The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1846

opens a much-required communication to the farmers of
the district, who are hemmed in on an island at present
without it.
" Mr. CARDEN, of Barnane, rose and said—l oppose
this road on every score; first, as there is a road between
Templemore and Nenagh, and secondly, as there is a
new road of Mr. Lanigan's near the same place where
you propose to make this.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—This new road of Mr. Lani-
gan's has nothing to do with it whatever.
" Mr. MICHAEL MEAGHER—And to meet Mr. Car-
den's objection, I say it is not a road leading to Ne-
nagh.
" Mr. CARDEN—It is a road to Nenagh. You have
forgotten, I suppose, the Templemore Railway. I do
think to make three miles of a road to shorten a
distance between Templemore and Nenagh is perfectly
absurd.
" Mr. GARVEY—Why, that is not the proposition
at all.
" Mr. CARDEN—I have told you that I would oppose
the making of this road on every score. Then, as to
the dearth of employment in that district, I can tell you,
on the contrary, I wanted men and could not find them,
and I had to advertise for them. This morning I met a
number of men on the road. I told them if they went
to my steward at Barnane they would get plenty of task
work, at which they would earn 14d. a day, which is re-
munerative wages. And what did they tell me? That
they would not go three miles off to work. And in this
district you propose the making of a new road. I think
it is the greatest absurdity I ever heard of.—(" Oh, ob.")
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—You have said nothing about
the cess-payers and rate-payers ; when they pay heavy
taxes, have they not a right to have a road ? Now, will
you answer me that simple question ?
" Mr. CARDEN (apparently puzzled)—The road has
been several times before the grand jury.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGFIER—Never.

" Mr. CARDEN—I will show you that this road in the
neighbourhood of Toomevara was brought before the
grand jury.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—I repeat again ' never'—
(Loud cries of Hear, hear')—and I defy any gentleman
on the grand jury to say so.—(Hear.)
" Mr. G. RYALL—I have endeavoured during the last
fifteen years to get this road made, but it never came be-
fore the grand jury. I say there is not a road in the
county of Tipperary more wanting.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—I think it is a most ungracious
thing of you, Mr. Carden, to come forward to make the
statement you have made.

" Mr. CARDEN (with vehemence)—l'll state my opi.
nions.

" Mr. GARVEY-Hear, hear.

" Mr. CARDEN—And I will permit no person for a
moment to put me down in the slightest degree by talk-
ing to me about any ungraciousness.
"Mr. RYALL—I can positively say this road is of con-
siderable importance to the people of Tootnevara, and
that if they had this road made ten years ago I would
have a dwelling house on my property.
"Captain BUTLER—We aro assembled here to-day to
show neither favour nor affection, hatred or malice. I
am sorry to hear my old friend, Mr. Carden, say that
the making of this road is a perfect absurdity.' I know
myself the farmers to be completely locked up without
this road. I can tell Mr. Carden that I have seen a
starving population on the wild-looking hills and moun-
tains there. It was only this day that I saw men,
women, and children half naked.—(Hear, hear.)
" Mr. CA.RDEN—You may see a great many men idle,
and they may say they have no employment; but I can
tell you they don't wish to work, neither will you find
many of them to do so.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.")
" Rev. Mr. MEAGEIER—If I go out into the streets of
Toomevara in the morniag, I will get 400 labouring poor
who cannot procure employment, and who are ready
and willing to work if they only got it.—(Hear, hear.)
`• The making of the new line of road was then passed
at 1,0001., there being but one dissentient, Mr. Carden.
" The Rev. Mr. POWER then proposed the making of a
new line of road from Barrack-street to Silver-street, in
Nenagh, the probable cost of which will be 2001. Also
to lower the hill of Cunnerhart, at 250 L ; and to repair
the road leading to Faralough, the property of Mr.
Ferrara, 401.

" The applications were passed nem. con.
" The magistrates, at five o'clock, announced that over
7,0001. had been awarded by them for the execution of
public works in the barony of Upper Ormond during
the day. and then rose."
The Tipperary Vindicator thus remarks upon the
proceedings, and it is evident that the gentry in the ba-
rony of Upper Ormond have still much to do in a dis-
trict presenting an ample field for profitable labour, be-
fore they shall have fully provided for the necessities of
the population :
.

