The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-10 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STIOET.

Rowland Scroggs Herring, seer a tary to the Lodges
Nos. 11 and 12 of the Loyal Unite d Friends Benefit So-
ciety, was charged with having obt a fined numerous sums
of money by means of forged chi ;4 Ines and fraudulent
representations from the treasurers to the above insti-
tution.

A solicitor who attended for the
,prisoner urged the
magistrate to accept bail for his fut ttt e •appearance, but
Mr. CoTflNoa&j positively ref! Is A to accede to his
request, and ordered the prisoner tc• be remanded for a
week.

. THAMES.
Elizabeth Bailey, a middle-aged . •woman, who carries
on the business of a waistcoat mak( m in Thomas-street,
Back Church-lane, St. George's-in-t It e-East, was brought
before Mr. Ballantine, 'charged wi ith assaulting a girl
named Martha Mitchell, aged 14 y' nsrs.
A certificate from the house-sur g eon of the London
Hospital was put in, stating that t b e girl Mitchell was
in great danger from contusions about the head and
body.
It appeared from the statement of Kelly, police-con-
stable 119 H, that the girl Mitchell: was in the service of
the prisoner, who had frequently .beaten her in a very
savage manner, and was in the pr a ctice of placing the
girl against the wall and beating her with her clenched
fists. Oa Wednesday night the wild made a complaint
to two women that her mistress b ad made a brutal as-
sault upon her, and nearly pulled I ter ears off. The girl
was then in great pain and bleedi) al ' r from the ears. She
Was taken to the surgery of Mr. Garrett in the New-
road, St.
doiffieficgerusredoffrthome
_ St. George's, who advised h.( T immediate removal
to the London Hospital. It was at ,certained by the me-
dicalgiti).irnsl a,lsanrilion-mg ;,raiolesile
tihnesteigtuetictson
oft .baltohwesr faceand andsnscratches
tnneck
a
inflicted by
er her mistress, and that h el? ears were swollen to
the girl was in danger
house and took her into
she knew she had "
val size, and were dry Is dfully lacerated. The
a severe p: tins in her back and
into custody. ;
kicks. On recy living information that
ill-used
dishonest, and had acted She then stated that
Kelly wi ,tit to the prisoner's
sr asuithee
the girl, INho she declared was
sequently took the veryprisoner,unug r, ttefully.
and attempted to
'that the girl was in
Mitchell, who identified her misty—t u .bedside of the girl
gipiCrelrevvsloleynllsw,ubhbuol
had committed the outrage Upon
ti;e4
pull her ears off. Kelly also eta ted
danger of losing her ears.
The prisoner, in defence, said she led
a very
indolent girl
and had more than once robbed her..
she was sorry to state that she -was
Mr. BALLANTINE said this was a to tost aggravated case
of cruelty. The prisoner first att(am; pted to pull one of
Hehad never
the girl's ears off and then the otht I'•
heard of more atrocious cruelty.
The prisoner said she had no, hate ration whatever to
injure the girl to such a serious exam t.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the eondtse t of the prisoner
was quite shocking, and that it was q t present doubtful

whether the girl would live or die. There 'was every
probability, at least, that she would lose her ears, and
the prisoner forsooth declared she had no intention to
hurt the girl
He remanded the prisoner for a weak.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF LORDS, Dec. 9.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the absence of the
Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack
shortly after Five o'clock.
MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND).

Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition fro n
Cork, praying for some substitute for ministers'
money in Ireland.
Lord MONTEAGLE suggested that the pay-
ment of ministers' money should be commuted in
the same manner as the payment of tithes had
been commuted in Ireland, and suggested that a
Committee should be appointed to consider the subject.
Lord STANLEY admitted that it would be
desirable to commute the payment of ministers' money,
in some manner. It was a tax laid upon house pro-
perty, payable by the occupier; it might be more
convenient to levy it upon the owner, but it
would make no real difference, inasmuch as the owner
would demand a higher rate. Various attempts had
been made to have a new valuation for levying the
amount, but the objection always made was that it
would be taking a burden off the shoulders
of one set of persons to put it on those
of another; besides, if it were made a land-
lord's tax, it would be exceedingly difficult in
many instances to get at the landlord. He hoped
the present plan of levying it would not be aban-
doned until an equitable substitute for it had been
discovered. _ _

The Earl of ST. GERMANS thought there would
be great practical difficulties in levying the tax on
owners instead of occupiers.
JEWISH EMANCIPATION.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
Protestant Dissenters of Lancashire praying for a
removal of civil disabilities from the Jews.
SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION.

The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition corn-
plaining of the spiritual destituton of Devonport.
IRISH OUTRAGES.

Lord FARNHAM drew the attention of their
Lordships to a communication from a person whose
name he would not mention, suggesting the necessity
of a more efficient and stringent measure of coercion
for Ireland. Ile would not mention the name, be-
cause if he did so the writer would afford another
instance of the truth that life was not
worth one day's purchase in Ireland. He had
communicated the name to the Noble Marquis.
(The Noble Lord then read an account of the assas-
sination of the Rev. J. Lloyd.) He took that oppor-
tunity of doing justice to the Rev. Mr. King, a
Catholic clergyman of that neighbourhood, who had
exerted himself to the utmost to suppress these out-
rages.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had seen the
letter, and considered the writer as one of the highest
authorities, and whose name, if produced, would com-
mand the entire confidence of their Lordships as to
any statement he might make.
COMMERCIAL DISTRESS.

The NOBLE MARQUIS then laid upon the table cer-
tain papers illustrative of the monetary state of the
eountry, and moved that they be referred to the
Committee on Commercial Distress.—Agreed to.
Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday.