The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-03 00:00:00

PAPERS. i FORGERIE

PARLIAMENTARY

POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND
The distinctive character of the Bill proposed by Mr. P.
Scrope is relief to all the destitute—to the able-bodied as well
as to the infirm. Thus the leading principle of his Bill is,
that no person shall henceforward perish in Ireland for the
want of the necessaries of life ! It will be seen that extensive
powers are given to the Commissioners ; regarding the Guar-
dians' authority the 28th section seems open to objection.
Sec. 1-14. Empower his Majesty to appoint a board of
Poor.law Commissioners to sit in Dublin, with similar powers
and authorities extending over Ireland, as is given to the
Poor-law Commission of England and Wales by the late
Poor-law Amendment Act.
Sec. 15.-22. Commissioners are empowered to form dis-
tricts by the union of parishes, or parts of parishes, in Ireland,
which districts, so formed, are required thenceforward to re-
lieve and employ "such of their inhabitant poor as may be at
any time in danger of perishing for want of the necessaries of
life," subject always to the rules, orders, and regulations of
the Commissioners, who shall direct the constitution and elec-
tion of a board of guardians for the management of the relief
to the poor in each district ; prescribe the appointment, qua-
lifications, duties, salaries, &c., of the necessary officers ; de-
termine the time from which, in each district, the law shall
take effect ; and direct the mode, and nature of relief, or em-
ployment, to be afforded, &c.
Sec. 23. The guardians of districts (subject to the direc.
tions therein of the Commissioners) shall assess all the severe
lands, tenements, and hereditaments within the said district,
and shall from time to time levy upon such valuation the sums
which may be necessary for the above purposes—such rates to
be levied in the 'manner of the present baronial or county
rates from the occupier, who, however, is authorised to
charge one-hay of every such rate to his landlord, deducting
it from his rent, and every sub-lessor is empowered to make
a proportionate deduction from the rent due by him to his
immediate landlord. An appeal against the rate similar to
that now allowed against the baronial or county rate.
Sec. 26. Commissioners may order the building of work-
houses in any district, and prescribe rules and regulations to
be observed therein.
Sec. 27. Guardians or officers, subject to approval of Com-
missioners, may make arrangements with the Board of Works,
county surveyor, or others, for the employment of the able-
bodied poor of their district on public works of any description,
in any part of Ireland. If able paupers refuse, such work,
guardians discharged from obligation to relieve. Paupers
neglecting such work punishable by imprisonment to hard
labour.
Sec. 28. Guardians, if they prefer it, may offer the means
of emigration to their poor, who, on refusal, forfeit their claim
to relief.
Sec. 29. The blood relatives of poor persons made liable
to relieve them. On default, may be compelled to do so by
order of two justices.
Sec. 30. In case a board of guardians is not elected in any
district, or, being elected, refuses to obey directions of Com-
missioners in the premises, Commissioners empowered to ap-
point officers in their place to carry the act into execution.
Sec. 31-2. Poor persons rendered liable for relief to wife
or children. Husband liable to maintain children of wife born
before marriage.
Sec. 33-4. Such relief as Commissioners direct may be af-
forded by way of loan, recoverable by attachment of future
wages from master or employer of pauper.
Sec. 35. Commissioners empowered to issue rules for the
apprenticing of pauper children in any part of his Majesty's
dominions.
Sec. 36-7. Rate-payers of districts authorised to borrow
money from Exchequer Bill Commissioners, or other parties,
on security of the rate, subject to the directions or approval
of the Commissioners, for the building of workhouses, the em-
ployment of their poor on waste lands, home colonies, public
works, or their emigration.
Sec. 38. Commissioners to determine if any, and what pe-
riod of residence or other qualification, shall constitute inha-
bitancy under this Act. Casual poor to be relieved tempo-
rarily where found.
Sec. 39. Commissioners empowered to call for and publish
accounts of trust and charity estates.
Sec. 42-7. Penalty on persons wilfully disobeying the pro-
visions of this Act recoverable before two justices of the peace,
with an appeal to quarter sessions.
Sec. 48-52. Rules of Commissioners removcable by certio-
rerri into Court of King's Bench.
Sec. 53. All persons found begging to be liable to impri-
sonment for one month to hard labour.
Sec. 54. Penalty on poor persons refusing or neglecting
work when set on by the officers of districts.
Sec. 55. Penalty on parents deserting their children, or
husband his wife, so as to leave them chargeable.