"The patience and the anxiety to work out the pro-
visions of the Act of Parliament, and to obey the pro-
clamation of the Lord Lieutenant, which all exhibited,
were, in every respect, worthy of the sacred cause of
charity, and of all who took part in the all important
and deeply interesting proceedings of the day. The ba-
rony of Upper Ormond contains about thirty thousand
acres of land. No small share of this land is mountain
and bog, which could be reclaimed with comparative fa-
cility. We know how vast the advantage, and great the
return, such an application of labour and capital would
be, and how much constant employment it would afford.
The works undertaken on Monday, or rather applied for
under the Act, though not of the most beneficial nature,
are not without their practical advantages. The sum of
7,0001. was passed for them. They will give employ-
ment • they will secure peace ; they will strengthen the
confidence of, and they will provide food for the poor, just
now on the verge of starvation, with the last potato con-
sumed by the mysterious blight which has laid waste our
fairest fields. They will stimulate the industry of all classes ;
they will tend to show the landlord, and the tenant,
and the labourer, that they must put their shoulder to
the wheel, and act as far as possible in concert, where the
salvation of all from utter and irretrievable ruin is the
great question at issue. We regret to state that the
barony of Ikerrin has not yet been proclaimed. We
know that the state of the poor in that barony is really
lamentable. On Monday a vast crowd of almost
famishing men paraded the streets of Roscrea, with a
rotten potato and a loaf of bread on the top of separate
poles. Their demand was work and wages ; they de-
clared their determination not to die without a struggle
for existence."

of discount, all the bills of exchange by means Of Which
the moneys have been remitted ; and although most of
these bills were drawn at six Months after sight, yet the
directors of the Bank of Ireland, with .a beneVolence
which commands respect, haVe ordered the full affiouht
drawn for to be placed at the credit or the trustees, with-
out any banking reduction whatsoever. The fund thus
so humanely placed at the disposal of the trustees has
been distributed amongst about 350 local relief com-
mittees, to whom 639,700 destitute poor look for the
means of being saved from the horrors of famine."
ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT IN
NOVEMBER.
The Cork Reporter contains the important announce-
ment made to the Mallow and Duneraile deputation, by
the private secretary of the Lord-Lieutenant, that Par-
liament is to be assembled in November, in order to
remedy the defects in the Labour Rate Bill and to pro-
vide other effectual measures for the relief of distress in
Ireland.

LETTER FROM MR. O'CONNELL.
The Evening Post contains the following from Darry
nane:—

" Darrynane Abbey, Cahirciveen, Sept. 14.
"My dear Conway,—l have only this morning got
the Labour Rate Act, and thus am able to state its pro-
visions accurately. lam the more anxious to do so, as
my former statement of its contents was necessarily
taken from the report of speeches in Parliament.
" The Act provides that the Lord Lieutenant, upon
being informed of the existence of distress in any dis-
trict, shall, by proclamation, direct and require an ' Ex-
traordinary Presentment Sessions' for such district.
" This is mandatory upon the presentment sessions ;
they are bound to meet on the day mentioned in the pro-
clamation, and they will be guilty of a violation of the
law if they do not meet upon that day.
" 2d. The presentment sessions having met, they are
bound to make presentments for public works within
their district. This clause, also, is mandatory. It would
be a violation of the law if they were to refuse or neglect
making such presentments.
" 3d. The Lords of the Treasury are bound to
advance all sums of money, without specified limit, to
the amount necessary for the works included in such
presentments.

- " 4th. The Board of Works are bound to put into
execution the works so presented for without delay.
" Such is an abstract of the operative part of the sta-
tute, as far as relates to public works. There are also
provisions for the repayment, by instalments, of the
money to be advanced for those works.

" The repayment is not to commence until the next
year, 1847, so that the landlords are, by the Act, left all
their resources for the present year, untouched by the
payment of any rate.
" No specific remedy is given by the statute if the pre-
sentment sessions disobey the law, and refuse or neglect
to make presentments.

" Let ft be recollected that if they so refuse or neglect
—the existing distress in the district will remain, not
only unrelieved and unmitigated, but naturally increas-
ing in intensity and severity. This will be so strong a
pressure upon the presentment sessions, that it is not
likely that they will anywhere refuse to make present-
ments, and by such refusal leave the starving labourers
without relief. But, supposing any presentment sessions
so to refuse, they are subject to legal compulsion as well
as to punishment.

" For example, the Act being mandatory on the pre-
sentment sessions, if they refuse to do that duty they are
liable to be proceeded against, criminally, by indictment,
or by criminal informations, at the prosecution of the
Attorney-General. Besides, on application to the
Queen's Bench, a mandamus would issue to compel the
presentment sessions to make presentment according to
law. I take it, that the cost of the proceedings would be
visited on the defaulting presentment sessions.
" It is, therefore, to the last degree improbable that
any sessions ivill refuse to make presentments.
" Let it be recollected that the one thing wanted at
present is food; that the pressure for food is immediate;
that the supplying of food cannot be postponed without
the utmost inhumanity—nay, cannot be postponed with
safety to any class.
" Food the people want, and food it is the duty of
everybody to provide for them: as well the Government
as the landlords—in short, everybody, having any means
whatsoever.

