The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-05 00:00:00

THE EAST LONDON UNION.

On Tuesday a statement appeared in some of the
moraine papers headed "The Eat London Union
Again," which professed to give the particulars of an
application made by a woman with two chffdren, as
to the alleged cruel treatment she had expe-
rienced at the hands of the authorities of the East
London Union, The statement was to the effect that
the woman way nearly, or re one portiere of the reports was
represeetad to be entirely blind, and that in eoesequenee
of this calamity she and her husband and family had hem
reduced to great distress. She stated that she and her has. I
band sod the two children had been hop picking, but had
Gamed very little money, and that as they were walking
over London-bridge she accidentally missed her husband,
and was Mitre left completely destitute. She had then ap-
plied to the East London Tilden for relief, but she
repressoted that Mr. Vrilliams, the relieving Other,
refused to give her anything, and ordered the porter
to throw her out of the office. and, fearing personal
violence, she went away without any sustenance, and,
under these circumstance; applied to the Lord Mayor for
assistance. It should be stated that the woman was re-
presented to have stated that she was entitled to relief se
the daughter of a freeman of the City of Loolloo. These
were the main facts that were made public, but the re-
port also contained an intimation that the guardians en-
coward their officers in treating the unfortunate per-
sona who applied for assistance to them with brutality.
Yesterday Mr. Cuthbert, a member of the Court of
Common Council, nod chairman of the East London
Uoioo, accompanied by Moran!. Feadick, Lancaster, and
Phillips, members of the Board of Guardians. Mr.
H. A. Baylis, the clerk to the board, and Me Williams,
the official whose conduct had bean so seriously impugned
by the report in question, attended at the Mansion-horse
for the purpose of giving an entire contradiction to the
statement of the WOUIRO, and to inform the Lord Mayor
what were the real circumstances of the case. The Lord
Mayor happened aot to be at his official residence, being
engaged elsewhere on public business, and the gentlemen
therefore had an interview with Mr. Oke, the clerk, to
whom they made a statement which it is oely due to the
guardians, and the administration of the law relating to
the relief of the distressed poor, should be made public.
The effect of the explanation given was to show mast
conclusively that the alleged feats contained in the report
were an entire fabricatioo. The woman in the first place
is not blind, although weak sighted, and she is a drunken
disorderly person who bar for a great number of years
hese in receipt of relief from the union, and only a vary
short time after she was married she threw her husband
as well as herself upon the rariah rates. Notwithstanding
this it appeared that she had never on any occasion been
refused relief, and the statement that when she applied on
the present occasion. Mr. Williams, the relieving officer,
ordered the porter "to throw her out of the office," was
entirely false. With regard to the tale she told at the
Mansion-house of her Davisg been wandering about for two
days, and lasing her husband accidentally on Landow
bridge, the real fact was that they bad been hop picking,
and the husband had the whole of the money they bad
earned is his possession, and be wilfully deserted her. It
was positively denied that relief was refused to her, or that
there was the slightest foundation for the serious charges
that were made against the authorities of the Idira.
As the Lord Mayor was not going to preside yesterday,
the gentlemen who attended were unable to make the above
statement before him, but they said that they considered
the matter of so moth public importance, and the statement
complained of was so glaringly false and unfoawied, and
had brought so much uojwitiliable odium upon them, that
they felt bound to make the public acquainted with the
real facts of the case, and an arrangement was made for
them to attend befall, the Lied Mayor for that purpose.

A COSTLY Kiss.—At the Glastonbury Petty
Sessions, yesterday. before the Mayor, Mr. J. H.
and Mr. P. Holman, Joseph Palmer, a respectable tireand
spirit merchant, hAiniremer, sad gees& shopkeeper, was
summoned by Mrs. Etheria, wife of Mr. EL W. Bank, of
Glastoolaury, aceountest, for as assault as the 26th alt.
Mr. Reed, of Bridgwater, prosecuted ; and Mr. Hobbs, of
Wells, defended. Mr. Palmer, who is nearly 50 jean of
age, ma going to compleie.ut's house, by appointment, to
shave her bead, which he bad done oe two previous °me-
*ions (she baviag been ill some time since) pet his arms
round her neck eat kissed her. Mrs. Harris wan alone oa
the °mamba of the visit. The defendant, through Mr.
Hobbs, pleaded !putty, and to magisteates inflicted a fine
of 51.
SOUTH KVSSINOTON Musarx.—A copy of Mr.
Abel's magni6oent folio or the " Memoriala of Qems
Fleenor," which was recently reviewed in theme edemas,
be. bean added to the Art Library of the Smith Freadegesa
1i0110461. specially bowed by Elmira