The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-27 00:00:00

LLOYDS' SHIPPING.

LONDON, Nov. 26.—Wind this day at noon, N.W.
DEAL, Nov. 24. Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. the Anne
Lang, Hudson, China ; Prince Royal, Fox, Berbice.
Arrd. from the River and sailed, Eliza Johnson, Per-
nambuco ; James Holmes, Barbadoes ; Highbury, St.
Vincent's ; Sandwich, St. Lucia. Sailed Galatea, Bahia.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 25.—The Opeanads packet has been
hauled into the dry dock to be re-coppered.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 25.—Wind northerly.—Arrd. Thos.
Bell, Dobson, Calcutta, sailed from Algoa Bay, Sept, 8,
St. Helena 2d ult. ; St. Lawrence, Newlands, Bombay ;
Heroine, Lester, Lima, sailed Aug. 18 ; David and
Robert, Leghorn ; Parker, Risien, Demerara, sailed 18th
ult. ; Richmond, Maracaibo. Sailed, St. Andrew, Sa-
vannah ; St. Mary, Jamaica ; Elizabeth, Malta ; Fleurs,
Porto Rico. Arrd. off, Red Rover, Mary, and Halifax
packet. The Roscius has not arrived, as reported yester-
day. The Heroine arrived here from Lima, experienced
a hurricane from N. for three hours on the 30th ult.,
about 300 miles W. of Cape Clear, and lost sails, &c.
OFF DOVER, Nov. 25.—The Caledonia, Liddell, and
William the Fourth, Thomas, Singapore.
OFF HASTINGS, Nov. 25.—The William and Ann,
Pearson, Bahia.
LITTLEHAMPTON, Nov. 25. The Minerva, from
Gloucester to Shoreham, which was ashore to the east-
ward, has been got off with little damage, after dis-
charging part of cargo.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. her
Majesty's ship Atholl, from Nassau. Sid. the Mediator,
for New York ; Zenobia, Calcutta; Susan, River Gam-
bia. Arrd. off, William Parker, Jewell, Calcutta; Den-
mark,,Rio, for Hamburg.
COWES, Nov. 25.—Arrd. Symmetry, Manilla.
CORK, Nov. 23.—Arrd. Volo, Artes, Monte Video.
SHIELDS, Nov. 23,—Arrd. Grenville Bay, Quebec.
SUNDERLAND, Nov. 24.—The Juno of Lynn is on
shore to the northward, but expected to be got off with-
out damage.

SHEERNESS, Nov. 19.--Arrd. Electra, Riga, after
being on shore in Sinclair's Bay, apparently with little
damage.
LowEsToriE, Nov. 23.—A boat marked Thetis, of
Newcastle, Ifayton, has been picked up and towed ashore
OFF NEw ROMNEY.—lmnagouda, Jara, Chesme.
SHOREHAM, Nov. 25.—The Oswy, Pilbeam, has been
partially surveyed, but the extent of the damage has
not yet been ascertained.

Workmen are employed day and night in con-
creting the foundations for the viaduct on which the
Eastern Counties' Railway will cross Duke-street, in
this town, and throughout the line the return of fine
weather has been attended with a spirited renewal of
operations. A Correspondent, pointing to the course
adopted by the Northern and Eastern Railway Com-
pany, in completing their works as they advance, ob-
serves, that if the hands that have been employed be-
tween here and Colchester had been engaged between
here and Brentwood, the carriages might now have been
running into our town, and the cash into the Company's
treasury.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
PERSEVERANCE.—Because you find a thing
very difficult, do not presently conclude that no man can
master it : but whatever you observe proper, and prac-
ticable by another, believe likewise within your own
power.
A beautiful white turnip was taken from the
field of Mr. William Tilke, Clisthydon, a day or two
since, weighing 181bs., and was exhibited on the tower as
a turnip lanthorn on the night the news came that Eng•
land was blessed with a Prince of Wales and Duke of
Cornwall.—Sherborne Journal.

