The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-07 00:00:00

W OR SHIP- STREET.

A miserable-looking old man, 60 years of age, was yes-
terday placed at the bar before Mr. TWYFORD, charged by
police constable Lacey, of the N. division, No. 87, with
being in a state of destitution.
The constable said that about twelve o'clock on the pre-
ceding night he found the prisoner asleep in a brickfield at
Hackney, and on questioning him he said that he had no
home, nor the means to procure a morsel of bread.
The prisoner said his name was Richard Bartlet, and
that he had applied to the overseers of Whitechapel, in
which parish he formerly carried on a respectable business,
but they refused to grant him any relief. He wished to be
sent to prison.

Mr. TWYFORD.—No Magistrate has now, under the
new Act, the power of ordering relief to the poor, and all
I can do is to commit you to prison under the Vagrant Act.
Mr. TWYFORD asked the poor fellow whether he was a
married man ? The prisoner replied that he was a widower
and had two sons, but it was entirely out of their power to
afford him any assistance, for they were almost as poor as
he was.

Mr. TWYFORD.—When did you sleep in a bed last?
The prisoner, after a few minutes' consideration, replied in
the parish of Whitechapel, but he thought that was at least
three months ago.
Mr. TWYFORD.—Then I suppose you have been wan-
dering about the streets ever since ? Prisoner.—Yes. I
generally slept of a night in the field where the officer found
me.

Mr. TWYFORD.—WeII, I again say that I have no power
to interfere otherwise than to commit you on your own
statement as a vagrant. _

Prisoner.—l should be thankful if your Worship would
do that.

Mr. TWYFORD.—I shall commit you then to the House
of Correction for a month.

The prisoner was then removed to the lock-up.

MAR YLEB ONE.
Benjamin Mays, a labourer, was charged with the fol-
lowing assault on a female named Elizabeth Willoughby The complainant, who appeared to be suffering severely
from the injuries she had received, about ten o'clock the
previous morning, accompanied by her husband, went into
a public-house and called for a pint of ale. While drinking,
a man belonging to the Union abused her husband in a very
gross manner for not joining them, and the prisoner, who
was in the room, tried to bring them to .a fight. Com-
plainant and her husband then went out, when the prisoner

and his companion followed them, calling out " Rat ,t
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&c., for some time, when the man who first accosted ti u
':
came up and struck her husband. The prisoner wass
about to do the same, but witness went between them, an
the prisoner then struck her a tremendous blow which felled
her to the ground ; her head coming in contact with the.ti
edge of the curb-stone she laid insensible for some time, an
on recovering found the prisoner in custody. r
The (Abe
man had escaped.
Police constable T 137 saw the assault, and on going.uP
to take the prisoner into custody he offered a violent resist-
ance, and kicked witness several times.
The prisoner, who seemed to treat the affair as a~o]ce,
was fined 305., snd in default committed to the House 0'
Correction for six weeks.

UNION-HALL.
Three of Barclay and Perkins's draymen were charged
with assaulting John Huggins, a man well known in the hoi-
rough of Southwark, who has rendered himself particulal
obnoxious to the draymen belonging to the above firm
consequence of laying informations against them. in
The informer went into a house called the Dolphin,
Itedcross-street, and while there the three defendants
tered the house, and, seeing him, they determined on Ilainit°
inn their revenge, as he had informed against one of trao
a few days previously, and had him fined at the,Tovin-
for riding on his dray. Luckily for the informer, Furl
the officer, happened to be near at hand, at the woultehe
the draymen were carrying Huggins to put him into ir
water-butt, and the officer, seeing they were bent o_oo
chief, immediately interfered, and prevented them tru_r,
putting their designs into execution. Furlong, how eve'
had much difficulty in restraining the feelings of the defeatscr.
ants on the occasion ; and, during his efforts to save 0
informer from the fury of his assailants, he was throb
down himself, but he ultimately succeeded in rescuing "
informer.
In the course of the investigation into the case of ra.
sault, it turned out that Huggins had, on a previous °erg
sion, threatened to summon one of the defendants.
riding on his dray through the street, contrary to a Sar
Act in operation in one part of the Borough. Ole red
man, knowing that he had committed the offence, caseente
into a compromise with the informer, who settled the
without going before a magistrate for a sum of moneY• vett
The facts above-mentioned having been distinctly Pr° the
the Magistrate committed the informer for trial that
that
offence, observing that informers were necessary ell° ; the
as long as they performed their business agreeably
intentions of the Legislature, they had a right to be P,se,
tectcd, but when it was manifest, as it appeared in thi! eye
that the informer was heedless of every thing so as "bet
money into his own pocket, then it was that such co hate
ought to be visited with that punishment which would
ore
the effect of making the character of the informer "-
pure than hitherto it had been. '

