New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-08
BROOKLYN ITEMS.

szooSD USITAHrAN SoCrrTF-The proceedings OF this
Society in regard TO The ,.epane Of rel Ous creed pro
posed by the America Unitarian Association have been
sresdy alluded to IN our columns We subjon an accurate
reICri Of the resolutions passed on that occasion
Al meeting Of the members Of the Second Unitarian
Society, held the Athenauu their usual place Of wOr
ship in Brooklyn the evening Of Oct the follow ~
resolutions. after full discussion were adopted
American Untsran Ae.tan merely Easement Of oPaon On
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tfe opan sp5s 10 Il ssss. spos the chueh would b
departure IRON irns ohFi.-ian PraEe"
CoSsOIrDaTIoy.-Tbe final meeting Of the Consolidation
Commouers was held Yesterday afternoon in the May
ors Room in the City Hall Af1er the opening business
Tie plan OF Consolidation a. prepared was read oy the
Crk. Ills Ian i based upon the reports OF the various
Committee heretofore published with but a few slight
amendments, having merely in lew uniformity IN phrase
Districts into which the proposed City shall be divided
FOR certain municipal purposes, shall ALSO embrace the
Fire Dist lets and also thar the tax and assessment sal
in either District hal be published in the newspapers Of
the District in which the sale takes place
Mr. Sloan Of Brooklyn moved the adoption of the plan
az il now read when Mr. Strong Of NllIamsburgh moved
that the boundaries of the proposed additional Wards in
Wlliamsburgh and Brooklyn should be fixed which was
tabled. Mr. Strong then moved as IA amendment ihat
provision sha be made in the act prepared BY the Com
mission in the event OF the adoption IT the plan by the
people to drain of the lands along the division line OF
1.-The two Cite. and 10 grade the streets OF the vicinity
This proposition the Brooklyn members commended could
not pofy be embra ed in the plan a. there was no''
provision IN The Charter Of Brooklyn which had been
d,turhed providing for the draining OF lands grading
Of streets SC. and therefore voted il down
The motion 20 adoSt the plan being renewed hr Strong
observed that every proposition that had been brought
forward b the Wiamsburgh delegation had
bv that Of BROOKLYN every proposed for the
benefit Of WILLIAMSBURG had either been lost or laid upon
the table and b. could therefore what interest the
voters he represented could have in supporting the project
or why he hould vote for the plan here in Convention
BroOkyn interests only had been cared for from the begin
ming TO the end Mr. Murphy OF Brooklyn, fatty denied
that such had been pursued en- the part oil the
deegaton with which he associated bu, that on the
contrary tho had done every thing which IN their view
could best benefit The three divisions which was proposed
10 consolidate without wishing to infringe upon the rights
OF any one section a; the expense OF another.
Tie vote upOn the adoption Of the plan was Ultimately
taken aud resutcd-ayes, Messrs kalbHeiseh, Nyckoh
Cole- Hopkins Murphy spague Bergen Johnson NOR
ris SlooI-ll; nays Messrs. Strong and Linskey-2
Dir Mu1hyobsoryed that, the plan must be Published
for twenty DAYS and thirty DAYS before the election and
beid issutd in pamphlet form he would that the
Ck Of the Board be authorized to have the publication
made
An amc ndmen wa offered that the plan and the law
be published together in pamphlet form, and that all the
daily uarers In the county be authorized 10 publish the
rlan. merely. signed by the President and Secretary
Carried and $500 copies OF the pamphlet ordered 10 be
The President and Clerk authorized to distribute
the pamphlets, and the Board adjourned
FrxyR,L OF Rev. JAMES McDoSoUGH.-The obse
oues over the remains of the Rev. James Med enough
we're observed Yesterday morning in 1t James Church
Jaw st. with which he had been connected, n. pastor
f.; many wears The body was removed from his resi-
do nee to the interior Of the church preceded by fifty eer
eymen in white su.plces the two first bearing lighted
dpers After the committee bearing the BODY came 'he
y scians who attended the deceased during his illness
each wearing white scarf with black rosette After
TIacing the remains in the sanctuary solemn high mass
was cd brsted by the Rev Dr. Loughn, the bishop oil
The recently created Diocese of Brooklyn The Rev Dr.
Bacon of the Church If the Asce nsion and the Rev M
Curren Of Now York, chaunted the responses At the
90 if. "a III. N,
New York preached sermon, in which be bestowed
high uogum upon the character Of the deceased The
coffin then closed and taken to tafbush Tor lnerment
The procession very large and extended Tor several
fo.Ea