The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-08 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday a distressed-looking woman, with two fine
children, one seven and the other eight years of age, en-
tered this office, for the purpose of asking advice how she
was to proceed to obtain relief from the parish officers, who
had refused to assist her or her children. Her husband had
been dead twelve months, since which she had endeavoured
to procure a scanty subsistence by selling ballads in the
streets, and she was in the habit of lodging with
her
.children at No. 8, Drury-lane. Being in very
great distress, about a week ago, she applied to
the parish officers of St. Giles's,, who refused to re-
lieve her, or take them into the workhouse, but gave
her a friendly order to the parish of St. Olave's, which
they said was her settlement. She proceeded with her
children to that parish, but they refused to receive the
order, or to do anything for them until they were regularly
sworn to her examination, and passed in the usual way,
when she made an application to the magistrates of Marl-
borough-street, who referred her back to the parish autho-
rities, saying that they were deprived of the power of or-
dering her relief, in consequence of the Poor Law Bill ; and
between one and the other she was necessitated to wander
about the streets with her family in a destitute condition,
without the means of procuring a lodging for the night or
food for herself and children ; but she was allowed to sleep
the preceding night in the above house, and advised to
come to this office for advice. She was informed that it
would be useless to introduce her to the magistrates, who
could do nothing for her, and that Drury-lane being in the
district of St. Giles's and Marlborough-street, those - were
the proper places for her to apply to, but the only thing the
magistrates could do for her was to give her a recommenda-
tion to be relieved until she was regularly passed. That,
she said, was all she craved, to be taken with her children
into the workhouse, as she anticipated with dread being
obliged to walk about the streets starving in the approach-
ing inclement season. Her name was Ellen Abrahams,
and her husband was formerly in the service of Hughes and
Croft, the wharfingers. A Mendicity officer who was pre-
sent informed her that that society would no doubt relieve
such a case if she procured one of their tickets, but he had
no power to tike her there unless he found her begging in
the streets. She , replied that she was not a beggar—she
merely carried ballads for sale, as she had no other means
of supporting her children, and they had felt so much mi-
sery that she was anxious to get into the workhouse. An
officer told her that she had received her answer, and to
leave the office, and apply to St. Giles's, on which she
burst into tears, saying it was no good for her to do so,
and a gentleman made her a present to procure food and
lodging, and to make her application, which she promised
to do, and quitted the office with her children, who, with
herself, seemed hungry and cold, and their forlorn case ex-
cited much sympathy.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. William Molarner, of Cleveland street, yesterday
charged John Casey, conductor of Jones's Battersea omni-
bus, with an assault.
Mr. DYER recommended the parties to retire, ttid effect
an amicable arrangement. This advice was agreed to on
both sides.

MARYLEB ONE.
Yesterday a decently dressed young woman, who gave
her name Helen Sullivah; was placed at the bar before Mr.
ltAwLirlsoN and Lord MONTFORT, charged by George
Chapman, one of the officers of the Mendieity Society, with
the following novel species of fraud :—The officer, on the
previous evening, as he was passing through Portman.-
quare, saw the prisoner, surounded by a crowd of persons :
she appeared to be carrying under her shawl an infant, and
solicited in such a doleful manner a trifle to enable her to
purchase some food for her starving child, as to excite in no

- - - - -
SIR,-1-lavirg ass-Isted as the Mastcr of the Cleveland-
street. Workhouse, in )raking the returns from this Union,
furnished to the Poor Lov Commissioners, a copy of which
appeared in your Journal, 1 hasten to correct an error in tho
return in question unintentioraJy committed by me. In fur-
nishing the number of in-door paupers of the parish of St.
Paul Covent-garden, for the week ending. the :26th of No-
vember, 1835, I omitted to deduct Luc charity school chil-
dren, for whom the parish received 2504 per annum.
The numbers therefore ought to stand thus :
Number of In-door Paupers for the week ending
November 26, 1835
Number of In-door Paupers for the corresponding
week of 1836 154

Decrease . 11
Hoping, Sir, you will be so good as to allow me to correct
the error, which I have been required to do by the Board
of Guardians, I am, Sir,
Your obedient, humble servant,
SEPTIMUS STEPHENS,
Master of the Cleveland-street Workhouse
of the Strand Union, and late Workhouse
Master of St. Paul Covent-garden,
December 6, 1836.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1837.

MONDAY.
Match, 150, h. ft. -D.M.—Duke of Richmond's Ilavildar, Bst.
01b., agst Lord Chesterfield's Edgar, 7st. 51b.

TUESDAY.

Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. D.I.
Mr. Boyce's Airy, est. 101 b. ; Mr. Foster's Longinus, Bst. 61b. ;
Lord Lichfield's Drummer, Bst. 21b.

FRIDAY.
Match, 200, h. ft. A.F.—Lord Suffield's Alfred, Bst. 71b.,,
agst Duke of Richmond's Sepoy, 7st. 101 b.
Match, 200, h. ft.—Lord Suffield's Newlight, Bst. 71b, agst Mr.
Houlcisworth's Destiny, Bst.