At the Petty Sessions, on the 7th instant, before Sir J. Clarke Jervoise, Esq. and J. Bonham Carter, Esq. M.P., the Rev. Thomas Hervey, rector of Colemore, appealed against his assessment to the poors’-rate. Mr. Smith, overseer of the parish, appeared as respondent, Appellant stated that he was assessed to the poors’-rate for rent charge in the sum of 170l., that the gross amount of his rent charge for the last year was 193l. 7s. 10d., from which he claimed deductions for poors’-rate, highway rate, repairing church, per centage for collection, and sundry ecclesiastical dues, amounting altogether to the sum of 35l. 16s. 5d., making the rateable value 158l. 11s. 5d., being 11l. 8s. 7d. less than the sum at which he was assessed. The respondent stated that the assessment had stood at 170l. for many years; and that in the time of appellant’s predecessor, the nett amnount of the rent charge had considerably exceeded that amount, and there was a sort of understanding that it should remain at that sum; that appellant was very well satisfied as long as the rent charge kept up, but the very first year it fell below the point at which he was assessed, he comes forward to claim a reduction. Appellant denied this, and stated that this was the third time he had been rated in excess. The magistrates, after a long and patient investigation of the case, decided in favor of appellant, but reducing the item for repairs of church from 2l. 10s. to 1l., thus making the rateable amount 160l. 1s. 5d., instead of 170l.