The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-04 00:00:00

110 W PAUPERS MANAGE TO STARVE.

At the Westminster Police-court, Mr. Arnold has ex-
pressed himself taken aback at the reason given by a
workhouse authority for turning into the streets a
pauper having a ticket of admission from the police.
The poor fellow who had incurred the displeasure
of bumbledom was charged at the police-court with
what ? With having had a pipe found upon him
when within the sacred precincts of the workhouse I
lle was asked, when admitted, if he had a pipe, and
saving " Yes" h e gave one up. But the officials,
" dressed in a little brief authority," subjected hint'
to a further inquisitorial process, and found, not a
poisoned dagger, Fenian documents, or a ten-bar-
relied revolver, but what they termed a short pipe,-
what ho declared to be only the bowl of
.a.
pipe, the existence of which amongst his
rags terri-
blehe was unaware of. On the
discovery taking place, the defendant was
ejected from the only house in the land that offered
him a scanty chance of sustaining existence for
night. But his crime was not to be thus easily
atoned for, and he was now prosecuted for,
not submitting to the rule of the 4‘ house.",
The witness, in answer to Mr. Arnold, was,
unable .to say what paupers turned into the street
.
like this would be able to do. The magistrate
charged the defendant, and laid it down that it is
an unlawful act to turn a destitute man into the'
street because he does not comply with the work-i
house regulations. If he did anything against
the
law, he could be punished, but not dealt with as in
the present instance.

CR.
By cash on hand at bead
offieo and brandies,
and with Bank of
England £1,995,538 14 3
By cash placed at call
and at notice, covered
by securities

Investments, viz.:—
By Government and
Guaranteed Stocks... 1,370,628 0 7
By other Stocks and
Securities

61,073 10 4

By discounted bins and
advances to custom-
ers in town and
country 9,402,260 8 8
By liabilities of cus-
tomers for drafts ac-
cepted by tbo bank,
as per contra

By freehold premises in Lombard-street
and Nicholas-lane, freehold and lease-
hold property at the branches, with
fixtures and fittings
By interest paid to customers
By salaries and all other expenses at head
office and branehes, including income
tax on profits and salaries

3,841,F,6210 4

1,431,701 10 11

11,471,117 6 7

241,342 4 4
41,416 3 7

101,101 0 7

£17,131,240 16 4
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.

To interest paid to customers, as above £44,416 3 7
To expenses, as above lOl,lOl 0 7
To rebate on bills not due, carried to new
account
To dividend of 6 per cent. for the half-
year .................
To bonus of 2i per cent....,..,...
To balance carried forward

17,291 2 0

60,000 0 0
25,000 0 0
8,895 17 5

£256,704 3 7

Cn.
By balance brought forward from last
account
By gross profit for the half-year, after
making provision for bad and doubt-
ful debts 250,478 6 0

6,225 17 7

£256,704 3 7
We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing
Balance-sheet, and have found the same to be correct.

(Signed) WILLIAM NORMAN, . Auditors.
R. 11. SWAINE,
_ _ • •-• • -

London and County Bank, 27th January, 1870.
The foregoing Report having been read by the Secretary,
the following Resolutions were proposed and unanimously
adopted :

1: That the Report be received and adopted, and printed
for the use of the Shareholders.
2. That a Dividend of 6 per cont., together with a Bonus
of '2l per cent., both free of income tax, be declared for the
half-year ending the 31st December, 1869, payable on and
after Monday, the 14th instant, and that the balance of
£8,895175. bd. be carried forward to profit and loss new
account.

3. That Frederick Francis, Thomas Stock Cowie, and
Frederick Harrison, Esquires, be re-elected Directors of
this Company.
4. That William Norman, Richard Hinds Swains, and
William Jardine, Esquires, be elected Auditors for the
current year.

5. Th'at the thanks of this Meeting be given to the
Board of Directors for the able maniler in which they have
conducted the affairs of the Company.
6. That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to the
Auditors of the Company for their services during the
past year.
7. That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to the
General Manager, and to all the other Officers of the Bank,
for the zeal and ability with which they discharged their
respective duties.
(Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES, Chairman.

The Chairman having quitted the chair, it was resolved,
and carried unanimously—
F. That the cordial thanks of this meeting be presented
to William Champio❑ Jcnes, Esq., for his able and cour-
teous conduct in the chair.
(Signed)

"WILLIAM NICOL,
fleputy Chahman.
Extracted from the Minutes.
(Signed) F. CLAPI'ISON, Secretary.

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 1870.

It is so customary to postpone the consideration of
pressing social reforms until the more exciting or
inviting topics of political warfare shall have had full
sway that we need not be surprised if the discussion
of the Emigration question be deferred until the very
end of the session. It is true that the condition of
our labouring classes is becoming every day more
serious ; that men able to work and willing to work,
men of strength, honesty, and sobriety, endeavour,
day after d‘ty, fruitlessly to obtain employment.
We have not now to do with the vagrant,
the beggar, the worthless idler, whim indis-
criminate almsgiving has rendered helpless and
dependent, or habitual intemperance has thrown
out of employment. All these, more or less, deserve
their fate, though private benevolence may labour to
relieve them from its more painful features, and the
State itself is bound to preserve them from absolute
starvation. But the labouring man, the artisan, or
the skilled workman, whose tr4de suffers from pro-
longed depression, who goes vainly from yard to
yard of the great employers to seek work, what is to
be done with Lim ? Is he to be allowed to starve,
or is be to be assisted to makebis way to those "other
Englank" beyond the seas which are clamouring for