The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-14 00:00:00

POLIO* INTELLIGENCIL

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday several persona, in-
habitants of the parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, were
summoned befere the LORD MAYOR for having refused to
pay the " Church rate" demanded by the authorities in
that parish.
It appears that formerly the pariah used to remunerate
the Rector for his religious labour with 600/. or 700/. a
year, and that in order to oblige every body to contribute
more effectually to his comforts, the consent of the parish
to a Bill in Parliament was obtained. The Bill, which
passed into a law, and is the 6th of Geo. IV., makes a
provision of very considerable magnitude indeed for the
Bishop of Chester, the rector; and several of the inhabi-
tants openly express their disapprobation of the manner in
which the money raised by vii tee of this Bill is disposed of.
It states that the churchwardens, or others of the parish,
shall make an assessment upon all inhabitants and occu-
piers of lands, tenements, hereditaments, and premises in
the parish, except the rector for the time being, for raising
from time to time the sum of 2,500/., and such further
sums of money as shall he necessary for the keeping in re-
pair the church and church-yard, and the payment of all
necessary and proper salaries and disbursements, &c. &c.
The Bill also provides, that in case the sums of money as-
sessed and paid now shall not be sufficient fur the purposes
intended, it shall be lawful for the churchwardens in a
public meeting to make such additional assessment, as will
make up the deficiency of the original assessment, or add
the amount of such deficiency to the amount to be raised
by the next succeeding assessment.
One of the inhabitants, upon being complained against
by the vestry-clerk, for having refused to pay V. Ss.
church-rates, as established by act of Parliament, requested
to be allowed to state his objection. He stated that the
rate had been raised, within a few years, from 6001. or
7001. to the enormous sum of 4,0001. per annum—an
event to be attributed to the interference of Lord Liverpool,
whose partiality saddled the parish with the new rector,
who, under pretence of raising the tithes, obtained the
consent of the parish to the act which now compelled
obedience.

The LORD MAYOR here interrupted the defendant,
stating that he could not listen to any attacks of this nature.
The defendant said that he wished to show cause why
he refused to pay. He then stated, as an objection, that
the notices required by the act of Parliament had not been
complied with.

The vestry-clerk deposed, that all required by the act
had been done.

Some other objections as to form were then mentioned,
but the vestry-clerk iaid that every thing had been com-
plied with to the letter.
The complainant represented to his Lordship that he
had another objection,—an objection founded upon the
mismanagement of the rate. Ae did not see how a rate
levied, as the act stated, to keep in repair the church
and churchyard, could be properly applied to the pur-
chase of a house in a square for the rector, and improve.,
inents therein ; and yet such application had been made of
the money assessed.
The LORD MAYOR observed, that he had no jurisdiction
in a case of misapplication of parish money : a complaint
to that effect must be made elsewhere.

The complainant said that the act had been violat-
ed in other respects. The surplus of the assessments
were not disposed of according to the provisions. It had
been paid to the poor, instead of being used to lighten suc-
ceeding assessments. He contended that he was under all
those circumstances, justified in refusing to pay the rate.
The Loan MaYoc said, that he saw nothing in the ob-
jections, and decided that the defendant must pay the rat.'
The defendant said that he should appeal against the de-
cision, and that he should apply for a mandamus to the
King's Bench, to prevent the authorities from misapplying
the money raised by the rate.
None of the other defendants appeared, and orders were
issued against them for the several sums.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, a decent-
looking youth, about 16 years of age, named John Dudley,
was brought before F. A. ROE, Esq., the sitting Magi-
strate, charged with stealing a silver-spoon from the house
of Mr. Wharton, a gentleman residing in Grafton-street,
Bond-street. It appeared by the evidence, that the pri-
soner was sent by his master, a house-painter, to do some
work at the residence of Mr. Wharton, in the absence of
the family from town, the house being in the care of a
female servant ; and while doing this work, the prisoner
took an opportunity of stealing a silver spoon, which he
carried to the shop of one Mr. Lazarus, in Bloomsbury,
where he offered it for sale, and Mr. Lazarus at once told
him that he was quite sure that the spoon was stolen, and
should therefore keep it until the real owner came for it,
but never said anything about keeping the prisoner also,
I but cent' bum away to bring the owner.