(From the Hereford Times.)
A most intense sensation has. been created in this city and
county by the discovery of a series of forgeries, which, for, cun-
mn complication, equal, if not surpass, any that we ever i:eard
gof either in thq new or the olden time. The perpetrator.,
Joseph Abell (for whoSe apprehension a reward of 50/. is ot-
fq red), is well known in Hereford, having attended the markets
and fairs for the last twenty years. He was looked up to as a
model of unaffected integrity ; plain in manners, unassuming
in demeanour, frugal in his habits, and punctual in his paY-

ments.
In the year 1831, Mr. Joseph Abell called at the office of a_
professional firm in this city ; he stated that he was desirous of
purchasing an estate at Egleton, the property of the oceupier,
a Mr. Joseph Wood, and proposed that the gentleman he was
addressing should draw the conveyance. On being interro-
gated respecting the title deeds to the estate, he replied that
there were none, they having been accidentally burnt during
the life of a former proprietor, 70 or 80 years ago ; he then
produced an office copy of a will, dated more than 60 years
back, and a probate of another will, under which the estate
in question was devised to the present proprietor, Mr. Joseph
Wood. The solicitor, after further explenations, said, that if
Mr. Abell were satisfied with the title, and the estate free from
mortgage, of course he could have no objection to the pur-
chase ; nevertheless, it would be more satisfactory to him (the
To
solicitor) to submit the title for the opinion of counsel•
this proposition Mr. Abell assented, and the title was s.Ser-
dingly submitted to an eminent counsel. The opinion was L°
the effect that the purchaser would be perfectly safe. Mr'
Abell then stated that he should want 1,4001. upon the estate,
which, the solicitor said, he might readily have, and mentioned
a respectable surveyor in this city, who had named to him that,
he had some friends who were anxious to put a similar sum of
trust money out on mortgage. By Mr. Abell's request, the
solicitor spoke to the land surveyor, who consequently comnßr
nicated with the trustees. - The trustees deemed it advisable
that they, accompanied by the surveyor should go over to Egle'
ton, and view the estate. A journey was made to that effect;
Mr. Abell himself meeting the parties and walking over the
estate with them. The land surveyor and trustees were per-
fectly satisfied, the latter gentlemen having no doubt as to the
value of the property, or the adequacy of the security; they,
however, deemed it their duty to investigate the title ; there•
fore they requested that the writings might be submitted to
highly respectable professional gentleman in the city. This
was done most unreservedly, and the writings were returned
as correct in every respect. The completion of the purchase
was proceeded in. Abell appointed a day for his solicitor to
ride over to Egleton to obtain Wood's signature to the deeds
and also possession of the estate. The solicitor, on the ap-
pointed day, rode over to Abell's, who immediately after meet-
ing him, called a man, named Dance, from a neighbouring
house, to accompany them, as he wanted his assistance for a
few minutes. The solicitor, Abell, and his witness Dance,
then walked together to the house of Joseph Wood ; on their
arrival, they were shown into a parlour by Mrs. Wood; after
the lapse of a few minutes, a man entered, who was introduced
by Abell, in the presence of Dance, to the solicitor as Mr.
Joseph Wood. The conveyance was then produced, signed
by the pretended Joseph Wood, and witnessed by the solicitor
and Dance. The parties then left the house together, and
the pretended Mr. Wood delivered " turf and twig possession"
to Abell, in the presence of the attorney and the witness
Dance. The pretended Joseph Wood, on the same day, called
by appointment at the office of Abell's solicitor in Hereford,
and, under the advice of the counsel, levied a fine upon the
property, and made the required affidavits as to the loss of the
deeds, &c.
The purchase having thus been completed, the mortgage Of
1,4001. was forthwith executed; the interest has most punc.-
tually been paid, and suspicion lulled into a sound sleep, until
awoke lately. Hints were given to certain parties that Abell
had been obtaining money under false pretences, who soon
heard that his only safety was in flight ; on the -11th inst. he
posted some letters at Worcester, since which he has not been
heard of. It has been ascertained that various sums, amount-
ing to upwards of 6,0001. have been obtained by Abell under
false and unheard-of pretences. It has been discovered that the
individual who personated Joseph Wood, and signed the deed,
is James Burden, a nephew of Abell's ! Burden has acknow-
ledged to having personated Wood (whose real person was
totally unknown to Abell's solicitor). Burden was of sours.
taken into custody, brought to Hereford, and lodged in Or
county goal, where he now awaits his trial. He has since con-
fessed that at the urgent request of Mr. Abell, he enacted the
part of Joseph Wood.

