The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday as Mr. HARDWICK and a County Magistrate
were about to retire from the bench, after disposing of the
ordinary office business, a very fine-looking young woman,
in an advanced state of pregnancy, presented herself before
them to solicit their advice and assistance under the fol-
lowing distressing circumstances :—She stated that between
ten and eleven months ago she was induced to go and live
with a gentleman who held a high situation in a Govern-
ment office in Parliament-street, who kept her in a fashion-
able style, and resided with her until he had discovered that
she was in a state of pregnancy, when he turned her out of
doors, and refused to give her a single penny for her sup-
port. The consequence was, that, after parting with every
thing of value which she possessed for her maintenance, she
reluctantly sought her parents, who, owing to her indiscre-
tion, she had mot corresponded with, and found they had
left their place of residence, and removed to somewhere she
could not find out. She then applied to the parish officers
of Somers Town, where she resided with the gentleman she
had alluded to ; but they refused to have anything to do
with her. She next proceeded to the workhouse of Mile-
End Old Town, in which hamlet her father had resided and
paid taxes ; but here again all assistance was refused unless
she was passed there by the parish she formerly resided in.
She considered it useless to apply to the latter parish again ;
and such was her state of destitution, that she was actually
compelled to walk about the streets the whole of the pre-
ceding night.
MAGISTRATE (to the applicant)—Do you mean to state
that this person seduced you in the first instance ? Appli-
cant—Certainly he did, Sir.
MAGISTRATE—IS lie a married man ? Applicant—No,
Sir ; he is single, and nearly 40 years of age.
MAGISTRATE—What reason has he assigned for, or what
has been the cause of, his discarding you, and, as you state,

turning you into the street ? Applicant—None whatever,

Sir, except my pregnancy.
MAGISTRATE—Then does he refuse to do anything for
you ? Applicant—He does, Sir ; but says he will support
the child if compelled to do so by the parish, but not other-
wise, though he is a man of considerable wealth, and holds
a situation of great emolument.
MAGISTRATE—Then he must be a person totally devoid
of the feelings of a man.
Mr. HARDWICK observed that as the law stood they
could afford no assistance to the applicant, nor did he think
the parish-officers could make any claim upon the father
until the child was born. As, however, the case appeared
to be peculiarly distressing, he would endeavour to get some-
thing done for the applicant. He then give directions
that one of the officers of Mile End be in attendance this
day, and humanely handed the applicant five shillings for
her support in the interim.

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THE PORTUGUESE CONSTITUTION.—TIIC
flur-
tuguese Ministry at Lisbon having sent orders to their Le-
gations at the Foreign Courts, to take the oath to the Con-
stitution of 1822, Baron Moncorvo, Viscount Carreire, and
the Chevalier da Camera, Portuguese Ministers in London,
Paris, and Brussels ; the Chevalier Rodrigues, and the
Chevalier Migueis de Carvalho, Charge d'Affaires at Co-
penhagen and Rome, have refused to take the said oaths.
It is confidently expected that the Charge d'Affaires at
Stockholm and St. Petersburgh will also refuse to execute
this order. The behaviour of the Portuguese corps di.plo-
matique, coupled with the numerous refusals of the same
kind in Portugal, on the part of Prince Ferdinand, of al-
most all the nobility, of the Patriarchs, and of the high
clergy, as well as of an immense number of persons holding
offices and situations of greater or less importance, are
strong proofs that the military revolution of the night of
the 9th of September, is anything but popular and well-re-
ceived among the sensible and respectable part of the Por-
tuguese nation.—:Morning Herald.
THE PRINCE OF CANINO'S MEMOIRS.--This
work will be valuable as an historical record from the im-
partial spirit in which it is written, and we may place fuller
faith in its dispassionate details than we could in those
bearing evidence of the prejudice of party spirit. It reflects
honour on the Prince that he, so intimately connected as he
was with European politics, could so far divest himself of
personal feelings as to give an unbiassed narration of those
scenes in which he was such a prominent actor.
ABDUCTION.-011 Saturday Captain Verner, bro-
ther to the Honourable Member for Armagh, applied to
the Chester Magistrates under the following circumstan-
ces :—His only daughter, a young lady 14 years of age, had
eloped from his house at Newry, in Ireland, with a young
man named Mitchell, an attorney's clerk, the son of an
Unitarian Minister of that town. He traced them to
Chester, and on Friday evening applied for the assistance
of Mr. Hill, superintendent of police, who found them re-
siding in a house in Foregate-street, and who took the
young man into custody. The Magistrates, finding that
they had no jurisdiction over him on the charge of abduc-
tion, remanded him for further examination on a charge of
stealing two towels, the property of the Captain, which
were und in his trunk. On his being sent buck to
prison the young lady was very urgent in her entreaties to
be allowed to accompany him, and refused to take any con-
solation unless her friends would consent to their union,
and her father was at last induced partially to give his con-
sent, when the prisoner absolutely refused, and said he
never had intended to marry her. Her friends, therefore,
took her home to Newry, and Mitchell will be taken as
soon as a warrant can be procured from a Magistrate at
Newry, and indicted for the misdemeanor.—Chester Courant.