" The Government plan suggests the mode of obtain-
ing food by earning wages—such wages to be paid for
the execution of public works.
" It is quite true that many faults may be found with
the Government plan; but, then, it is rapid of execution,
and rapidity of action is, under existing circumstances, of
the most vital importance. No plan can be of any value
to meet the present horrible emergency but a rapid plan.
There is no time for delay or postponement. The penalty
of delay would be death—in fact, deaths innumerable.
From 10,000,0001. to 12,000,0001. sterling will, I fear, be
necessary to keep the people alive; but, while many are
writing or talking, the people are starving.
" I am not at all insensible to the disadvantage of
laying out money on works that are not, in themselves,
productive of direct profit ; but the complication of in-
terests—the properties of minors—the properties vested
in trustees for married women—the properties in the
hands of the receivers of the Court of Chancery, and of
o:her creditors and annuitants—all these and many other
complicated relations, would require much time and labour
to arrange in order to secure any Government loans made
for profitable works, and it would consume much time
to investigate titles and ascertain the validity of secu-
rities.

" In the meantime, the cry is loud and universal for
food ! food ! Everything must be done to get the food
for the people without delay. Rapidity constitutes, I
repeat, the essence of humanity and political sagacity.
"It seems abundantly clear that there must be an early
—very early meeting of the Parliament. The practical
defects of the Labour Rate Bill must be amended, and
other modes of relief will require to be suggested and
worked out. But in the mean time let us one and all
struggle to procure wages and food for the people. Let
us do the best we can with the existing law, instead of
discovering defects and proclaiming them to a starving
people. Let us, if possible, inspire in that people a con-
fidence in our exertions, and let us convince them, that
we will leave no practical means untried to preserve the
country from famine and pestilence.
" Believe me to be, very faithfully yours,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."

DISGRACEFUL STATE of WANDS-
WORTH POLICE-COURT.
About five years since an Order in Coun'cil created a
Police-court at Wandsworth, and assigned as the circle
of its jurisdiction the parishes of Wandsworth, Clap-
ham, Battersea, Tooting, Mertom, Wimbledon, Barnes,
and a portion of Streatham. The place selected to ad-
minister justice was the then sleeping apartment of the
superintendent of the V division of police, together with
a very small room for the private accommodation of the
magistrates. With respect to persons compelled to at-
tend the court, they were, and are still, obliged to put
up with the sorry accommodation of a stable-yard, or
the less wholesome jostling in a circumscribed and ill-
ventilated apartment, dignified by the title of a police-
court. The entrance to the court; too, is up a steep
flight of stairs, that threaten each day to dissolve
connexion with the building to which they are the
only public approach; and the absence of cells
obliges the prisoners being at various times during
the sitting of the court paraded between that
place and the station-house, which is nearly a
quarter of a mile distant; and the folly of such
a course being persevered in cannot be better ex•
emplified than in the case which is appended. The
reporter would not have been induced to make these
remarks but for the miserable economy and imbecility
of purpose exhibited by those who are constituted
the agents of Government in these matters. For
three years past the magistrates at this court have
been deluded with the idea that a building commen-
surate with the dignity of a court of judicature would
be erected. Surveys have been made over and over
again, but still the court remains an eye-sore to the
neighbourhood, and a disgrace to the executive depart-
ment of the Government.
A case strongly illustrative of a necessity for a reform
occurred yesterday. A man named William Wilson,
who has already been convicted of burglary, was
charged with embezzling several sums of money be-
longing to his employer, Edward Covenay, of Bri-
tannia-place, Wandsworth-road. The prisoner, a
powerful young man, was remanded, and was
being conveyed towards the station-house by Eastman,
182 V, the Clapham summoning officer, when the fellow
suddenly turned round, struck the officer a tremendous
blow on the breast, and started off with the the speed of
a deer-hound towards Putney. The officer, although
almost stunned by the blow, followed in pursuit, and
after a sharp run of some hundred yards succeeded in
coming up with the prisoner, who had been stopped near
the Adelaide Inn. The prisoner, on being again taken
into custody, made a most desperate resistance, striking
the Constable in the face and in various parts of his
body, and also biting him severely. The constable, al-
though so severely handled, did not draw his staff; and,
with the assistance of eivilkns, whom it was necessary
to call upon to aid and assist in the Queen's name, the
prisoner was taken back to the court, and from thence
to the station-house.
Had this court possessed the necessary conveniences
that appertain to other courts, this mishap could not
have taken place,

