The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-19 00:00:00

POOR GENTEEL WOMEN.

Look around your own circle. You know of many
Cases such as this:—A seemingly prosperous man is
engaged in the full tide of successful business; he drives
a large trade, and counts his gains by thousands. He
has a family of sons and daughters, whom he educates
at boarding schools, in all the current knowledge and
trifling of the day. They are carefully tended and kept.
They know no want. They are thoroughly genteel,
and have a large visiting acquaintance. Their characters,
such as they are, become fashioned and formed after the
most approved notions. But suddenly a reverse occurs,
—an unfortunate speculation, a bad season; great I,Bses
tall suddenly upon the merchant, and he finds himself a
ruined man. You have a genteel family reduced at once
to a state of the most galling poverty; not merely the
poverty of the poor, but the poverty of the genteel, an
infinitely sadder and more intolerable thing. Or, a
professional man dies suddenly, and when his affairs are
wound up, it is found that he had lived fully up to his
income; that those gay parties of his had absorbed all
his spare gains; and that ho had not insured his life, or
poor feind,le relatives.-c—
if so, then for a very inconsiderable amount. His widow
and daughters fall at once into the ranks of the poor
fitra
straits
ot they e
their
pi have
p
got married, and can
genteel. As for the sons, in such cases, they can usually
shift for themselves; but how long is it before they can
do
sisters,
tdioesanoyfththinegirto:zdms
ohsetlppinrgobtahbeliyr
do
oy
verythe time
litt l they ey
relievereach
e
who quietly subside into the state of threadbare poor
gentlewomen.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME(BeCf
(Before
iU T
Mr.
Baron Pwe.:llx.lll.3rch 18.
THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF WILLIAM( ""
v. JOHN BROOKE AED OTHERS.
In this case, which was a charge against John Broome,
tnheectpeudgwiliistth,
which
ditwo other persons, of having committed
a fraud by cheating at cards, the circumstances Con-
on charge have frequently been before
the public,
Mr. JOHNSON, who was instructed for the prosecution,
applied to the Court to estreat the recognizances of the
prosecutor Ramp, and to enlarge the recognizances of
the ether witnesses to the Lela assizes. He said that
his application was founded upon an affidavit, which was
to the effect that Ramp had been called upon to give
evidence before the grand jury, but he had not done so,
and that diligent search had been made for him and he
could not be found.
Mr. PARRY said he was instructed, on behalf of Charles
Staden, one of the defendants, who was included in the
indictment with Broome, and he would observe that he
thought before the Court interfered, inasmuch as a great
many different persons had appeared nominally as pre
secators at various times to conduct the prosecution
that it ought to be satisfied
priedtvhaatet
party, any
prosecution was
really conducted by some public authority, for if it was
merely promoted by some
"y
of the kind suggested would of course be completea
proceeding
farce.
Mr. JOHNSON said he appeared on behalf of the magis-
trates who had sent the case for trial.
Mr. PARRY said he was quite satisfied with the expla-
nation of his Learned Friend, and he would merely
state to the Court that he held in his hand an affidavit
made by the defendant for whom he appeared, iu which
he stated that he was most anxious to take his trial, and
at the same time added that he had never been in collu-
sion with Ramp, or had any communication with him,
or was in any way instrumental to his absence. He was
instructed that he was a man possessed of some property
future time
inconve-
nient
at Brighton, and that he hatd ocaaurire im iou
iehdonsearnexs itenjnsuirvye.
business in that town• but tbe effect of such a charge
e
hllaengsninbgmoitirteerdhitmhawt ausUldeikrelyth o
ese circumstances he waa
entitled to an 'acquittal upon the present occasion, and
if his presence should be required at any
there was not the least doubt that he could easily be
found.
Bart.)olatPhitudEcEfe:s,adiadutthtaot
haalytheouthgeheiht might
arge bu tuhanging
over
him, the only course he could take woulld be to order the
recognizances of Ramp, and ancther witness who was
nc,t, in attendance, to be rgro:,ter4, 3r,1 th, r,l,c,rvinrces
of aq the other witnesses must be ebLrged to the next
assizes.

SOMERSET 11.„ oU*E.—The works for the contem-
plated " wing" at Somerset House are likely to be discon-
tinued, and the Inland Revenue offices, at present held in
the Excise building, Old Broad-street, will shortly be re-
moved again to Somerset House, where more room will be
obtained by the transfer of
departments connected with the
Navy to the Admiralty, Charing-cross. These changes re-
suit partly from the fact of the Duke of Northumberland
having resigned the large suite of apartments, always placed
at the disposal of the First Lord, as an official residence,
leaving them available as offices. The immense pile of
buildings in Broad-street, used for the Excise, will be brou glk
to the hammer.