A red cabbage plant, purchased in February last,
of Mr. Samuel Poxon, seedsman, Castle Donington, and
planted by Mr. George Townley, of Long Whatton, was
cut a few days since, when it weighed the enormous
weight of twenty-nine pounds.—Nottingham Review.
JONATHAN AGAIN.—On Monday week a
young man, who (as was supposed) had died of the
yellow fever at New Orleans, was no sooner put into
the coffin in a burial dress, than he asked, " Where are
you going with me ?" He is expected to recover.
Yesterday morning most extensive preparations
were commenced at the Horse Bazaar, in King-street,
Portman-square, for the reception of the cattle to be ex-
hibited at the ensuing Grand Prize Cattle Show.
THE QUEEN.—We are happy to learn that the
Queen has so entirely recovered that her Majesty has
resumed her petits diners en famille, which are con-
fined to the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of
Kent.

At a shop in the neighbourhood of Clare-
market, a paper is exhibited in the window, on which is
written—" The real Prince of Wales's sassages sold
here.

PEDESTRIANISM. A match came off at
Brook-street on Monday last for a sovereign aside, be-
tween Mr. Wm. Eldred, smith, Great Warley, and Mr.
John Cross, bricklayer, of Brentwood, to run 130 yards.
The smith's bellows proved the best, says our Correspon-
dent, and, as might be expected of a gentleman of his
profession, he won the heat.—Chebnsford Chronicle.
NATIONAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—
The annual general meeting of the above charitable insti-
tution was held on Thursday forenoon at the Freemasons'
Tavern, Henry Pownall, Esq., presiding. The meeting,
which was well attended by respectable and benevolent
persons of either sex, was held to hear the annual Re;
port of the Committee of Management, and to elect from
a list of 114 candidates 15 pensioners. By the report it
appeared that 220 persons, whose average age was 70, had
been relieved by the Society since last Christmas. Sad i . t
not been for the liberality of the institution the closing
career of those individuals would have been embittered
by privation. The only regret the Committee had was
that their funds precluded them from extending further
their means of relief, and they therefore solicited the
benevolent to aid them in widening the bounds of cha-
rity. Still, and it was a proof that the public thought
well of the institution, its funds had increased, which
enabled the Committee to elect a greater number of pen-
sioners at that meeting than at any former one.—(Ap-
plause.) Besides the 15 successful candidates four other
would be chosen, viz., two who polled the highest after
the 15, and two whose names had been longest on the So-
ciety's books. There was in the hands of the treasurer
a balance after all the disbursements had beon paid out
of the annual income, which was 8,000/. The Report
having been adopted, and 19 pensioners chosen, the
meeting separated.
REMOVAL OF BODIES FROM THE VAULTS
OF CHRISTCHURCH, BLACKFRIARS, TO THE CEMETERY
AT Nottwoop.—On Thursday a great number of persons
assembled in the Blackfriars-road to witness the re-
moval of several coffins from the vaults under the church
of the parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars, to the ceme-
tery at Norwood. A report, although erroneous, was
generally spread that the church-yard was to be closed
up, but the fact was that a faculty had been obtained by
the relatives of the family, named Gilbert, who for many
years resided in the Blackfriars-road, to remove the re-
mains of those deceased from the above vaults to the
cemetery at Norwood. Some of the coffins had been
under the church for more than forty years, and were in
such a state that it was found necessary to cover them
with cloth. After they had been brought up they were
placed in six hearse, which moved off at a funeral pace,
followed in a mourning coach by some of the friends and
a number of persons who had witnessed the removal.
The bodies were ultimately re-interred in one vault in
the cemetery.

