The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-17 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANE 117N-"I'RTLYSE.
Yesterday, Mr. Bainbridge end Mr. Oillespie, and other gentle.
mar of the centinittee for the management of the .salmalptiort for
the sufferers by the tremendous conflagration at Miramlehi, waited
upon the LORD MAYOR upon the subject of applying to the COO.
potation of the City of London fur their aid in the existing emer-
gency.
It appeared from the statement made by those gentlemen, that
the oubserit.tion was very much on the decline, although the news.
shies of the unfortunate set, leek were great in the extreme. It bad
therefore occurred to the Committee that the corporation would
lend their assistance on so pressing an occasion.
The Lon° :Mayon said he did not at ell wonder at the low
condition of the funds tor the relict' of the inhabitants of Miramichi,
when there were all around us such evidences of &sena. He
thought elect ulthom4ll the sufferets at Itliramichi were mostly na-
tives of this country, the domestic calamities which presented
themselves naturally claimed precedence in the consideration of the
public. He was; however, convinced, that an appeal to the Cor-
poration tvould not be unattended with success, and he should most
heartily recommend the object to the Court of Common Council.
His Lordship said, it happened apropos to this statement of the
Cotrinittee, that there were two eufferers, a man and his wife, in
the Jnstice Room, whose case hail string claims upou the om.
mittee, and who had applied to him for means to enable them to go
to acotland, of which country one of them wan a native.
The persons alluded to were then introduced, and the description
they gave res the tire and its (I,llV.liukrlcev, was much more affecting
than any that has been given in the ioluminous correspondence
upon the subject. The man whose mantels John Stevenson, is •
Sentelunen. Ile settled in al ir smichi as a fernier some years ago,
and married his companion, who is a native of St. Edward's Island,
aeon after lie had established himself. They had five children, ar.d
were getting on most prosperously, until they were reduced to
indiget.ce by the unforeseen and unavoidable destructiow of their
property. Mrs. Stephenson had been on a visit at St. Edward's
Island at the time the fire was at its height, and upon her return
she found that not a trace of the spot in which site had so long
resided was visible. Iler husband and her children were, however,
saved, as they found their sway to the river, which offered :he only
protection to the inhabitants. The owner of the adjoining house,
and his wife end three of his children. were burnt to death its a
sort of fence to which they had fled, not having been able to reach
the river. The fire roared like thunder, and many of the sufferers
apprehended that the prophecy of the extinction of the world by
fire was arrived. Even afte it had ceased to rage, the poor delegate
creatures looked upon the calamity as a visitation train heaven.
It could not be ascertained were it commenced or where it termi-
nated. nrd the ravages which it committed were almost universally
regarded an the work of supernatural agency. The unfortunate
female who witnessed the total loss of all hope upon reaching
Mirantichi hod nearly lost her life upon her passage from St.
Edward's islaud, the vessel in which site sailed having toundered at
sea. She was picked up by the Esher, of London, Captain
Tyndall, and landed on the desert which she had left a flourishing
town. The (loverument paid the expenses of the voyage of the
poor family, of the Stephensonn to this country. On their way two
of their children died, and their mother attributed their death to
the hardships they had undergone in consequence of the fire.
These were the heads of the detail given by Stephenson and his
wife, whom with their remaining three children the Committee im-
mediately took under their protection.
lit the course of the day Alderman Wood and Ir. Hick came
to the Mansion House upon the subject of converting the London
Workhouse, which is and has been, we uhderstar.d, for a long time
wholly useless, into a temporary asylum for the Spanish and Italian
Refugees.
The LORD MAYOR, at the commencement of the conversation
upon the subject, expressed his feeling cl the consequence of
having any place to which the necemituus might think themselves
entitled to apply. It would, he thought, be giving encouragement
to impnetors of all sorts to seek the metropolis as a refuge.
Alderman IVQOD said, it was by no nteaus the intention of those
who interested themselves in this question to make a permanent
asylum for the rfugece ; but white such a place as the London
Workhouse was unoccupied, it was melancholy to see that for
want of the lodging which could be afforded at no expense, these
beless families should be almost perishing.
to LORD MAYOR immediately declared his readiness to pro.
mote the object of the worthy Alderman. Ilis Lordship added,
that he feared there would be calla enough upon the humanity of
the public front our own cour;rynien, and he seemed to be appre-
hensive of the interference of charity of a less commanding nature
with that which " comes home to our bueones."

Alderman Noon did not think the general distress would un-
dergo much increase, but he was aware that a great deal existed, as
was evident from the multitudes of poor who daily applied to the
parishes for relief.
We believe that the result of this conversation will lie the tempo-
rary appropriation of the London Workhouse to the abovementioned,
purpose and from a subsequent conversation between the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Mr. Hick, that a very extensive plan,
with respect to the poor, is in agitation, and will be speedily
bronOtt before Parliament.

M AHYLEBONE.
Yesterday James Ilterris, the managing clerk to Messrs. Goria
and Price, the solicitors of OreLard-atreet, Portman-square, was
brought up for final examination. on a charge of embezzlement,
preferred against him by hie employers.
Mr. Goon's deposition having been read to him—
Dlr. Henry Hinchin, clerk to Messrs. Leggett and Co., solici-
tors to the Commiuioners of Assessed Taxes, stated, that some
short time since general George Murray was exchequered fur taxes,
and Messrs. Orrin and Co. having petitioned, tile lines were re.
moved, upon the payment of cat•, about 111., which were never
paid. The prisoner never tendered a cheque for the amount of the
corns.

Mr. Jbbn Lloyd, receiving clerk in the banking-house of Sir
Claude Scott and Co., proved the presentation of a check for W.
by the prisoner. it did not come from the house of Messrs.
leggin sod CO.
Tito prisoner said., in answer to a question from Mr. Rawlinson,
that he would reserve his defence until the triaL
lie was then fully committed to Nergate.