The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-12 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

. PAROCHIAL INHUMANITY —A poor man about 45 years
of age, who stated that he was labouring under some physi-
cal disability which prevented his following his employment,
came to the court and asked Mr. Arnold to interfere in his
behalf under the following circumstances :

Applicant said that he had been for some time an inmate
of St. Luke's Workhouse, Chelsea, and bad come to this
court last Tuesday to complain of the officials at the work-
house having intercepted some letters which had been
sent to him there. After he had spoken to the magistrate
on this subject he went back to tke workhouse, but had been
turned out and left to starve. When he returned to the
workhouse on Tuesday night they gave him a letter which
had been sent to him, and wanted him to open it in their
presence and let them read it.
Mr Arnold—How did you leave the workhouse?
Applicant—l was turned out.
Mr. Arnold—When was that ?
Applicant—Wednesday morning.
Mr. Arnold—Where have you bean since?
Applicant—l have had nowhere to go to. I have been
walking the streets ever since they turned me out, without
a place to rest my limbs. I assure your worship lam in a
most wretched condition, and have not tasted food since
Tuesday. _ _ _

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Mr. Arnold—Have you made any application for relief?
Applicant—Yes, to Mr. Rogers, the relieving officer,
who would not give me admittance to the workhouse.
Mr. Arnold—Did he offer you any relief P
Applicant—No, he refused.
Chief Usher—Did he offer you any bread 2

Applicant—No, nothing, He told me to go away. It is
very hard. I have not broken my fast since Tuesday morn-
ing, and something ought to be done for me.

Mr. Arnold ordered the applicant to stop a few minutes,
and then gave him a letter to deliver to the parish authori-
ties, calling their particular attention to the case.

THAMES.

DISTRESSING CASE.—FUNERAL BAKED MEAT SERVED
FOR WEDDING DINNERS.—George Pitchford, a much-
neglected boy, a little above 14 years of age, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, on remand, charged with stealing a
quantity of rope from a ship building yard in Poplar.
The boy was caught in
.flagrante delicti by a gate-
keeper named Charles Bridges, who saw him steal a ship's
hind-fast. The boy was taking the rope out of the yard
and was stopped and given into the custody of a police-ser-
geant named Hatton, No. 26 K. The boy stated that his
father and stepmother were comfortably housed, and
had treated him with great tyranny. He was
compelled to become a thief, because his father
would not allow him necessary shelter and food.
Hatton said he had ascertained that the boy's state-
ment was too true. The boy's mother died five weeks before
Christmas, and a few days afterwards the boy's father mar-
ried a Jewess. The loss of the boy's mother was a sad blow
to him, and he had been very badly treated ever since. The
boy's father was a lockman in the service of the East and
West India Dock Company, and in the receipt of 27s 6d per
week. The boy's father and stepmother lived in one of the
West India Dock Cottages, and during .the late severe
weather the boy was not allowed to enter the cottage, and
was obliged to sleep in the yard all night. This was re
peated several nights.

The stepmother, an elderly woman with a long nose, said
the prisoner was a very bad boy, and had stolen 4s. from
her.

The father of the boy also gave him a very bad character.
Mr. Partridge observed that the father and step-mother
appeared very anxious to get rid of the lad, whom they were
bound to foster and protect. He asked if there were any
other children ?

Hatton replied only one, a married woman, who was no
burthen to her father. _ _

Mr. Partrige said there was no doubt of the neglected
state of the boy, and he thought the father was to blame.
He should send the boy to the House of Correction for H
days, and afterwards to the Home in the East Reformatory
for five years, and the father would be compelled tosupport
his son in the reformatory—to pay the full expenses of his
maintenance.

THE CONDEMNED PIRATES.—The execution of
the seven men now under sentence of death will, we believe,
take place at the Old Bailey. The matter is one in which
the Home Secretary has not the power to interfere. The
criminals are left for execution with the Sheriff of London,
who has the sole control of carrying out the sentence.

HAYTI AND LIBERIA.---On the 14th ult. a Treaty
of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was signed
by Mr. Dubois, the Minister for Hayti, and Mr. Ralston,
Consul-General for Liberia, on behalf of their respective
Negro Republicans. Much advantage is anticipated from
this treaty to the social, political, and commercial relations
between these kindred nations. One of the articles is as fol-
lows " Slave-trade is assimilated to piracy ;it is rigorously
prohibited, and the vessels of the two States which may be
engaged in this infamous traffic shall be judged and
punished according to the laws in force in their respective
countries against piracy." This is more stringent than
any article which it has been possible to introduce into
any previous treaty by the Liberian Consul, and there
is a manifest property in the two negro nations de-
nouncing slave-trade as piracy and punishing it accord-
ingly. Every nation has laws against piracy, but few have
them against slave-trade. If all nations would assimilate
slave-trade to piracy as Hayti and Liberia have just done,
and also allow the right of search, as England and America
have lately done, this nefarious traffic would ba put down
effectually.—Anti-Slavery Reporter.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE YORK, WHITBY,
AND SCARBOROUGH RAILWAY.—A dreadful acci-
dent took place on the Whitby branch of the York, Scar-
borough,wl and Whitby Railway last night. As the train
h leaves the Rillingcon Junction shortly after seven,
and is due at Whitby about nine, was proceeding up the
Grosmont incline, the rope which attached the train to the
stationary engine snapped is two, and the train ran back-
wards down the incline. So great was the impetus thus
gained that the engine and carriages left the rails. A scene
of great confusion followed, which was rendered worse by
the darkness. As soon as the sufferers could be extricated
it was found that ten passengers were more or less injured,
and that two commercial travellors were killed,—Eastern
Evening ;Pens (lIull) of last night,