The last published annual account of the Equitable
Assurance Society shows that the directors in the yea'
1845 paid for claims on policies 365,0001., and for addi.
tions made to them 429,0001., being a total of 794,0001.
At the close of that period, and after all these payments,
the invested capital of the society was 5,715,0001. Three
per Cents., and 4,050,0001. on mortgage. The society
has lately paid claims on policies exceeding the sum
originally assured, in some instances five times, and in
others six times the amount. On a sum assured of
. 5,0001. the amount paid was 26,610/. ; and another
case fur 2,0001. an amount of 10,0101. was paid ; while
in a third case for 700/. assured the amount paid was
4,9801. Among the causes which appear to have con-
tributed to these important results, is the reservation at
each decennial division of one-third of the surplus fund
for future appropriation. The amount of the additions
made to the oldest 5,000 policies at the last decennial
policies,dwislon, in 1839, was 4,094,661/, estimated to be worth
in present money 2,969,5021. ; and the third reserved for
future accumulation and division was 1,484,7511. The
third reserved in 1799 was 225,0001. The 5,000 oldest
it is, stated, are entitled to share in the additions;
and should the life assured die before January Ist, 1850;
belng within such 5,000, two and-a-half per cent. per
• .
on the sum assured will be added for every pre-
• paid subsequently to 1839, or subsequently to the
lastadm iwssaiosn6:3t7. The
es
the policy into the above number. The
claims, actual number of policies existing on the 31st December
hh numberah of
average policies
hf
twhichh
years, having been 2
existing ,it is expected that all the poli- 1
ties now will be admitted into the number oti
5,000 within she next seven years,— Times. the last
annually become

POLICE INtELLIGENCE.

MA NSION:;ITOUS'E.
eS erday eorge Binford, a young man who bad
t
been in the employment of Mr. Bassett, of Wood-street,
warehouseman, was brought before Alderman Gibbs for
final examination, charged with having embezzled about
6001., the property of his employer. The prisoner had
been in the house for a considerallle tittiei and the
greatest Confidence had been reposed in itimi he had
been latvly appointed cashier.
Mr. Hobler attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Clarkson, the barrister, and Mr. Humphreys attended
for the prisoner.
Mr. George Burford, linendraper, of Stratford, in
Essex, stated that on the 15th of November he was in-
debted to Mr. Bassett in the sum of 111. 13s. for goods
sold, on which day he called at the warehouse and paid
the prisoner the amount in gold and silver, and got a re-
ceipt, signed by the prisoner, for the same.

Mr. William Waterhouse, linendraper, of Chipping
Ongar, Essex, stated that he dealt with Mr. Bassett, and
was indebted to him, on the 7th of July, the sum of 291.
145., which on that day he handed over to the prisoner
on account.

Mr. G. T. Staines, linendraper, of Romford, in Essex,
stated that on the lit of last January he paid at Mr.
Bassett's warehouse, to a person who, to the best of his
knowledge and belief, was the prisoner, the sum of 241.,
for goods sold by Mr. Bassett, and on the I Ith of June
he paid, at the same place, the sum of 9/. Is. to the pri-
soner on the like account.

The receipts were here produced by the witness.
Mr. T. Samuel, assistant to his father, a linendraper,
of No. 2, New Bridge-street, Vauxhall, stated that on
the 12th of March, he paid to the prisoner 131. for goods
sold by Mr. Bassett. He produced the prisoner's receipt.
Mr. John Swinford Bassett affirmed that the prisoner
had been in his service between five and six years as
clerk, and latterly as cashier, in which capacity he was
authorised to receive money from the customers, which
it was his duty to enter in the cash-book and to pay over
to witness, who had examined that book and found that
not one of the sums mentioned by the preceding wit-
nesses were entered there, although they were in the
ledger. The prisoner had not paid over any of the
money to witness, who, on the 9th instant, having reason
to suspect him told him so, and then the prisoner said,
"I am guilty. I have been robbing you." Subse-
quently the prisoner said the amount of his plunder had
been, he believed, 6002

The prisoner was upon these several charges com
mittted for trial.

THAMES.

