The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-07 00:00:00

TIMBER SHIPS.

On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE the House went
into Committee to consider of a Bill for preventing ships clear-
ing, out from any port in British North America, or in the
seetlement of Honduras, from loading any part of their cargo
of timber upon deck.
Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House Adjourned at a Quarter-past Twelve.

PARLIAMENTARY D
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the Ho
TUESDAY, ?ARIL Jr.

IVISIONS.
,use of Commons.)

CORN-IMPORTATi
MINORITY of Thirty-nine (Tellers inc'
Lord Worsley's A'Bendmel
A.ldam, William Ebrington, Viscount
Allix, John Peter Grogan, Edward
Archbold, Robert Hamilton, C. J. B.
Barclay, David Heneage, E.
Barrington, Viscount Howard, C. W. G.
Brodie, W. B. James, William
Buller, E. Lygon, Hon. Gen.
I3urroughes, H. M'Taggart, J.
Busfeild, William Murray, A.
Childers, J. W. Norreys, Lord
Christopher, R. A. Norreys, Sir D. J.
Dundas, Admiral O'Brien, Cornelius
Dundas, Frederick Henley, J. Warner
Eaton, R. J.

'ON.
luded) who voted for
nt :
O'Brien, W. S.
Packe, C. W.
Palmer, George
Pusey, P.
Tancred, H. W.
Tollemache, J.
Troubridge, Sir T.
Vere, Sir C B.
Wallace, H
Yorke, Hon. E. T.

TELLERS
Wortley, Lord
Palmer, Robert

MINOR! I Y of Se

renty-one ( Tellers inc
Childers' Arnenclinerr
Ferguson, o:onel
Forster, Matthew
Gill, Thomas
Gore, Robert
Hill, Lord Marcus
Howard, C. W. G.
Humphery, J.
James, W.
John,tone, Alex.
Leader, J. T.
Listowel, Earl of
Macaulay, T. B.
Marshall, W.
Murray, A.
Napier, Sir Charles
Norreys, Sir D.
O'Brien, C.
0' Brien, J.
Pechell, Captain •
Philips, Mark
Pigct, D. R
Pinney, W.
Ponsonby, C. F. A.
Ponsonby, Hon. John

Agltonby, H. A.
Aldan), William
Barr lay, David

Berkeley., C.
!Slake, Sir Valentine
Bowring, Dr.
Brotherton, J.

Buller C.

- -
Buller, E.
liusfeild, W.
Cavendish, Hon. C.
Cavendish, Hon. G.
Christie, W. D.
Clements, Lord
Craig, W. Gibson
Crawford, W. S.
Duncan, George
buncombe, I'. S.
Dundas, C. W. D.
Dunilas, F.
Ebrington, Viscount
Ellis, Wynn
Evans, William
Swart, W.

quded) who voted fo
;--
Power, James
Ricardo, John Lewis
Scott, Robert
Sheil, R. L.
Smith, ienjamin
Smith, Ve:non
Somerville, Sir W.
Strutt, Edward
Taucred, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Troubridge, Sir T.
Tufnell, Henry
Turner, E
Villiers, Charles P.
Vivian Hon. Captain
Wallace, R.
Williams, Wm.
Wood, Benjamin
Wood, G. W.
Wrightson, W.
Yorke, H. Redhead

ST. ALBAN'S ABRI
NUNNERY

TELLERM.
Childers, J. W
Hawes, B.

Y.-THE

Sopwell Nunnery was founded by Abbot Geoffrey
about 1140, on his observing two poor women dwelling
there in a wretched hut of their own constructing., and
living a most austere life on bread and water, and in re-
gular devotion to God. Their piety induced him to build
a house for their comfortable living, and to bestow on
them some possessions. He appointed also a chapel and
a church-yard, ordaining that none should be buried
there excepting the nuns ; none to be admitted into the
house but maidens ; and the number not to exceed
thirteen.

