The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

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A lisrm:ssiN6 t' came before the Thame,,
(Mice magistrate on Saturday evening, when a woman
named rolling applied for advice and assistance.
The applicant had been charged on the previous
Thursday with illegally pawning some cloth which
had been entrusted to her to make into trousers;
hut her pitiable tale of sickness and starvation, with
children, and a husband at sea, induced Mr. lug•
ham to discharge her with a warning. Since that
day she had sought assistance from the !-tepney
l• • Workhouse. but her application there had been
postponed, ►ual on Saturday she came to the court
seeking for a morsel of bread. in. course she could
get no slopseller to trust her with work alter her pre-
%ions conduct

SATURDAY,

Mr.lNotrAm : You are the sailuels wife who wab before

Tliursday ?
The Applicant: Yea, sir,
Mr. I : Yin era WIN is all owing to your having pawned
other people s goods. yuu were in distress, no doubt; but you
only wade your position worse by doing so ; and 1 c.oilil, and
perhaps ought, to have severely punished you for it, but 1 took
your ease into consideration, and let )ott go. I stn lAA 116E01161104
st your being iu this destitute coalition, after pawning gooth
that did not belong to you.
The Applicant: oh, sir, I hope God will forgive uir whet 1 did
All 1 could earn was list. per thiy. Wheu toy children were
ery lug for bread, and I was lying ou a lied of ,•lekiless, I was
tempted to raise moue; ou the things to procure lUoil for lily little
ones. 1 hope you will give airs hue relief.
Mr. 1 Nti said these eases were on the hies else, and there
was a precisely similar one lwfore his colleague. Mr. Yarille, oat
Tuesday. If lie relieved ;work who coinuiitteil Offelli.oll, or dill•
bullied to them contributions sent to that c for the poor, lee
should be holding out a premium to persons to counuit siwilsr

The : My poor children have not tasted any f0,,,4
this day. tiir, what Hill Ito 110 ?
Mr. 'Nowa': An that is all, and an you have been refused
relief elsewhere, 1 will make all exception in your came, and you
shall have Si. from ties poor-six Mud, but mind you roust not
expect any more fr !!!!! the .41111 e source, and you must go to the
relieving ottteer, aiul lie roust relieve you and your family if you
HIV 111 Willa.

tin being told of the number of the poor woman's
family, and the depth of their destitution, Mr. Ing-
ham afterwards ordered the donation to be doubled.
THE PitomorEn ot• A SeitEmt: for making and
selling cheap beer, Mr. John Itellard Lloyd, applied
at the Insolvent Court for discharge under the act :
It appeared that the inselvent bawl been a commercial tra-
veller, and in Iste.l conceived a project called " The City of
1.4 Brewing and Mailing Company " Ile advertised and
get 11&1114.8, which he set tertli in Y prospectus, and the cow pan,
was provisietially registered, and nothing further was dune. The
object of the c.mipany, when Ihnited, was it) übtaiu cheap liver.
lir obtained 421. Pb,* plated sther articles of Messrs. Sari, which
he pledge4l Within it Mrtnight 1.. ~nstain the c.olipany. Ile gut
the articles fur the attended company.
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Alter some investigation the case was adjourned, in
order to obtain the attendance of the late company'a
secretary, and for other purposes. The insolvent was
meanwhile sent back to prison.
Two Mont: timunatite Houses have been assailed
anti entered by the police. The Cocoa Tree was
broken into on Monday, and the Little Nick, in
Castle-street, on Tuesday night. In both the officers
captured a large number of pemons, who spent the
night in the station-house, and were brought up sub-
sequently at the Marlborough-street Police Court.
As usual, however, sufficient delay had occurred,
before the constables could in either case succeed in

etti2,cting an entrance, to remove and efface all hit-
'dements and traces of gambling, and the magistrate
consequently dismissed both batches of defendants,
forty-seven in all, for lack of evidence whereon to
proceed against them.
I s adjudicating upon the case of a picture-dealer,
named Brooks, at, the Bankruptcy Court, Commis-
sinner Foubhunple alluded to and severely repre-
hended the practice of renewing debts to old creditor
under insolvency, when the insolvent begins business
again. Such transactions appeared to have taken
place to a serious extent in the instance then before
him, and Brooks indeed alleged these renewals as
the principal cause of his new bankruptcy. The con-
duct of all patties, said the Connuissiuner, had been
highly censurable, but especially that of the cre •
ditors

It had been a most unfair transaction to Mullen a Mall with
old arias. creditors who thus got paid might be considered as
accomplices to bankrupts getting fresh reedit under false pre-
tences. The Legislature had at length imerferea, and rendered
the practice Una, and lie cunsiderea the recent alterat of the
law in Iles respect of great valve. No assignee did his duty who
did not serutonse proofs of this ►inul nio.l rigidly. Ile email not
too strongly stigmatise conduct like that before him on the putt
of either ilk titer or creation Pay 'nimbi of the kind were general),
moo by the property of new erimlitora cud he must stigmati a
the conduct of creditors and punish ii. colvlttet of debtors who
thus 610141, as far as pkissible. Ile Matilda eonsiiier it the lint• dr
the assignees n• t' • the debts carefully. to oppose the pro'•f
of sll r'in•wals, and, where they should have been iiiitthertently
permitted W be placed on the hies of the court, to hat e them ex •
punge,l.
The bankrupt's certificate was suspended for twelve
months, and then to be granted of the third class.
THE FATAL FALL OF A HOUSE ix THE STRAND r.?.-
stilted in a verdict of manslaughter against Mr
Abrahams, the surveyor to the Duke of Norfolk, who
was entrusted with the superintendence of the new
works and excavations on the adjoining ground. On
Saturday last Mr. Abrahams surrendered for trial at
the Central Criminal Court—tot, though the grat d
jury had ignored the bills presented to theta upon
the same case, the verdict of the coroner's jury suf-
ficed to compel the trial of the defendant. When
the case was opened, however, the counsel for the
prosecution declared that the evidence placed before
Ifim was contradictory. and failed to establish any
ease against Mr. Abrahams. Mr. Justice Cream•
well concurred in this opinion; and with a brief hint
that the coroner's jury had mistaken the law cf
manslaughter," and that nobody could be made fairly
answerable for the catastrophe, the trial terminated
in an immediate acquittal of the prisoner.
Immediately afterwards. l'ardington and W.otls,
tte engine driver and fireman to the express train
which caused so much damage to persons and pro-
perty on the tireat Northern Railway, were brought
up to be tried for misdemeanour. Their emplovers
the company, prosecuted; and the counsel stated as