The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-12 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Last night Mr. Nangle, the assistant-overseer of
the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, charged eight
paupers, four men and four women, with presenting
forged orders for bread and cheese, purporting to be
signed by Mr. Samuel Revett, one of the overseers.
It appeared that no less than twenty-one forged
orders, all written by the same hand, and signed as
above, were presented at the workhouse in the
course of Saturday ; and so well was the signature
of Mr. Revett counterfeited,that food was obtained
upon them all. The charge of obtaining bread and
cheese upon these orders was proved against three
male and two female paupers, and they were sent
by Sir R. BIRNIE, under the Vagrant Act, for 14
days to the House of Correction, there to be kept
to hard labour. Two other paupers were sent for
the same period for breaking the windows of the
workhouse. The paupers of this parish have lately
become so outrageous as to set the officers completely
at defiance.

Mr. Nangle, by whom the above charges were
preferred, was in a very weak state, from having
been attacked a few nights since by a male pauper,
who lay in wait for him outside the walls of the
workhouse, and knocked him down by a violent
blow upon the temple. One of the fellows charged
last night, named James Crook, shook his fist at
him in a threatening manner, unrestrained by the
presence of the Magistrate. Mr. Nangle, carried
an immense bludgeon under hiscoat, for his personal
protection, a precaution which appears not at all un-
necessary, as his lifa bps been more than once
threatened by the paupers.
In answer to questions by the Magistrate, one of
the overseers stated that those paupers who cannot
be taken into the workhouse receive once a week a
shilling each, besides two allowances per day of a
half-pound loaf, and two ounces of cheese.
The paupers charged last night complained bit-
terly of the usage they received. They stated that
the above allowance was not regularly distributed
to them; and some of them complained of being
obliged to walk the streets at night for want of a
roof to shelter them, alleging that a shilling a week
was insufficient to provide them with even a heap of
straw to lie down upon at night. Two of the fe-
males held up their broken shoes, and complained
that they were forced to walk the streets literally
with bare fret ; and one of them declared that when
she came out of prison she would forge orders again
and again, sooner than starve in the streets.
Yesterday a young woman named Rosina Witten-
bury was charged before Sir R. BIRNIE with having
stolen various articles of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of her master, Mr. William Rolfe Bonney,
who resides at Kentish-town.

The prisoner, who hid her face while under exa-
mination, was remanded until Thursday next, when
her mistress is to come forward for the purpose of
identifying the property produced.

STANNARIES OF CORNWALL.

VICE-WARDEN'S COURT, JAN. 3.

This day a cause of some importance was heard
by the Worshipful the Vice-Warden, John Wallis,
Esq. The plaintiffs were, the Right Hon. Lord De
Dunstanyille and Basset, and Sir Charles Lemon,
Bart., on behalf of themselves and others, bounders
(owners of minerals) in a certain tin-mine called
Balnoon ; the defendants were, Mr. William West,
Mr. Robert Bennett, and others, their co-adventu-
rers in the said mine. From the statement of Mr.
Joseph Edwards, who addressed the Court as advo-
cate for the plaintiffs, and which statement was sub-
sequently supported by evidence, it appeared that
prior to July, 1825, the defendant West had agreed
for a set or lease of the mine in question, and that
an instrument, which it was contended on the one
side was intended for a lease, whilst on the other
side, the advocate for the plaintiffs argued that it
was an agreement only, was signed by T. Richards,
as toiler or agent for the plaintiffs, and by West for
himself and co-adventurers. In virtue of the right
derived under this instrument, the defendants worked
the mine, and had latterly raised considerable quan-
tities of ore. For some cause not stated, but which
is understood to be a claim made by Mr. Praed to
the whole bounds of the mine, the dues reserved in
the grant have been withheld, and to recover the
amount so held hack, the present suit was instituted.
Thomas Richards had seen the defendant West
sign the instrument which was then put in and read.
It contained the words " do devise and grant," but
was signed by Richards as agent merely, and not by
power of attorney.
The defendants' attorney, Mr. Hitcher!, of St.
Ives, contended that the instrument was ♦oid ; it
bore to be a lease, but it bore the stamp of an agree-
ment only, and was defective in the form of signature.
The Vice-Warden said the point was one of great
impo:tance to the county, and he should reserve his
judgment on it.
The books of the mine were produced, from
which it appeared that the dues accruing to the
plaintiffs on the ore raised in Hallow' bounds, the
part of Balnoon mine that is in dispute, up to the
29th of May, 1829, amounted to 1871. 12s. sd. for
which sum his worship gave judgment for the plain-
tiffs, subject to the objection raised as to the validity
of the instrument produced. The question of title,
between the plaintiffs and Mr. Praed, was not at all
entered on.

"lie iron and lead trades continue in a very
depressed state. A great quantity of iron is disposed of,
but so much has the production of the article increased by
the opening of the new mines and work•, that the price
are kept ♦ery low.--North Wales Oro-side.