The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-22 00:00:00

PARISH OF CHRISTCHURCH.

Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, a meeting of
the inhabitant householders of the parish of Christ-
church, Surrey, was held at the Church in Black-
friars-road, for the annual election of parochial offi-
cers, passing the accounts ler the last year, and the
despatch of other routine business. The meeting
was the most numerous ever known in this parish.
Mr. HENRY HUNT moved that Mr. Joseph Selby
be appointed to the chair.
Mr. CARTER rose to object to Mr. Selby.
Mr. Hunt's motion was carried by a large majo-
rity, and Mr. SELBY took the Chair.
The meeting then proceeded to the election of
Commissioners of the Court of Requests, and the
requisite number were elected.
The election of Commissioners of Roads and Pave-
ments, under the Local Act, then commenced, and
Mr. HUNT cautioned the parishioners not to re-
elect those who had involved the parish in litigation
by levying distresses upon the goods of Messrs.
White and Greenwell, and other inhabitants, for
alleged offences against the Act. Mr. Hurt entered
into a statement, showing that the distresses were
altogether oppressive and illegal, and would be pro-
ductive of vast expellee and inconvenience to the
parish eventually.
In the course of the election several of the old
Commissioners were rejected, while others resigned,
one of them (Mr. Harris) declaring that he was glad
to be relieved serving such a rabble.—(Laughter.)
Mr. M'CREERY, the printer, complained that the
late Commissioners had been guilty of gross dere-
liction of duty, inasmuch as a nuisance had existed
in the street in which he lived for nine months, and
they refused to remove it.
This was denied by one of the late Commis-
sioners.

Mr. HuNT proposed Mr. Thomas Jonathan
Wooler as an Auditor of Accounts for the ensuing
year.
The motion was carried by a show of hands, but
a poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Carter, an-
other candidate. The poll will take place this day.
Mr. HUNT then gave a humorous description of
his reception at the audit board, when he first be-
came an Auditor, and said that after he had seen
the books of accounts and discovered sundry errors,
the meeting was by a well-managed trick adjourned
for a week, and in the mean time Mr. Carter and
Mr. Smith, the late overseers, had access to the
books ; and when he (Mr. Hunt) next saw them,
there had been sundry erasures and other alterations.
He charged Mr. Carter boldly with having been in-
strumental in procuring those alterations.
Mr. CARTER repelled the insinuation, and said
Mr. Hunt was treated respectfully by the Auditors.
Mr. HUNT—Respectfully ! why 1 have been in
all sorts of company, but I never experienced such
unmannerly, such rude and brutal treatment in my
life. _ _

Mr. CARTER—Why, whet' Mr. Hunt first en-
tered the room, he asked" what that fellow (mean-
ing me) did there ?" and I, in return, asked him
why he did not turn off the woman he was living
with, and take his own lawful wife to his bosom ?
(Loud hisses and cries of " shame.")
Mr. HUNT here rose in a tremendous rage, and
was rushing towards the speaker, but was stopped
by several gentlemen, or a personal conflict must
have followed.

Mr. CARTER was not again heard.
Mr. HUNT denied having called Mr. Carter a
" fellow," and declared that he merely called him
" that man," and by calling him " a man," said
Mr. Hunt, I am libelling human nature, as a proof
of which, instead of answering the question ►n a
manly way, he turned round and attacked an absent
and an unoffending woman.—(Cheering, and cries
of " Carter, hide your head after this.")

Mr. CARTER here apologized for any warmth of
expression into which he might have been betrayed.
The vacancies for several parochial offices were
then filled up in rotation, amidst a good deal of in-
teresting discussion.
Mr. HAwEs moved the re-election of Mr. Niey-
mott, the vestry-clerk.
Mr. MEYMOTT was unanimously e'ected, and re-
turned thanks.

On the motion of Mr. HAWES, that a grant of
300 guineas be voted to the Rev. James Henry Ma-
pleton, the rector of the parish, as a remuneration
for his services, in addition to his salary of 601. per
annum and the surplice fees,
Mr. HUNT moved, that the sum of 2001. be sub-
stituted ; but the amendment was lost, and the
original grant carried.
Mr. HAWES then moved that the further sum of
1001. be presented to the rector, to enable him to
pay a curate to assist him in his duties.
Mr. HUNT strongly objected to this grant.
Other motions were then arranged, after which
the meeting separated.
The proceed►ngs lasted from nine in the morning
until six o'clock in the afternoon.

The new Rectory House of St. Martin in the
Fields is proceeding with unexampled rapidity ; though
it is but a few weeks since the foundations were excava-
ting, the workmen ate now actually employed upon the
third story.