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reason was, that in 1837 a rate of 3s. in the pound
was deemed necessary for the repair of the church, whereas, in
1842, though the church must have gone more into decay, a
rate of 2s. in the pound, was thought to be enough. He also
contended that the Churchwardens ought not be satisfied
with a show of hands at the meeting, in proof of which he quoted
a case from Rogers, p. 789. The parish were only bound to
repair the nave of the church, and not the whole church.
And it was evident from Ist Mordaunt,.p. 237, that though a
tax were imposed de reparatione ecclesue, and applied to the
repair of the chancel, the Court could not interfere at Common
Law, and the expenses need not be allowed in the churchwardens'
accounts; and, therefore, the rate was bad. The next objection
he had to urge was against the rate itself and its excessive
amount, on which ground he contended also that the allegation
must be rejected. The- churchwardens and the mino-
rity in vestry assembled took it upon themselves to omit
1,0001. worth of rateable property; and though, from the au-
thority of " Thompson and Sandford v. Cooper," in 3d Philli-
more, 640, the property of pmr,parishioners may not be in-
cluded in the rate, yet that authority could not apply to a ,ase
like the present. Upon the whole, therefore, he hoped the
Court would agree that a rate levied in the manner in which
that had been would be set aside.

The QUitEtes ADVOCATE and Dr. HAGGARD, who appeared
for the churchwardens, contended in reply that this case was
totally distinct from the former Braintree case. Thence was
not then made in a vestry meeting, or on a day when a vestry
meeting was convened ; it was made by the Churchwardens alone.
But none of these things could by said of the rate now in dis-
pute ; and above all, this rate had been made in pursuance of
a decree of this Coact; and a monition issued by the Court, direct-
ing the Churchwardens to call a Vestry Meeting, and to take
the necessary steps to raise a sum for the repair of the church,
as they were bound to do. But if a majority of the parishioners
mild still legally refuse the rate, there was no means of com-
pelling them to discharge the obligation imposed on them, and
there was no means of obtaining the execution of the order of
that Court. The ecclesiastical authorities could not enforce
their claim by having recourse to an interdict, which was a
proceeding, as stated by the Chief Justice in his decision in
the former erase, now obsolete, and abandoned by general consent.
The Judges of the Exchequer held that in the former case the
churchwardens had not legally proceeded, and that they were
not therefore entitled to the support of the Court. But
in that very judgment the legal character of church-
rates was admitted ; and it was manifest beyond all
question that in the opinion of the Judges a resistance on
the part of the inhabitants of a parish to snake the necessary
church-rate was a resistance to the law. The only possi-
ble means of enforcing the law had been taken ; and, therefore,
the proceeding of the refractory parishioners could not be
maintained. The majority who refused to make a rate, which
they were hound to make, threw away their votes, and the
•minority on that occasion legally represented the parish.
Dr. AnDASIs having replied,
Sir S. LUSAINGToN said that the question was one in-
volved in great difficulty; and it had assumed a new
aspect in consequence of the decisions of the Court of
Queen's Bench, and of the Exchequer. He would inded be
a bold man who under these circumstances would of his own
accord undertake to adjudicate upon the question. It was,
however, his duty to pronounce a decision ; but he would not
do so until he had taken further time to consider the whole
matter.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.

John Bagnell Stockley, the Brussels banker, agent and broker, who
was charged on Saturday week, with having unlawfully converted
to his own use, certain French Dutch bonds, left in his custody by
a lady of the name of Motors'', was brought up for re.examination.
The case attracted a great number of auditors. Mr. Chad-
wick Jones appeared fur the complainant, and Mr. Bodkin for
the prisoner.
Mr. CH►DWICK JONES stated, that he had got over evidence
from France, to prove the identity of the French Dutch bonds,
which Mrs. Molony's husband had purchased of a broker at Bou-
logne, and deposited in the hands of the prisoner. He also had the
necessary evidence to prove that the prisoner had misappropriated
the bonds, which he brought to this country (being seven of the
complainant's bonds), by causing them to be sold, and the pro.
ceeds to be placed to his account.

Mr. Ilyppo lite Sire, banker, at Boulogne, stated that he knew
Mr. Lambert Molony, the husband of • the prosecutrix there. In
the year 1835, witness sold to Mr. Molony fourteen French Dutch
bonds, the numbers of which corresponded with the numbers of
those respecting which evidence was given on the first examina-
tion of the prisoner. The value of the whole was above 1,200/.
They had been purchased by witness's house, together with a few
others similar, and subsequently sold to Mr. Molony, as appeared by
an extract taken from the books by one of witness's clerks.
Mr. William Wilson Scrimgeour, Manager al the Union Bank
of London, stated ,that the prisoner had been introduced to him
upon respectable references, and had opened an account with the
bank. Witness thought that the time of the introduction was
about January, 1841. Subsequently the prisoner brought souse
French Dutch Bonds to witness, who took them, but who refused
t.s take other securities of a comparatively questionable character.
(Here witness stated that the bonds placed in his bands were num.
bete& 2171, 2172, 2176, 553, 557, 558, and 2274 ; seven of the
numbers purchased by Mr. Molony of Mr. Sire, at Boulogne.)
The prisoaer afterwards directed that the bonds should be sold,
and the Bank accordingly sent them to Messrs. Boyd and Co., the
stock brokers, who sold them, and placed the proceeds to the pri-
soner's account. There was a balance of 41, remaining of the
account.

