The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-08 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

My. NEW POOR LAW ACT.—Yesterday three mise-
rable-looking lads, with scarcely a rag to their backs, who
gave their names Thonzas Waters, Frederick Scott, and
Robert Marshall, were placed at the bar, and charged be-
fore Mr. TWYFORD with having no homes nor any visible
means of subsistence.

William Breakwell, a police constable of the N division,
No. 143, stated that about five o'clock yesterday morning
he found the prisoners crouched up together in a brick-field
near Lea Bridge, and fast asleep.
The unfortunate lads, on being questioned by the Magis-
trate as to the cause of their sleeping in the open air, said
that they had no parents, and were entirely friendless, and
had not slept in a bed for weeks. They belonged to St.
Luke's parish, and had applied to the overseers for relief,
and had been refused on the grounds that they were capa-
ble of getting their own livings. They were willing to work,
and had tried every means to procure it but could not.
The youngest prisoner of the three said that his father
had died in St. Luke's workhouse, and he had since his
death been turned into the street to shift for himself.

Mr. TWYFORD—I have no power under the new Act to
order the parish to give you relief ; all I can do is to commit
you to prison under the Vagrant Act on your own
statements.

The poor orphans said they would be thankful if the Ma-
gistrate would even do that.
Mr. TWYFORD said that if any poor creature was to die
from want, the overseers of the parish to which the unfortu-
nate wretch belonged would certainly be indictable for
murder.

The prisoners were each committed as vagabonds to the
House of Correction for a month.

HORRIBLE NUlSANCE.—Yesterday a man of the name
of Lewis, the proprietor of a penny theatre in the Kings-
land-road, was charged before Messrs. BENETT and TWY-
FORD, with having on the preceding night assaulted police
constable 34, N division, while in the execution of his duty.
It appeared that in consequence of various complaints
having been made at this office by a great many very re-
spectable tradesmen in the Kingsland-road, of the nuisance
of the defendant's theatre, Mr. Twyford directed the police
to keep a sharp look out, and to abolish such a public nui-
sance, and on Monday night ordered Hanley and Brown, two
officers of this establishment, to go and witness the actions.
The nuisance, as described by them on that night, was im-
mense. There were about a thousand persons assembled
in front of the theatre, and most of them were young
`thieves. Hanley and Brown finding it quite impossible to
disperse the crowd without considerable assistance, sent to
the station-house for a body of the police, and on their ar-
riving, the defendant became quite incorrigible, and struck
N 34, a violent blow in the face ; for which he was taken.
into custody. •
The MAGISTRATES informed the defendant that they
would have every person apprehended that was found in
the act of performing at his theatre, and they should there-
fore recommend him to cease violating the law in such a
manner ; for he was under a very heavy penalty for con-
ductinn- an unlicensed playhouse, and that, the Magistrates
said, the defendant must be aware of.
The defendant said that he would not persist in opening
the theatre for the future ; but he denied having assaulted
the officer. One of the police constables conducted himself
in a most cowardly manner towards a respectable female
who was passing by at the time.
The officer Brown said that lie witnessed that fact. The
constable alluded to by the defendant certainly acted in a
most unfeeling manner to the woman, and knocked her vio-
lently to the ground.

BENETT asked Serjeant Hall who the constable
was, as it was highly proper that his conduct should be re-
ported to the Commissioners of Police. The serjeant said
that the constable's name was Fitzgerald, and his num-
ber 255.

The MAGISTRATES Said that previous to the case going
before the Commissioners, they would investigate it, and
ordered Fitzgerald, who was not in attendance, to be taken
into custody when he went to the station-house.

The defendant was ordered to gay a fine of 10s. to the
King for the assault he had committed on 34 N, and on his
doing so he was discharged.

TOIVN-HALL.

NEW POOR LAW Acc—Police Constable Wallace 11l
D, brought up an Irishman, his wife, and two children,
whom he found between five and six o'clock at the foot of
London Bridge, in a state of complete exhaustion. Their
names were Murphy, and they had journeyed from Cork to
this country. About a fortnight since the wonran was
taken in travail and remained so for two days, when she
gave birth to a child, who shortly after died. The poor
mother caught cold which has settled in her eyes, and she
had become stone blind. They bad been picking hops in a
plantation two miles from Maidstone, the proprietor of
which, to get rid of the poor creatures, as also to prevent
their becoming burthensome to the parish, put the whole
family upon the top of a fruit cart on Monday afternoon.
They were put down at two o'clock yesterday morning at
the foot of London Bridge, and there left in the most des-
titute condition. Upon application to the overseer of St.
Olave's, Southwark, he gave them a shilling to purchase
them a breakfast, and afterwards came to this office and said
he was willing to take the poor woman into the workhouse,
but he could do nothing for the man and his two children,
one seven and the other nine, years of age ; they must
travel back to Ireland the best way they could. Shortly
after a chair was brought, and the poor woman lifted into
it and taken to St. Olave's workhouse, Parish-street, Horse-
leydown.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday a foreign seamen, named Siege, was brought
before Mr. MURRAY, charged, under Lord Ellenborough's
Act, with stabbing Otho Ludovico, a countryman of his
own and carpenter of the same ship.
The prisoner was remanded until the fate of the wounded
man is known.

A caravan is a complete republic ; but I do not be-
lieve that most republics are so orderly. Of our eighty camels,
every three or four belonged to different individuals ; and there
were four Cafila-bashees. Still there was no disputing about
the arrangement or order of the march ; and it is a point of
honour, that the one shall at all times wait for the other. If
a single camel throws its load, the whole line halts till it is
replaced ; and one feels pleased at such universal sympathy.
These feelings make it agreeable to travel in a caravan, for
the detentions are much fewer than would really be imagined.
The more I mingled with Asiatics in their own sphere, and
judged them by their own standard, I imbibed more favourable
impressions regarding them. One does not see in civilized
Europe that generous feeling, which induces the natives of
Asia, great and small, to share with each other every mouth-
ful that they possess. Among Mahommedans we have no dis-
tinction of gentleman and villain—at least, so far as hospitality
is concerned. The Khan fares as simply as the peasant, and
never offers to raise a morsel to his lips till he has shared it
with those near him. I myself frequently have been partaker
of this bounty from rich and poor, for nothing is enjoyed with-
out society.—Barnes's Bokhara.