Henry de Albini, or Albeney, of the houso of Todenei,
gave to this house two hides of land, with his wife's con-
sent, in their manner of Cotes in Beaulieu. His son
Robert, and his mother Cicely, gave a rood more, in the
same manor, Richard de Tany, or Todenei, gave them
the land called Black hides in Ridge parish. _ _

Abbot Michael, about 1338, ordained certain rules for
the regulation of this house, and enjoined a better order
and observance than they had before practised. They
are as follows : 1. That the commemoration of St. Alban
should be kept as usual. 2. That no more than three
nuns should sit in the chapter. 3. That silence be ob-
served, as ay the rule of St. Benedict, in the church or
chapel, in the cloister, in the refectory, and the dormi-
tory. 4. That a little bell do ring in the morning, as
notice to rise and appear, and that none leave the dor-
mitory before the bell rings, 5. That the garden-door
be not opened (for walking) before the hour of prime, or
first hour of devotion ; and in summer, that the garden
and the parlour doors be not opened until the hour of
none (nine) in the morning ; and to be always shut when
the corfue rings. 6. That no sister hold conversation
in the parlour without her cowl on, and her face covered
with her veil. 7. That tailors, or other artists, be persons
of good character, but to work in some place assigned
them without the mona,stery ; and never to be admitted
into chambers or other irivate places. 8. That if any
sister be under a senteie of penance, this shall not ex-
clude her from the dutieil, of the church. 9. T:.e sick to
be kept in the intirmari.. 10. No nun to lodge out of
the house, and no guest within it. 11. All the sisters
to be present at the mass of our Lady.—Ea treeted from
Beattie's Castles and Abbeys of England.
. MARY LEBONE VESTRY.

