The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-06 00:00:00

NOVEL MODE OP EJECTMENT.

A genteelly-denied man, with a broad red face, in which there
was a great mixture of good-hunsour and simplicity, came running
into the outer office at Hatton-garden, soon after the Magistrates
had taken their places yesterday, and, big with the importance of
his mission, demanded entrance to the Justice-room. The officer
in waiting, as is the general rule, demanded his business before in-
troduction. The man paused for some time, as if in painful incer-
titude whether to comply or resist. However, at length he said
he wished merely to have the Magistrates' advice on a .matter of
some consequence. Ile was a householder in the parish of St.
James, Clerkenwell, and let out a part of his tenement in furnished
lodgings. Havinglaome alterations in contemplation, he was about to
pull down the house, and accordingly served notici to quit on the
lodgers, all of whom obeyed it, with the exception of one person,
a testy old maiden lady, and she set him altogether at defiance,
vowing she would rather be buried in the ruins, titan be expelled
from an apartment that she had not quitted for six years be.
fore. Notice after notice sou served, bt.t no notice whatever did
she take of them, and the object of his application to the
Magistrate was, merely to learn what next course he should adopt
in this singular predicsment.—" Why," replied the officer,
" double the rent—tbe Magistrate can give you no Other advice,
neither have they any power to interfere in your case." " Double
the rent," echoed the man, " I have done that already, but it I
won't do."—" Titers," said the officer, " I don't know what ;
The applicant paused, somewhat disconcerted, and then exclaimed
in an anxious toile. '• You couldn't pull her out, coald you ?"
" No, indeed," said the officer, " I dare nut." Another pause en-
seed, which was at length.bmken by the bewildered landlord—"
have it—that is. if the law aloes it." The officer looked on in-
tenogatorily, and the man resumed. " Suppose I begin to pull
down the house, and that the old lady should happen to be hurt or
killed, in ary thing of that ant, %void I be chargeable in law for
the consequenc,s tat her swn pertinacity ?" The officer and every
one round lOU iled at the proposed mode of ejectment. Would I,
think you ?" repeated the querist. " Indeed, I think not," re- I
%rondo! the officer ; " if the old lady find the bricks and mortar I
once coming down, I'll answer for it that she turns out."—
" Then," said the overjoyed landlord, " as that is likely to Le the
case, I'll set the men to work this minute, and if she likes to bury
herself beneath the ruins, it 1113% any fault of mine, for I took tad.
vice before I began."

POLICE.

MANAION-110U6E.

Yesterday a deputation suited upon the Lou) MaTow, from the
Governors of the Female Orphan Asylum, and stated, that from
the report of the transactions of the justice room they collected, that
his Lordship had under his care a female orphan, whom he was
desirous of obtaining admission for into their Charity. They pre-
sented to his Lordship a book of the rules by which they were
governed, and begged that the facts of the case should be commu-
nicated to them.

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His Loapmeir stated, that he had made inquiry, aid found
that the parents of the child were respectable tradespeople in the
City of Edinburgh, who had been induced amongst others to go out
to Poyais, upon the false representation that they would thew find
civilized litiotbuntlance, and happiness. The Society were aware,
thmugh the medium of the press, how fatally untrue those tepee-
rentations proved to be. The parents of the child escaped from the
desert in n state of indigence, but the father had contracted a disease,
the produce of climate and hardship, which soon released him from
all mortal infliction, and the mother quickly followed from the same
cause, aggravated by the pangs of separation. This child, the last
of a respectable tinnily, was left in the care of another emigrant,
who, having lost all his property by ',ming after the new govern-
ment, in the hope of bee-ining something wonderful in the eyes of
his countrymen, was compelled to place her in the hands of the
Lord Mayor, until some institution could be found which might
humanely put such a construction upon its rules, as would tot ex-
clude so unfortunate sit object. There had been several other cases
of this rature to which the press very 'properly and feelingly di-
rected the public attention, and in which public subscription had
been effectually used. This orphan had been suppotted on the
residue of that übscription, and his Lordship was extremely
anxious, before the expiration of his Mayoralty, to Kaye her in a per-
manent manner provided for. The t.urse in whose tore she had
been placed, had conceived an attachment for, and was desirous of
keeping her, even at her own cost, but the woman was very poor,
av!lFould not be expected to be able to setve the child.

The gentlemen of the deputation said they were happy to be able
to put iuto eilect his Lortlshiiiii Frishes Oil the subject. They would,
intl red, be unworthy a the support which they received Drool the
public, if they hesitated to give every advantage which their In-
stitution aforded to snclia !LW.

The Loin) 31Aron, in warm terms, thanked them fur the ready
manna in which they bad coons onward to anticipate' his. wishes.
11ia Lordship, in allading to the mr.nner in which the deputation
became informed of the case, observed, that it formed another
strong moor of the absolute necessity of publishing occurrences at
police offices. If that mac ice were given up (but he trusted it would
not) the cause of humanity would sustain irreparable injury, for not
only did police reporting operate to the prevention and de:retion of
crime, but it idar,d before the eyes of the charitable the suferini,m
of the unfortunate, and gave an instructive lesson to the inex-
perienetsl. . . . . . . . .

• .
A man named Smith was brought up, charged with having stolen
a valuable box from the skein of Mr. Matthews, a broker, in Bridge-
row.—The prisoner was committed for trial.
J. Junes was brot ght up on the following charge :
Mr. Booth stated, that he bad been spending the evening with a
friend, and returning home about one o'clock yesterday morning,
he observed the dour of the Lamb and Flag public-house in Jewry_
street, open, and he and another friend of his, named Nottage,
went in, when they found several persons playing at cards. The
landlord offered to play with him, which he agreed to, and played
two pines, and the landlord won two half-pints of gin ; they con-
tinued playing till the landlord lost, when he refused to pay, and
struck the complainant a blow. which knocked him down. Some
persons in the room ly attzekctl him and his friend, and
struck them several dreadful blows with the candlesticks : his friend
was soseverely injured, that his life is considered in danger. Ile
did not see the prisoner strike him.
The LOUD !MAYOR did not think the evidence sufficient to
detain the prisoner, but issued a warrant against the landlord
of the house, and two other men, who took as active part in the
affray.