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be sent to all Vestries and District Boards, inviting
them to co-operate with the Vestry in taking
similar action. The Council stated that the matter
of making provision for lowering barrels into cellars
by means of hydraulic or other power, with the view
to abolishing the use of ropes across footways,
hardly falls within the purview of the Building
Acts, but is rather one to be dealt with by an
Amendment of Sec. 101 of the Metropolis Management
Act, 1855, and that they are not at the present
moment prepared to recommend the Council to consider
the question of promoting legislation as suggested
by the Vestry. A letter was thereupon sent
to the Council expressing the regret of the Vestry
that they cannot see their way to make a by-law as
suggested, seeing that 23 Vestries and District
Boards have expressed themselves in favour of same
and none against it.
Northampton Institute.—The Vestry have again
had under consideration the question of the Vestry
having a representative on the Governing Body of
the Northampton Institute, and they have passed
the following resolution:-"That a representation
by letter, or if necessary by deputation, be made to
the Charity Commissioners, urging them to grant
to the parochial authority of Clerkenwell the right
of representative on the Governing Body of the
Northampton Institute." The Charity Commissioners
replied that to confer representation upon
the Vestry would involve the establishment of a
scheme modifying the existing scheme for the administration
of the Charity, and that the necessary
proceedings for such a purpose could only be initiated
by the Charity Commissioners upon an application
signed by at least a majority of the Governors
of the Institute; whereupon the Vestry respectfully