The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-31 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

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The Court sat yesterday morning at ten o'clock, for the
purpose of hearing Petitions and Appeals. The list con-
tained 65 cases to be heard, nine of which were appeals
against summary convictions by the Metropolitan Police
Magistrates, the remainder being Parish Appeals. The
Learned Assistant Judge took the parish appeals first.
Those heard during the morning possessed not the
slightest point of general interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A deputation from the Royal Free Hospital, consist-
ing of the Rev. Edward Rice, D.D., (chairman of the
Weekly Board,) Mr. John Watson, and other governors
of the charity, waited upon the Lord Mayor to inform
his Lordship that, in deference to the opinion so strongly
expressed by his Lordship, and which the Committee
found also existing in the minds of many other influen-
tial and benevolent friends of the institution, that the
system of admitting into the hospital any casual poor,
who had previously been in any of the unions or poor-
houses of the metropolis, was decidedly objectionable,
and had a bad tendency, the Committee of Managements
had, at their last meeting resolved, " that in future
no poor or diseased persons who had received shelter in
any of the unions should be admitted, but that such par-
ties should be sent back to the union or workhouse from
whence they came."
The LORD MAYOR said he considered the practice of
sending the poor from unions or workhouses to the hos-
pital as wholly incapable of being vindicated, inasmuch
as it went to relieve those who ought to be parochially
relieved, and to turn the benefits of the institution away
from its intended channel—the relief of the destitute
sick. There was no principle to which he objected more
strongly.
The deputation stated, that the amount of misery the
Free Hospital relieved was incalculable. Objects who
were, or who seemed to be, below the notice of other
hospitals, were received there and were attended at all
hours and under all circumstances.
The LORD MAYOR said he had never known that ob-
jects had been rejected at the other hospitals.
Dr. Rice said, that at all hours of the night, and from
the very lowest depths of misery and disease, poor crea-
tures were sent into the hospital which the deputation
represented, and to their cases the utmost attention was
paid. So frightful was the extent of wretchedness wit-
nessed, that it was not uncommon to see unfortunate
persons who were brought into the hospital in the last
stage of typhus expire three or four hours after they
were received. Into other hospitals typhus patients were
not admitted in consequence of the mischiefs apprehended
from contagion.
The LORD MAYOR said, if unions or workhouses sent
such patients to the hospital, the officer ought to be held
responsible, and to be punished. The city of London
could, if any place had the power, afford to have a
proper place for the reception of its paupers in every
condition, and it was decidedly wrong to adroit patients
sent by its unions to an hospital instituted for the service
of very different claimants.
The deputation assured the Lord Mayor that the offi-
cers of the institution had been exposed to very strong
censure from a powerful portion of the press in conse-
quence of their inability to receive two poor girls, who
had been sent thither in a deplorable condition, but
whom it was impossible to receive on account of the im-
mensely crowded state of the wards. The managers had
been traduced by the Coroner, who, however, subse-
quently retracted to a certain extent his condemnation.
A serious injury had been inflicted upon the hospital
but for the existence of which hundreds and thousands
would have perished of disease.
The LORD MAYOR-What I condemn is the fact, that
you have been receiving from the City unions persons
who had claims upon these unions, and who ought to
have been rejected at your hospital. I object to the idea
of the city of London having no place to send their
casual poor to but that house at Peckham, to which they
are sent down at four or fi ie o'clock in the evening, and
from which they are sent away next morning—a dis-
graceful system, to which they are daily subjected.
Doctor Rice—These are the people who apply to us.
Another of the deputation said that there were two
cases lately sent from the poorhouse at Westminster to
the Free Hospital, and in consequence of the objection
made by the Lord Mayor, they had been refused ad-
mission.