Mr. Chadwick Jones said there was another witness whom he
did not think it would be necessary to call, as the transaction was
confined to Brussels. • That witness, was a banker, to whom the
prisoner went, upon receiving the bonds from the prosecutrix, and
sold them, thus supplying the prosecutrix with the temporary ac-
commodation she required from the money derived from her own
property.
The LORD Maroa-:-There is no occasion whatever for hearing
that gentleman. -

Mr. Bodkin said he had expressed a wish upon the first examina-
tion that his Lordship would consult his legal adviser as to his Lord.
ship's jurisdiction in the case, and he was anxious to know whether
that had been done ?

The Logo MAYOR said be bad taken the advice of the City
Solicitor on the subject. and determined, after having heard the
opinion of Mr. Pearson to send the case for trial. He enter-
tained not theslightest doubt upon the matter himself. The offence
with which the prisoner was charged, was a bailable one, but if any
bail were offered, none would be accepted but good securities, to the
full amount of the prosecutrix's claim.
By consent of the Counsel on both sides, it was agreed that the
prisoner should be brought up on Saturday, to be committed for
trial, and the depositions of the witnesses were severally taken down
and signed.

TRANSPORTATION OP JERSEY FELONS TO ENGLAND.
—We mentioned in our last that a highway robber, convicted
of four distinct felonies -in Guernsey, had been sentenced to be
transported to England; and we have since heard that he
is to be shipped to Southampton, and there let loose on the
community: He is said to be a most expert burglar, and can,
pick a lack equal to Black Dick, who was some years ago
hung at Salisbury; but his principal forte seems to be that of
a- highwayman and pickpocket—so we would advise our
neighbours across the Channel to keep a sharp look out. South-
ampton has a great many beautiful shops, stocked with the moat
valuable goods, and a rich neighbourhood, comprising that class of
people who always carry plenty of loose money about them ; hence
this rascal will have a fine field open to him, and if the police do
not -watch his movements, he.will make a rich harvest. There was
also a fellow sentenced to be transported to England by the Jersey
Court on Saturday. - hut, on the recommendation of the Attor.
ney-General ; but he waas only a small offender. Judge Winter
Nicolle, who was on the bench, very properly protested against
this systetri, arid maintained that the man ought to be punished in
the island. Judge Perrott, however, thought differently, and, as
the bench was divided, the Chief Justice, Sir John De Veulle,
bailiff,.by his casting vote, sentenced him to be transported to Eng.
land; nay, more, that his wife and family, who had not participated
in his crime, should be transported also I Bravo! Verily a Daniel
is come to judgment. —Jersey News.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL—Sunday morning a
sermon was preached at the Chapel connected with Kin's Col.
lege, by the Rev. John Lonsdale, 8.D., the Principal, in aid of
the funds of the College Hospital, in Portugal.street, Lincoln's
Inn, The Rev. Gentleman eloquently pleaded the cause of the
distressed sick, and his earnest appeal was nobly responded to by a
very liberal subscription. One of the great benefits conferred by the
Directors of this Hospital on those unfortunate persons who are
compelled to avail themselves of its assistance, is that of sound re.
ligious instruction, in conformity with the principles of the
Established Church ; so that, while the skill of the medical
man is employed in the restoration of the diseased body to
perfect health, a faithful Clergyman instils into the minds of
the patients those religious truths which a sick bed is likely to ren.
der beneficial and permanent. At the date of the last report, that
is, during the previous year, 1,109 patients had been admitted, by
reoommendation, accident, or other cases of emergency; of whom
378 were cured, 140 mateially relieved, 105 died, 368 made out.
patients, 103 remained in the hospital; the remaining fifteen were
irregular, and of tkem there is consequently no report. In addition
to these there were 6,631 outpatients, giving a total of 7,740 of
[ the afflicted and destitute who have participated in the benefits
afforded by King's College Hospital. The expenditure of the year
exceeded the receipts by nearly 1,000/.

