The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-21 00:00:00

BOW-9 ritEET.

Since the setting in of the hard weather, the
business of this office has been principally confined
to applications by paupers for parochial relief. The
number of miserable objects that daily and nightly
present themselves to the notice of the Magistrates,
is said to exceed that of any other winter for several
years past ; and the difficulty of discriminating be-
tween real distress, and that which is assumed for
the purpose of imposition, is felt, by the Bench in
no slight degree. The severity of, the weather,
however, is such, that in general relief is ordered
without a too close investigation of the right of
the parties to receive it ; but it unfortunately hap-
pens, that in most cases the orders of the Magis-
trates are demurred to by the parish-officers; the
consequence of which is, that the wretched paupers
are refused admission to the workhouses, and are
bandied about between the overseers and the Ma-
gistrates, until the latter are obliged to issue pe-
remptory orders for the overseers to attend person-
ally before them to state the ground of their ob-
jections. The delay occasioned by this mode of
proceeding has been the subject of just complaint;
and in many instances the miserable individuals
who seek relief are compelled to walk the streets
for several nights together. In commenting upon
this subject a short time since, Mr. HALLS obsei ved,
that the poor laws were qtite adequate to the pur-
poses for which they were framed, but the manner
in which they were administered, rendered them in
many instances worse than nugatory.
A few nights ago two miserable looking females
came before Mr. MtssouLL, and begged of him as
favour that he would send them to the House of
Correction, as they despaired of obtaining admission
to a workhouse, and that such was their dread of
perishing in the streets, that even a prison would
be a welcome refuge.
Mr. MINSHULL humanely complied with their de-
sire, and they were sent as vagrants to the House
of Correction, with an order that they should be
passed from thence to their respective parishes,
when the term of their imprisonment should expire.
A case of another description was yesterday
brought forward. A police constable found a woman
with two children begging in Catherine-street,
Strand. She had neither shoes nor stockings, and
the legs and feet of the children were also exposed.
The sleet by which the thaw was accompanied had
literally drenched them, and the wet dripped from
their clothing. Notwithstanding their uncomfortable
condition, the two children (both girls) wore an ap-
pearance of uncommon health, and when placed be-
fore the fire of the waiting-room in the office,
frisked and gambolled about as if wholly unconsci-
ous of their situation. It was remarked that the
woman, who claimed them as her children, betrayed
very little of the feelings of a mother. She was
sullen and insolent, refusing to answer any questions
as to whether she had a husband, or where she lived.
Upon searching her the shoes and stockings of the
children, as well as her own, were found upon her,
she having taken them off, the better to excite the
charitable feelings of the passengers. The constable
declared, also, his belief that the woman, was not
the mother of die children, in proof of which, he
said, that lie saw, only a few days ago, the younger
of the two in the arms of another woman, who was
also begging in the Strand.
Sir H. Blame said, there was no doubt but that
the woman was u regular trading beggar. He di-
rected that the children and she should be taken care
of, until inquiries were made respecting them.
Two hulking fellows were soon after brought in,
charged with having been found begging. in the
Strand. One of them had on a sailor's jacket and
trousers, but he, had neither shirt, nor hat, nor shoes,
nor stockings. His companion was nearly as lightly
equipped, and it was quite obvious that this appear-
ance of destitution was assumed for the purpose of
exciting charity.
The constable saw them addressing several gentle-
men for the purpose of demanding money. One of

