At the Essex Michaelmas Quarter. sessions, the .71Iagistrates quashs.:: an
order which reduced the amount on which the tithe income of c clergyman was rated to the poor. The case is thus stated by the ilErning ChroPi(le-- " The appeal to the Quarter-scssions W:19 made on behalf of the whole parIse (of South Weale) against a leverenil gentleman with the uminoue end net er eupherdoite name of Belli, he bit fg entitled to the viearial tithes of Sew:. Weald. The whole queetion arose under the Parociiiel Asseestnent which our readers may remember was very recently pa-,e1 (after conviaerabie diecussiom) for the purpese if regtilatieg and equalizing paymente to the pee:. Sec. in order Meet the burden might press fairly and proportionably tipee tee?
occupier of riek :1:111 of peor lends. The Reverend 5Ir. Belli (possible bie
etrange name keen misepelt in the repert) is owner of a tithe rent.charce of rait/. ; from which, for the purpitee of rating, a deduction of 120 per cent hae been iibertrlly consented to my his parishioners, making the sum to whi:7'.r fas: rate W.IS to apply only 450/. 'lire Reverend Mr. Belli would by no means are: to this meet:igen'. et, amid carried the oritter before two of his reverend brethsete of the quo! urn ; eh() at mice, end i thee t iliquiry, C wee:elite; to the etatemeel of Mr. Knee, counsel tile the " ine,..)deducted p .r cent. from es:
already r.d wed sum of ; tliite nerkieg only :lee/. site :tile to the poor. t
instead of Ow whiell was admitted to iii nti hi per annum. Teix uhjeet et the SI:14911h Was tO stl,tain or to us mm this exti nun lunacy order.' On a division, OW loyman, Mr. George Palmer, M. P., and foro., elergyuf an, nppu. ted the Lade'. ; the majority of eight for asmirliiei:, fe.
J. nun' a weaver. has been committed to Muiegoetery g,eet far twslverreel.i,-, an ill-tilling a policeman, from inability to fund los, if in In It nth] two sl.r,.ties in 301. each. Ile offered two Iraq ;-
onto of' whom was . to justify, but the other, Lia brother, ::aid to be
a sober. holiest, arel illetli.;h in a better coudition Coco trits,t leheurers, yes t. nt 1 in; ared to jostify. lime f.ers are detailed it-- a letter frail a. Mr. .r. 1Villirins to Lord Clive, the Lord. Limits tutot7.
who, of course, coo'd not int.'ofere. Tire ease has b..crr sent up re Lord John Ilto‘sell. [The Morning Chivalric has some justly sees:: anirmaivers,.oes urn the common practice in this carnitry of dernar&nr- excessive bail felon poor persons, while riAl folk :ire let uneasily, ar.d. puechase eseape from punishment by indomnityilig their bail. Tilt cxasp,ation caused throughout the country by their irijustice, Croaidc thinks, may orre day be felt grievously by the authors lith:UWS Id it. We are glad to learn that Lord Julio Russell 1mroir.lo:o7 ordered Wnihars to be liberated.] There sees only one prisoner for trial at the Merionethshire SessiorK; and the case was attended with eiteumstanees of a peculiar nets:ese The charge VV,..s fur st alitng a pair of shoes, which were larund in tie prisoner's possessiun. EVidellee %VII,: given as to the facts, and Jar.: retired for about half an limit; when to the astonishment of the Coarse tray brought in the following verdict—" Not guilty of stealing, la ^s guilty of taking the shoes with the intention of bringing them bark.' The chairman said Inc could not receive that verdict, but that they MIT. say whether the prisoner was " guilty " or " riot guilty." The Fore- man answered, " Not guilty."—Shritvsbney Chroaictc.
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