Yesterday a well-dressed, venerable-looking man,
named Aaron Bray, a horse-dealer, was brought before
Mr. Ballantine, charged under very novel circumstances
with stealing 661., the moneys of Mr. William Pears-
house, a cowkeeper and job-master.
Mr. Pelham appeared for the prosecution, and said his
client was a cow keeper and farmer at Woolwich, and
who maintained an establishment at Greenwich, and
rented stables in Southwark. On January last the pri-
soner, who was then in very indigent circumstances, be-
came acquainted with the prosecutor, who suffered him
to hang about his place, and occasionally employed him
to bid for horses, and execute various commissions for
him. This continued up to the end of August, when
Mr. Pearshouse having reason to doubt the prisoner's
integrity, and finding that he had been engaged in
various disreputable transactions, refused to employ
him any longer, and told him that he had no
farther occasion for his services. Mr. Pearshouse
saw no more of the prisoner until the 4th of
September, when the prisoner called upon him at his
stables in Southwark, and said he could introduce him
to a purchaser for three horses, and requested him to
let him sell them. Mr. Pearshouse intimated to
Bray that ho had been deceived by him so often that
he could not intrust him with the sale of any horses;
but ho had no objection to his (the prosecutor's)
som accompanying him to the intended purchaser.
The prisoner said he had no wish to interfere
in the transaction at all, except to introduce the
purchaser, and it was then arranged that Mr.
Pearshouse, jun., should proceed to Blackwell next
day with three horses, and meet the prisoner at the
premises of Mr. Money Wigram, a ship-builder and
merchant, the intended purchaser. It was also most
clearly arranged that Mr. Pearshouse, jun., should re-
ceive the money for the horses, if sold. On the follow-
ing morning, Mr. Pearshouse, jun., met the prisoner with
three fine horses at Blackwall, and, at the request of
Bray, they were put into Mr. Wigram's stables until
that gentleman appeared, when the horses were exhi-
bited, and trotted up and down the stable. yard. Bray
was very attentive to Mr. Wigram, who, of course, from
his high character, believed that the transaction was a
fair and honest one. Mr. Pearshouse, jun., was kept in
the background, and had no opportunities f conversing
with Mr. 14 igram, who ultimately agreed to purchase
two of the horses, one for 341., and the other for 32/.
Bray then came to Mr. Pearshouse, jun., and announced
that Mr. Wigram had chosen two horses, and mentioned
the price. Mr. Pearshouse, jun., heard the bargain
struck, and was satisfied on seeing the horses put
into Mr. Wigram's stables. After Bray had been
into Mr. Wigram's counting-house, he returned to Mr.
Pearshouse, jun., and said Mr. Wigram had no time
to write out a cheque for payment of the horses then,
but would do so on the following Thursday, at ten
o'clock. Young Pearshouse then returned to town with
the horse that was unsold ; and, on the day and hour ap-
pointed, he again presented himself at Blackwall to re-
ceive the money, not doubting that the horse; had been
fairly parted with on his father's account. He found the
prisoner waiting outside Mr. Wigram's house, and he
stated that Mr. Wigram was very busy and bad gone
away in a hurry, and that he would send the cheque for
66/. to Mr. Pearshouse, sen., on that or the following
day. The young man was ultimately persuaded by the
prisoner to return to town without the money ; and the
prosecutor, having waited for two days without
receiving any communication from Mr. Wigram, waited
on that gantleman, and ascertained that the prisoner had
received the cheque on the Thursday morning, previous
to Mr. Pearshouse, jun., arriving at Blackwall, and that
he had been paid the amount at the banker's. Mr.
Pearshouse, sen.,had thus been deprived of his horses and
his money too. It did occur to him (Mr. Pelham) that
there was a constructive stealing of the horses, or that Mr.
Pearshouse had been defrauded of 66/. by means of a sale
fairly brought about in the first instance. He ought to
state, that it would be, perhaps, set up in defence that
the prosecutor was indebted to the prisoner, and that he
appropriated the money in payment of the debt, but, he
could assure the Bench that there was no account be-
tween them at all. Mr. Pearshouse was not very
anxious to sell the horses, but, thinking there were some
remains of honesty in the prisoner, he allowed him to
introduce a purchaser to his son. Mr. Wigram thought
he was dealing entirely with Bray.
Mr. Pearshouse, sen., and his son gave evidence at
length, exactly supporting the statement of the soli-
citor; and added that Bray represented, after the pur-
chase of the two horses was completed, that Mr. Wigram
wanted to purchase three more horses on the following
Thursday, but no sale was then effected.
Mr. BALLANTINE inquired what had become of the
two horses in question, and was informed they were
shipped in one of Mr. Wigram's vessels, bound to Cal-
cutta.
After a long discussion between the magistrate and
the solicitor respecting the way in which the charge
could be shaped,
Mr. BALLANTINE said, there was no false pretence
about obtaining the horses or selling them. There was
a fair barter. The representation made by the
prisoner was fair and honest, as far as the sale of
the horses was concerned. Mr. Wigram, however,
could only have understood he was dealing with
Bray, to whom he gave the cheque, and then came
the dishonest part of the transaction. The prisoner
said he had not got the cheque in his possession on the
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, though it had been paid
to him an hour previous, and he induced Mr. Pearshouse,
jun., to return to London on the understanding that the
cheque should be forwarded next day to his father at
Greenwich. The case was not without its difficulties,
but the charge upon which he should call the prisoner
for his defence was for stealing 66/.
The prisoner, with a self-confident air, as if he was
conducting an ordinary business transaction, said he had
a very few words to say until he saw Mr. Foster, his