MARLBOROU GILSTREET.
.Tohn Langley and William Langley, brothers,
and E.irabelli Langley, the wife of John, were yes-
terday brought before Mr. ROE, the sitting Magis-
trate, charged with being concerned in the follow-
ing robbery, committed at the house of Mr. Jere-
miah Durant, a respectable elderly man residing in
the parish of Gillingham, in Kent, and who holds a
situation in Chatham dock-yard.
It appeared that the prisoner Elizabeth Langley,
who is the daughter of Mr. Durant, was oa a visit
for a few days at her father's house about a fortnight
ago; and soon after the termination of her visit, and
she had quitted the house, Mr. Durant missed, from
a private drawer of his, a bag containing upwards of
150 sovereigns, and having no doubt that
.his un-
dutiful daughter was the thief, he had information
of the robbery sent to the different police-offices in
town, and had a search made after her; but no
trace of her could be had at her husband's resi-
dence, both the latter and herself having removed
from there. Accident, however, brought about
what direct inquiry failed to do—the apprehension
of the suspected person.
It appeared that the wife of the prisoner William
Langley, a hard-working industrious laundress, who,
amongst others who employed her, washed for a
Mr. Gorham, a butcher, in Brook-street, Grosve-
nor-square, called a few days ago on Mr. Gorham,
in a state of great alarm and distress, to inform him
that, in her absence from home during the day, her
husband had stripped her apartments of every
article of property in the place, not even having
left her a bed to lie on, and that he had also
carried off the whole of the linen, &c., that
had been given her to wash by different per-
sons, and amongst them his (Mr. Gorham's) li-
nen. Mr. Gorham, on hearing this, as much out of
pity to thee poor woman who had been thus de-
serted, as to recover his property, employed Ballard,
one of the officers of this office, to look after the fu-
gitive; and Ballard, ere long, from information ob-
tained from the poor deserted woman that she had
often heard her husband speak of a wish to be at
Swan River settlement, traced the object of his
pursuit to the Green Man and Still coach-office, in
Oxford-street, where he learned that three persons,
answering the description of those now in custody,
had gone off froeithere the day before, per coach,
for Portsmouth, and that they were ultimately to
sail in a few days in a ship called the Medina, fur
Swan River, but that the whole of the ltiggage re-
mained yet at the Green Man and Still, to be for-
warded after them by that night's coach. Ballard
immediately gave directions that the luggage should
lie detained at the office, and by no means forward-
ed, as directed, to Portsmouth, and he procured a
search-warrant, on the application of Mr. Gorham,
to open and search the boxes, &c., in pursuit of Mr.
Gorham's property, and, as suspected, on making
the search the lost linen, &c., was found. The
luggage not having been forwarded to Portsmouth,
a letter was received by the proprietors of the
Green Man and Still, from the prisoner William
Langley, demanding, in a very imperative tone, to
know why the luggage had not been forwarded,
and commanding to have it sent forthwith, or that
he would bring an action against the proprietors for
the detention and the loss of his passage-money,
721., which he had paid for the three by the elfedina
to the Swan River. No notice whatever was taken
of this letter, as the officer directed, for it was not
doubted that the prisoners would instantly return to
town rather than sail without their luggage ; a►:rl to
meet them when they should do so, Clements and
Goddard, two other officers, were stationed at the
coach-office, with directions to take them into
custody, on the double charge of the robbery at
Mr. Durant's and that of Mr. Gorham's linen. As
was anticipated, the two male prisoners came the
next evening to the office, having arrived in town,
and while storming away at a furious rate about the
detention of their luggage, the officers pounced upon
them, and after a desperate resistance on the part of
William Langley, secured them and brought them
in custody to the office. John Langley, on being
then questioned about his wife, admitted that she
had gone with them to Portsmouth, but had also
returned, and told the officers where they might
find her; and his information proving• correct, she
was also in custody in a few minutes. On searching
William Langley, the officers found on him seventy
sovereigns, which, with 72/. paid to the captain of
the Medina, which has since sailed, for passage
motley, would make about the sum lost by Mr
Durant.

Mr. Durant, on being informed of the appreher_
sion of the prisoners, came to town, and promised to
attend the (examination yesterday; but he did not
appear, and the prisouers were consequently re-
manded to a future day, when Mr. RoE said, if Mr.
Durant should not attend, a warrant should be issued
to compel his appearance to prosecute.
The female prisoner, who is a respectable-looking
female, about 40 years of age, denied all knowledge
of the robbery at her father's house, as did also the
male prisoner, Wm. Langley, who conducted himself
in a very insolent manner, alleging that the money
found on him belonged to himself.
LAMBETH-STREET.
A respectable-looking young woman, accompanied
by an elderly female, who described herself as her
sister, applied to Mr. WALKER for an order to be
taken into Mile-end workhouse.
The elder female stated that her sister was unfor-
tunately given to habits of idleness, and had lost all
her places.
Mr. WALKER asked if the young woman had ever
been in the workhouse before ?.
On being answered in the affirmative,
Mr. WALKER. said, that from the lazy habits of
the young woman he suspected that to be the case.
He never knew of any case of a young woman who
had been taken into the workhouse who had ever
turned out to be good for any thing. In considera-
tion, however, of the respectable appearance of her
sister, he would grant her a summons, and get her
some temporary relief until such time as she should
get a situation, which, when she got, she must en-
deavour to keep, and think no more of the parish.

