Star.
London, England, 1825-11-30 00:00:00

OPINION.

By the first part of the same section of the Act, the
inhabitants of any parish, assembled in vestry, are em-
powered to establish a select vestry, " for the concerns
of the poor of such parish," and the persons nominated
select vestrymen, together with the Alinister and parish
officers, are to constitute a select vest! y, " for the care
and management of the concerns of the poor."—The
authorities given to the select vestrymen in the subse-
quent part of the section (which is alone stated in this
case) must, in my judgment, be construed with re-
ference to the purpose for which only the select vestry
is e,tablished, and for b.der enabling them to execute
that purrse, viz. the care :cid management of the con;
cerns of the parochial poor. It by no means repeals
the statute of the 18th George HI. ch. 19, by the 4th
section of which, the constables' accounts are to be pe-
riodically delivered to the Overseers, and by them lard
before the inhabitants, for approval or disallowance, by
a majority of such inhabitants; nor varies the liability
of the Overseer, to pay the county rates, wider the
55th George 111. ch. 51, sec. 12, or to make VAI lOUS
payments under other Acts or Parliament. It the )e.ect
vestry had the power of conduuling these payments,
they would have the power ot subjecting the Overseers,
who are liable for them, to distresses, and (1 believe) in
some instances, to imprisonment, without being them-
selves subjected to either: and the Legislature cannot
have intended that one class of men should be punish.
able for not performing a duty, in the execution of
which they *are controulable by another class. Indeed,
I conceive the select vestry's superin,endance of the
money raised or applied for the relief of the poor, and
the requisition to the Overseers to conform to such
vestry's directions, ouglr, with the context, to be under-
stood as extending no far Cher than the expenditure for
the subsistence or reli-1 of the poor ot the parish.
(Signed) SAMUEL MARRYATT.
Temple, sth November, 1825.

New stage coaches, four in hand, a TAnglaise, are
atom starting in Paris.
The Fiend) people are all in great consternation at
the interdiction of their trade with Col imbia.

The Royal Bank of Scotl md, a well as several
private banks in Elinbur,;l4 have recommenced giving
three per cent. interest for money de, osited with therm
'Tuesday senniAtit, a young man named Brickley.
who was arrested in the town of Skibbereen, under a
warrant charging him with sheep-stealing, escaped
From custody and plunged into the river; but being a
bad swimmer, and the current strong, he was drowned.
FIRE AT THE OLYMPIC THEATRu.—Monday night,
during the perforinance of the new N:'rwegian Burletta
of Hans of Iceland ; or, the Iron Casket, tt e audience
were seriously alarmed by the smell of fire, and a
volume of smoke, which was soon ascertained to pro-
ceed from the box lobby, where a beam was discovered
to be on fire, in consequence of one of the men em-
ployed in the Theatre having placed a lamp imme-
diately under it, and so close, that the flame c;;mtnu-
. nicated to it, and was fast ascending, when it was most
' fortunately arrested, whereby the most serious conse-
quence, were prevented from ensuing.
A • village Yorkshiteman, with mote money than
brains, went to the uratorioa, at York, ith no more
notion of s hat an Oratorio was, beyond what he could
collect from the meaning of the word, than a Calmuc
Tar tar. On his return to his brother boors, he described
the Society, as he called it, a great imposition : for
instead or being great orators, they sung their speeches ;
and he never heard such a squabble before, for they all'
differed one among another. One man got up with a
newspaper in his hand, saying " that he was the KING;"
and another followed him, who was the KING likewise ;
and while they were differing which it should be, he fell
asleep ; and when be awoke, everything was fettled."
lie merely went to " see loife ; and deer loife it was."
Two women, named Davis and Nixon, have been
committed to Stafford gaol, charged on the Coroner's
warrant with the wilful murder of a new-born illegiti-
mate child of the latter, at Leek.