The spoon, however, being missed by Mr. Wharton's
servant, suspicion fell upon the prisoner, and he was charg-
ed with the theft, which he at once acknowledged, and told
when he had left the spoon with Mr. Lazarus, but that he
had got nothing for it.
Mr. Lazarus now produced the spoon, which the servant
identified as Mr. Wharton's property, and the prisoner was
fully committed for trial.
The Magistrate ordered all the witnesses who were bound
over to give evidence at the trial, to have certificates for
their expences given to them, except Lazarus, whose con-
duct in not detaining the prisoner, although he detained
the spoon, was most reprehensible.
Lazarus said he had acted altogether through ignorance
in not detaining the boy.
Mr. ROE said he hoped it was ignorance, but it looked
very suspicious.

UNION-HALL.--The Magistrates of this office having
had repeated complaints of the nightly scenes of riot and
disorder constantly going forward in houses of the worst
kind in the neighbourhood of Kent-street, Southwark,
granted their warrant for a privy search, which was put
into execution on Wednesday night ; and yesterday morn-
ing about 60 individuals, male and female, the greater
number thieves and prostitutes, were brought before the
presiding Magistrates, M. SWABEY, J. T. HONE, and D.
KING, &qrs., for the purpose of examination. The pri-
sonern, it appeared, were all apprehended in brothels and
low lodging-houses, the receptacles for the most profligate
and abandoned of both sexes who resort to that part of the
town.

The cfficers who performed the duty described the scenes
in some of the lodging-houses as of the most revolting na-
ture. Most of them being very small houses, notwith-
standing some of the rooms contained upwards of 16 or 17
persons, male and female, who were all huddled together
without any distinction, the chief part of them lying naked
on the floors, with scarcely any covering over them. Those
of the prisoners who were identified as having been pre-
viously convicted as reputed thieves, were held to bail to
appear at the next sessions, and the remainder were dis-
charged, after having been admonished to keep away from
the abominable houses in which they were found.
The chief constable stated, that on the previous night,
in the course of the search, as he was in the act of entering
the door of a'brothel kept by Elizabeth Lee, in Kent-street,
he met a labouring man just coming out, who said he had
been robbed of a silk handkerchief and some silver : the
moment be was in bed, a fellow bounced into the room,
and having accused him of being (in bed with his wife,
swore that he would throw him out of the window if he
did not leave the place ; the labourer was glad to run down
as fast as he could, half-dressed, after his pockets had been
picked of all they contained. In this instance the woman
and her bully were apprehended, but it appearing that the
prosecutor was rather inebriated at the time, the Magistrate
hesitated sending the case before a Jury, but took special
care to commit the bully to gaol in default of procuring bail
for his appearance at the Sessions.

To show the infamy of the brothel-keepers, Maisey pro-
duced a letter addressed to the woman above-named, which
he found in her pocket. It was from another brothel-
keeper of Bristol, desiring that half a dozen young, clean,
and healthy girls might
be sent down as speedily as pos-
sibie. It described the dress each was to have purchased
for her, and concluded by expressing that there was plenty
of business in their way now in Bristol, and that the
writer would soon have occasion for a fresh lot again from
the London market.
The infamous woman being in custody, the Magistrate
having severely rebuked her horrible way of life, held her
to bail for keeping a common brothel.

Mr. Owen, of Lanark, went over from
Brighton to Maresfield last week, for the purpose of having
an interview with Mr. Peel.—Brighton Paper.

and fell
ABERDEEN, SEPT. s.—On Saturday last
employed as fireman in one of
u; this neighbourhood, met his
theJo b n
quarries
death in the most shocking manner. He had
just put the lighted match to a piece of
when,rrocs:, in
a moment, and before he could have
time
turn his face from it, it exploded ;
and
to
o
a splinter striking him on the forehead, lite-
rallycleft his skull in two. At the same in-
stant,his body was thrown to a considerable dis-
tance, among the stones, mangled and
motionless. He has left a widow and five help;
less children, one of them a mere infant.