The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-27 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

A few weeks ago a young chimney-sweeper, named Cane,
was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged by the police
with having been seen lying about the streets for a length
of time, in a state of miserable destitution.
The boy, when questioned, told the Magistrates he had
been unable to get any one to employ him, as he had grown
too big for climbing work, and also that he had for some
weeks been subsisting, or rather starving, on what he could
obtain from the charitable.

Mr. Chambers humanely gave the boy a letter to the
Refuge for the Destitute, and, as nothing further was heard
of the lad, it was presumed that the recommendation had
been effectual. The boy, however, made his appearance
again at the office, and was allowed to see the Magistrate.
Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, my lad, what do you want with
me now ? Boy—l only come out o' pris'n this morning, so
I come to pay a wisit to your Vorship.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What, havn't they washed your face
during the time you were there? Boy—Oh yes, it vos vita
enough when I come out, but I blacked it myself.
Mr. CHAMBERS—By sweeping some chimney I suppose?
Boy—No ; I borrowed some soot from the bag of a gemman
as I know'd, and made myself fit to be seen.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Why did you do so ? Boy—'Cos I
vos so wery incomfortable, and I know'd it vos quite unnat-
terel to have a clean face of a veek day. None of my
old pals vouldn't offer to know me ven I spoke to 'em.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Your taste is a very singular one, cer-
tainly.
From a hint that was thrown out to the Bench, there
was good reason to suppose that the black job was not so
much a matter of taste on the pact of the operator as of
prudence, for a clean face, on any other day than a Sunday,
was as indicative of Tothil-fields to a chimney-sweep as a
cropped bead to a pickpocket of a recent visit to the tread-
mill.

Mr. CHAMBERS—Did you get admitted into the Refuge ?
Boy—Ven I vent they told me to come agin in a fortnight,
but, as I hadn't no money nor no lodging, I vos hobligated
to sleep in the streets, so I got took up agin, and then I
vos sent for a month to pris'n. I only come out this here
werry morning.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Did they give you anything at the pri-
son when you were discharged? Boy—Not nuffin, and
I'm now vorser off than afore, 'cos if them vos cork nobody
youldn't give me none after they know'd I'd been in quod.
Mr. CHAMBERS—It's a hard case, but I dont know what
to do for you. I'll give you a shilling to help you to get
work.

The boy took the shilling thankfully, and went away.

UNION-HALL,

Thomas Walton, a policeman of the F division, was fined
the full penalty of 51. for committing an outrageous assault
on a young man named Koehler.
John Beattie, a man of respectable appearance, fol-
lowing the business of a printery was charged with de-
frauding a benefit society, of which he was a member,
by the following remarkable stratagem :—From the state-
ment of the Secretary of the Society called the " Sons
of Friendship," held in Goswell-street, it appeared that
the prisoner became a member about four years ago. In
May last he complained of illness, and was placed on
the sick list, which entitled him to 15s. a week. Having
expressed his intention of going into the country for the be-
nefit of his health, he announced that he should remain at
Malmesbury, in Wiltshire, until he was convalescent, and
agreeably to the regulations of the Society that he should send
up a certificate signed by the authorities of the place every
month, so as to enable his wife in town to receive his allow.
ance. Since the period the prisoner was supposed to have
gone into the country, his wife produced the necessary cer-
tificates every month to the secretary of the society, and
received the money, no suspicion being entertained at the
time that the signatures of those certificates were not
genuine. In the month of August a woman, who called
herself Jane Wood, attended at the society, and produced
a certificate of Beattie's death at Malmesbury, signed by
two of the churchwardens of the parish in which he was
described to have expired, and the woman Wood, on that
occasion, said that she brought the certificate, as Mrs. Beat-
tie was unwell. By the artioles of the society it appeared
that a member's widow was entitled to 151. to bury her hus-
band, and the claim was then made, when the secretary paid
Wuod the third part of that wee, with the understanding
that the remainder was to be paid at the next monthly meet-
ing. In the interval, however, as it was suspected that the
society was being imposed upon, an inquiry took place,
when it was ascertained that the whole of the certificates
were forgeries, and the prisoner, instead of being dead and
buried, as one of the documents specified, was found to
be living in the parish of Lambeth with his family,
where ho was taken into custody. As the prisoner's wife