UNION-HALL . .
Yesterday Robert Reynoka the man who took a
shop in the New Cat, Lambeth, 4.1n1 set up in bu-
siness us a watchmaker, was brought up fur final
examination, charged with defrauding. several indi-
viduals of watches which were given .hire to repair.
Mr. Thomas Allen, a watchmaker in Devonshire-
street, about nine months ago, hiving a gold watch
to repair for a gentleman, and knowing the prisoner
to be a Journeyman in the trade, gave it to him to
do the 'necessary repairs. The day was specified
when it was to be finished, but on sending to the
habitation of the prisoner it was found he bad de-
camped with the gold watch, us well as the watches
of several other persons. Mr. Allen had at various
times since the transaction souqht Lifiqr the prisoner,
but never could gain any intelligence on•
Until Within a few days he saw an account in a news-
the point,

At four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. STIR-
LING, the Coronet•, and a respectable Jury, assem-
bled in the pupils'-room, Middlesex Hospital, to in-
quire concerning the death of Miss Susan Abbott,
which was occasioned by the above calamity.
Harriet Francis, widow, a lodger in the house
destroyed, knew the deceased; she lived in the same
house, and attended in the shop to assist Mr, Wild,
the owner• of it, in his haberdashery business. On
Friday night the witness went to bed about ten
o'clock, in the second floor front room. Some time
after• she went to bed, she fancied she stnelt a dis-
agreeable smell in her room ; she got out of bed to
see from whence it came, and she thought it was
occasioned by the damp weather; she burns a fire
in her room in the day-time ; that was gorse out, and
she considered every thing was safe, and went to
bed again. At half-past twelve, she heard a nose
and confusion in the house, and was alarmed with
the cry of " Fire I" She opened her door. The
place was full of smoke. She went to the window ;
but was afraid to jump out, and sotne gentlemen in
the street told her to run down stairs : and she did
so, and escaped. The deceased slept in the front
attic, with her sister. She does not know how the
fire originated. The family were particularly careful.
George Jackson, jun., of 50, Rathbone-place,
composition ornament-maker, (lid not know the de-
ceased. On Friday night, at 25 minutes after twelve,
he was in his drawing-room, and heard screams,
and the cry of " Fire l" lie went into the street,
and found Mr. Wild's house on fire. He shortly
afterwards saw two persons at the • second-floor
windows. Some in the street cried " Jump out,"
others cried " Run down stairs ;'' and in about
three minutes he saw a female, apparently about 15
or 16 years of age, throw herself out. There was
no balcony. She appeared to come down head
foremost, and she fell partly upon the bars of the
area gat,, and partly on the pavement. She was
dressed in her night-clothes : other persons ran to
her assistance. She appeared lifeless, and they
carried her away.

William Hutton, of 43, Rathbone-place, aucti °neer,
knew the deceased by sight; she was about 14 or
15. Ile went to the front of Mr. Wild's house at
about the same time as the last witness, and lie saw

the deceased leaning out of the second floor window
and screaming dreadfully. Some persons called out
" Jump down." He told her to stay until ke
fetched carpets and blankets, and he went to his
auction-room for that purpose,and came back directly
with blankets, and she had that moment fallen on
her head, and a Mr. M‘Gill, a hackney-coachman,
and a policeman picked her up. She was perfectly
insensible, and appeared to him to be dead. She
was wrapped in blankets, and carried away to this
hospital. When the deceased was taken up from
the pavement, her head appeared to be dreadfully
cut, and the blood flowed copiou•ly from her face
and nose, and her limbs dangled about as if broken.
The witness added, that he had no doubt she fell,
and did not jump from the window. She shook
very much with terror before he went for the
blankets, and appeared to change very much at the
time vinr n be requested her to wait till he came back.
A Juror asked whether any of the police were
present?—Mr. Hutton answered, " GO or 70, and
• they did their duty in a most efficient manner."
The house surgeon of Middlesex Hospital said,
tire deceased WaS brought in about half-past twelve
on Friday night : she had received a very serious
injury upon her head, was other wise much bruised,
and was quite insensible, and she continued so until
she died the next day : her death was occasioned by
the injuries inflicted by the fall.
The Jury viewed the body of the deceased, and
returned a verdict " That she came to her death by
jumping or falling front tine window of a house in
Rathbone-place, in consequence of the house being
on lire."

OFFICE OF CLERK OF THE PEACE.-A
bill having been sent in to the County Magistrates of
Middlesex, by the Clerk of the Peace, claiming a sum of
5561. Bs. tid., in addition to the customary fees of the
office, for extra services performed in the year 1827, and
such claim being altogether a novel one, it was referred to
a Special Committee, who have made a voluminous Re-
port. The account consists of thirty-nine closely written
pages, and is in addition to periodical charges made by the
Clerk of the Peace, and exclusive of the fees paid to the
Deputy Clerk of the Peace. One portion of the bill,
amounting to 498/. '7s. 7d., relates to official services es
Clerk of the Peace, and is diasallowed, except a few items
amounting to 135/. 10s. 2d. It appears that the actual
receipts of the Clerk of the Peace for the year ending on
on the 25th Nlarch, 1827, after the payments made there,
out for clerks' wages, stationery, taxis, and csthor expences
amounttd to 2,088/. 15s. 3d. The Deputy receives two-
fifths, which amount to 835/. 10s. ld.

