The Sun. — 1838-09-05 (London, England)

SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK.  Yesterday morning an adjourned Vestry was held in the Vestry-room of St. Saviour's, Southwark, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Auditors on the late Wardens' accounts, and also for making aiChurch-rate for the year ensuing. Mr. RAYMOND, the Warden of the Great Account, in. Mr. JOAN the chair. Mr. CARPENTER SMITH, the Vestry Clerk, having read the andupon the question being put that they do pass, reploirrt, EMBLETON said there was one item in the accounts LUKE of the Great Warden which he objected to, that was, of the two Clergymen the sum of 391. 75. for jute.' of pa) ing rest on their back salaries. Mr. Henn, the late Great Warden, considered that the Reverend Gentlemen were entitled to it. They had been kept out of their salaries for two years, and it must be consi. dered that it was money. lent. Mr. EMBLETON considered it was a bad precedent, for on the same principle, every person who had not been paid was entitled to interest. There were many other items which he objected to, but from the short time the account had been laid on the table, he was not prepared to enter into them. Mr. WYLD said that in 1803, when the parish was in debt to him for a considerable time, he never came for interest, and he should therefore second the motion that the item be struck out. He recollected when an Act of ParNament was smuggled through the House of Commons to increase the salaries of the clergymen, and with that they ought to be satisfied. Mr. Ews remarked that he was astonished that Mr. Wyld's memory should be so bad. The two clergymen were obliged to go to Parliament to get something like a salary, and the House of Commons, on being put in possession of the mode in which these gentlemen were paid, increased their salaries to 3001. a-year. With respect to the interest, he thought they were entitled to it. They had been kept out of it for nearly two years, and what Mr. Herd had done certainly met his approbation. Mr. Cox observed that as Mr. Herd bad offered the clergymen their salaries every quarter, they ought to refund the amount handed over to them for interest. B. THORNTON, Esq.—ln that case, then, we should have been bound to pay our late Warden interest for his money. After a long discussion, in which Mr. Blacket, Mr. Raymond, and others joined, the question was put, when there appeared for the motion that the item be struck out, 13 ; and that it be allowed, 40; consequently, the amendment was lost. Mr. Euts then rose for the purpose of proposing a rate for the service of the church for the year ensuing. Mr. N. PEGG seconded the motion. Mr. ENIELEDON moved, as an amendment, that a rate of 3d. in the pound be made. Two years ago, when a church-rate was refused, the supporters of the church only asked for a fourpenny one, and if that was then sufficient, surely a threepenny one would cover all the expenses which the Wardens were called on to pay. The CHAIRMAN said he thought he could do with a sevenpenny or an eightpenny rate. Mr. Wynn mos ed that instead of a threepenny rate a sixpenny one should be proposed. A long discussion which, although highly interesting to the parties concerned, was not of a public nature, took place upon the subject, which ended by the question being put, when there appeared on a show of hands for the sixpenny rate, 31 ; kr the nine penny rate, 42 ; majority, 11. The vestry then proceeded to some local business; after which it broke up  Between Mary Andrews, and six o'clock yesterday morning Airs. the wife of a respectable tradesman residing' at No. 94, lfred-street, Bedford-square, expired at the University Colle.e Hospital, from the effect of having StNallowed an ounce 'Of laudanum, with the intention of committing suicide. The unfortunate deceased took the poison on Thursday last at her own liGrne, and on her situation being discovered she was re.noved to the hospital, where every possible assistance was afforded her, but the poison had sunk so deeply into the system that nothing could obviate its deadly effect. The deceased was 23 years of age. The cause of her destroying herself is said to have been jealousy.  PRICE sd.