•
MURDER IN TIIE COUNTY OF DURHAM.--
murder of a most atrocious character was committed near the
village of Lumley, in the County of Durham, on Saturday
night last, on the person of an aged individual, named Richard
Taylor, a shoemaker. The deceased left Cocken on his vial
to Lumley at an early hour in the evening, and the deed
is
supposed to have been perpetrated between seven and eight
o'clock. The body was found near a footpath between those
villages by two boys, on Sunday morning. The head had been
beaten until it was almost flat, and the brains were found scat-
tered about the ground. A Coroner's inquest was appointee'
to be held on the body on Monday, but was adjourned to
Thursday, and is further adjourned till Monday next. Fir
men have been taken on suspicion of having perpetrated the
murderous act.—Newcastle Journal.

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A trap, a short time ago, was laid for the Lewes
carrier by some unprincipled scoundrels, who wished to inviegl6
him into carrying some contraband goods, and thereby to gic:
the miscreants a legal opportunity to seize his van, horses, an''
goods, amounting to 3,0001. The plot was luckily detected
tented
by the London book-keeper, and the carrier conseq
escaped the villainous trap laid for him.
PANCAKE EATING.—On Tuesday two jolly-100 Ito
C"
ing linen-bleachers, of Barnsley, laid a trifling wager as
which could eat the most pancakes in two hours, each to 01
his own, and to eat them as soon as they came out of the pat
The batter being prepared for them, they began about elefe"'
o'clock, one to fry in the room, and the other in the kitchen'
each party having an umpire. About I alf-past eleven o'clocigi.
the kitchen gentleman had bolted eight, being two and a 133.
more than his opponent. Both pans went on at a frizzlingra_
till twelve o'clock, when the room-operator was about thre'_
bites ahead of his antagonist. This roused his worship in trh;
kitchen, who could scarely see from the heat of the fire, 3 t
with a face shining as bright as a new tea-kettle fired awaY
a tremendous rate. Half-past twelve o'clock having arrive
the state of eating was again announced. The kitchen lle°'
having a delicate stomach, had only dispatched eighteen en" a
quarter, yet was in advance of his neighbour two and threa;
quarters. As there was to be no resting, both kept hotlY. °
work. About ten minutes before the time appointed to gl
over, an accident befel the occupant of the kitchen. ar
peared that in turning a cake he had thrown it too high,
which it stuck against the ceiling, which threw him about h%
a cake behind. In a short while afterwards, the umPirf„
called out that the time had expired. The lists were eageV ,
summed up, when it appeared that kitchen had beaten parifit.
by twenty-fire to twenty-three.—Majority, 2.—. Leeds Int"—

(ADVERTIsEMENT.)—T. COX SAVORY, Goldoni •
&c., 47, Cornhill, London, informs the Public, that he ~49ffvra
SILVER WATCHES, on the celebrated PATENT LEY',
CONSTRUCTION, (the most accurate on which a watch c'""
be made) for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with all the latest
provements, e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four 1101.e6,
capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, and 101"
taming power to continue going while winding up.
N.li. If in Hunting Cases, 10s. 6d. extra.—Seeond-hand
Watches purchased in exchange.

