The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-08 00:00:00

T. DUN STAN'S IN THE WEST.

Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the inhabitants
of St. Dunstan's, Fleet-streets and the liberty of the
nlls, was held at the inquest-room, ClitroM's-Inn,
to take into consideration the Report of the Church
Committee, appointed on the 24th of September last,
to consider the best mode of repairing or re-building
the parish church, and other matters thereto relating.
Mr. SHEPHERD, the senior Churchwarden, in the
Chair.

The Vestry Clerk read the Report of the COM..
mittee. It stated that they had taken the requisite
measures to secure the parish church from immediate
dal:ger; that on the subject of a permanent pro.
vision for the public worship, they were of opinion
that the most economical and desirable mode would
be to pull down the present church and re-build the
same; that an opportunity would thus be presented
of effecting a most important public improvement
by widening Fleet-street, one of the principal en-
trances to the city of London; but as this would
necessarily lead to the additional expense of a new
site, the Committee must look for the aid of the
Corporation and the public at large to effect these
important objects; that they had laid the result of
their deliberations before the Lord Bishop of Lon-
don, and that his Lordship was pleased to express
his entire approbation of the measure, the leading
points of which were detailed to him.

Mr. HOARB (the banker) proposed that the Re-
port he received and adopted.
After some discussion, in which severed of the
meeting took part, the Report of the Committee
was received and adopted unanimously.
The thanks of the Meeting were then moved to
tai:, Chairman for his able conduct in the Chair, and
the meeting separated.

A fine little girl, about five years of age, the
daughter of Mr. Wrraritts, at Milton, near Wells, was
burnt ti death on Friday, in consequence of its clothes
taking file during the temporary abseare of the mother.
Bath Chromi els.

We cannot help calling attention to the state
of the Strand i 1 rul of Fleet-street. The audacity with
which loose woman asPail passengers at night in these
great thoroughfares, is most disgusting awl frightful. No
capital in Europe exhibits such scenes of scandalous profli-
gacy tti London. As to the persons who are carried cff
by the wretched females to the brothels on each side of the
streets above-mentioned, they do not know what awaits
them : too frequently robbery and blows, an-I sometimes
worse. The male associates of the unhappy creatures who
pars the Strand and Fleet-street are universally house-
breakers, pickpoa-ets, and thieves of other descriptions.—
Times.

MATENCE, OCT. t'2.--'the definitive con:
elusion, or rather the execution of the convention be-
tween Prussia and the Netherlands, for the. navigation
of the Rhine, will not yet take place, becaule, as le;
hear, fresh difficulties have arise❑ on the question who,
ther the freedom of the navigation shall be limited to the
inhabitants of the States situated on its banks, or ac-
cording to the treaties of Vienna and Paris, extended to
all nations. The regulation of the free navigation of the
Rhine, which has been delayed for 12 yews, to the great
injury of all the States concerned, might be settled if the
question were considered in a general point Of View, and
not made subordinate to local ei-ecurnstances, and to
imaginary private interests. (The writer proceeds
to shew at some length that the making the Rhine free
for all nations woe I mot only promote, in a high de-
gree, the prosperity of the German States on its banks, but
that of Holland itself, which would become again, as it was
in former times, a grand depot of the merchandise of all
nations. " Shool,l the light of truth," he concludes, "ever
penetrate the Dutch atmosphere, the people in Hollers(' will
he aitonished bow they can have so long deprived them-
selves and ethers of the advantages arising from the free
navigation of the Rhine.")