The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-22 00:00:00

APRIL 22, 1854.

shillings which they had received from passers-by,
who compassionated their miserable appearance. An
interpreter informed them of the nature of the evi-
dence against them, and stated their answer, which
was to the effect that they did not know the name of
the vessel in which they had come to England, or of
the captain under whose orders they had worked;
that they were willing to go back to China at once if
they were accommodated with engagements ; and
that, having failed to procure any, they were obliged
to throw themselves upon the compassion of the pub-
lic :

Sir R. W. CARDEN: I have taken great pains to investigate the
cases of several of the Chinese sesinen who have lately appeared
as beggars in our streets, and I have ascertained that they have
in many instances insisted upon receiving all the money due to
them, and then gone and remained out of the way when their
vessels Bailed, notwithstanding the expostulations of the masters.
I have ascertained, too, that they have pursued this course be-
cause they prefer a life of idleness, as exemplified in the conduct
of our own native beggars, to the industrious habits to which
they must have been accustomed. As the first of these men has
been frequently complained of as a persevering vagrant and men-
dicant, I adjudge him to imprisonment for fourteen days in Hol-
loway gaol. The other two I shall discharge, with the assurance
that if they are found begging in the city again they shall go to
prison; and I inform them all that every successive offence of
the kind shall be visited with a double amount of punishment.
I am glad to be able to say that the trade of begging is so much
on the decline in consequence of the resolute opposition of the
magistrates, aided by the power of the press, that I have of late
seen scarcely any instances in the streets of the city; but the
public ought to join in the praiseworthy attempts to do away with
mendicancy altogether.

Ling Sung was then committed. The other Chinese
sailors were discharged.
A YOUTH of 18, clerk in an insurance-office, and
named Alfred Richards, was charged at Worship-
street with having shot a boy who swept a crossing
in the New North-road. The boy asked him for
money as he crossed the road, when the prisoner
drew out a pistol and shot him without saying a
word. The bullet lodged in his shoulder, and the
wounded lad was taken to an hospital, when the sur-
geon considered him to be in some danger. At the
time of the examination before the magistrate, an-
other pistol, a number of bullets and percussion-
caps, a bullet-mould, and small black mask, were
found in the prisoner's pocket, but no powder; and
he seems to have used the dangerous weapon merely
with an idea of frightening people in a stupid joke.
He was remanded.
A SALVAGE CASE of Some importance was decided
by the Admiralty Court on Wednesday. Six fishing-
smacks, while engaged in their ordinary occupation
in April and May last, picked up several casks of
tallow between Heligoland and the Doggerbank, part
of which they landed at Scarborough, and the re-
mainder at Hull. An appearance was given on behalf
of the Crown. The value of the property salved MILS
2,1641. Dr. Lushington directed the costs of all parties
to be paid, and a sum equivalent to two-fifths of the
net proceeds to be distributed between the salvors. •
THE ANNUAL ACCOUNT OF THE SUITORS AND FEE
FUNDS have been presented to Parliament. The
Suitors' Fund consists of 3,882,5581. stock ; 62,4421.
out of the dividends are applied to the payment
of the salaries of the judges and officers of the
Chancery Courts, and the other expenses of those
courts, and the surplus interest is carried over to the
Suitors' Fee Fund. This latter fund, with the above
contribution, and with the aid of 67,0191. " received
from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue,"
amounted t 0183,764/. in the year ending in November
last; and the amount was applied to the payment of
other Chancery salaries and compensations. The list
of Chancery compensations and pensions seems framed
upon a liberal scale. This account has among its
items compensation to two Six-Clerks for loss of
office and profits 3,1551. per annum, to twenty sworn
clerks 28,5961., one deputy clerk of enrolments, deputy
record-keeper, and agent to sworn clerk 1,4531., the
late clerk of custodies (in lunacy) 1268/., chief clerk
to a Master 7501., pension to a retired Master 1,5001.,
to two retired registrars 2,5411., to the late Master of
Reports 2,2501.
WEDNESDAY BEING THE OPENING OF TERM, the
customary notices from articled clerks seeking to be
admitted, and from attorneys desirous of renewing
their certificates, were given in the Court of Queen's
Bench. There were 119 notices to be admitted this
Easter term ; twenty-four being added to the list by
judges' order, and ninety-five to be admitted in
Trinity term next. There were twenty-three notices
to take out and renew certificates this Easter term—
one being from Mr. W. H. Barber, whose repeated
applications to be reinstated on the list of attorneys
have hitherto been rejected by the judges. Mr. Barber
intends to make his application this time to the Lord

Chancellor.
THE LORD CR/amnion held his customary levee
on Wednesday, the first day of term, and entertained
the judges of the several Courts of Chancery and
common law, as also Queen's counsel and sergeants-
at-law, to breakfast, at his mansion in Upper Brook-
street, Grosvenor square, previous toproceeding in
state to open their respective courts at Westminster.
Mr. Justice Crowder, on his arrival, was most warmly
congratulated by the judges and counsel present on
his elevation 9 one of the judges of the Common
Pleas, in the room of the late Ur. Justice Talfourd.