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A letter was subsequently received from the Home Secretary, as follows:—
Whitehall,
23rd July, 1887.
Sir,
I have had the Honour to lay before The Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of
the Rector, Churchwardens and Members of the Vestry of Rotherhithe, on the
occasion of Her Majesty attaining the Fiftieth Year of Her Reign. And I have to
inform you that Her Majesty was pleased to receive the same very graciously.
I have the Honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) HENRY MATTHEWS.
Rev. E. J. Reck, M.A.,
Rotherhithe, Surrey.
Miscellaneous.
On the 19th April, 1887, the Vestrv passed the following resolution, viz.:—
"Resolved, that the Vestry having learned that the London School Board has
"passed a resolution increasing the Salary of the Clerk from £1,200 to £1,400 per
"annum, desires to record its ernest protest against any increase of an already large
"salary, at a time when the burden of the rates presses very heavily upon the ratepayers,
"and trusts that the resolution in question may be rescinded."
"Resolved, that a copy of the foregoing resolution be sent to the School Board for
"London, and also to each of the Members of the said Board representing this District,
"and that they be requested to support it."
The Vestry having had under consideration a resolution passed by the Vestry of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, as follows, viz.:—
"That it was equitable that succeeding generations be made chargeable to a
"greater extent than at present with the cost of freeholds, school buildings and other
"permanent works of the School Board for London, and in order to that end the
"payments to the sinking fund of the Board be extended from 50 to 100 years; by this