting was then adjourned, it being left to the
committee to call another meeting of the depositors
when they thought it would be rtquisite.

CONTECRATION OF THE NEW GREEK CHURCH

Yesterday the first building erected in London, or in.
deed in England, in connexion with the Greek Church
we: consecrated with unusual ceremony. The edifice,
which has been recently erected, is situate in London-
wall, erini:e to All Hallow church, and is designed
for the accommodation of the families of the Greek
merchants resident in London, numbering between
200 and 300 persons, almost all of whom were present
at yesterday's ceremony. The church, which presents
a remarkably handsome exterior, is internally in the
13)zantine style of archit eture. The exterior is a sort
of composite style, the Corinthian and Byzantine pre-
dominating. Hitherto the na..mbers of the Greek
Church have assembled for the performance of their re-
ligious services at No. 9, Finsbury-circus, the back
drawing-room containing the altar, and the front being
set apart for the congregation. Tho officiating priest
was the Rev. M. Morphinos, who, after the altar ser-
vice and the act of consecration, ascended the pulpit
and delivered an animated and impressive sermon in the
modern Greek langauge. He remarked that the day
selected for the consecration of their new temple was
peculiarly appropriate, inasmuch as it was the day on
which they were called upon by their Church to com-
memorate the birth of the Saviour of the world. The
Greek Church had not adopted the now style, so that it
was twelve days later in its observance of Christmas-day
than any other Church. The edifice has been erected
at a cost of nearly 10,0001. On the front there is an in-
scription in the Greek language, which sets forth that
the church was erected in the reign of Queen Victoria,
in the midst of the Great British nation, to the honour
of God the Saviour, and in the veneration of the custom
of their fathers. The interior is richly ornamented,
and in general appearance is not unlike the chapels of
the Roman Catholic body. It is intended that there
shall be one service every Sunday, commencing at
eleven o'clock.
h at the
THE PROTECTIONISTS.—Who, of the old Play-
going world, does not remember and laugh at
remembrance of Liston's Apollo Belvi,o t
Murder, attired as a mourner, preposterousliuilio
defunct was de-
cease, and explaining that lamentedthebio
sht h,eh withad atrlluehisLliisfetobneieann
hat-band, scarf, and weepers, with most
his own
very sulpet.
car-
ried off by. suddTenhdeeartrho,
i ,Ivi throughout the country,
and with every appearance of unimpaired vitality,
tteoetTnni
, pro-
f,ice, are playing Apoll
pro-
claim that they are dead and gone. But the farce is a
very old one, has been repeated to weariness, and we
cannot call to mind the time when agriculture was not
perishing. so subject has it ever been to the chronic com-
plaint of Listen's character, sudden death. For so it is
that agi icuhural man never is, but always to be, ruined.
He has been poisoned as often as Dickens's Mantilini, and
is no whit the worse, or nearer his end, after all. What
is it that makes rural calamity of so long a life ? How
is it that it is ever sieking, and never gets to the bottom?
When are we to come to the promised wilderness ?
When is the plough to be deposited in the British
Museum as a curiosity belonging to a past and destro)ed
world ? HOW much longer are sowing and reaping to
go on, just as if farmers thought of selling and living by
something ditivrent from a loss r—Examinen