The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-21 00:00:00

KILRUSH PETTY SESSIONS.

TEA-POT TWADDLE.—MISS Anne Mylan, with a smil-
ing, man-beguiling face, which certainly had its fair sur-
face unmarked by any of those well-defined scratches that

too generally characterise lady warfare, charged Mrs.
Jane Bluett with a grievous assault—no less than having,
after a well-put-in volley of small arms, in the 'shape of
tongue castigation, extracted a whole handful of the bloom-
ing Anne's " yellow hair," and then licked at her with that
glittering indispensable to drawing-room elegance, the
" polishe fender," and all because sh came and asked for
her mistress's tea-pot.

Mrs. Bluett did not attend, but she was represented
by an eloquent and dingy-looking domestic, a Miss Crowe.
" Now, Jane," quoth Anne, " you're on your oath. Did
you ever see such capers ?"—(Laughter.)
Crowe—Faikes, ye may laugh—(laughter)—but I seen
nothin' much asthray between 'cm.
Mylan—Ob, my goodness ! don't you remember how I
couldn't put a rack thro' my hair (savin' your presence,
gintlemen) for as good as a week afthcr it ? Sure that was
bein' asthray, any way.
MAGISTRATE—Come, my good girl, tell what you saw
at once.

Dear knows, surely, Sir, an' welcome," replied the un-
sophisticated Jane :—" I want me misses's tea-pot," says
Anne Mylan, " welkin' into the parlour, where my own
misses was at breakwhost, just knockin the top ov her se-
cond egg, and lookin' as mild as a sleepin' policeman.—
(Laughter.) Why shouldn't she ? If your misses had
manners she'd get it before,' says my misses. Oh, then,
faikes,' says Ann Mylan, makin' answer, "tis wrong my
misses would to play second to you in any thing f so with
that they jawed a dhrass, an when I kem in they wor ma-
kin' over to one another, givin' word for word, as 'twould
be in a church or chapel, an', to tell God's truth, my misses
had a grip o' the fendher. ' Be the same token the tay-pot
was med smithereens ov that was laid on it, wid a coal
undber, it to keep it hot., for my own breakwhost."—
(Laughter.)
" Now about the fist-full o'hair you saw her dhraw from
my head," said Anne Mylan soothingly.
Crowe : Not a lock. If I was dying this minute I could
declare I did't see you loose as much hair as would tickle a
child's nose, an' meself didn't allow sthrokes to pass between
ye—that's the whole of it.

Mrs. B. was fined the costs.—Limerick Star.

LAMBETH LITERARY AND

SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.

The first General Half-yearly Meeting of this now
securely established, and eminently useful Institution, took
place on Tuesday evening last, at the rooms of the Society,
Wellington-terrace, Waterloo Bridge-road. There was a
numerous attendance of subscribers, who consisted of some
of the most respectable and opulent inhabitants of the
borough. It was expected that the Chair would have been
taken by the President of the Society, Benjamin Hawes,
Esq., M.P. ; but as the Hon. Gentleman was unable to
attend, owing to the pressure of his Parliamentary duties,
JAMES BRABY, Esq., Treasurer of the Institution, kindly
consented to preside on the occasion.

The CHAIRMAN having in a short but neat address stated
the object of the meeting, namely, to receive the Report of
the Committee of Management, and proceed to the elec-
tion of a Librarian, concluded by calling on the Honorary
Secretary to read the Report in question.
The Report was then read, from which it appeared that,
although the Institution had only been in active operation
for five months, the number of its members amounted to
nearly three hundred ; that the Archbishop of Canterbury
had contributed to its funds ; that amongst its vice-pa-
trons were Lord Arden, the Lord Lieutenant of the
county, and Lord King ; that amongst the vice-presidents
were Messrs. Beaufov, Clowes„ and Palmer ; that Mr.
Warburton, M.P., the Rev. Dr. D'Ovley, and other emi-
nent individuals, and given in aid of its object handsome
donations ; that with the means supplied from these va-
rious sources, the committee of management were not
only able to supply the reading-rooms with the greater
portions of the daily periodicals, and every periodical of
character, but to obtain, for the benefit of the subscribers,
lectures (delivered by professors of reputation) connected
with science and polite literature ; and that a library had
also been collected, which consisted of 1,100 volumes, of
which number 642 had been presented to the Institution
by subscribers. _

The Report further proceeded to state that educational
classes had been established, to which the members of the
Institution were to be admitted, free of expense—that a
conversazione had taken place, which had given great satic-
faction—that similar sources of • intellectual enjoyment
would be opened to the subscribers in the course of the en-
suing season ; and that,indeed,every means had been taken,
and would be persevered in, by the Committee, to make
the Institution worthy of the support, and deserving the
patronage of all those who took an interest in its welfare,
and who were solicitious for the advancement of literary
and scientific knowledge. The Report concluded by a
well-merited eulogium on the President, who, by his coun-
tenance, and contributions of money and books, had mate-
rially assisted in placing the Institution upon its present
permanent foundation.

The accounts of the Institution were then read, from
which it appeared that the present state of the funds was
most favourable.

The Report, which gave great satisfaction, was, upon
the motion of Mr. STAMPORD, received and adopted unani-
mously.
Some routine business was then proceeded with, a Libra-
rian was elected, and thanks having been given to the
Chairman, the meeting separated.