The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-14 00:00:00

THE POOR LAWS.

Copies of the following have been just sent to the over
seers of the poor throughout the country

" TO THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.

" Office of the Poor Law Commissioners for
England and Wales, London, Nov. 8.
" The Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales
have received information which leads them to believe that,
notwithstanding the directions conveyed to the overseers in
the circular letter of the 4th of September, the Poor Law
Amendment Act is still imperfectly understood, and that the
overseers in many parishes which have no select vestries or
boards of guardians are under misapprehension as to the duties
which they are by the existing laws required to perform.
" The Commissioners therefore think it necessary to inform
you, that as overseers you still remain responsible for the due
relief of the poor, and that you may furnish such relief in any
of the different ways in which by law you might have furnished
it before the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act, bear-
ing in mind always the necessity of vigilance and strict eco-
nomy in its distribution.
The Poor Law Amendment Act was passed, not for the
purpose of abolishing the necessary relief to the indigent, but
for preventing various illegal and injurious practices, which
had by degrees grown up in the administration of such relief.
The Commissioners will gradually introduce proper regula-
tions for preventing these practices, which, although highly
objectionable, cannot altogether and immediately be stopped.
In the mean time the Commissioners wish to draw your atten-
tion to the following suggestions, many parishes having de-
rived great advantage from adopting the measures which are
here pointed out :
" 1. With regard to able-bodied paupers who are unable
to procure employment, you should, if possible, set them to
work ; and in all cases where circumstances permit its adop-
tion, task-work should be preferred.
" 2. The allowance to be given to the pauper in return for
parish work, whether the same be day-work or task-work,
should be considerably less than the ordinary wages paid for
similar work to an independent labourer.
" 3. If it be found impracticable to set the able-bodied pau-
pers to work, one-half at least of the relief given to them
should be in food, or in the other necessaries of life ; and if this
rule be applicable to your parish, the Commissioners recom_
mend you to consider whether arrangements cannot be made
for carrying it into effect without delay.
"4. If it is the practice in your parish to make an allow-
ance to labourers in respect of the number of their children,
you should not suddenly or altogether discontinue these
allowances, but you should make them in kind rather than

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in money.
"5. With respect to the paupers (if any) belonging to your
parish, but resident elsewhere, who have been accustomed to
receive from your parish weekly or other payments,---such
payments, especially as regards aged and infirm persons, should
not be hastily withdrawn ; but the list of cases of this nature
should be carefully revised, with the view to detect frauds and
impositions.
"6. If your parish possesses a workhouse, which is already
in such a state as to admit of able-bodied paupers being lodged,
maintained, and set to work therein, you may make the offer of
relief within the house to any such pauper who shall apply for
parochial aid ; and such offer will exonerate you from the ne-
cessity of offering other relief.
The Commissioners wish you to observe, that the fore.
going suggestions are for yeur information and assistance only,
and are not to be mistaken for rules or orders issued by them
under the authority of the Poor Law Amendment Act.
"By order of the Board,
" EDWIN CHADWICK, Secretary."

EXTRAORDINARY FANATICISM-THE MIS-
SIONARY WOLFF.

We find the following letter in the Calcutta Journal.
The writer is Mr. Wolff, the converted Jew, who left this
country for India as a missionary, two or three years ago :

" TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL.

" Dear Friends,—Having now taken leave, and I hope for
ever, from Mr. Burnes, I would consider myself to be dis-
honest by not laying before you the whole of the circum-
stances to which Mr. Burnes alludes with regard to my fre-
quently casting out devils. I told him the folowing fact :
In the year 1828, when I left with my wife the city of Cairo
for Jerusalem, one night, when sitting in our tent, and the
Arabs near the fire, one of them, Haj Alli by name, was
talking. While he was talking a horrid voice came out of
him—it was like the voice of the tormented spirits in hell.
asked the Arabs, What is this ?' Arabs-' The Devil l'
My wife trembled all over. One of the Arabs said to the
Devil, 4 In the name of Mohammed, the prophet of God, be
silent.' _ _ _ . .