solicitor, of Jermyn-street, under whose advice he had
acted in retaining the money for a large debt owing to
him by Mr. Pearshouse. He should say the prosecutor
owed him 100/.

Mr. Pelham denied that his client owed the prisoner
a sixpence, and said that Mr. Pearshouse had been a
benefactor to the prisoner and kept him from starving,
and he had now ungratefully turned round upon him.
The prisoner said that Mr. Foster told him to do ex-
actly as he had done ; in fact, ho had acted under his
directions, and he wished to send for him. Mr. Wigratn
recognised no one but him in the transaction. He hoped
be should be allowed to send for his attorney.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the prisoner might send for his
attorney, but he certainly should not wait for him. If
Mr. Pearshouse did owe the prisoner 1001., he had no
right to take his money. If one man owed another 1001.,
he would have no right to go to the desk or cash-box of
his debtor, and take the amount away.
The prisoner, with a free and easy manner, said he was
an agent, paying and receiving money on account of
Mr. Pearshouse. He would admit receiving the cheque
and obtaining cash for it. He had written to Mr.
Pearshouse to that effect. The letter was to the follow-
ing effect :
" Sir,—i have reseived sixty five pounds for two horses.
Shall be most happy for you to appoint ono meeting to
settel our accounts as Earley as most convenant to you
self. I remain your humbl servt AARON BRAY, Sept. 4,
1846. Mr. Pearshouse, Greenwich."
Mr. Pelham admitted the receipt of the letter. That
was part of a well-concocted scheme of the prisoner, to
make it appear there was a debtor and creditor account
between him and Mr. Pearshouse.
The prosecutor was recalled, and said he never autho-
rised the prisoner to sell the horses to Mr. Wigram, or
receive money for them, and until he heard the cheque
was paid, he considered Mr. Wigram his debtor for 661.
The prisoner said the prosecutor had been to the
Southwark Police-court, and was informed there by the
magistrate that he had better not give any one into
custody.
Mr. Pelham said the offence was not committed within
the jurisdiction of the Southwark Police-court, and the
prosecutor only went there because he lived in the vici-
nity of the court.
After a long discussion, during which the prisoner
expressed his gratification that he was given into
custody, .
Mr. BALLANTINE doubted whether the prisoner's
attorney had given the advice here presented, and ulti-
mately consented to take bail for the prisoner's appear-
ance on Tuesday, and directed that Mr. Wigran should
be requested to attend on that day.
The prisoner said he could send for bail. Mr. Dixon,
of the Repository, in Barbican, who was his brother,
would bail him.

gr. iiALLANTiNE would be quite Eatis6ed with Mi.
Dixon's bail without any other.
f 'lie prisoner thep made,
w a low bow, wished the ma-
gistrate a good evening; atitt WaR rethoved in the van to
the prison.

TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN
St PARCitAs WOHitttotrOn:

The in'ctuiry Intti the etlleged ill-,treatiffent of some bt
the inmates of Bt. Panb 4 itts orkhoitsb 4;0 resumed
yesterday, by adjournment from Tuesday last, lien:ft
the directors and guardians of the poor of the parish.
The members of the board were engaged in the trans-
action of ordinary parish business until two o'clock,
when the investigation was resumed. Mr. C. E. Wag-
staff, churchwarden, presided. Several members of the
vestry were present. The district medical officers of the
parish had been summoned to attend this meeting, and
the board at once proceeded to hear their statements.
Mr. Harrison, one of the district surgeons, was the
first witness examined. He stated that, having looked
through the diet table, he considered there could be no
objection to it, provided the fol was of the best
quality. His attention had been particularly drawn to
the dietary table for the paupers in the refractory
ward; and he must say, though they deserved some
punishment, that he did not think it prudent to de-
prive them of animal food altogether. (Some con-
versation here took place between Mr. Harrison and
several members of the board, in the course of which it
appeared that Mr. Harrison had misunderstood the re-
gulations of the refractory ward. His impression was
that the inmates of that ward were altogether deprived
of animal food, but it was explained that the refractory
paupers received only 4oz. of meat three times a week,
while the other inmates of the house received Boz.) He
should say that the suspension of meat rations was de-
cidedly prejudicial to health. He did not think there
was much to complain of in the present dietary, sup-
posing the porridge, the butter, and the cheese, were of
the best quality. The allowance was not great, but it
was enough to keep people in health. If the milk por-
ridge was good, he did not know but that the allowance
was sufficient; if it was of bad quality, he would say de-
cidedly that the quantity allowed was not enough. He
had heard that the milk porridge in the house was thin;
that only a quart of dairy milk was allowed to six quarts
of oatmeal. If that were the case it was not milk-
porridge, but water-porridge. With regard to the beef,
a great deal depended upon the manner in which it was
served up; whether it was well cooked or not sufficiently
cooked. It appeared that the inmates generally had beer
allowed on the days when they had meat and potatoes.
His opinion was that it would be advisable to allow them
beer on the days when: they had no meat.
Mr. HowariTn—Do you consider, when persons have
grossly misconducted themselves, and when no work is
exacted from them, that it would be prejudicial to their
health to keep them for one week on the dietary of this
workhouse, without meat ?—I should say, as far as that
week goes, that such a course would be decidedly pre-
judicial. If they commenced the week in good health,
they would be far more likely to be unwell than well
at its termination. It might not be prejudicial in every
case, but, generally speaking, I think it would be so.
Mr. HOWARTH—I want to know whether you think
that the health of refractory, able-bodied, and healthy
paupers would be injured by depriving them of two
ounces of meat on alternate days ?—I should say it
would be decidedly injurious to their health.
In answer to a question from Mr. T. H. Smith, Mr.
Harrison stated that he had not seen the " sheds" in
which the refractory paupers were confined, and at tl
request of the board he proceeded to inspect them.
Mr. Erasmus Wilson, consulting surgeon to the parish,
was then examined—He said, if the food of the inmates
of the workhouse is, bond fide, what is represented in the
diet table, I consider it very excellent diet, with one ex-
ception. I think the broth might be improved by mix-
ing peas with the barley.
The CHAIRMAN—In the refractory ward a reduction
of two ounces is made in the allowance of meat, which is
served to the paupers three times a week. Do you
think that could be prejudicial to the health of the pau-
pers?—l think if the broth were better, if it were made
more nutritive and palatable, there could be no objection
to such a reduction.
Mr. How/mom—Do you think any injury would re-
sult to paupers who had been guilty of misconduct by
depriving them, for three alternate days in one week of
two ounces of meat daily, substituting four ounces of
potatoes?—l should say if the other articles of food
mentioned in the diet table were of good quality, there
could be no objection to such a reduction in the allow-
ance of meat for one week; but all other articles ought
to be of good quality.
Mr. Wilson then suggested that the paupers should
have a larger amount of milk and sugar. He consi-
dered that the dimunition of the allowance of meat for
one week would not have an injurious effect on the
health of a growing girl or boy, provided their other
diet was good; but he did not think it a judicious mode
of punishment.
Mr. Harrison recalled—l have seen the place called
the " shed," and I was agreeably surprised at its ap-
pearance. I expected to find a much more inferior place.
I think, however, that it ought to be two or three feet
higher. The bed-room in the women's shed is decidedly
objectionable. I think there is nothing to complain of as
to the men's rooms. The women's bed-room is not a fit
place for any one to sleep in; the wall is damp for a
considerable distance on both sides of the fire-place, and
about the fire-place itself.
Mr. Curteis, a district surgeon, stated—The dietary of
this house is much superior to that of the generality of
similar establishments. I find that three pints pf por-
ridge a day are allowed for each individual. Now, if
one ounce and a half of oatmeal is allowed to a pint of
porridge, that is more than is allowed by the Poor-
law Commissioners, and not far below the allowance at
the Naval Asylum at Greenwich. I think it is injudi-
cious to diminish the allowance of food to paupers in the
shed, because persons suffering punishment, and who are
in a state of depression, require more stimulating food
than free men.
Mr. HOWARTH said it was unjust to suppose that the
system of separation adopted in the house was regarded
as a mode of punishment.
Mr. Curteis understood that the inmates of the refrac-
tory ward considered they were regarded as an inferior
class to the paupers in the house.
Mr. R Wilson, who, since his previous examination,
had visited the sheds, was here recalled, and examined
by the CHAIRMAN—He said, I consider that the rooms
in the refractory ward, especially the men's working.
room, are very ill ventilated. The women's sleeping-
room is very damp, and it appeared to me that this
dampness arose from defective draining. I think the
women's bed-room is much too low, considering the
number of persons who occupy it.
Mr. Todd, a district surgeon, stated that he found the
porridge ma& for the paupers was not milk-porridge,
but a kind of water-gruel, without much milk. If they
gave the paupers water-gruel, they ought to use oatmeal
ground more coarsely than that which they now used.
He had lived upon oatmeal-porridge, taking also half a
pint of milk in the morning, for eight successive years,
without tasting animal food. He had gone round the
wards to-day. Some of the paupers had made com-
plaints about the food. He had told them they filled out
their clothes so well that they could not be on low diet.
He did not think that it persons were put on low diet
for one week it would be prejudicial to their health.
By Mr. T. H. SMITH—I have visited two apartments
called the " sheds." My opinion is, that there is not
a workshop in this metropolis half so good as
the men's shed, though a little better venti-
lation would make it cooler. I never was in
a workshop in this city where there was half
the comforts the men have in the shed. The working-
room of the women is rather low, but still there is good
ventilation. I looked into their bed-room. There is a
dampness in the corner which ought not to exist in a
sleeping apartment. I consider that a sleeping-room
ought not to be below the level of the ground.
Mr. T. H. SMITH thought the master of the work-
house, or the surveyor, ought to have informed the board
of the condition of the women's room.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Curteis was recalled, and stated that he had been
to see the rooms occupied by the refractory paupers. It
appeared to him that the work-room did very well.
They did not appear to want air there, but that must,
of course, depend in a great measure on the number of
persons who might be in the apartment. If the ceiling
were higher the ventillation would be much better. In
his opinion, from the number of beds in the sleeping
room, the accommodation in that respect was very de-
fective. In the hospitals a cube of nine feet was allowed
for each individual ; but the room to which he referred
was about 30 feet long by 17 or 18 feet wide, and some-
times 27 or 28 persons were crowded into it. According
to the practice at the hospitals, that room ought not to
contain more than six individuals.

