In the Revising Barristers' Court, held in London for the
Middles sex list, Mr. Coppock's name, which had been struck off the register, was restored; the evidence on which it had been expunged being pro. nounced insufficient, on reconsideration by the Barrister, Mr. Shad. well.
A public meeting was held on Thursday in the Vestry-room of Ss Saviour's, Southwark, for the purpose of authorizing the Wardens to
borrow by Exchequer Bills, or otherwise, a sum of money not exceed.
ing 8,0001., to build a new church on the site of the ruins of the west. ern part of the present edifice. Mr. Barclay, the brewer, submitted the plans and estimate of Mr. Rose, the parish-surveyor. He de. scribed the dilapidated state of the present church, and its total inapti- tude to the large parish, which contains 20,000 inhabitants, whereas there were not sittings for 900 persons. The total cost of the new church would not exceed 8,0001.; to which Mr. Rose was pledged, and would afford accommodation to 2,000 persons. He concluded with an earnest request that the subject would be discussed freely, fairly, and with a Christian spirit. He moved resolutions favourable to the securing funds towards the erection of a new church, and ap. pointing a committee to carry out the object. Mr. T. B. Burbidge seconded the resolutions. Art amendment was moved and seconded, that the church he built on the Voluntary principle ; and there appeared tor it 61, against it 41. Mr. Ellis demanded a poll; which will COM. Inence at one o'clock on Tuesday, and will be continued to Wednesday.
The St. Pancras Vestry have refused, by a large majority, to allow Mr. Sergeant Heath the use of the Vestry-room for holding a District Court of Requests in that parish. One of the speakers said the Ser- geant's salary amounted to 6,0001. a year, out of which he might surely afford to pay for the use of a room.
A correspondent of the Chronicle gives the following statement respecting the increase of the Aliddlesex County-rates, under the present system of irresponsible management- " Within these sixty years, the county-rate expenditure of Middlesex has in. creased from four thousand to upwards of fourscore thousand pounds a year. This enormous increase has been the subject of frequent complaint, but to no purpose; and unless some effectual control of the Magistrates in voting away public money be devised, the increase will go on more and more. At this time, tier example, there are measures in progress, by the Visiting Justices at Clerken- well and at Westminster, to create additional yearly expenses, which are wholly unnecessary and undeserved. At the Coldbathfields prison, it being found that the Matron is unfit for her place, nut from age or infirmity, but frern incapacity, it is proposed by the Visiting Justices that she shall not be discharged and another be appointed in her room, but that she should be kept on at her full salary, no less than 150/. a year, and that a new appointment should be made of an Assistant Matron, to do the other's work, with a new salary. At the Westminster prison, the job of the clay is to increase the Chaplain's salary from 2301. to aot. a year : about four years ago, he with several others was eagerly canvassing for the place, at the then salary of 125/. a year, and at that salary there are now hundreds of the working clergy who would be thankful for the appointment, and would do its duties well. A year or two ago, the Chaplain prayed for an increase of salary, and it was doubled—it was made 250/. a year : he is now at his prayers again for another 125/. a year, and he is backed by the Visiting Justices. I arri no great friend to the principle of renderiog the Magisterial office elective, but if this reckless voting away the rate-payers merrier be not effectually checked, I shall become a convert to the necessity of allowing them to elect their own Magisterial officers."
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