_ .
A letter from Algiers, dated the 28th ult., men-
that a barbarous murder had been committed on two French
colonists by a young man, from the environs of Strasburg, who
was working with them. It was at first supposed that some
Arabs had fallen on them, and had killed them, but the activity of
the police soon discovered the true murderer. The object of the
assassin is not stated.—Another letter in the Sentinelle of Toulon,
states that a great fraud has been detected in the management of
the military accounts at Algiers, the articles furnished being much
overcharged to Government. It was at one time supposed that the
surgeons were implicated, but the contrary had been proved in the
clearest manner. An inquiry was going on.

.
MERTHYR TYDVIL.—The generality of those who
reside in the manufacturing districts of South Wales'ardently hope
that the low rate of wages have reached their minimum. Far
" as the poles asunder" as we are from being the means of circulat-
ing false reports, yet it is useless to conceal facts; tradesmen can-
not fail to meet with many difficulties, if not impossibilities, to make
up their payments, and as fur workmen, great numbers of first-
rate ones actually suffer the want of the necessaries of life. The
crowds assembled at the Vestry room weekly—the hundreds of
those emigrating—and the vast number taken to their parishes, is
an undeniable proof of this melancholy truth—that Merthyr and
the neighbouring iron-works are in a more distressed situation than
they have ever been before.—Silurian.

HOUSE. OF- COMMONS, FEB. 23.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'Clock.
General MORISON was introduced by Mr.
Macaulay and Mr. Fox Maule, and took the oaths and
and his seat for Clackmannan and Kinross.
On the motion of Mr. BARNARD, th 3 London
and Greenwich Improvement Bill was road a second
time, and ordered to be committed.
The South Eastern Railway Company's Bill was
read a second time.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Wol-
verhampton in favour of the Severn Navigation Bill.
The Birkenhead Improvement Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed.
Sir J. Y. BULLER brought up the Report of the
Committee on the Southwark Improvements Bill.
Mr. GODSON presented a petition from Stour
port and Kidderminster, in favour of the Severn Na-
vigation Bill.
.MARYLEI3ONE VESTRY BILL.

Colonel T. WOOD brought in the Marylebone
Vestry Bill.
Sir B. HA_LL wished to know when it was the in-
tention of the Hon. and Gallant Member to move the
second reading of the Bill.
Colonel T. WOOD said he should move the second

reading in 10 days or a fortnight, as he thought in
that time the inhabitants of Marylebone would be
enabled to become acquainted with the nature of the
Bill.

Mr. R. CLIVE brought in the Grantham Pier
Bill, which was read a first time.
CORN-LAWS.

Captain BERKELEY presented a petition from a
place near Bristol praying for the abolition of the
Bread and. Provision tax.

LNMII BURIED IN THE SNOW FOR NINETEEN
DAY9.—A one-year lamb, belonging to Messrs. Sutton and Co., of
the Trubshaw farm, was missed on the 13th of January, during the
heavy fall of snow, and was not found until the lst of the present
month, when it was discovered in a ditch, standing in an upright
position, having been nineteen days enveloped in a snowdrift. It
had been reduced to a mere skeleton, and when brought into the
;resh air, it could neither stand nor walk; but by the judicious
care and treatment of Messrs. Sutton's shepherd, it has now quite
recovered. —SlVordshire Advertiser.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented thirty petitions
from di&rent parts of Manchester, praying for the
total abolition of the Corn-laws.

Mr. MARSLAND presented a petition from
Stockport, signed by a magistrate, a minister of the
Established Church, and many others, who are la-
bouring under great poverty and depression, which
they ascribe to the fatal effect of the Corn-laws, pray-
ing the House to pass a law for the repeal of the Corn
and Provision-laws ' • also, another petition from the
inhabitants of Stockport, agreed to at a public meet-
ing, expressing _surprise and indignation at Sir R.
Peel's proposed plan for the alteration of the Corn-
laws, respectfully demanding that the franchise be
extended to every man of twenty-one years of age,
and that the Corn-laws be totally and immediately
repealed.
Alderman WOOD presented a petition from South-
wark, praying that the toll be removed from South-
wark and Waterloo Bridges.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from
Marylebone to the same effect.
Mr. FOX MAULE presented a petition, praying
for a repeal of the Corn-laws, and an extension of
the Suffrage ; a petition from Berkshire for the re-
peal of the Corn-laws, and a petition from the Mayor
and Aldermen of Birmingham, praying that certain
clauses in a Bill before the House, investing the Com-
missioners 'of Improvement for that borough with ir-
responsible powers, be expunged from that Bill. The
Hon. Member cordially agreed with the prayer of the
petition.
Dr. BOWRING presented twelve petitions from
various places, praying for a total and immediate re-
peal of the Corn-laws. One of the petitions came
from a body of 'persons who had hitherto suffered but
little distress, men engaged in the manufacture of
chains and anchors. They stated that they were not
now able to supply themselves with a sufficiency of
nutritious food ; they, therefore, pray for a repeal of
the laws that tend to produce such distress.
Mr. JONES presented a petition from Ayr, against
the Corn and Provision-laws.

