The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-11 00:00:00

A PENNY LODGING-HOUSE.

At the Thames Police- court yesterday James Hayes
was charged with savagely assaulting two wretched
boys, named John Sullivan and James Green, who
are without home, friends, or the means of subsistence.
The complainants had been in the practice of sleep-
ing in a penny lodging house, kept by the prisoner's
mother in-law, in Blue Anchor-yard, Rosemary-lane.
The boys, who had not been able to procure a meal
on Tuesday, repaired to the house on Tuesday night,
for the purpose of sleeping there. They had no
money, and the landlady said they should not stay
there. The boys refused to leave the place, on
which Mrs. O'Brien called her son in law, who
armed himself with a 'blackthorn stick, with
which he beat the poor boys over the head and
shoulders in a most savage manner, and severely
injured them. Their cries brought a police.
constable to the house, who found the lads bleeding
profusely, and the prisoner standing over them with
a stick. The fellow was immediately arrested, and the
boys were sent to the London Hospital to have their
heads dressed, and they appeared with bandages on
them, and said that they had been grievously as-
saulted and wounded. The policeman described the
scene which presented itself in the room he entered.
It was a very small one, extremely filthy, and there
was no furniture of any description in it. There were
16 men, women, and children, lying on the floor with-
out covering. Some of them were half naked. For
this miserable shelter, each lodger paid a penny. The
stench was intolerable, and the place bad not been
cleansed out for some time. It was also stated, that
several cases of cholera had occurred in the house and
the adjoining ones, which were equally filthy.
The prisoner said the boys would not leave the
house, and made the first attack on him.

This statement, however, was completely dis-
proved by John Shea, one of the penny lodgers,
who said the attack on the boys was brutal And un-
provoked.

Mr. Yardley expressed his surprise that so many
human beings should be huddled together in one close
room. It was lamentable that such a state of things
existed in this metropolis. He condemned the con-
duct of the prisoner in strong terms, and said he had
no right to use the stick on the boys, and beat them
as he had done. He fined the prisoner 405., and in
default of payment committed him to the House of
Correction for fourteen days.

CO URT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
The intelligence of the sudden death of Mr. George
Edward Anson reached Osborne yesterday at about
one o'clock. This event has caused deep affliction to
hrr Majesty the Queen, and his Royal Highness the
Prince Albert, to whom he had been for nearly ten
years a confidential and attached servant.

- Her Majesty's departure for Windsor, which had
been fixed for this day, has been postponed, upon the
recommendation of the Board of Health, in conse-
quence of the number of new fatal cases of cholera
that have occurred in that town.

Iler Majesty proceeds to London on Friday next,
and will from thence visit her Majesty the Queen
Dowager at the Priory, Stanmore, and should the
efforts of the Board of Health to cleanse the part of
the town which is afflicted have proved successful,
will proceed to Windsor upon Saturday, where the
Royal children, who will remain at Osborne for the
present, will join her Majesty upon the same day.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this forenoon
in the Park.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by Baroness de Speth, left town at half-past
twelve o'clock yesterday for the Priory at Stanmore,
to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager.
Her Royal Highness partook of a dejeune, and in
the afternoon took her departure, returning to
Clarence House, St. James's, at five o'clock.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council for Trade and Foreign
Plantations had a meeting yesterday at the Office of
the Board of Trade, Whitehall. The Lords present
were the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the
President of the Board of Trade, the Chancellor of
th,

le Duchy of Lancaster, Sir James Stephen, and Sir
;dward Ryan.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
.ional Debt had a Quarterly Meeting yesterday, at
the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, in Downing-street. There were present the
Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Governor of the Bank of England, and the De-
puty-Governor. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comp-
troller. General, was in attendance.

ALARMING FIRE AT ALDERMAN HUMPHERT'S
WHARFS.—Between four and five o'clock yesterday
morning, as a person was passing the wharfs of Mr,
Alderman Humphery, at Bankside, be discovered an
unusu%l tam ke. Timely information was given to the
police, and messengers sent to the City and Southwark
engine stations. Several engines and firemen were in
quick attendance, and an entry having been forced, a
tire was found extending itself among the straw and
rubbish in the oil cellars, where an enormous stock was
dI posited. The firemen were successful in soon allay-
ir g the fear of the neighbourhood, and fortunately, their
having been quickly called to the spot no doubt pre.
vented a most awful loss of property.
How TO DO THE OBSTREPEROUS COLONIES.--
They won't take cur paupers after they have become
convicts. Let us send them out as emigrants before they
get into prison.—Punch.
Never chew your words. Open your mouth, and
let the voice come out. A student once asked, " Can
virchue, fortichude, gratichude, or quiechude, dwell with
that man who is a stranger to rectiohnde?"