The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-05 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

A rA very respectable old
woman in NG2OUS RESOLVE.—A
appearance came to Mr Arnold this morning,
and solicited protection because she went in great fear.
Mr Arnold—Of whom have you to complain?
Applicant —My own son, who behaves very wrongly. He
lives with me, and he don't knock me about as some sons do,
but he abuses we and brings a horrible woman home with
him to my house. I want you to keep her away.
Mr Arnold--I cannot interfere.
Sell such a
hor-
rible Applicant—Dear me, you don't say so /
Youmust.
Applicant
—lult I am
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can.
w
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She but I can't.
is
woman. _ _

Mr Arnold—How horrible ?
• Applicant—Why, she goes about the house quite—
without her clothes, your worship, and uses the most hor-
rible threats.
Mr Arnold—What are the threats ?
Applicant—She not only goes about as I have described,
but she says all manner of shocking things about me, and
she declares she will set the house on fire.
A police sergeant stood forward and said that he did not
think that the old lady's fears were without grounds. The
woman of whom she complained was a very low, indolent
person, not at all unlikely to carry her threat of setting the
house on fire into execution. She was seen in the house
in question,whioh
was in Mermaid's-yard, Chelsea, walking
about in a state of nudity.
Applicant added that she had struck her twice, and that
she was terrified to go in and out of the house while she was
there. • .

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Mr. Arnold said that the person complained of seemed to
be a most dangerous and violent person, and he should
therefore issue a warrant for her immediate apprehension.

THAMES•

THE SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS CANE..—A respectable
woman, named e•pencer, complained to Mr Paget, that the
under-master of the Stepney Meeting School had severely
flogged her son, a rather delicate boy, 10 years old. The
man's name was M'Naught. He had severely punished
her boy seven weeks ago, but she overlooked that, believing
that if her boy would not learn his lessons he must be cor-
rected. A more severe punishment, coupled with the fact
that others had complained of M'Naught, induced her to
appeal to the magistrate. In answer to the magistrate, as
to the nature of the school, she said that she paid 4d per
week, ant that the school adjoined and was connected with
the Stepney IJeeting House, attended by a congregation of
independents.
Mr Paget—A congregation of Dissenters ?
Mrs Spencer--Yes, sir.
Mr Paget—Very good, let no; see the boy's back.
The mother bared the back of t!le child and exhibited
weals and black and blue marks on it, and on the upper
part of his arm.
Mr Paget—What was that done with?
The boy—A cane. sir.
Mr Paget—A severe caning, certainly.
The boy having arranged his dress and covered his
back, the magistrate said no real injury had been done,
and advised the mother not to get her boy into the notion
that heiboy had been very ill used. The boy's head and
loins had not been touched. If that had been done, he
would have interfered. He should not grant a summons
in this case. He hoped this Mr M'Naught would
exercise a little discretion in the administration of punish-
ment to boys of tender years.
The mother of the boy seemed a littio disappointed at the
result of her application, and as she left the court said if
her boy was ill-used again in a similar manner, she would
take the law into her own hands.
LIBERALITY TO A DESERVING WIDOW.—Mr Faget
handed to our reporter 20 sovereigns for the poor deaf and
dumb widow Emma Finney, whose husband, a tailor, and
also deaf and dumb, was run down and killed by a fire
engine. The money was forwarded to the magistrate by
the d;roctors of the London Fire Engine Establishment.