The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-10 00:00:00

AGNES GRAHAM.

toendsewquitebnctebeof publicityathboeveu
which has caused so much interest, one of the Magistrates
conlnnecc
of the county of Surrey has addressed the following
to Mr. Chambers, the Magistrate of Marlborough-street
f unfortunate un givenate to
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Police-office, upon the subject :
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" The case of Agnes Graham, which was before yo
the
Tuesday last, having so much excited the attention of the
public, I feel it my duty, in the absence of the Rev.
Guill, who is now at Corfu, to trouble you with a few linese
in reply to that part of' the statement which relates to
circumstances under which she left the frorkhouse at Egham'
" Of the history of this girl previously to her being
placed in the workhouse I know nothing more than that sl.m_
was brought into the parish by the lady whose name sne
has used, with whom she lived for some years. She then
from some cause or other, of which I am not aware, became_
reduced to the state of great destitution in which she w,a:
found, as she correctly states, by the Rev. Mr. Guill,
represented her situation to me, and I gave directions 122:.
her removal into the workhouse, instructing the parish OM..
proceedingfom aie,aa
cars at the same time to make inquiries respecting her seite
tlement and friends. In this inquiry the officers failed ;tn
only information they were able to procure being from the
lady with whom she resided, who stated that the girl, to-
gether with a twin brother, name Arthur Graham, of whom
you have not yet heard, were the children of an upper ser;
vent and companion of hers, who had gone abroad, and via
then dead.
" The girl continued in the workhouse, and after some
time a situation was found for her in the family of a trades:
letter
man in an adjoining parish, in which service she rernainqi
five or six months, and conducted herself well. She left
that place, as she stated, to better herself, but not inn
diately getting a situation, she came back to Egham, anu
was' taken into the house of the assistant overseer, it'
whose family she remained a few months, for the pur-
pose of being instructed in the duties of a servant, and f'
the commencement of the Union, in September, 1835, s'll
was replaced in the workhouse at Egham, in which she
continued assisting in the household work until about the
month of March last. It appears that she conducted her'
self properly while there, and was, as the people io the
house describe her, a good girl to work, until she formed 116
intimacy with a girl of bad character, who had recently
come an inmate of the workhouse, with whom she secretly
went away on a Sunday afternoon.
" The case baying been reported to the Guardians, they
directed, that as the girl was so young and in such bad en°li
,
pany, a look out should be kept for her. and that
found, she should be brought back. After -five days air
sense, being seen in the neighbourhood of Egbam, in noi
pany with the same girl, they were sent for from the work-
house, brought back and removed, but in consequence
its being supposed that Graham had been induced to leave
the house by the other girl, no punishment was inflicted upon
her for misbehaviour, and on her promising to conduct her"
self better in future, she was told by one of the guardians
visiting the workhouse, that if she behaved well evlllg 3t-
tempt would be made to procure her a situation.
"She remained in the workhouse a few weeks, when 416
again ran away on an evening with another girl of the most
abandoned character, and had not been heard of until the
reports in the Papers.
"That the girls were told that in consequence of the
Poor Law Bill, they must leave the workhouse, or be Put
to hard labour and live on bread and water, is not true.
They were, in fact, all of them put into the workhouse after
the union commenced.
" After the admission of the girls before alluded to, the
conduct of them all was extremely riotous and improper
so much so, that the older inmates of the House were ver
much annoyed by them, and were continually making corn"
plaints.
" It was with the greatest difficulty that the then rnasteAr
of the workhouse could exercise any control over them, an:
that they were at that time certainly told that if they s"
misconducted themselves, they would be placed in confine'
ment and fed on bread and water, and if that had not the
desired effect, they would be sent to the treadmill, but net
otherwise.
" It appears that Graham had always been treated 1/41.1i
kindness, and I must add, seems to have behaved well on
her connection with the girls with whom she went away
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CAPTAIN BRENTON'S NAVAL HISTORY.--Thi
is
an extraordinary fact that most of our works upon Naval '4;
tory and Biography have been written by landsmen, who had
not been able to imbibe a sailor's spirit, or the
peculiaritie g
a sailor's feelings. Captain Brenton has painted with as,
il
ter's hand. His work impresses us with the science and Alto
of a veteran officer, and we have its lucid pages glowingid
the seaman's spirit, patriotism, and feelings. A mere i`a!ris,
History, however, with whatever talents, or in whatever V 1,14
it may be written, would, upon the whole, be an uninstrue,!,,
work. Such books are merely an excitement to youth, or 11,6
resource of the illiterate. Captain Brenton judiciously ille.se
this evil, and the plan of his work merits unequivocal Preirai
and places it far above all competition. He connects our one,.
affairs with the general history of the country and of Eartsci
This plan renders the work one of the most entertaining
useful productions of the age.
There is now growinc, in the garden of Mr• je
Watson of Laceby, near Grilsby, a potato of the Irish al
kind, the top of which, consisting of more than sixty strter,
stems, spread over a circle of ground ten feet in diare.:reas
It was put into the ground whole, and weighed 44lbs. "4,00.
the rising of the ground, there is the appearance of an a
isti‘
dant crop. The pet redbreast, mentioned last year, tad
nues to come regularly to be fed out of Mr. Watson's
every day.—Lincoln Gazette.
Saturday Mr. Chambers, farmer of BottisLode, came to Cambridge to transact business in the merkwho,
et
In the afternoon, feeling unwell, he applied to a surgeon,
fore
apprehending imminent danger, called in a physician ; bewith
the two gentlemen could meet Mr. Chambers was seized_ re,
an apoplectic fit, and died in 48 hours. On MondaY',4o,
spectable lady, named Murrell, aged 80, mother of 'oer,
Weaver, of St. Andrew's-street, was found in her bed labshe
ing under an apoplectic attack, and died in a few hourg• a re'
attended church the previous evening, ate her supper, all
tired to bed in apparent health.—Cambridge Chronicle.
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A vein of rich comic humour pervades Mr. Jar Are,
new book, " The Desultory Man" which has just been reser
ceded by " Richelieu." His sketches of national dial he
are full of point. Nothing can be finer than a story whcoeit;
tells illustrative of the importance which the natives of; to.
tany attach to a coarse oatmeal cake, called " la gwedter
" The Desultory Man" meets with a Capuchin, who, orit'
thirty years' absence, returns from Italy to his native ,ring
tany ; not from the love of country—not to greet, 2.01
friends, or mourn over the graves of dead ones---120t .0 ,„
great religious object—but—" pour manger de la galett! •
our
TRADE OF THE POTTERIES.—It is not inane
power (says the North Staffordshire Mercury) to 90% irie
any approach to a cessation of the disputes between the
nufacturers and the operative potters at the works where have
outs have taken place. The Chamber of Commerce Mr
replied to the proposition of the Operatives' Board._ooo to
nagement, for a conference of manufacturers and werleir
discuss the points at issue, that they cannot recognise the
terference, and can only treat with the workmen ina`'nen air
at their manufactories. A meeting was held in the °roll;
near the new Wesleyan chapel, Tunstall, on Thursday
at
ing, for the purpose of laying before the public a statealetbeir
the differences now existing between the operatives and
employers,
' daY'
The wreck of the Gulnare is to be sold thls oore
Fortunately for the parties concerned, it was washed ti_eeh if
during the gale on Sunday night, otherwise we doubt rrought
the sale of a vessel twenty feet under water would have PAN tag
sufficient to defray the expenses of advertising.--Jerseg
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