RELIEF TO THE POR.
Yesterday, at Union-Hall, two of the Guardians of St.
George's parish waited on the Magistrate relative to the
case of the girl Gardener, who, it will be recollected,
was turned out of her father's house, and afterwards, ac-
cording to her own account and that of a policeman of
the M division, refused relief on her application to the
parochial authorities of St. George's and St. Saviour's
parishes, being at the time in a state of destitution.
The guardians alluded to the previous report of the
case in the papers, and said that it was calculated to con-
vey an impression that she had experienced very unfeeling
treatment at the hands of those to whom she applied for
relief after her father had closed his doors against
her. Now, the facts of the case were not such as had
been stated; but when the girl applied at St. George's,
upon inquiry it was ascertained that she had not slept in
the parish the night previously, but in that of St. Sa-
viour's, the adjoining parish, where they were bound to
afford her that casual relief which the necessity of the
case required. The poor girl had been admitted into St.
George's workhouse, and slept there one night, when the
father turned her out, but instead of being sent about her
business, the next morning, as the report described, she
left of her own accord, a policeman having called at the
house and took her away with him. The Guardians
then adverted to the subject of the relieving of vagrants
and casual poor, great numbers of whom were in the
nightly habit of applying for admission into the work-
house, and to such an extent had the evil increased that
the uardians of an adjoining parish had written to the
Poor-law Commissioners on the subject, and the follow-
ing was their reply :
" Poor-law Commis:ion-office, Somerset-house.
" Sir—l am directed by the Poor-law Commissioners
to state that they have had under their consideration
your letter of the Ist inst., together with its.enclosure,
relating to the qlief of vagrants and casual poor.- .The
Commissioners are deeply sensible of the importance and
difficulty of the subject to which those papers refer, and
in the present state of the law they feel it impossible to
offer advice which can be wholly satisfactory either to
the Guardians or to themselves. The first and paramount
duty of those to whom the administration of relief of the
poor is intrusted must be to provide effectually and in-
stantly for all cases of urgent want. This object the
Commissioners feel confident will always be kept in view
by the Guardians, at whatever risk, or at whatever cost
it may be attained. The Commissioners know by
experience the too easy and indiscriminate re-
ception of all applicants who present them-
selves for a night's lodging often affords to street
mendicants and impostors that portion, of food
and shelter which should be reserved for the really des-
titute. Prostitutes have been known to go forth to their
occupation in the streets every morning, and to return
at night, for a fortnight in succession, to the vagrant
ward of a workhouse, which was thus wholly misapplied,
and rendered a place of contamination to those whom
misfortune, and not vice, might bring thither. For
those evils the only effectual remedy would be an esta-
blishment for the reception of persons casually destitute
separate from the workhouse, conducted on different
principles of discipline, and with a power of temporary
detention as a test of the urgency of the want which
brought the applicant to seek shelter in it. In the mean-
time the Commissioners hope that the erection of a hand-
mill in your workhouse, which should be applicable to
the casual poor might do much to diminish the num-
ber of able-bodied male applicants. There could be no
objection to the Guardians affixing a notice to the gate
of the workhouse, and at the residence of the relieving
officer, to the effect that no order for admission to the
vagrant ward will, under ordinary circumstances, be
given after a certain hour, remembering, of course, that
really urgent cases must form an exception to every
rule, and be admitted on application at the workhouse
at all times. In general, the fact of an applicant being
brought by any of the police should be taken as prima
fade evidence of real and urgent want, inasmuch as it
is the duty of the body to treat as offenders, under the
Vagrant Act, any impostors or persons committing acts
of vagrancy within their district. The Commissioners
have every reason to believe that the Inspectors of Police
will take care that proper caution is exercised by the
constables under their control, so that the shelter and
relief intended for the destitute may not be absorbed by
wilful and habitual mendicants.

" The Commissioners have caused a copy of this letter
to be forwarded to the Commissioners of the Metropoli-
tan Police.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most
obedient servant, " E. CHADWICK, Secretary."
The Guardians, then, in reference to the girl Gar-
dener's case, said that it had been ascertained her fa-
ther's place of settlement was at Mitcham, whether it
was intended to pass her on her exclusion from his house.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said, that since the inquiry had
taken place before him, a benevolent gentleman, having
read the account of the case in the newspapers, had not
only transmitted two guineas for her immediate relief,
but had also, through the medium of the Mendicity So-
ciety, to which he was a subscriber, undertaken to pro-
cure her a situation where she would be enabled to earn
an honest livelihood, and save her from the impending
ruin which was likely to result from the unfeeling con-
duct of her parent.