The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-26 00:00:00

Q UEEN- S Q UARE.

Yesterday Maria Edwards, with a in female child
in her arms, applied to Mr. Wurre, to order the beadle
of St. Margaret's parish to apprehend the father of her
child, so that he might be compelled to •ontribute towards
its support.__

The applicant, Maria Edwards, whe is about IS years
of age, is the person who called herself the sister of La-
vinia Edwards, the extraordinary man-monster, on whom
an inquest was held some months ago, at the Coach and
Horses, in Dean's-yard, Westminster, when some very
extraordinary circumstances came to light. The applicant,
who was in the family way at the time the inquest was
held, and who gave evidence, it will be recollected declared
that she never knew the deceased to he a man, slrhougli
she had lived for years with him and had slept in general
with him. She declares] positivrly that the deceased was
not the father of the child, bat that it was a young man
named George Treherne, a joerneyman 'tiddler, who used
to visit her. In consequence of this statement, she was,
taken into St. Margaret's workhouse;- by the overseer-,
when she was delivered of a female child, and subsequently
she affiliated it before two county Magistrates at the house
on George Treherne, although the general impression
upon every one is, that the deceased person, galled Lavinia
Edwards, is the real father. Stsme time after she was
confined at the workhouse, and perfectly recovered, she
was discharged by order of the overseers, and left the
house with her infant, and it now appears that she has
been living with a Mrs. Nesbitt, of NO. 10, Park-place,
Clapham, who carries en the business of a laundress. She
is said to be the mother of the applicant, Maria Edwards,
and it has been traced that the woman Neshitt formerly
lived in Henry•strest, Waterloo-read, and afterwards at

Mr. WHITE told her that ebe must find out the father
of her child.

The applicant had found oat where be lived, and wanted
the beadle to apprehend him.

The beadle asked the overseers how h• should act, and
after some short conversation he was directed not to in-
terfere at present.

The applic•.+nt then left the office with her infant.
UNION-HALL.

Yesterday William Benson, the organ-blower of New-
ington church, preferred a charge of assault against a
woman named Drake, arising out of the following cir-
cumstances

The organ-blower on passing up a densely populated
court in Newington, and hearing a " hlow-up," as he ex-
presied it, in one of the tenements, ata}ed a while listening
outside the window. He had not been there many mi-
nutes when he received the contents of a bucket of water,
which soused him to the skin, and a voice from the first-
floor window exclaimed, " Take that, my old musicianer;
listeners never hear any good of themselves." The organ-
blower had scarcely recovered from the shock which the
drenching had inflicted when Mrs. Drake rushed out of
the house, attacked him tooth and nail, like a fury, Ejacu-
lating, " I'll soon give you bellows to mend, my old
organist ;" and being a powerful woman she soon con-
quered Benson, who is lame in one foot, and while he was
on the ground, she swore that she would jump all the
wind out of his carcass, and incapacitate him from blow-
ing the bellows in an organ gallery as long as he lived.
She would probably have carried her threats into effect
had it not been for the interference of some of the neigh-
bours, who rescued him from the impending danger, and
carried him home.

On the part of the defence it was urged that the organ-
Wower, instead of minding his own business, visited the
court in question for the purpose of listening outside the
windows of some married women in the absence of their
husbands ; and in the event of a mile visiter being present,
then spreading reports calculated to bq detrimental to their
characters for virtue. This was not the first occaiion
upon which he bad been discovered in a similar situation,
and having rendered himself particularly obnoxious to the
ladies of the court, they determined upon putting a stop
to it in future, and for that purpose thought a good
ducking would do him no berm when they caught him
at his old tricks again. Mrs. Drake protested that she
had not used either tooth or nail on the occasion, but ad-
mitted having sluiced him with potatoe water. With re-
spect to the charge of knocking him down, she denied it,
averring that ht had fallen through lameness or intoxica-
tion, or perhaps through both, as he was a man, she
added, much given to " lash." When the organ-blower
tumbled down he did not remain idle, for it was sworn
that he struck the ddendant three times with a stick while
he was lying on the flit of his back.

The organ blower said tioatti;re was a conspiracy
against him by the worsen who inhabited the court, and
the only cause he could assign fur such a strong feeling
operating against him was in consequentsof some moral
advice he bad given a carpenter's wife while her husband
was absent at work. •

The female to whom the organ blower alluded here
stepped forward, and with "fury flashing from her eyes,"
denied the imputation thus cast upon her character, declar-
ing that she w.,nted no greater satisfection for the insult
directed against her by the organ blower than his retiring
to any convenient spot that he *elected, and there have a
regular "set-to," and see who had the roost pluck.
Other women here pressed forward to complain of the
"Paul Pry" propensities inherited by the unfortunate
Organ blower, who besought the megietrates protection,
and the woman Drake was held to bail to keep the peace,
it heing evident that she entertained a strong feeling of
enmity towards him.

Counsellor RANKIN has been appointed
Chief Judge of the Admiralty in Sierra Leone. This
Mace, which has been the grave of Europrans, hat, within
I few years Fist, been rendered snore healthy by the
?Ming of trees, irrigation, and other improvrm.nts. Many
•it the natives speak English, are men of giard capacity,
nil from their inkiligtnce and impartiality are fit fur
-pigmy!). From their prigre.s in civilization it is in-