A large meeting of the ratepayers and parishioners of the
parish of Marvlebone was held yesterday afterntion in the
Workhouse-yaid, Marylebone, for the purpose of receiving
the Report of the. Committee appointed to oppose the Bill now
before Parliament, entitled The Alarylebone Vestry Bill.
G. A. You No, Esq., took the Chair, and briefly explained
the objects of the meeting.
Mr. C. FLOOD, the Vestry Clerk, read the Report of the
Committee, which was as follows :---
ST. MARYLEBONE PARISH BILL.
Report of Committee jointly appointed at the Public Meeting
of Ratepayers, on the 7th day of March last, and by the Board
of Vestry, for the purpose of opposing the above Bill in Par-
liament.
The various methods by which an effectual opposition could
be made to a Bill which seeks to deprive the ratepayers of this
large and opulent parish of some of their most important rights
and privileges, have come under the consideration of your Com •
mittee from time to time, and the steps adopted by them will
be seen in the following brief statement, which they have much
pleasure in submitting to their fellow-parishioners.
At the period of holding the last public meeting there was
but a very short time to elapse before the day appointed for the
second reading of the Bill. It was, therefore, the first duty of
your Committee to petition the Honourable the House of Com-
mons against such second reading, and accordingly a petition
was presented, signed by 3,477 ratepayers, in addition to a
petition presented by the Boards of Vestry and Auditors to the
same effect, whilst the petition of the promoters of the Bill,
notwithstanding the surreptitious manner in which many of the
signatures were publicly proved to have been obtained, con-
tained only 600 signatures.
The Bill was read a second time on the Bth day of 31areh,
and to show the intense interest excited in the public mind by
so extraordinary a measure as the one then introduced, your
Committee have only to state, that no less than 337 Members
attended, being the largest number, it is believed, that ever
voted on a private Bill.
Your Committee have been in communication with the pa-
rishes on the south side of Oxford-street, and the populous and
influential parish of St. Pancras, whose interests would be ma-
terially affected if the Bill was to pass into a law' and they
have much pleasure to report that the parish of St. James,
Westminster, and St. Pancras, have cordially co-operated wi h
them, by presenting a petition against the Bill, and the former
parish
have actively engaged themselves in pointing out to their
representatives in Parliament the pernicious tendency of the
measure; and as a result of such exertions it is important to
state that the Hon. and Gallant Member for Westminster, the
Hon. Capt. Rous, and his colleague, Mr. Leader, voted against
the second reading.
Your Committee would not omit to mention that the Hon.
Member for Middlesex, Col. T. Wood, who introduced the Bill
originally to the House of Commons, upon being made ac-
quainted with its real nature, at once gave up the precious
charge into other hands, and not a Member of the Metropolitan
Boroughs being found to move the second reading, the unplea-
sant task devolved upon the Hon. Member for Lymiugton, Mr.
Mackinnon, well known as being one of the active members of
the old self-elected vestry.
Your Committee are inclined .to believe that such second
second reading would not have been attempted but for the
statement then made, that two very important clauses, namely,
the one raising the qualification of vestrymen from 401. to 60/-.,
and the other seeking to secure a snug place for a treasurer at
a salary not exceeding 1,000/. per annum would ultimately he
withdrawn.
Your Committee have since the second reading of the Bill
prepared and presented petitions to Parliament, as well from
the ratepayers as from the Board of Vestry, praying to be
heard by counsel, agents, and witnesses against the preamble
and the several clauses therein contained.
Your Committee have much pleasure to state that, in order
fully to carry into effect the prayer of the foregoing petition,
the valuable services of G. A. Young, Esq., Wm. Theobald,
Esq., R. Thomas, Esq., James Coppock, Esq., and E. G.
Randall, Esq. have been gratuitously offered and accepted.
Your Committee would only state, that the more they have
considered the Bill the deeper is their antipathy to the objects
contemplated by the promoters thereof, viz., to disfranchise a
vast majority of the ratepayers, both parochially and politically,
to create disunion and discontent in all parts of this most ex-
tensive parish, and eventually adding to the existing burdens
of an already over-taxed community, by thus introducing a
Bill which, under the guise of a Private Paving Bill," would
repeal the vital clauses of the Public Vestries' Act.
Your Committee, therefore, in conclusion, reiterate that
they are ready, heart and hand, to give this Bill their most de-
termined and steady opposition, in which coutlusion they have
the fullest confidence of having the support of every ratepayer
who values those privileges which are beyond all price—privi-
leges which your Committee, on the behalf of all, are earnestly
desirous rather to increase than impair, and to perpetuate the
same to the remotest generation.
Mr. LANGHAM proposed the first resolution, to the follow-
ing effect :—That the meeting had heard and considered the
report of the Committe of vestr) men and ratepayers detailing
the steps they had taken in opposition to the St. Marylebone
Parisq Bill, and also the proceedings at the conference held '
with the promoters of the bill with the greatest satisfaction,
and the meeting therefore urged upon the Committee to con-
tinue their strenuous and uncompromis ng opposition to the
Bill. He (Mr, Langham ) was not one of those who had been
honoured with an invitation to meet Dr. Spry and Mr. Pope,
but by the courtesy of the Doctor he was present, arid he
thought no man was more suited to humbug a Radical. He
(Mr. Langham) had great respect for the Doctor's
talent, but he must say that the interest advocated by him
was not synonornous to theirs.—( Cries of " Hear, hear. ')
Ile held in his hand a return of the amount of the church-rates
collected in that parish for nine years subsequent to the time
the present Bill came into operation. In 1825 the churchi
rates were 16,2631. in 1826 they were 16,7961., in 1827
16,8821., in 1828 17,2971, in 1829 17,2371.,
in 1831 11,3971.
in 1830 11,5301.,
The CHAIRMAN here intimated that this was not the ques-
tion before the meeting.
Mr. LANGHAM said it was a very important question, and
he hoped the meeting would allow him to go on. In 1833,
when the new Vestry Act came into operation, the amount
was
8,63 W., in 1834 6,1111., in 1835 6,1701., in 1836 1,285/.,
in 1837 6,3531., in 1838 6,430/., and in 1839 to 6,472/ so
that they would see that the amount of church-rates had been