The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

SATURDAY,

have them in custody very soon. lie called again in
a day or two afterwards, and said one of the parties
had been taken at Brighton, and was in Lewes
gaol, and the other would be apprehended that night.
The next day he again called, and said he hat taken
the second gentleman, and had lodged him in White-
cross-street Prison; and after some further conver-
sation advised her to lodge a detainer against the
parties. Ultimately she employed him to take the
requisite steps, believing, fro►n his representations,
he was of the legal profession, and front time to time
furnishod him with such stuns of money he de-
manded as fees of court anti counsel. At last she
discovered the fraud, and that her money was lost.
Being apprehended, and the above facts stated in
Marlborough-street Police Court, Dump has been
remanded to prison for further inquiries.
T►M Irostutoroll, an Irishman, and nevertheless
endowed with an unusual share of prudence, applied
to the Lambeth magistrate for the customary eerti-
licate to enable him to redeem a pledged article for
which he had lost the pawbroker's ticket. The arti-
cle had been pawned for 10s., and on inquiring its
description the clerk was surprised to learn that it
consisted of a purse containing four half-sovereigns.
lie naturally inquired the reason for so singular a
pledge, and received the following information from
Tim :

lie me soul, sir, then Ell tell you. On saturdny night, or, I
should say, on Christmas-eve, I found meself wid four hid&
Hovering in me purse, and I sea to meself, Tim, me boy, if ye
keep this, yell get drunk on Christinas.day, and spend all this
money, and ye had better put it in the pawnshop and sate It; so,
Mix, after a good struggle with meself, I did go too the pawnshop,
and got ten shillings on the four half•sovriet and the purse. On
christmag.day sure enough 1 gut drunk, and lost the ticket, but
the first thing on Monday morning I went to the pawnshop and
stopped me money, and yesterday I got that paper, and now
want Go take Inc money out.
Mr. Snit:l.ns : Well, I suppose you managed to get rid of the
10e. on Chtistmaii•day?-1M dad I did.
Mr. SIRELDb: And would have managed to have got rid of
little more it you had kept your purse and your half-sovereigns ?
—Tim : lle ern, you are right, sir, I should.
I think you have acted wen pmperly, and
I only wish that your countrymen generally acted with your
prudence.

Stop: lnisn PAurims, who have been supported in
the Poplar union workhouse, are about to be removed
to their own country. In applying for the proper
magisterial o►der to that effect, Mr. Warrington, the
relieving officer, called the attention of the magis-
trate to what he tern►ed a case of real hardship to
the English ratepayers, as well as one involving a
question of some difficulty :

On the 28th of November a widow named Mary Barrett, and
her four children, were passed under an order of removal to
Cork. On their arrival at that place the family applied to the
mayor for relief, and he raised a subscription fur them and sent
then► back to England. The woman► and her children arrived in
!mutton in a most destitute condition, again applied to the
pariah of All Saints, Poplar, for relief, and were admitted into
the workhouse. This war not the only instance of the kind. The
mayor of Cork had sent back other Irish paupers who had been
passed to that city by English parishes tinder orders of removal.
The expense of passing Irish paupers was a serious charge on
the ratepayers id the Poplar union, and the guardians thought it
was 11 Very bard case to be again saddled with the family after
e‘peuiling about 101. iu relieving them and paying tier their
passage to Irela►d.

The magistrate referred to sundry acts under which
it appeared that the returning paupers were liable to
the penalty of vagrants. This, however, did not
meet the views of the guardians, who were not
anxious to punish the poor widow, but, if possible, to
restrain the mayor of Cork from returning any more
Irish paupers on their hands. In the course of the
conve►sation it was stated that the captains of some
of the steamers at one time brought It poor to
this country for nothing, merely in hopes of ensuring
th.-ir passage-money from English parishes to take
them bark again.