The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-17 00:00:00

THE SUSAN.

This was a vessel which suffered during the late
dreadful gales. She was on her voyage to the port
of London laden with corn and malt, and on the
20th of October was driven on the Maitland Sands,
which she was assisted off by smacks who were upon
the look-out for vessels wanting assistance. The
cargo and vessel were worth 8781. and the owners
tendered 401., which the sailors refused.
Counsel having been heard on both sides,
Sir J. IN ICHOLL said, in this case the claim for
salvage services was slight, and under all the cir-
cumstances he should pronounce that the tender of
401. was sufficient, and should condemn the salvers
in costs which had accrued since they refused
the tender.

General Iturnigny, the second to General
Bugeaud in the late unfortunate affair of " honour" at
Paris, arrived in town, the day before yesterday, fa n%

Paris.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Ellen Allen was brought before the Lord Mayor
for the purpose of being examined as to the present
residence of the father of her illegitimate child. The
investigation disclosed an odd workhouse scene.
Ellen Allen had been from her earliest infancy a
pauper of one of the city parishes, and had resided
in the workhouse, except at intervals, when she
went through the country as a regular tramper, sell-
ing confectionery, and now and then a little contra-
band rum and Hollands. It happened that a male
pauper, named John Hearas, had been pretty nearly
in the same circumstances as to the parish, having
been born of paupers in the workhouse, and brought
up there, and being of course marked with all the
virtues of his parents and his birth-place. He too
was given to the tramping system, and as the two
paupers had contracted an intimacy which was
likely to add to the obligations the parish was under
to them, ne objection was made to their summer
excursions together. After some considerable de-
lay on the tramp, the woman returned to town with
a fine male child in her arms, arid immediately ap-
plied to her parish for relief, stating that she did not
know where the father of the babe had sojourned.
The authorities desired to know where the child
was born, in order to send it to its birth-place, upon
which there was a legal claim of support, but the
woman declared that she could not point out the
place, that she did not recollect the name of the
parish, but that it was off the road, and somewhere
near Manchester, and that her accouchement took
place in a waggon, after which her companion left
her, and she tramped to London.
The parish officers believed that the woman
knew where the father was, and hoped the Lord
Mayor would grant a warrant for the apprehension
of so mischievous a pauper.

The woman repeated her story, and assured the
Lord Mayor that she wished from her soul she
could tied out the. fellow who had used her so ill.
Overseer—My Lord, we have to support a former
child of hers by the same person, which was born
in the workhouse. She is hackneyed in the way of
deception. When she was in the family way of her
first child, she said to us, when we reproached her
with the expense upon the parish, " Oh, brother!
give us a few pounds and we'll go into the country,
and the child be born as many miles off as you
please."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—IS it worth your while to
send a warrant after such a fellow as this ? Are
you not happy at being rid of him ?
Overseer—Our object is to prevent these dis.
agreeable additions to our parochial expenditure. I
am convinced that this woman has made money by
travelling into parishes when near her time, the
great object of the parish officers being to get rid
of persons in such a condition in the quickest time
possible.
The LORD MAYOR—You don't think she has
acted unkindly to you in looking for another birth-
place for her offspring? Overseer—We are con-
vinced that she and the man are regular jobbers,
and that he carries her from parish to parish in an
advanced state, to frighten the money out of the
officers.—(Laughter.) Indeed we don't know
whether this may not be a borrowed child, brought
forward to deceive us.

The LORD MAYOR said that it would, in his
opinion, be imprudent to add to the burdens of the
parish by apprehending the male pauper; but as
the parish authorities were of a different opinion
they should have the warrant, and might avail them-
selves of the opportunity of bringing up an increasing
family of paupers.