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERs.—Some charm-
ing little works have lately appeared illustrative of the art of
floral communication. Lady NV ortley Montagu's lively de-
scription of the eastern mode of correspondence by meane
of flowers is rendered perfectly intelligible by the aid of theses
little manuals, all of them being beautifully embellished with
floral designs. Their titles are—" The Floral Telegraphs
" The Language of Flowers" (a fifth edition), and " The
Book of Flowers."
THE HEIGHT tin? IMPUDENCE.—Some time ago
fellow was charged in the Glasgow Police Court, with
stealing a herring barrel from a person in Stockwell-street.
After the charge bad been proved, the principal accuser
thus addressed the Magistrate :—" Deed, Sir Bailie, the
man at the bar is a great rogue ; the stealing o' the barrel
is naething to some o' his tricks. He stole my sign-bred
last week, and what does your Honour think he did wri't?"
Magistrate—" That would be hard for me to say." Wit-
ness---" Weel, Sir, I'll tell ye. He brought it into my ein
shop, vv.? my ain name on't, and offered to sell me't, as he
said he thought it would be o' mair use to me than onybodY
else."—The Laird of Logan.
On Tuesday morning a desperate affray took place
at Thetford between ten poachers and an equal number of
gamekeepers. The keepers were unmercifully beaten with
the but-ends of the poachers' guns, but luckily no lives were
lost. Three broken stocks were afterwards picked up, aria
one barrel completely bent with the force of the blows.
The affray terminated with the capture of six poachers,
who were taken before Mr. J. Wright and Mr. L. S. Bid-
well, and were by them fully committed to Norwich Castle
to take their trial at the next assizes.—Bury Herald.
On Saturday afternoon an inquest was' held at the
Berwick Arms, Berners-street, Oxford-street, on the body
of Mr. Joseph Jecfs, aged 48, late of 75, Castle-street,
Oxford-market, who hanged himself in his shop on Thurs-
day morning. He was discovered by a boy, who looked
through the keyhole of the shop-door, suspended by the
neck from a beam. His body was quite warm, but all
efforts to restore animation wore ineffectual. The deceased
carried on an extensive business as a grocer ; he had a se"
cond shop in Leather-lane. His affairs are understood to
have been prosperous, but he had occasionally of late shown
symptoms of mental aberration. He was married, but bad
no children. Verdict—" Insanity."
Iron has gone down at the Welch factories from 11/-
to 101. per ton.
The recent decline in the price of tin occasions some
concern to those who are interested in our tin mines. The
adventurers in Wheal Vor have again commenced smelting
their ores, in consequence of that decline, being unwilling t°
sell their block tin at the present low prices ; and we are
informed that other mines intend to stock their produce for
the present, for the same reason.—CornuMan.

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BIRTRS.
On the 4th inst., Mrs. N. P. Sims. of Headingly Yorkshire'
of a son.
On the 12th inst., the lady of R. Fisher, Esq., Highbury
of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., the lady of F. Monro, Esq., of Cheltenliara'
a still-born son.
On the 9th inst., at Kensington, the lady of Lewis F. Thoioss,
Esq., of a son and heir.
On the 12th inst., at Balham, the lady of George Bort-3Eloe'
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., at Christ Church Hants, the lady of
Joseph, Esq., 4th Dragoon Guards, of (laughter.
On the Kith inst., at Atwalton Rectory, Huntingdonshire,
J. Hopkinson, of a son.
On the 14th inst., in Burton-crescent, the lady of the Rev. 11"
Williams, of a .
On the 12thson inst., at Park Village East, the lady of Lieutealant
and Adjutant Monro, Royal Horse Guards, of a son. of
On the 13th inst., in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, the bai
T. G. Shaw, Esq., of a son.