BIRTHS.
On the 2d inst., at Compton-terrace, Islington, Mrs. Willi°
Stevenson, of a son. no
Islingt°
On the 2d inst., Mrs. J. Watson, of Cloudesley-terrace,
of a son.

On the Ist inst., Mrs. Edgar, of Harp-lane, of a son. foist)
On the 28th ult., in King-street, Finsbury-square, Mrs.
JamOes, of a son. lre
n the 21st inst., at Bordeaux, the lady of E. W. Curial ,
of a son.

MARRIED.
On the Ist inst., Henry, of the firm of C. H. and T. T. We;
house, manufacturers, London and Coventry, to Amelia, el so.
daughter of John Jenkins Rogers, Esq., of Huntspell Court,
mersetshire.
On the Ist inst., at Handford, James John Farquharson, 1,.t0
of Langton House, Dorsetshire, to Mary Anne, widow of the '-
John Phelips, Esq., of Montacute llouse, Somersetshire. g_
pet,
On the 13th ult., at St. James's Church, Mr. Stephen Mar
of Ewell, to Miss Tuggey, of South Lambeth.
On the 2d inst., at Kensington, Major Curphey, of the bon
East India Company's Service, to Christiana, daughter of Jon
Bell, Esq. ph
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On the Ist inst., at Weymouth, the Rev. Richard C. F.--,.004
Rector of Cucklington, Somersetshire, to Caroline Anne, stie-ore•
(laughter of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Bart., of Harewood,
foi dshire.
On the 2d inst., at Old Swinford, Worcestershire, the ited'ilter
H. Crauford, rector of the above parish, to Eliza, eldest clot*
of R. Hickman, Esq., of Old Swinford.

DIED. hite,
On the 29th ult., at the Rectory, Fiore, Northampton 5'
Charlotte, wife of the Rev. K. M. R. Tarpley. • WSW"
On the Ist., the lady of J. L. Lee, Esq., M.P., of Dill
in Somersetshire. al t°
On the 21st ult., at York, Harriet, second daughter a the
Edward Sage, Esq., ef Colchester, aged 59. , ester
On the 25th ult., at the Rectory, Marston Sicca, 6°1104
shire, aged 34, Lettice Jane, wife of the Rev. R. G. Jeston,
Rector of that parish. Diae
On the 16th ult. at Glasgow, Jane Houston, wife of ~•
donald, Esq., late of A
Kingston, Jamaica. ed 31i
On the 14th of January, on his passage from India, ag
Philip Bacon, Esq., of the Civil Service, Bombay. ,ii a MP'
At the Moat House, Stockwell, Surrey, aged 44, -1-'—
wife of Mr. Alderman Farebrother. Sir Cliri.t°'
On the 26th ult., at Shyde, Isle of Wight, aged 83,
pher Sweedland. 1 141.6'
C.
On the 25th ult., at Fonthill-place, Clapham, aged ~, ,
M'Kinnell.
On the 29th ult., aged 21, Mr. William S. Spencer. , i%fr. l'
On the Ist inst., at Islington-green, Susannah, relict oi
Ea'
Coxe, aged 86. , g,
On the 28th ult., at Malvern Hill, Warwickshire, age° 1
'e
mund Greswolde, Esq. el Pslll
On the 23d ult ,at Grove End-road, Lieutenant-Colon
Hutchins Bellasis.. Y -°
On the 2d inst., at Chislehurst, aged 7, William, o, . aof 0'
Woo
d,
On Esq., Torrington-square. n'
°`'.
On the 29th ult. ,at Rockingham House, St. John's
Gardner, aged 72. wiclovi °f Vir.
On the Ist inst.' at Kentish-town, Mrs. Dinwiddie,
Dinwiddie, Esq., formerly of Collyhurst, Manchester.

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