Mr. Johnson, district surgeon, stated that if the pre-
scribed dietary were perfectly carried out he could not
see much objection to it. He did not think, if persons
were deprived of meat diet for a week, their other allow-
ance of food 'remaining the same, that such a course
would be :prejudicial to health. He had been in the
men's working room, and it was a great deal better than
the generality of workshops in London.
Mr. Harrison recalled—The room in which a number
of the old female paupers lived was very damp.
Mr. T. H. Cooper, the parish surgeon, was again
called, and said he thought, if the prescribed dietary was
uniformly and properly carried out, that it would be
amply sufficient for the maintenance of the poor. Ile
concurred in the recommendation of Mr. Wilson, that an
allowance of peas should be made to the paupers. He
had before stated that it not unfrequently happened that
a large portion of the four ounces of meat given to the
refractory paupers three times a week consisted of fat,
and he hoped the board would not rest satisfied with his
statement, but that they would appoint a committee to
inquire into the facts.
Mr. HowARTu here objected to Mr. Cooper's proceed-
ing with any further statement.
Mr.. Cooper said, as other medical men had been re-
quested to give their opinions on particular points, he
thought he ought to have an opportunity of expressing
his opinions on those subjects.
In answer to Mr. BRAY,

Mr. Cooper stated that he had from time to time
found diseases existing among the paupers in the sheds,
which probably arose from their confinement.

Mr. ilowatali considered that the evidence of the
medical officers was taken to-day with a view to ascer-
tain whether the complaints made by Mr. Cooper, on
Tuesday, were well founded or not, in order that if those
complaints were borne out the board might make some
alteration in the dietary tables. lie did not, however,
think it fair that Mr. Cooper should be allowed to com-
ment on the evidence which had been given by the other
medical gentlemen.
Mr. Cooper denied that tie had attempted to make any
comments on the evidence of the medical witnesses who
had been examined.

Mr. Bird, surveyor to the parish, was then called, at
the request of Mr. T. H. Smith, and stated that it was
two or three years since he saw the rooms in which the
refractory women were kept, and that he knew nothing

Itirhdteter of the cause of the dampness of those apart-
ments.

Mr. HOWARTH observed, that at tIA ftirreer it:testi-
ation, Mr. Cooper had complained that when he filmy-
thh tif the women washing themselves in the
chamber utensils, he was tdld by tb., master of the work-
house to hold his tongue and mind his shop. Mr, Cooper
had stated that he (Mr. Howarth) was chairman of the
llottrci on that occasion. Now this was not the fact, for
Mr. lia§lewoodi the late churchwarden, was chairman
when this occurrence took place.
'the bqard then adjourned till Tuesday next, when it
is understood the diteetors will consider their report.

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