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London, England, 1865-12-19 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 19.

YORKSHIRE is apt to pique itself on its rough-
ness, but those who know the county character
best assure us that substantial kindness uuderlies
a rugged exterior. During the last week two cases
have come before the public which might at first
suggest that this roughness was more than super-
acial, the moreso as it was that of persons in
uthority; but, happily for the credit of the county,
in both the superior authority refused to counte-
nance the acts complained of. The first came before
the magistrates of Think, on a charge of vagrancy
brought by their Chairman, Mr. LLOYD, against a
lad of the age of 17. The prosecutor, we are told,
was seated on the bench, but refrained from other
interference than by interruptions. We give his
evidence in his own word..*:
When I was on the road through Thornborough I over-
took the prisoner. who solicited alms of ma I got off my
hone, when the defendant jumped over the hedge Into the
field and ran away. I ran after him over the field and
punned him, when be took refuge is the gutter beneath a
thorn bush. I struck hint ones or twice to make him sur-
render; indeed, I should have felt it my duty to have hit
him again, if naceseary to his apprehension. The defendant
cried out murder, and I told him to shout out louder, as I
should the mussy get some one to insist me in taking him
talc custody. I told him unlem he surrendered L should
feel it my duty to stay with him there all night. I folded
my arms with my whip in hand, and stood over him.
Eventually the winneres. Weighell and another man, came
up, and I gave the prisonerinto their custody, to be
brought to the Think loek-up os a charge of vagrancy.
The other witnesses corroborated the fact of the
boy calling out "Murder," of his being found
cowering in a ditch under a thorn tree, and of the
prosecutor standing over him whip in hand. But
they bad not been present when the parties met
on the road, and so could say nothing as to the
charge of begging. The boy himself, however, de.
niod that he had begged, and declared that he was
going home to his master's at Think, when Mr.
Li.ovo passed on horseback, and that he only said,
" Good night, sir." "Thereupon," he continued—
Yr. Lloyd drew aphis horse and atteroptei to ride over ma
I jumped over the hedge let) a field. He got off his horse,
which be let g I ran sway—l was much afraid. He
overto3k and held me with owe band, and struck me several
times with the whip.stook. I got into a &utter, and pat
myself under a thorn bush to protect my head. I enlist
out "Murder," and Mr. and the other man
cuss up.
On this the magistrates dismissed the charge of
vagrancy as not proved. But as the energetic
Chairman bad struck the boy so severely that his
head was still bandaged up, and be was under the
care of surgeons, we are not surprised to be in-
formed that other proceedings are likely to be
taken. Of one point, however, we should expect
the trial already had to be conclusive. Mr. LLOYD'S
own evidence is such as will probably lead Sir
GEORGE GREY to think he is hardly a fit person
to hold her MAJK,TY'S commission of the pesos.
When a magistrate, assuming even that he had
encountered a vagrant, thinks it proper to hunt
him over a hedge into a field, and "to strike him
" once or twice to make him surrender," and adds,
in cold blood, that he "should have felt it his
" duty to hit him again if necessary to his appro."
hension ;" and when it is proved that in this
zeal for the apprehension of a vagrant he out the
vagrant's head open with the stock of his whip, he
gives evidence of a violence of temper and an
ignorance of law which would make his continuance
ou the bench an insult to public justice and
decency.
The second case to which we have referred
seems to have arisen out of a similar desire for
the repression, or at least the transference, of
vagrancy. A young woman, a new-made widow,
was plying her trade as a hawker at Tadcsster
fair. Next morning she went to the station to
return to her home at Leeds, but was taken in
labour, and delivered of a child in the waiting-
room. The parish surgeon was sent for, and at-
tended, but the poor woman was left sitting in a
straight-backed chair from eight in the morning
till three in the afternoon. By this time the over-
seer, assistantrovetseer, and relieving officer met
the surgeon at the station, and they agreed in
hiring a cart in which the wretched creature was
wrapped in blankets and taken, not to their own
workhouse, but to Leeds, where she was made
chargeable as a " casual." Evidence, we are told,
was adduced " to show that no inhumanity had
" been used in the matter, and that it was the re-
" peatedly expressed wish of the poor woman her-
" .*elf to be removed to Leeds, where her mother
large, however, upon which the
Leeds magistrates was not that
conspiracy to cense a pauper
to another parish. And on
four defendants were rou-
t 51. each.
satisfactory that the actors in
should be punishable on one head
and should be fined W.. for try-
. pariah if they cannot be im-
cruelty. But the form of the
ions commentary on the greater
a for purse than for person. Nor
'comfortable torus, with Christmas so
the way in which these matters
parish officials in Yorkshire and
ingenuity of the plea that there
inhumanity," for it was the woman's own

