The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANISION-souse.

At the conelesioW of-theOrtilifetilTneinses of his court
yesterday,
The Lord Mayor rid—l wish particularly to drew the
attention of the public to the subject of begging letters, one
cars of which has latel mate under my notice, and I wish
to warn the public set a entre which reveal. at present
most extensively, ddd getting a living entirely by means of
begging lettere. It is known that there are parties who live
entirely by exciting the feelings of the charitable, and they
frequently do this under the cloak of religion, and so make
an fm=on upon the minds of pro • of • hied and gree-
ner 'nom, which otherwise would net do, and
which leads to @militant being • often to a consider-
able extort. I observe that • rase cant before the Court
of Exchequer yesterday in which a Mr. Woukowskt was
defendant, mid I now end that this same party under •
representation of great distress obtained from the then
Lord Mayor, at this court, the suns of Si. on the Id of Octo-
ber, 18311; the Lord Mayor no doubt warmly compationat-
fag the nripient in his dwelt as repreeented. I ban had
raany such applications made to me, to which I lame paid no
sort of attention; for although I have, I treat. true feeling
for real suffering and destitution, I have also, I think, some
little discrimination to judging whether such representations
are founded upon genuine Menet or not ; and I warn all
=to whom such begging lettere may hereafter be ad •
to nod them to the litecdicity Society for investiga-
tion and according to the result of that investigation the
parties can, if charitably disposed, respond to the appeal
made to them, or the Mendirity Society can act ma they think
right towards the writer., if the cast be fictitious. And it
should be known to the public that there are in this city many
people who get a livntr solely by writing begging lettere for
others, In which they p oture any scene of distress fist may t 3
requested for their customers. They charge ed. a letter, and
whether it is a " broken lee a "husband killed in Italia,"
• "deaf and dumb "or ` idlot child," a "family of helpless
orphans," or a " Mooed gentleman," that is wanted,
they are quite ready to earn their money, and supply the de-
mand. I have myself, since my aroesstou to this chair, re-
tired • large number of lettere of this description, which
upon examination proved to be all in one handwriting, and
' were no doubt the production of one of these industrious in-
vectors of cases of " urgent distress." I moat therefore ra•
• peat my minion to the public to be careful how they respond
to such appeals without proper investigation, fur by so doing
they only add to the extent of en already monstrous evil,
which the exercise of • little dimainaination would speedily
farm.

We are requested to acknowledpre the following contribu-
tions to the poor•box —W. Respell, Eeq. , 101. 10e.;
Jury et Secondaries' Court, 1&.; " B. N." (bell note), 61.
Y. Z." also sent 11. Os. for Mrs. Brodie.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Oepfaide Beinsin Bathurst, of the Royal Artillery, resid-
ing at de, Oren Ponland•strest, and Elle. Awn sod 6eraii
iniu, two 11101114• of the town, were brought before Mr.
Issairktearged with being drank and disorderly in Union-
Genet, d-ritreet.
Morns,Han 173 C, gated that about twenty minutes to two
yeetenlay morning he was on duty in Rond-street, when
hie attestka wee attracted to a great noin of shouting,
which appeared to proceed from Union•nreet. On going to
the spot he saw the male defendant and the fens, who
were jumping and dancing about the centre of the street me-
tomdd a mob of the wont of characters, who were bawl-
ing pat and urging them on at the top of their voices. He
tried to disperse them, bat without effect, as the captain
swore he would hare his spree out. Another constable then
came and alter a deal of trouble the defendants were
Itln the station-hoase.
gallant captain protested aphid the right of the
policeman interfenog with him or his amusement, and con-
tended that as long as be could walk upright he maid not be
celled drank.

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