Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

A SUNDAY SCENE IN A WOEICaOUSE

At the Bow-street police•court on Mondale Ann Clarey,
a stout hearty locking young woman, and 'Sophia Ray, a
deaf and dumb girl, who had been in the union from her
infency, were charged with riotous conduct in the Strand
Union Woikhenee, Cleveland-street, and smashing sixty-
three panes of glass. The labour master and one of the
matrons proved that both the girls were inmates of the
house, and belonged to what was called the " refractory "
class of paupers. Clarey elmented herself last week,
bat returned on Friday night, decorated wi'h a paie
of gilt earrings and showy drape. She was desired
to take them off, it being contrary to the discipline of
the workhouse to allow the female paupers to wear
earrings. She refused, and owing to this and other mis-
conduct she was put on " low diet," consisting of bread and
water. The other defendant ('he dumb girl) was also put on
low diet for disorderly ehaviour. On Sunday both the girls
were, as usual, in the refractory ward, and they behaved
with such violence, teat the chaplain could scarcely proceed
with di.ine worship. The dumb girl howled like a mad
woman, her cries being heard all over the building. They
were served with bread and water in the morning, and not-
withstanding their misconduct, were allowed a pentad of
pntatoes each at dinner time, but no Lc eat. Ad the afterno n
the disturbance was continued, and nothing whatever could
•be done with them. The ma ron tried to coax them to be
quiet, but every effort was disregarded, and the defendants
to gether smashed every pane of glass in the ward, making
fi3 panes in all. Clarey declared that her olject was to
get into prison. Defendant Clarey : So it ass. I would
sooner be in a prison at any time than the workhouse.
We had only a bit of dry bread all day. The potatoes
were not fit for a pig. The labour-master, in answer to
his worship, said the potatoes were very good—the same
that were cooked all over the house. The refractory ward
was not a place for punishment—it was where paupers of
a certain elate were placed. lie believed the deaf and
dumb gill was led cn by the defendant Clarey, who was a
very violent tempered woman. The charge was explained
to Blay, whe premised not to repeat such conduct, aed was
diseherg d : but Mr Jardine fined Clayey 325, her share of
the damage done, and in default sentenced her to six
weeks' impriecnmenr.

At LEWIS & COIiPANI"S, Rat.elagh-elreot.
BOYS are C. 0 1 LIED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.

A DDIr 83 TO TIIF, WIDOW OF THE BiSuor OF TryNDoNT._
On Alurday the family of the lire Bishop of Lonlon took
their departure from the Episeopa, pllaea at .Fulip,m.
Prier to I_avi7g an addresi of r(speet and sympathy,
hich was signed by all the prire pal inhabitants, was
• presented to sirs..aocenfleld.

The followirg re„iments tre crlerd to be
embodied in Ireland, viz.:—Antrim Rifles, at Belfast, on
Sept. 21; North Cork Rifles, at Mallow, en the 15. h cf
September; Lim,r:ck County, at Limerick, on the 14`,h
of Septetribr ; Rusccmmon, at 11)scoraccon, on the let of
October ; Woterford ArtiPery, at WatiAtford, on the 19 h
of September, and to proceed in Doncr.mnen Fort im-
mediate/3f afterwards; Dublin City Main, at Deb/in,
nn the Ist of October, and to occupy the Linen-h4;l
Barracks.

THEltz-r MANIA —Tire comet manic has not yet been
cured, if we may judge hem a c-:rrespondent, who writes
to say :—H 4s it ever struck Joe thtt the sictlen outbre,:k
in India is a sort of national insanity ? lies not the
mournful cmdect of the Sepoys been like the ac s of the
inmates of a lunatic asrlum let loose ? An'l have not
the reprisals of our oFn c.Antrymf,n partaken but too
much of a similar charzcter ? Has not the recent risit of
the comet t) our syet, In, by prolucing some derargtment
of the domestic ecg nomy of our planet, acted throt gh the
atmosphere upon the brain of the people in that lecaltty
more especially. Will there tot b 3 a reaction, ere lens„
of sbome an l' sorrow for the atrocities of which they
b ye Bien guilty
THE WEST COAST FI3IIFTWES.—The pilchard fisheries
Ftill continue pre--minently successful iu Cornwall.
!feisty 5 000 hogsheads have already been taken by the
Ices' ha Is the largest catch thus earls in the sea=on
for the laot 25 years. The 4rift bouts angl seiner. have
been tqu .11y successful off Purtitte, Gorr in Haven, S .
Agnes, Perron Portle, Sr. Kyverne, and Fowey—three
Perron seines shot on the 6th irist., broeght on shore
*bent 450 hogsh:,ads, and oa the 7114 Upy again securel'
tree than 1,000 hogsheads, tho"gh owir,g to the hew:),
sea more than 200 hogsheads were washed agcsy by the
next tid; ere the seine c,,uld be cleared out. The co ~sting
packets still report the pilcha-ds as C ugregated in im-
mense masses about two idles out, in deep water. lobe
catch of mackerel also continues large along the South
Devon cast. These fitla have been retailed on be ch
during the pc,et week at one penny each, and some of ti .e
Topehaw and Budleigh fishermen have divided frum 101.
to 121. per boat during the last week or ten days.