The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-18 00:00:00

came into that meeting, he said the other auditors
had passed the .butcher's acceunt, without reading
a single item of it ; and when lie eipOilinlited
With thein; they deefiiied .it-Wai the way in which
the parish accounts were always passed, and that the
. ,
, business was transacted usually in one night, and a
motion which he midi- for reading these items was
violently and successfully opposed. The next bill
examined was the baker's, and it was about to be
passed in the same way, when he remonstrated, and.
begged to know if there were any, check kept on
the items of the account; the book of Mr. Mackay,
the master of the workhouse, was then produced, in
which the daily delivery was contained, and the ac-
counts were found balanced to a shilling. The
baker's daily book was then produced, and on coma
parison of the first quarter with the master's book,
thirteen or fourteen errors were detected, most of
which were against the parish. He then wished to
have gone into the next quarter, but was told that
it would occupy too much time, and that an adjourn-
ment was necessary. He pressed them to adjourn
de die en diem, which was obstinately refused, and
an adjournment for a week took place. When they
again met, the books were produced with alacrity,
and the second quarter's accounts gone into, and not
an error ofan ounce of bread, or afraction ofa farthing,
could be detected. But (said' Mr. Hunt) though
my eyes are not quite so good as formerly, I
easily discovered numerous alterations and erasures
' in them, which -I pointed out to the auditors, of
whom the majority assented to my views. It came
out (he continued) that Mr. Carter and Mr. Smith
had, in the interval since the first meeting, sat up a
whole night together in going over the accoants, to
which they had obtained access through the master
of the workhouse. In the first instance he had at-
tributed the errors to the master's ignorance or in-
attention ; but when he saw the erasures and altera-
tions, he declared them, as now, that he considered
them as gross fraud and forgery as many persons had
forfeited their lives for at the Old‘Bailey.—(Hear,
and cries of « Order, order.")—ln making this as-
sertion, he called on the parish not to listen to it
without having recourse to the best proof—the
books themselves; therefore he would move his
amendment.

Mr. WurriitousE conceived it impossible that
any honest man could object to the productiOn of
the books, and therefore cheerfully seconded the
amendment. -
Mr. TILLEY, one of the'Overseers,
,objected to
their production, :on the ground that they had been
already examined by the auditors, of whom a ma-
jority had certified their correctness.
Mr. FAuT, another parish -officer also objected :
if they examined into accounts already -passed, they
might go further, and examine all the accounts of
the last eentury.—(A laugh.) •
Mr. CARTER, a former Overseer, alSo objected.
He alluded to what he called an ex-parte report,
published last year, of the proceedings, and attributed
this to Mr. Hunt having taken the :reporter home
with him. All the auditors had signed the accounts
except Mr. Hunt.
Mr. HUNT—That is explained by the fact, that
several of them never attended at all. Let the
names of those who signed it be read.
This was done accordingly, and it appeared but
eight out of the fourteen had done so.
Mr: CARTER resumed—He appealed to Mr. Tay-
lor, who was now present, if •the conduct of Mr.
Hunt, at the meeting of auditors, had not been most
ungentlemanlY., He had come there, and asked
" -What does that fellow (meaning Mr. Carter)
want here ?" and ended by calling me a blackguard.
A voice in the Church.—You might have retorted,
and called him a blacking-man.
Mr. CARTER--Wag this the sort of man to whom
the parishioners would pin their faith ? He said
that he came to the Meeting for the express purpose
of detecting errors in the accounts, and he hoped:he
should not be disappointed, as hi would blow them
akup. Let the- declamations of Mr. Hunt,. whose
oratoriCnl. powers were notorious, not be minded;
but let the parishioners decide by facts. He could
set down the opposition of Mr. Hunt to no other
cause than that they had refused to postpone a
vestry
fracasinunwtilhilichisberewtir
thefromn eengaged.—(Lau
de.
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Fai oungehetreirn.s
—Let the accounts be referred to a Committee to
report to a general vestry.
Mr. HUNT assented to this part of the proposi-
tion ; but let them be produced to this vestry, and
he would undertake in five minutes to convince them
of the facts he had stated with regard to erasures
and alterations. The auditors had been all called
honourable men. Why, all persons in, office were
honourable men. My Lord This is an honourable
man, and so is' Mr. Secretary 'That; but 'where:was
the use of appointing auditors at all, if their accounts
were not examined carefully ?—(Hear, hear.)—He
had not, as was said, Called the master of the work-
house any improper name ; he only pronounced
him an illiterate, ignorant man : in one instance, in
his accounts, he had spelt Monday with an u.—
(Loud cries of " Oh, oh," and " shame.")
A Parishioner.—He wants a classical man to keep
the workhouse.
Mr. HUNT would not have mentioned this, but
he wished to show that the two gentlemen who had
been so careful in making his accounts honest and
true, also wished him to appear a man of learning,
and had actually scratched out the u, and made it 0.
He again repeated, that the erasures were fraudulent
forgeries. If the accounts were not prodticed, he
was convinced no parishioner would have the least
doubt of- the cause.
Mr, CARTER wished to have it understood, before
the question on the amendment was put, that no per-
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Act of Parliament--ctehre6.ilily;let gentleman's
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The CHAIRMAN—Let the names of those who will
vote for thanks to the overseers. be given to the
Vestry-clerk, and their qualifications shall be exa-
mined.

Mr. HUNT asked, if the act had been made only
for this specific purpose, or if it meant to include

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non disposed
called for for it to be
every act of vestry
The Clerk, after some hesitation, said it was meant
for the whole proceedings.
Mr. HUNT—Then why not vote accordingly for
ctihoenmeo.rt.hcerArTeEsitti_onßs aeleraeuadsey

Mr. 1- luNT—The motive of this is easily seen
through.
when you offer no resistance to thg gen-
tlemen managers, you may vote as illegally as you
please; the
instant you show any desire to thwart
them, out comes the Act of Parliament; and the ne-
cessaryqualifications. (Hear, hear.) Let us leave
the church to themselves. They are still able to
out-general us.

Several voices exclaimed, " It's all a humbug,
from beginning to end ; let us follow Mr. Hunt?'
More than half the persons present then quitted
the church, and
.left the churchwardens, overseers,•
vestry clerk, and about a dozen otheri, to'dispose of
the amendment and vote of thanks.

THE"TOivER of LONDON.-4 dispute has
arisen between the' Authorities in the Tower and
,the City
of London; with .regard to the Tower Stairs. In conse-
quence, of thiS, Captain powlen, of the Third Guards,
waited on the Lora Mayor on Saturday, with a letter from
Major Ebrington, the principal resident Officer in the,
Tower, in which he asks, "if the Lord Mayor has re-
, seised authority from his Majesty to take possession of the
Tower Stairs, and levy contributions on his Majesty's sub-
jects ?"—The Lord Mayor declined answering this letter
until he should communicate with the City Solicitor on the
subject. Not long, since, it will be remerrrbered, that at
the end of Tower-street a' chain was extended, which
isolated Tower-ha-4 and after considerable agitation of the
subject, the City,succeeded in their efforts, and caused it to
be. removed. 'While the Mint was held within the pre-
cincts of this ancient edifice, two persons were sent to
prison for some crime there committed, and they were sub-
sequently tried by a City of London Jury, and executed at
Neurgate ; thus showing that the jurisdiction,' lot offences
t kao, rests in the City of London.