The LORD MAYOR—Why I belonged to that board my-
self for many years, and I never had reason to suppose
the authorities would send those whom they ought to
relieve themselves to the Free Hospital. I shall have a
special court called to investigate the cases.
One of the deputation—What can we do when such
painful objects present themselves to us ? They are
daily coming to us after having been refused admis3ion
to other hospitals.
Doctor Rice—Your Lordship has no notion of the vast
extent of good effected by the institution. Before I
knew anything about it a gentleman came to me to ask
me to preach for the charity. I made particular inquiry
into the nature and proceedings of the charity, and I
did all I could to advocate the cause. I believe that but
for it thousands of our miserable fellow-creatures would
die in the streets. It is the anxious wish of the ma-
nager that your Lordship should investigate into the
t, and we are convinced that
see strong grounds for not with-
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utility to it.
The Loan MAYOR said be should take an early op-
portunity, after the close of his year of office, to investi-
gate the charity. In the meantime he felt satisfaction at
the resolution to which the managers had come, and
which was calculated to prevent the abuse of a charity
by confining it to proper objects.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Alderman Hooper was engaged for some hours
in the investigation of a charge of assault preferred by
John M'Nally against George Brown, City policeman
No. 222, who has recently joined the force, but was
formerly in the Metropolitan police. M'Nally was
charged with rescuing from the officer a man who had
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took the evidence at great length.
Ellen Connelly, of St. Duustan's-court, Old Bailey,
stated that two friends came to visit her husband on
Sunday. Their names were Grady and William Kelly.
In the evening they all went to the Red Cow, King-
street, Smithfield, where they had some beer. On leav-
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Brown, who pushed Grady and Kelly towards Smith-
field, and eventually took Grady into custody. A scuffle
took place, and Grady got away. Brown then seized
M'Nally, a friend of Grady s, who had accidentally
come up. M‘Nally's wife interfered to get her husband
away, when the policeman knocked her down with his
truncheon, and on M'Nally's endeavouring to lift up his
wife he was also knocked down by the policeman, who
struck him twice on the head while he was lying on the
ground.
The policeman said he ordered them to move on half
a dozen times before he took Grady into custody. They
moved a little way, and then stopped to wrangle ; such
conduct soon gathered a crowd, and caused confusion in
the street, which it was his duty to prevent. Grady
pushed him several times before he took him into custody.
On the part of the policeman, Maria Alder, of Little
New-street, Gough-square, and Mrs. Isted, of 29, King-
street, who saw the affray from the windows of their dif-
ferent houses were examined. They stated that there
was a rush by the mob, and the policeman was knocked
down three or four times. She heard the voice of a
woman, who was very active in the rescue. She said,
" Don't let him be taken ; the policeman is drunk."
They thought the policeman's life was in danger. He
drew his staff and knocked a woman down, and flourished
his staff round to keep the people off him.
An extra policeman, named Murrell, who went to
Brown's assistance, stated that he saw the policeman
knocked down under the feet of some cattle. Witness
took Mrs. M`Nally into custody. She would not walk,
but stopped. Brown struck her on the shoulder with his
staff. She walked in a stoo
n g osition to the station-
house, and thence to the hospital.p He did not know she
was hurt till he saw the blood running down her neck at
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the station-house.
Sergeant
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Mr. Alderman Ho PER said he would release John
*Nally on his p ppromise to aear on Saturday week, and
oinrdtehe meantime he hoped the commissioner would in-
vestigate the conduct of the officer.
An inspector said the commissioner had already
Mr. Alderman floor En. adjourned the further hearing
of the case to the 7th of November.
tii WORSHIP-STREET.
Willis, a carman in the service of a railway
truck conveyance contractor at Whitechapel, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having by
nrsligent driving seriously injured
a married woman
named Elizabeth Mills and her father, Mr.
Edward
Bash field, a retired Custom-house officer, who is confined
to his bed without hopes of recovery-
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Mrs.
Mills, who was supported. into Court upon
crutches, and appeared to be in a very debilitated con-
dition, stated that while proceeding through Devonshire-
street, Mile-end-road, on the 14th ult., leading her father,
who is 85 years of age, and totally blind, a massive
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railway-truck carriage,-drawn by three ~'arses, suddenly
Carne UP, and turned the so reek lessly, that one
of its hind wheels was thrown upon the p avement upon
which she and her father were walking, and before they
had time to escape they were both violently struck and
flung to the ground by it. The prisoner, who was seated
in front of the vehicle, apparently asleep, and without
anY rains, or the slightest control our the horses, was

instantly secured by a policeman. Witness was carried
to the London Hospital, and her father was coveyed to
his own residence, when it was ascertained that one of
her legs had been broken, and that her father's hip had
been so crushed that although he had been confined to
his bed under surgical care ever since the occurrence, it
was impossible, from his advanced age, that ke could
ever recover from the injuries he had sustained.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said he was ex.
cessively tired, in consequence of having walked a long
distance that day, and that although he was certainly
seated in front of the truck, as the prosecutrix had stateo,
the occurrence, which he sincerely regretted, was purely-
accidental, and resulted from the circumstance of there
being no post or kerb at the spot in question to keep
vehicles off the footway.
Mr. BINGHAM said that the case was far too serious
for his limited powers to dual with, and he should there-
fore direct the depositions of the witnesses to be taken,
and committed the prisoner for trial at the •sessions.
A middle-aged, half-starved, miserable-looking female
pauper, belonging to St. Luke's workhouse, was brought
to this office, in custody of the police, charged with
riotous conduct, and with breaking the windows in that
establishment. The pauper was ushered into the Court
at ten o'clock, being the time appointed for tke hearing
of the case. A quarter to eleven o'clock, however, cr,me,
and the prosecutors had not yet arrived. This was inti-
mated to the Magistrate, as also that the unfortunate
pauper had not received her breakfast, nor had any food
whatever been given to her since the previoui day.

Mr. BINGHAM ordered her immediate discharge, and
with great humanity desired the officers of the Court to
lose no time in providing her with nourishing food.
The chapfallen appearance of the officers of the work-
house, at learning, on their arrival with their witnesses,
that the accused had not only been discharged, but was
partaking plentifully of the bounty of the police-office,
afforded no small amusement to those who were present.