The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

Mr. Deacon, one of the guardians of the poor for the
parish of Camberwell, and Mr. Aldrich, the assistant
relieving officer, were in attendance to watch the pro-
ceedings; and Mr. Games appeared on behalf of the
accused.
The unfortunate children, whose appearance on the
former examination was so revolting, were wonderfully
altered and improved by the kind treatment they re-
ceived at the Camberwell workhouse.
The boy Joseph Thomas May was sworn, and said am nearly ten years of age, and lived with my father,
the prisoner, at Carlton-place, Pomeroy-street, Cam-
berwell. Last Saturday week I went to Camberwell
fair, and stayed out until between nine and ten o'clock at
night. My father was at home when I came in, and
asked me where I had been. I told him I had been
selling my collars. My father sends me out with lace
collars to sell. He said don't tell me lies; Mr. Evans
saw you at the fair. He made me undress, and took
off my shirt, and then he got the cane and beat me
with it on my arms and back. I think he struck
me three or four times. My mother (step-mother) was
present, and said it was very shocking I should stay out
so late. He had beaten me some day in the week with
the same cane, and that was for going to the fair, and
before that he beat me once or twice with stinging nettles
on my back ; he at that time made me take my clothes
off. That was for going to the fair. In his cross-exa-
mination by Mr. Games the little fellow admitted that
he had spent 4d. out of some money given to him by his
father to purchase lace, and that upon that occasion his
father did not beat, but scolded him. He also spent
money at other times in purchasing bread and sweet-
stuff.

Mr. Charles Brittle, a house agent, said the house in
which the prisoner lived belonged to his brother, and
having collected the rent he had frequent opportunities
of seeing him and his children. On one occasion he saw
the child, Mary Ann May, with marks of violence about
her. He saw her on Wednesday last with black eyes,
and very much bruised on the forehead.
Two other witnesses spoke to the wretchedly neglected
and half starved state in which the prisoner kept hie
children, while he himself, his wife, and infant by the
latter were well clad.

George English, one of the summoning officers, said
he apprehended the prisoner upon a warrant for ill-
treating the boy.
Mr. Deacon assured the magistrate that the parish
had behaved with the greatest liberality sad kindness
towards the prisoner, and in fact treated him altogether
unlike a pauper.
Mr. NORTON replied he was perfectly satisfied that
he was treated kindly. There was not a parish in the
metropolis, with perhaps one exception, the parish of St.
George's-in-the-East, where the poor were treated with
greater consideration, kindness, and liberality than that
of Camberwell, and he could only wish that every other
parish in England was like it. With respect to the
charge against the prisoner, he (Mr. Norton) did not re-
collect, in all his experience as a magistrate, to have
witnessed a case of greater barbarity or cruelty than that
which the appearance of the unfortunate children and
the evidence of the witnesses disclosed.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
On a former day some discussion took place about the
parish authorities prosecuting in the case, when it waS
said that for the last prosecution of a similar:sort, Mr.
Dodd, the then vestry-clerk of the parish, made out •
bill for 1081. This the poor-law auditor refused to pass
and the difficulties in getting this enormous bill settled
were so great that the parish authorities had a consi-
derable repugnance to incur a second charge of the sort.
Mr. Norton, who expressed astonishment at the enor-
mity of such a bill, suggestsd an application to the Soli-
citor of the Treasury, who, he had no doubt, would pro•
secute in the case.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, AUG. 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—This being settling day, but little
actual business in shares was done. There were a good many
inquiries for different descriptions of stock; holders were,
however, unwilling to sell, anticipating better prices.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 29.
STOCK EXCHANGR.—We have a better market to-day,
more business has been done, and at slightly improved prices.
The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, 7 per cent., 14 1). Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), Fifths, 13.,
Ditto, 101. Preference, 1/2 p.—Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool I
and Bury), 14 dis.—London and North- Western, 115—
Ditto, New Quarters, 14 p.—Midland Stock, 92—Ditto, New Halves, 71. 18s. 9d. dis.--North Staffordshire, 31, 183, 9d.
South-Eastern and Dover, 25%—Ditto, No. 2, 91 dis.—
Ditto, No. 3, 9 dis.—Ditto, No. 4, 71.35. 9d.—York, New-
castle,
MA.NCHESTER, AUG. 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction, 22/. Shares, 81i
Leeds and Thirsk, New, 23 dis.—South-Eastem and Dover,
No. 4, 7 3-16—Manchester and Birmingham (H. and B. ),
Quarters, I% p.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 71% dis.—Cheshire
Junction, 8% dis.—Grimsby, 20/. Shares, 9% dis.
BIRMINGHAM, Auo. 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are Staffordshire,
78s. 9d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 61. 3s. 9d.
dis.—Ditto (B), 4 dis. _

YORK, AUG. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day wall
as follows: —Great Northern, 7 --York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (Extension), No. 1, 161,1—Ditto, No. 2 (late New
Berwicks), 157 i —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 84.
GLASGOW, Aug. 28.
STOCK EXCHANOK—The sales are—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, 51s.—Eastern Counties, 144—Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ayr, Halves, No 1,6/. (A.—Ditto, Preference,
64s.—Great Northern, 71. 6s.—North British, Thirds, 385.--
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Preference), 814. •

The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint
Mr. Robert Crosby to be second Assistant Clerk of
Affidavits in the Chancery Affidavit-office, vacant by the
death of Mr. Wm. Thodey Smith, so that the gentlemen,
before whom all affidavits, declarations, and affirmations
are now made, under the late Acts of Parliament, are
Messrs. Samuel Anderson, John Jefferson, and Robert ,
Crosby.