wish to be taken to Leeds to her mother, cannot
but suggest that the spirit which was pourtrayed
in " Oliver Twist" is still very far from being
tint in parish management of paupers. We do I
not in the least disbelieve that the woman uttered
such an entreaty. What woman who was kept'
sitting in a straight-backed chair in a railway wait-
ing-raom for seven hours after being delivered of
a child would not prey to be taken to her mother,
at any distance, rather than remain in such
hands Bat would the overseer, or the assistant-
overseer, or the relieving officer, have thought
such treatment " humane " in the case of wife or
sister of theirs t Would they have thought all
blame of inhumanity removed if, after the seven
bourses of
torture in the hands of strauger• and
parochial officers, a prayer had been uttered to be
taken " home," and thereupon a cart with straw
and blankets had been provided for journey of
we know not how many miles? Well, is this a
very monstrous test to apply to their conduct, or
to the conduct of any parish officers Alas, it is
no test of exceptional virtue ; it is only the
test by which we all must be tried—the teat
whether we have done to others as we would have
others do to us--a rule so simple and yet so herd ;
for it is hard to remember that a vagrant pauper
is a sister woman.

OUR CONTEMPORARIEE3.

(THIS DAY.)

THE NILE SUPPLY.
Mr. Morton, who read a paper the other day
before the Society of Arts on the subject of the supply
of milk. estimates the number of cattle from which the
supply of milk for Landon wee drawn a few months ego at
about 20,000. and ha believe' that owing to the ravages
of the rindorpse4 this number is DOW reduced
by o ae-balf —that is, to 10.000 sews, which are
of excellent quality and well oared for. Aooording to
him, it is a mistake to treat London cowsheds as indrawn.
The article which they supply is good end wholesome, end
we should lase both in quantity and quality by the expel-
sioa of cows beyond the limits of the metropolis. It is be-
tween the pail sod the teacup, observes the Timm, that
the mischief is done. A good deal of milk is sold in Lon-
don which is so diluted that rennet has no effect upon it. A
considerable quantity consists of two-thirds of water to one-
third of milk, and • dealer may be considered moderate
who sells one-third of water and two-thirds of milk for
pure milk. There is, however, some balm in Gilead. Mr.
Morton Winks that water is the only instrument of adul-
teration. As a remedy he points out that tf an inspector
were allowed to take a simple of the milk as gives by the
cow, and then to compere it with the liquid retailed to
the public, he would have • standard of comparison which
would enable him to SKlNlffillib, and the magistrate to punish.
the exact amount of adulbsretion, tibial might be met by •
scale of peorities increasing in severity just as the propor-
Coo of milk to water in the compound sold diminished. It
is the fashion to say that people cannot be oxide honest by
ad of parliament- It really looks as if the retail milk
trade were an exception to this aphorism. and the Times
would mach like to see the experiment tried, as it entirely
despairs of effecting the our, by any len energetic insane.
The Daily New learns from Cheshire and other parte of
the ootintry that the farmers am taking advantage of the
markets opened to them by the growth of the towns and the
extension of railways, and find a rode in milk more pro-
fitable than the manufacture of either cheese or
butter, which has hitherto made milk so scares. Cheese
may be had from a wide mace of foreign countries ; and
we read of new efforts to promote its production in Fnmese
We import butter largely, and are still making more and
more at home. If it is now really ascertained that selling
the milk pays better than either, we may be content to
bay more butter and more bacon and hems from abroad, as
the mild «edition on which the next generation of ideate
at home may have • better chance than the last of life and
health.

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