The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-20 00:00:00

MILITARY DEPARTMENTS.

Ordnance, Commissariat, Medical, &c.
Dukes of Wellington, Comberland, Cambridge,
Gloucester, and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg.
t In the 26 Regiments of Cavalry three are scotch and
three Irish ; and in the 99 Regiments of Infantry, five are
Scotch Lowland Regiments, eight Highland ditto, six
Irish ditto, and 1 Welsh (Fuzileers.)
The Royal Malta Fencible Regiment is a Maltese Regi-
ment, officered by Maltese; and in the Ceylon Regiment
the men are Ceylonese, officered partly by English and
natives. These are the only two foreign regiments in the
King's service ; forming in the whole an effective military
force of about 150,000 men for the present year.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A poor woman, named Hannah Arnold, appeared
at the Justice-room with three female children,
which she had brought forth at one birth, to beg re-
lief in her distress. She had, she said, been brought
to bed of the children on the 12th of September
last, but, on account of her poverty, she had not
been able to afford herself the necessary aliment to
meet such constant sources of exhaustion. She had,
she said, four other young children at home, so that
all that she and her husband could do would not be
adequate to support so large a family, and they had
no parish to apply to for the slightest assistance..
Sir P. LAURIE said, the applications for relief
far exceeded tiv means. and if a woman who had
three children at a birth were to succeed in her
petition, there would soon be applications from those
who would be able to produce four.
The mother had no way of helping herself. She
lodged in a wretched place, at No. 96, Grub-street,
and the three babes would soon make a shadow of
her.

Sir PETER stated, that in cases of the kind, an
under such exigent circumstances, a woman must
look to the sympathies of her immediate neighbours.
An aged pensioner, with a grey head, a venerable
stoop in his shoulder, and a very ugly face, was
brought up, charged with being the father of an il!e-
gitimate child. The mother, a little squat servant-
maid, said, that she had been prevailed upon by the
incessant solicitations of the veteran to do " what
was wrong," and that her present conditiou was the
result.

Sir PETER LAURIE asked her how she could be
persuaded by such an object to have any intercourse
with him.

She replied,, that they lodged in the same house,
and he was always after her, and would never let
her alone by no means, so that she could'nt help
herself.

The parish officers said that the old gentleman
had consented to pay to the mother for the support
of the child the sum of half-a-crown a week, out of
his pension of 10s. With this allowance they were
satisfied, but he had of late taken it into his head,
that the child of which the young woman was preg-
nant was not quite his own.—(Laughter.)
The pensioner then raised his head, and looking
at the girl with a auspicious eye, said he believed
that some fello%l s put the child upon him. He was
led the more to credit this, as he had had nothing to
do with her for 14 months.—(Laughter.)
The mother indignantly repelled this insinuation,
and declared that they had Leen together in a great
variety of places on as familiar terms as possible.
Sir PETER. LAURIE confirmed the order, and rt.-
proved the girl for her unblushing conduct.

GUILDHALL.
John Kiteehone, a journeyman tailor, was charged
with stealing several cuts of superfine cloth, value
lal. The prisoner was committed for trial.