A daring robbery was committed on Saturday
morning last, between eleven and twelve, upon Mr.
WILLIAM SALMAN, a gentleman of Peterboronek, about
eighty years of age. He had gone to his close near the
Bank-road, about half a mile from the city, and while he
was in .a hovel therein, getting corn to feed his stork, two
fellows rushed in upon him, threw him down, and, one or
both of them falling upon him, said, " Now for it." They
then blindfolded him with a kerchief, forcing the e.i-Ad of it
into his mouth, and proceded to rile. ilia pooketa. He
entreated them, as well as he could articulate under such
confinement, to he merciful. " Take all I have," said the
unfortunate gentleman ;" spare my life, and I wilt say no-
thing." They then felt about different parts of his clothinz,
it is supposed for his pocket-book, which he Ind uo:i about
him. He told them to take his watch, 149 t this they did not,
contenting thenaelvcs with t 4 boty they found in his
purse, about 16s. or 1U They then left their victim, blind-
folded es he was, and retreated by the door, which they
contrived to secure after them, to prevent an imtnOilte
pursuit. When Mr. SALMAN recovered fre„;.; hie aqiiglst
he released himself from his brid:ige, and found his way
out of the hovel hy hole which led into an adj Aninz
place, and, haying got into the air, he saw two Alen run.,
ding in oppositedirections. "[Yvon his.serkval ak home, his
son, observing his altered st.ate.' demanded the reason, and
it was with EIAW- reluctance Mr. SALmAx,—perhaps in
consequence of Lis promise in the hovel,_disclosed the
story. A constable was inurediately procured, and from
information which was obtained, he apprehended a *lan"
named DEsEOROUGII, the nails of wlue-r. i,,,,k0t-soles corre-
sponded with the indentime; footseps upon the snow
•
near the hove!, i hzs plan impeaChed his accomplice,
notorious fellow named .!ogle FLOWERS, of Petiiwhorough
and the parties are now in prison, v,vorkikil ti; ie desert!,
The robbery was committal ; few yards of the
gallows : perprty4urs WAY Percluthce live to revisit
the scee of their daring deed's.... el4ampivn. •

(From the Edinburgi, New Philosoplircol.Litrnal )
'The region which may he considered as the
habitual abode of the Condor, begins at a heiglit
equal to that of Etna, and comprehends s! rata
4 air at an elevation of from 9,600 to 18,000
feet above the level of the sea. The largest ia-
dividuals that are met with in the chain of the
Andes of Quito, are about 14 feet from the tip
of one wing to that of the other, and the
smallest only eight. From these dimensions,
and from the visual angle under which this lird
sometimes appears perpendicularly above our
heads, it may be judged to what a prodigions
height it rises when the sky is clear. Wlaat
seen, for example, under an angle of fair
minutes, it must be at a perpendicular distance
of 6,876 feet. The Cave of Antisana, sianced
opposite the mountain of Chussulongo, and
from which we measured the bird soaring, is
situated at a height of 12,958 feet ago, e the
level of the Pacise Ocean. Thus, the absolute
height which the Condor attained was 20,831
feet, an elevation at which the barometer
scarcely risen to 12 inches. It is a somewhat
remarkable physiological phenomenon, that this
bird, which for hours continues to fly about in
regions where the air is so rarified, all at once
descends to the edge of the sea, as along
the western slope of the volcano of Pinchincha,
and thus in a few minutes passes ai it y..cro
through all the varieties of climate. At a height
of 20,000 feet, the air-cells of the Condor,
which are filled in the lowest regions, mu't
inflated in an extraordinary manner. Sixty
years ago Elloa expressed his astonishment at
the circumstance that the vulture of the Andes
could fly at a height where the mean pre.ssure of
the air is only 14 inches. At heights like these
man in general finds himself reduced to a most
painful state of debility. In the Condor, on the.
contrary, the act of respiration appeals to ha
performed with equal ease, in mediums where the
pressure differs from 12 to 30 inches. Of all
living beings, it is without doubt the one that
can rise at will to the greatest distance from the
earth's surface. I say, at will, because small
insects are carried still higher by ascending cur-
rents. Probably the height which the Condor
attains is greater than that which we have found
by the calculation mentioned above. I remember

that on Cotopaxi, in the Plain of SuNiguaieu,
covered with pumice, and elevated 13,578 &et
above the level of the aea, I perceived the bird
at such a height that it appeared like a black
dot. The transparency of the air of mouiltains
is so great under
,the equator, that, in the pro-
vince of Quito,7as I have elsewhere shown, the
poncho or white mantle of a person on horse-
back is distinguishable at a horizontal distance
of 84,032 feet.