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of Hammersmith, stating that, having considered
the manifest evils of the continued importation of
foreign paupers, they request the co-operation of
the Vestry in taking the sense of the Metropolitan
Ratepayers upon the subject, with a view to
petitions being prepared, praying the Government
to take the necessary steps to check the importation
in question this Vestry passed a resolution expressing
their opinion that some steps should be
taken to check the continued immigration of
foreign paupers into this country.
Royal Academy.—The Vestry, in April, 1891,
again decided to petition the Royal Academy to
open their galleries on Saturday evenings during
the Exhibition, from 7.30 to 11.0, as on the
evenings of the last week of the Exhibition, and at
the same admission fee of sixpence, and invited the
the County Council, and the rest of the Vestries
and District Boards of the Metropolis to join them
in the petition. The Secretary of the Royal Academy
replied that nothing had occurred since 1889 (when
the Vestry made a similar request) to lead them to
alter the decision then arrived at, and which was
then communicated to the Vestry, but that the
whole matter was then most carefully considered,
and the reasons which governed the decision then
arrived at were such as no circumstances are likely
to alter.
The following Vestries and District Boards
agreed to support the Petition:—
Battersea
Bermondsey
Chelsea
Hackney
Hammersmith
Holborn
Islington
Rotherhithe
St. Giles
St. James Westminster
St. Luke
St. Marylebone
St. Pancras
St. Saviour
Shoreditch
Strand
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