THAES OFFICE.
Yesterday, a poor decreM
pid old man, aged 79, cotelm'rdaW of
to Mr. COMBE, the Sitting Magistrate, that the 13°3 out-
Guardians of the hamlet of Ratcliffe had stopped 131,5,,re0f
door allowance of ls. 6d. per week, and had in lieu 17,- be
offered him the workhouse, of which he had no wish to
come an inmate.
Mr. COMBE could not interfere with the parochi
tight
cers, the new Act had taken away the power, but 61° be
the workhouse was the best place for the oldloll 'self
would be taken more care of there than he could of bin'
out of the house. t and
The old man said the ls. 6d. paid his weeklY renloios°
he wished to keep out of the workhouse, the clos.
phere of which, and the confinement, would soon giu.,,,„ia
He considered it very hard that his scanty pittance rpeo
be withheld from him, more particularly as he bad
"-
rate-
Mpayer. in the hamlet.
r. COMBE said he could do nothing for the aPP I
who had better accept what was offered to him. racer a
The old man shook his head, and gave to the et%iiicii
petition, which he handed to the magistrate, and of
the following is a copy : respect'
" The humble petition of Andrew Morrison rats_ct (ag:'
fully showeth, that your petitioner is seventy-nine yealrooi';
and quite unable to work, having rented a house in se'
street, Ratcliffe, at 231. per annum, and paid all raterope°
taxes, has been employed forty years by Mr. ThomPs°°' t the
maker, of Hove-lane. He has received parochial relief. sf
rate of Is. 6d. a week, but has been denied that reliileaol)l6,
last three weeks by the parish officers. Your very 53ie.
petitioner begs leave to request you to renew the t Act,
allowance and relief by the new Poor Law Amentinlendirect
sec. 27, that it shall be lawful for your WorshiPf,retiol''
such allowance to be continued at your Worship's cutt•s 10.4
as your petitioner now humbly solicits your Wer3Tir,tress.
mane interference in his beFalf, as he is now in deep u•-etitic°
Mr. COMBE said the person who wrote out the Pia 00
for the old man was a very bad lawyer. He Va„ctiol
order relief out of the workhouse under the 27°14
bpd
until a union was formed. The hamlet of Rate" thie
formed no union, and therefore he had no power
case. The worthy magistrate read the clause as folio'. iiiaY
And be it further enacted, that in any union which of
be formed under this Act, it shall be lawful for aPI
w 0
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, usually acf,ng t 301
district wherein such union may be situate, at, t'neirj%
and
proper discretion to direct by order under o,eir vilio
seals that relief shall be given to any ad'alt Perslle to
shall from old age or infirmity of body be wholly aria/ tb°
work, without requiring that such person shall reside
workhouse."
nd
The old man then received back his petition, s' of
parted very much disappointed at the resat' -
application.
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Mr. BULWER'S NOVELS.---We are req-es,,t opei-i
state that new and cheaper editions' of Mr. Bulvrerli r
stories of " Falkland," " The Disowned," " Devereteners'
" Paul Clifford " are now on sale, at the various lo'dy 01'
Of the latter work, " Paul Clifford," it has been illsuor
served, that the character of Brandon, shows in its,„oB-Ics, bilof
deep knowledge of human nature, not obtained from veil:"
by looking right through the hearts of men—not the bo 11,`'e
history, or the men of poetry, but the men of reality, lc soli'Ae'
the life, who struggle, speak, write, wheedle, tri,l'eceive,,t'
assert, retract, deny, but still push on, deceiving 1016,,-bis,
to their great end—power or wealth—on the arena ot
most vicious, most glorious metropolis. the PC:
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Friday week a 5, 'Forfar
fiance coach from Edinburgh was passing throng' sadaie:ll'
child, not more than two years old, toddled out - leo` 15
from a door that the first seen of it was close at the e
heads. To pull up on the instant four high-sPiriteduld has'
was impossible ,• besides the smallest hesitation wc'„
thrown the child from the position it was in under
.t,'',--rese6:.;
Captain Barclay, therefore, with great coolness and Oro.
of mind, determined at once on attempting to clear the
he succeeded in doing in a most wonderful manner ; t Incas
ter bar of the leaders first missing it by not more then,: haen,,:e
and the fore and hind wheels by half an inch ; its ittb,",n,
which it held up as if by instinct, actually touching t",-he strre, e
child, or rather infant, continued its course across at,
quite unconscious of the miraculous escape it hadoa, bore.)o
guard, passengers, and all who witnessed it, Wer-aleoi-
struck, considering the child's fate inevitable.--
Mercury.

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