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE AT BULMER.
a. FEMALE SHOT tni Rea Huseawn.—The village or Bulmer, near
Sadhury, was on Sunday morning last thrown into the greatest con-
sternation by a report that Mr. Charles Viall, farmer, of the above
pariah, had shot his wife, which, unhappily, proved to be too true.
'Die facts of the case are as follow : —Mr. Viall had been spending
the evening of Saturday at the Plough Inn, in the above parish, and
one of his workmen having quarrelled with him, some blows were
struck. About eleven o'clock, Mr. Vial! went home in a state of
excitement, and quarrelled with his wife, on which she ran into
another room, and held the door after her He (Mr. Viall) then
tired a gun, which was loaded with shot, through the door; and
part of the charge entered his wife's left breast in an oblique direc-
tion, also carrying part of the door; which struck her. She then
made her escape to a cottage on the Halsted-road, and obtained the
assistance of two men, who returned with her, when they found Mr.
Viall in bed, with a double barrel gun by his side, one of the barrels
of which appeared to have been recently discharged. Medical as.
3i.tance having been procured, Mrs. Viall's wounds were dressed.
Nothing can be elicited from Mrs. Viall on the subject of the trans..
action. An account received since, states that Mrs. Viall was not
considered in danger on Monday.—Chehnsford Chronicle.
We have before stated that the occasion of the
Roden removal of the Court to Brighton was for the improvement
of the health
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that Mr. Harry Maker, the eminent surgeon of that place, having
been called no
has allayed the irritation, .and she has since cut three teeth. The
We are
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which state
Princess's health is now much improved.—Obaerrer.
.It probable'tbat, in consequence of the acceptance
of the Governer-Generalship: of Jamaica by the Earl of Elgin
(late Lord Bruce), the question which was about to be raised as
to the right of a Scottish Peer to sit in the House of Commons
for an English borough will no • t the present initance be
pressed to a decision.— Tory Paper.

Lord DUNCAN presented two petitions from
Bath, against the Corn and Provision-laws.
Mr. GIBSON presented several petitions having
the same prayer.
Mr. 'l'. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from
inhabitant rate-payers of Brighton, stating that under
the local Act, the overseer of the poor had the power
of compounding with landlords of houses for the poor
rate, under the sum of 20/. ; that much inconvenience
arose from this power ; they, therefore, prayed the
House to repeal the rate-paying clauses of the Reform
Bill, and as the best and shortest way of doing so, also
pray the House to pass, the people's Charter.
Sir J. EA.STHOPE presented petitions from
Loughborough, in. Leicestershire, from a parish in
Leicestershire, and other places, for a total and imme-
diate rePeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented four petitions from
Scotland, and three petitions from Ireland, praying
for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws ;
one of these was signed by several hundred persons ;
another was from the City of Cork, signed by more
than 5,000 persons and the other from the city of
Dublin, with more than 60,000 signatures.

THE SUN, 'LONDON, THURSDAY-I:EVENING,- FEBRUARY--244--1842.

referred, although they thought the petition ought to
be printed, were of opinion that it ought not to be
sold. He thought the House had better follow the
suggestion of the Committee.
This arrangement was agreed to, and the petition
was ordered to be printed for the use of Members only.
BUILDINGS REGULATION BILL.
Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from George
Thomas Ward against the Buildings Regulation Bill,
and praying to be heard by Counsel against it.
THE CORN-LAWS.

Colonel FOX presented a petition, praying for a
total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
Sir G. STRICKL AND presented a petition
from 2,600 persons in the West Riding of Yorkshire,
stating that they regarded the Ministerial plan for the
alteration of the Corn-laws as an insult to the starving
people, inasmuch as it held out no prospect of pre-
sent or future relief; therefore for an immediate re-
peal of the Corn-laws ; also a petition from a congre-
gation of Primitive Methodists at Hepworth, York-
shire, to the same effect.
Mr. MARK PHILIPS presented 30 petitions
from mechanics at Manchester to the same effect ;
also several petitions from Dissenting congregations
in Lancashire, stating that they were unable in a
great degree to go to church on Sundays, or to send
their children to Sunday-schools, from the want of
clothes, through the distress brought on by
the Corn-laws.—(Hear.) The petitioners, therefore
requested a repeal of those laws. Also, a petition
from a body of men engaged in iron works in Gla-
morganshire to the same effect, more on account of
others than themselves.
METROPOLITAN BRIDGES.

Sir CHARLES NAPIER presented petitions from
inhabitants of Black friars-road; and other places in
the metropolis, praying that Waterloo and other
bridges should be made toll-free.