The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-26 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

NATIMON7BOIIIL

The Lard Bayer, apms W mat on the bench,
said that his atteallism had isms milled to a state-
ment that bad reendy isms Mal at a public meeting at
Birmingham Maths, to the Unionist of some children,
which wan represented to have tamspired in the course of a
came investigated in this court, mad be thought it right to
state that oo coo► ors as the one alluded to had occurred
during him mayoralty.
Ts! nriuss .9tONG THE LABOURING CLASSES.

His lordship in the coarse of ii;aisialZiTat the
porosity for subscriptions for special charity had pared,
and that, by a merciful Provide we had been allowed to
get beck into the ordinary condition of things—that all
those people who were thrown out of work by the late
severe weather are now, in roost oases, enabled to continue
their labours, molly there was no more necessity for
for him to solicit pu • assistance, or to keep up that ma-
chiaeryt lhiourelitch be had been enabled to di
spense public
' charity. the 'oat few weeks no less than
three had been relieved from the funds
liberally supplied by the benevolent public, all
care having that been strictly inquired into. No case of
distress had been brought to that court that had not re-
ceived the fullest investigation, and the result went to show
that, while there were a great number of cases of extreme
distress, there bad been also a great many cases which were
totally undeserving. He was sorry to star that even now
there were still a vast number of applicaats, and probably
there might be ern few who might require to be attended
to, sad be *brad for the next two days continue to relieve
dire who WON really in distress, rind whose cases would
hew and after that he should not consider
it nesemory to afford relief except to care of the most urgent
neserity. He wished the writers of letter, of reecounenda.
Wen to toderstred that after to-moreiw all letters would be
had mile. 'That meet had always small funds for relieving
awes of =titan' necessity which now and then wow, and
is sherd now go back into that state of things which bed
hither prevailed. What he meant to maws was, that
the sonority had providentially pared away„aed be should
now rotors to the ordinary course ; and, vitae he returned
kis thanks to the generous donors who bed sashed him so
effectually to relieve such a large amount of distress, he in-
ferred them that he did not now require more ropey.
Several hundred letters had bees mires daily, which
eorequontly imposed upon the riser of the court a vast
assent of additional toil, and he weld see that Mr. Good-
ie.. (she chief clerk) was suffering frees the great labour
he had undergone within the ler few were, and for his
=ad also in consideration of the ether gentlemen in-
to the court, he also was tied to be enabied to take
the step he now had dune, viz., no lower le ask the public
is esstelbsts to alleviate wants width be lodiseed no longer
erred. His isediehip added that he thought it right to

explain that the machinery to which he had before alluded
was tarnished through the medium of the police, and that
they had been employed to make those inquiries that were
neoemmy to vent imposition. Intelligent men belong-
ing to that body, who to their general knowledge added
an acquaintance with the different localities in which
they had occasion to make inquiries, were employed for this
purpose, and their services had been found most useful for
the purpose for which they had been engaged, and they
had no doubt prevented a great deal of imposition. He
therefore felt it right to express publicly on this occasion
his thanks to the l'hief Comniissioner, and the officers who
had been employed under his directions, for the very import-
ant share they had taken in earrytog out his own wishes to
afford relief and assistance under the peculiar and urgent
exigencies of the case, and at the same time preventing the
benevolent contributions of the public from being squan-
dered on undeserving objects.