The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

THAMES.

REMOVAL OF IRISH PAUPERS.—Mr. Jeffreys, one of the
relieving officers of the Poplar Union, came before Mr.
Partridge, with Mary Hayes,' aged 37, and John Hayes,
her brother, aged 12, and requested him to sign an order
for their removal to Limerick, their native place.
Mr. Partridge said the law 'prohibited the removal of
Irish paupers as deck passengers during the winter season.
Mr. Jeffreys said the two :pauj)ers before the bench
would be forwarded to Limerick as cabin passengers in a
steamship, which would leave the river to-morrow morn-
ing. The Guardians had contracted to pay 10s. extra for
each pauper sent to Ireland during the winter months.
Mr Partridge said that a case had been lately investi-
gated by his colleague, Mr. Paget, vthere it appeared that
the guardians of the Greenwich Union had sent paupers to
Cork as deck passengers in the month of December, 1864,
and one of them was a young woman who had been con-
fined a month only. He could not ,too strongly condemn
such a state of things. He asked the two paupers for
whom orders of removal were asked were in good health ?
Mr. Jeffreys—Yes, sir.
Mr. Partridge--And able to undertake the voyage to
Limerick ?

The woman, who did not look Pi
Mr Jeffreys—Ye; sir, and willing to go.
Wore than 20, and her
brother were then sworn to the
plate of their legal settle-
ment, and the magistrate signed the order for their re-
moval, on being assured that prof r care would be taken
of them on the voyage.

CHAPEL ROYAL, SAVOY.—ast evening a most
theatre is it was filled with
agreeable entertainment was given to the juvenile
portion of the parishioners of the 'precincts of the Savoy,
in the theatre of King's College,
Strand. Spacious as the
your people, with the most
good-humoured faces, accompanies).
;
in many cases by elder
branches of their families. The ehdristers for the day
threw off their surplices and dressed themselves up in all
sorts of grotesque' attire, singing, reciting, tumbling, and
playing all manner of tricks for `the amusement of their
friends. The Rev. Henry White, the chaplain of the Savoy,
in a few general words, said his object had simply been to
provide a Christmas entertainment for the young people
he was in tho habit of meeting on more serious
terms during the year, and there was to be no attempt
to instruct anybody. It was inttnded to be a meeting
for pure fun and enjoyment, nothing more nor less. He
then entered into the amusements bf the evening with the
greatest possible zest, playing
on the piano while the chil-
dren sang, exhibiting magic lanterns and chromotropes in
every conceivable form, and cheer/14g' on the young people
to enjoyment with wonderful succ,ess. One youth gave a
capital parody of speeches too often heard—in the capacity
of an emissary from the " Cat's Fiidnd Society ;" another
(or perhaps it was the same, for his face was blackened)
was an excellent representative of a stump orator. Another
was tied up a la Davneport, and tied, too, by people who,
never having seen anything of the sort before, were deter-
mined to have no nonsense. So they tied him up in a very
barbarous fashion, and so thoroughly that the poor fellow
had to be carried behind a screen, where he was left
to himself. In less than a minute he returned and exult-
ingly held up his ropes in his hand, a feat which brought
down thunders of applause. He then in less than a minute
and a half tied himself up, and it tqok the stalwart porter
of the college nearly half an hour to untie him. It would
be impossible to describe the varied amusements of the
evening, with which the rapid progress of time alone in-
terfered, for there was enough in the programme to have
lasted several hours longer. When Mr. White announced
that on account of the lateness of the hour the amusements
must cease, and give them all a New Year's greeting, the
young people rose in a body and thanked him in a succes-
sion of hearty cheers. A similar compliment was paid to
Dr. Jelf, principal of the college, who placed the theatre
at Mr. White's disposal for the entertainment, and who has
also granted him the use of the college chapel on Sunday
evening until the church of the Savoy, some time since
burned down, is restored.
THE HUNTERIAN ORATION.—Mr. Partridge, of
King's College, has consented -to deliver the oration in
honour of John Hunter, at the Royal College of Surgeons,
on the 14th of February.

DEATH OF LADY DE DUNSTANVILLE.—Harriet,
Lady De Dunstanville and Basset, relict of Baron De Dun-
stanville, expired on Friday last at her residence in Charles-
street, Berkeley-square, in her 89th year. At the death of
Baron Do Dunstanville in 1835 that title became extinct,
but his barony of Basset passed to his only daughter by his
first wife, who died 20 years after her father, and with her
the title also became extinct.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. -A new step

has been taken by this society. They have instituted
a weekly show of whatever flowers (common or rare) may
be at their best on each succestive Saturday. They have
a band of music every Saturday—Weippert's Quadrille
Band—and by the constant recurrence of the shows every
Saturday they secure the exhibition of many plants which

rom their flowering at a time when no great show was

held, would not have been exhibited at all. One advantage
of this step is that whoever is fond of flowers or music will
now find the best of both at the Horticultural Society's
Garden on Saturday. Monday has been fixed as the people's
day at a low charge of admission, and these weekly shows
are to be carried over from Saturday to Monday for this
express purpose. We see also that prizes for window gar-
dening are in contemplation,