The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-18 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY COURT, SEPT. 17.

MARSH, STRACEY, FAUNTLEROY, AND CO.S BANKRUPTCY.
A meeting was held of the creditors of this banking firm,
against whom a commission of bankruptcy was issued some
years since, was held at the Bankruptcy Court, pursuant to
a notice issued by the assignees, to consider matters of in-
terest to the estate.
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Baron Smith is at present living in the happiness of
domestic retirement at thc- house of his son in the beautiful
County of Wicklow.

We regret to learn that incendiary fires have again
commenced in Berkshire ;*one, to a very large extent, occurred
last week at a farm belonging to John Palmer, Est[., M.P.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A Jewess complained to the LORD MAYOR that the
parish officers of Aldgate refused to continue an out-of-door
allowance to assist in the support of her child, who was two
years and four months old, and herself.
The parish officers were willing to take the child into the
workhouse, but the mother was well able to work for her
livelihood, and the Committee were of opinion that she
ought to be taught that there was an obligation of the kind
upon her. .

The LORD MAYOR,---The child, is too young to be se-
parated from the mother. Surely there is no clause in the
benevolent Poor Law Act authorising such separation ?
The parish officers said that there were many cases in the
parish at which children of an earlier age were separated
from their mothers. The fact was, in many instances
children were taken away from their mothers, by virtue of
the rule of separation, because the children were sure to
be better treated in the workhouse than at their own homes.
The LORD MAYOR.—There may be here and there an
instance of such depravity in a mother, but it is nonsense
to talk of numerous cases. Even the influence of gin
is not great enough to produce many testimonies of such
abandonment in mothers.

Parish Officers—We had a child left with us a little
while ago who was not a fortnight old. The probability is
we shall never get rid of it.

The LORD MAYOR.—Not a doubt of it. You will now
have many cases of the kind. For God's sake show some
humanity.

Parish Officer.—We expect nothing less. We shall
recommend this case to the Committee at your Lordship's
desire.

Another Jewess, who has three children, complained
that the parish of Aldgate refused to continue to her the
sum of three shillings per week, which, with her exertions
out of doors, would enable her to maintain her family.
The officers had offered to take her family into the house.
The LORD MAYOR could never believe that the magni-
ficent Act meant any thing of the kind.
Applicant—l don't ask for any more than three shillings
a week, for I am able to support myself ; and with that al-
lowance I shall be able to keep oat of the workhouse alto-
gether.

The parish officers were ready to take in the woman and
her children, but objected to the out-door allowance.
The LORD MAYOR.--There must be wrong construc-
tions put upon the Act.

Mr. Hobler said that the Commissioners had written to
the parochial authorities to proceed economically on the old
plan until regulations should be sent down by the Board.
The officers expressed their willingness to adopt the sug-
gestions of the Lord Mayor, who advised them, for the sake
of economy as well as humanity, to continue the allowance.
A woman, who stared that she had paid rent and taxes
in the parish for many years, and had five children to sup-
port, also complained that the authorities refused to give
her relief except in the workhouse. As she was a Jewess,
she and her children were under certain regulations with
respect to their diet, and in a workhouse they could not
obey such regulations.
The officers undertook to recommend this case also to
the Committee.

The Loan MAYOR expressed a hope that the regulations
and explanations would shortly come down from the Board
of Commissioners, and that they would be satisfactory. He
trusted, for the sake of the multitudes who were interested
in the many important questions comprehended in the Act,
that the Magistrates would be enabled to see their way
clearly.

Mary Anne Stokes, a woman who is called the east-end
Lady Barrynzore, and has distinguished herself much by
cracking windows as well as heads, was brought up, charged
with having smashed a guinea's worth of glass in a trades-
man's shop. _ _ • _ _

Mrs. Stokes amused herself with throwing onions in
Leadenhall-street at the windows of those persons who did
not wish to receive visits from her. At last she pitched an
onion through a window, and, very much to the annoyance
of the lady who was serving in the shop, the vegetable not
only uncapped but unwigged her. Thee effect was rather
odd ; for, as wigs never fit well except the head is well
shaved, the wearer took care that art should be as close as
possible to nature, and when the curls disappeared the head
presented as fine a specimen of the skill of the person who
shaved her as ever sprung from the hand of the scientific
barber called Barbarossa.

The LORD MAYOR—Pray, Mrs. Stokes, do you remem-
ber how often you have been here ? Mrs. Stokes—That's
quite impossible, my Lord : and I am sure I can't tell how
often I may be here again. The Lord only knows that.
The LORD MAYOR (to the officer)--Was she much in-
toxicated P—Constable—She was, please your Lordship ;
I never seed herself more so. We was obligated to drive
her up to the Compter in a truck.—Committed.