The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-27 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—Yesterday Susan Atkinson,
a young woman, apparently in a delicate state of health,
was brought before Mr. JEREMY under the following cir-
cumstances :
Policeman 51, L division, stated that on Monday night,
about eleven o'clock, while on duty near the station-house, in
Tower-street, he saw the young woman at the bar standing
at the corner of the street with something bulky underneath
an old threadbare shawl which she wore at the time. The
night was cold and rainy—the woman seemed to be com-
pletely wet through, and she was crying and bemoaning her
hard fate,' and when spoken to she said she had no home,
that she was starving, and that the child she had under her
shawl was perishing from cold and want of nourishment.
The policeman immediately took the unfortunate creature
to the station-house, and when Inspector King, who was• on
duty there at the time, looked at the infant, he at once ob-
served that it was dead, which was soon afterwards con-
firmed by the divisional surgeon.
Inspector King said that the night in question was a
most inclement one, and that the unfortunate woman was
drenched through with the rain when she was brought to
the station-house, and appeared to have been for a consi-
derable:time exposed to the weather. In his (the inspector's)
opinion, however, it was evident that she had drank some
spirits.

Mr. JEREMY asked the mother of the deceased child
why, if she was in that state of distress described by the
1% witness, she &it' apply to the parish officers for relief?
Atkinson—Thad been looking every where for the father
of my child, but could not find him ; and I did not like to
go to the parish until there was no hope left. '4.
Mr. JEREMY.—Are you a married woman? Atkinson
—No, Sir.
Mr. JEREMY—Were you aware that your child died
in your arms ? Atkinson—No, Sir ; not until I got
to the station-house.
Mr. JEREMY said that, upon finding she was abandoned
by the parent of her offspring, she ought to have made
immediate application to the parish for relief for herself
and child, and that had she adopted that plan the life of
her infant, in all human probability, would have been saved.
The Magistrate then told her that she must remain in
• custody until further inquiries were instituted with re-
.l. spect to the death of her infant.
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STATE OF TRADE.—Yesterday being Christmas-
day, the usual weekk.norket is held to-day ; and -we are,
therefore, precluded from stating its general character. we
may observe, however, 'that the continued advance in cotton
has begun to alarm the foreign buyers of yarn, who bought
sparingly towards the conclusion of the shipping season, in
the expectation of a decline. Towards the conclusion of
last week, some rather extensive purchases were made by
two or three foreign houses, and there is a decided tendency
to an advance in prices. In goods there is no material
change.—Manchester Guardian.
A LIMB OF THE LAW NOT WIDE AWAKE:
A sheriff's officer (a married man) charged a girl, of the
name of M'Lean, t4ith having plundered him of his watch
and guard-chain. It came out in evidence, that he had,
along with the girl, gone into a house in Mitchell-street,
and that he remained in the house for a short time after
the girl left. Oa coming out, he discovered he was minus
his watch ; but, by means of another female of the same
class, found out the delinquent with his property in her
possession. She was sent to Bridewell ; and he got a very
severe and just rebuke from Bailie Small.—Glasgow.4rgus.
HARD Timr..—ln an application made on Satur-
day last to the Civil Tribnnal of Paris, the Princess de
or". Rohan Rochefort represented that although she has an in-
' i• ceoe of 2,000/., she is compelled to borrow from 1,000/
fmtP-A; :tiN4,500/. every year in order to live decently !
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