MILT IL 9.
On the 21st inst., in Upper Seymour-street, Somers-town,
the lady of W. Lawday, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., at the Rectory, Fen Ditton, near Caul- '
bridge, the wife of the Rev. W. B. James, of a son.
On the 25th inst., at the Vine, Hants, the lady of W.
Wiggett Chute, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., at Lansdowne-road, Notting-hill, the lady of H. Tindal Atkinson, Esq., of a son.
r, 1
On the 26th inst., at Lady Bateman's, Portman-square,
the Hon. Mrs. Whyte Melville,
of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., at Lorn-road, Brixton, Mrs. Momber,
of a daughter.
On the 27th inst., at Duncan-terrace, Islington, Mrs. ".
Tucker, of a daughter.
At Brighton, on the 27th inst., the lady of the Rev. W• M. Du Pre, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 24th inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, James Ford-
ham, son of the late Joseph Harriss, Esq., of Aston Tirrold,
Berks, to Ellen Maria, younger daughter of William Neck'
Esq., of Camberwell-grove, Surrey.
On the 26th inst., at Salisbury Cathedral, J. H. ThomPi,
son, Esq., of Croydon, Surrey, to Mary, younger daughter of
the late George Smith, Esq., of Salisbury.
On the 22d inst., at the parish church of Treetop, John
Kekwick, Esq., of the Holmes, near Rotherham, to Fanny,
daughter of T. May, Esq., of Catcliffe, Yorkshire.
On the 23d inst., at Sutton Veney, Wilts, Bliss J. Hale:
Esq., 80th Regiment, to Mary, third daughter of the Roy
W. D. Thring, D. 1.) rector of the above parish.

DIED. ~sti:
On the 24th inst., Eliza, wife of H. Bright, Esq., of Ealing, t I
,
late of Dudley-villa, Paddington. .; t...
On the 26th inst., at the Rectory, Hemingford Abbote. ' i
Huntingdonshire, aged 57,:Fanny, the wife of thed Bev. 8.-'ll
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Selwyn.
On the 29th inst., at Wein, Shropshire, Thomas L. Dickint
aged 28, youngest son of Mr. George Dickin, of Queen-street/
Cheapside. •
At D irtford, Kent, on the 27th inst., Mr. C. Huggett. , vir t.
On the 27th inst., at Hyde-park-street, John Cox, Esq. r. 3
On the 27th inst., at Princes-street, Hanover-square, Capt. d
John Campbell, Esq., late of the Royal Marines, aged 63.
,r; SOn the 28th inst., Abigail, third daughter of D. A., Lind°, , ~ei
Esq., of Mansell-street, the authoress of the Hebrew and 'too
English and English and Hebrew Lexicon, aged 45. f „,;

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The officer hesitated, and said he did not, but some of
' the housekeepers in the lane had complained of the
nuisance caused by such persons as the prisoner. H°
did not see him annoy anybody.
Mr. Covina—lie is charged in the police-sheet with
having caused an annoyance and obstruction.
A shopkeeper here said he was constantly annoyed by
the prisoner and other vendors of fruit and vegetables
standing before his door selling their goods, and called
upon the bench to punish the prisoner.
Mr. COMBE—Nonsense! poor persons like this boy
must get a living by some means or other. Was ho
standing on the footway with his property? Constable—
No, on the carriage-way, your Worship.
Mr. COMNE (to the shopkeeper)—Before I can punish,
I must have some specific charge proved. You shop-
keepers don't like these people to stand before or near
your houses, because they sell their articles cheaper and
equally as good as you can. Is Leather-lane not a kind
of marketplace?
The question was answered in the affirmative.
Mr. COMBE then said that whilst poor persons were
striving to obtain an honest livelihood in a legal and
peaceable manner, instead of being interfered with by
the police or any one else, they ought to be protected.
He could not think of punishing a poor boy on such s
frivolous accusation, and must therefore discharge him.
A young woman, who has been repeatedly in custody
on charges of assault and of uttering counterfeit coin,
applied for the protection and assistance of the Magis-
trate, under the following circumstances:—
With tears in her eyes, she admitted that she had
been guilty of smashing and other disreputable prac-
tices, but she had undergone the penalty of the law on
several occasions. She was now married, and had 8
child, and had resolved on leading an industrious and
honest life in future, for which purpose she had saved
sufficient money to purchase a little stock of fish, vege-
tables, &c., and took up her position in Leather-lane,
Holborn. She had no doubt she would succeed very
well were it not for the interference of the police, who
were constantly annoying her and upbraiding her for her
former conduct, and ordering her about without any
cause. All that she now required of the magistrate was
his sanction to enable her to sit with her stall in Leather-
lane, without being subject to annoyance from the police,
unless she deserved it.
The AIA.GISTRATE said he:had no authority or power to
sanction her in selling her goods on any particular,
spot ; but he would say that if she was unnecessarily
and vexatiously interfered with, and could prove that
fact, she should have every protection that he could
afford her.
She thanked his Worship, and then left the court.
LAMBETH.
Joseph May, who stood remanded from a former day,
on a charge of shamefUlly neglecting and ill-using his
three children, was brought before Mr. Norton for final
examination.

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