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London, England, 1827-04-21 00:00:00

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Apart 20.

The adjournment wit held this day before the Res
commit, and Aldermen Sir.P. LAURI'S, WOOD, and AN,-
Lim The only case before theCoutt was an appeal agar
the Poor Rate levied on the fl-v. Dr. °view, Rector of
Sr. Olave's, Hart-street. Messrs. Anot.Ptiol. Law, and
BARRY, apretred for the ap; 0.14'14 and Messrs. Bot.
LAND and Guerra, for the patish. Several witnesses
were examined, the object of whose testimony was
meant by the appellant's Counsel to prove, that an tin;
equal assessment had been made, and that some who
should have been rated were not assessed at all. It
appeared that the Rector's annual income, from tithes
alone, was about 11001. an% on that sum, at the rate of
ls. in the pound, the rate was levied. The Court, after
remaining some time in consultation, Confirmed tilt
assessment, and decided against the appeal, thins making
the Rectua's tithes available to the support ol the poor,

LONDON FEMALE BRRVANTS. 80CISTY.
...-.,00.--

The fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of this Sotietf
was held yesterday evening at the London Tavern.
Bishopsgate-street, the Right Hon. the Loan MAYOR in
the Chair. The assemblage on this occasion was et,
tremely numerous, consisting princiFally of Win. A
long report was read by the Rev. Mr. Watkins (Secrea
tary), shewing the important advantages effected by
this Society, the object of which is to promote the
moral and religious improvement of domestic servants;
and to encourage them to be correct and trust-worthy
in their conduct, and to continue as long as possible in
their respective services. For the acconiplishmessi
of these ends, the Society has distributed among
female domestics from its institution, to May 1826,
more than 50,000 tracts, written for their improve-
ment. Nine hundred and nine Bibles have bred
given to servants, who have lived one year in the family
after their nomination; and 5,2461. 1 ls. 6-i. in 1,929
pecuniary rewards have been distributed among ser-
vants living from one to thirteen years in the same sera
vices. Eighty-four of these servants have received the
septennial certificate, and reward of three guineas each.
In addition to all this, 5,461 engagements between
subscribers and servants have been made, through the
medium of the gratuitious registry, establi,hed by the
Society in Hatton-garden.
After the Report was read, the Right Hon. Chairs
man, and several Clergymen present, successively ada
dressed the Meeting in support of the vtews and inte•
rest. of the Society. Amongst the speakers was the
Rev. E. Irving, who came forward, he said, nut of gra.
titude for the blessing he enjoyed in the services
of two pious and modest servantemaids. The Reim.
re,id Gentleman in the course of a speech of an
hour's length, and which was de.cribed by his
Reverend Successor as treating de omnibus rebut d
,rdisrsdam obis, produced an anecdote in Blasts*.
Iron of the blessed consequences resulting from infusing
piety aryl scriptural knowledge into the minds of see.
tints. He told the story with great originality of manner.
In that part of Scotland, he said, where he came from.
and where it As the constant custom of masters and
servants to go to church together, discus.ing scrip.
oral topics along the road as they went, there
lived a man in the generation before that of f.is father.
He ranked as a laird, but In addition to his patrimo.
vial estates, he also rented k farm. He had six sons,
the eldest of whom,upnn his attaining the age of maturity,
being of a strong and healthy frame, and with his mind
well stored with Christian knowledge, went out and
bired himself as a servant. Each of the brothers,
as they respectively arrived at the same age, did the
same. By thus lightening their father of the' burden
of their maintenance, he was enabled to take a farm
for each of them. in which they all settled and mar-
ried but one. Upon the death of the old man, the
eldest son returned to the hall of his fathers, took pos.
session of his hereditary estate, and married at the age
of forty, for a religious mind will enable a man to
practice self denial in that as well as in other respects.
Here the Reverend Orator led his auditory through
some intricate ramifications of the genealogical tree of
the family, until he finally settled one of the brothers of
the wife, or of the wife of one of her sons, in Lancashire.
and wound up by stating that that old man was his
(Mr. Irving's) grandfather, he who settled in Lancashire
was his uncle, who realised a fortune of from 10,0001.
to 2),0(.01. a large sum in these par's. The Rev. Gentl-
eman concluded by seconding one of the Resolutions.
Thanks having been voted to the LORD Ala von, his
Lordship expressed his acknowledgments, and the Meet-
ing adjourned. • •

SURREY ASYLUMs—Yesterday, the Third Annual
Meeting of the Members of the Surrey Asylum, for the Reforms.
don of Discharged Prisoners, was held at the Sessions-houie. New.
ingtos. There were a number of Magistrates present. Sir R. H.
Isom was called to the Chair. The Secretary read a Report of the
proceedings of the Society for the last fourteen months, in which
time 51 prisoners had been received into the Asylum, 15 of whom
having given satisfactory evidence of deer reformation, had been
provided with permanent situations; three had been discharged as
incorrigible. Three had bees discharged at their own request; and
thirty remain in the Asylum. Several regulations for the manage.
ment of the Asylum were proposed and adopted. Mr. Demos,
M.P. and several other Magistrates expressed their confidence in
the utility of the Society's exertions, which checked ti e intrease
of crime that the distress of -the country so greatly tended to pro.
duce. Thanks were voted to the Caaiassax and Officers, after
which the Meeting separated.

GRAND MASQUERADE..—The Italian Opera House on
Thursday evening presented one of those motley scenes which have
so often been admired within its walls. The exertions of the vari-
ous purveyors of supplies for the hungry curiosity of the public,
which at this season is usually so voracious, were successful; and
this olla podrida, which, according to the style of the Spanish epi-
cures, has been kept up till the last, proved, that the Enter sour.
stands were not yet sated. The guests, in every varied hue which
the carnelian or the carnival ever presented,
" Laughed and danced, and drank, and sang,
And cast dull care behind them,"
till no more care remained to be so treated. The important and
interesting information, that supper was ready, received its an-
nouncement at one o'clock, and the exertions of the purveyors were
then eitiwned with true success. Good eating and good drinking
soon produced good humour and good fellowship, and notaitig was
heard or seen which could fairly excite the spleen of
only novery we noticed, was the hiring of reach for the evening, as
well as a Drummer and Fifer, who paraded the room Waving their
respective instruments. This would nut he allowed in Italy, front
whence the diversion of masquerading is borrowed; and there'll no
reason why it should be tolerated here. Indeed there seemed to
be a general fe.liog of its impropriety, and the poor Recruits whit
soundly hissed.