" Devil—l don't know Mohammed. Mohammed is a pig.

" Myself (to the Devil)—ln the name of Jesus be silent.

Devil—Who is near me? Is Elija near me?
" Myself—ln the name of Jesus be silent ; and the Devil
was silent.
" The same circumstances happened again the second night,
and rsilenced him again in the name of Jesus ; but as we ob-
serve a that the Arab was a great blasphemer, and a profligatl,
I made no use of the name of Jesus the third night ; but
Ahmed, a Bedouin, who became through this circumstance a
believer, made use of the name of Jesus, and the Devil was
silenced.
" This circumstance was reported on our arrival at Gaza
to the governor, who reported it to AM-Allah Pasha; the late
Pasha of Acre.
" With regard to my one interview with Christ at Bochara,
it is as follows :—ln my speaking with Burnes on this subject,
at Cabool, I introduced it with Dr. Johnson's and Leibnitz's
belief about apparitions, as Paul did Aratus the poet, in
Acts xvii. But I need not do so with you, and mention the
whole circumstance.
" When my mind one evening was very much cast down,
hating been accussed to Gosh Rekie as a Russian, I wept,
when suddenly a splendour covered my room, and the voice
Jesus enters 1' thundered in my ears. I saw suddenly
Jesus standing upon a throne surrounded by little children,
mercifully and kindly looking at them. I fell down and wor-
shipped, and the vision disappeared. This is the one instance
I mentioned to Burnes. But now one similar instance more,
which I never mentioned to Mr. Burnes. When arriving at
Malta for the fifth time, in the Lazaretto from Macedonia, my
mind was very much cast down, for a horrid hypocrite had im-
posed upon me. I walked about in my room and said, lam
afraid my whole trial of converting the Jews is vain ;' when
suddenly my room was transfigured, and I believed I was ill
New Jerusalem. Jesus Christ, surrounded by Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, and the apostles, walked about in the
street. Paul, with a crown upon his head, turned to me, and
said, if I remember well, these words :—" Now it is otherwise,
you have not such a beautiful crown as myself, but still you
have a crown." The daughters of Jerusalem were devoutly
looking out of the windows, saying when Christ approached,
" Now he has his tabernacle with men." Some of the Saints
were looking about and said, " Who are these ships coming
from a distance, as the doves to their windows?" The others
replied, " These are the ships of England," and the vision dis-
appeared. I have not proclaimed these circumstances in India
before, for the preaching of Christ, and not of Joseph Wolff,
is my object; but as Burnes has mis-stated facts, and adds fre-

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quent casting out of devils, I thought it necessary to state
these points. I have only to add, that on account of my
preaching against Mohammed, I was temporarily exiled from
Egypt by Mohammed Alli, and Abd-Alli, Pasha of Acre, has
accused me to the Porte, and the Janissaries of Adrianople
wanted to cut me into pieces, circumstances known to Sir
Robert Gordon and Sir Stratford Canning, by which you will
perceive the total falsehood of Burnes's assertions with regard
to my belief in the pseudo prophet.
"JOSEPH WOLFF, Missionary.
" Hyderabad, June 4, 1833."

We understand that their Majesties will give a grand

ball on the 15th of January, to celebrate the birth-day of the
Duchess of Gloucester.—Brighton Gazette.
The late accident to Lord Deerhurst has, as was

first apprehended would be the case, occasioned the entire loss

of' the sight of his right eye.

The Speaker, and Lady Manners Sutton and
family, removed the day before yesterday from George-street,
Hanover-square, to his official residence in St. Stephen's-

Three-and-twenty apartments are not however for the
present habitable.
The editor of the Scotsman states in the most posi-
tive manner that Lord Brougham was not the author nor in
any way a party to the publication of the article in the Edin-
burgh Review, which produced the letter of Lord Durham.
The Earl of Charlemont has agreed to place his ten-
antry in the parish of Killeavy with regard to tithes on the foot-
ing contemplated by the act of last session—that is his Lord-

ship will pay two-fifths of the tithe out of his pocket, and
they will pay the remaining three-fifths. The Newry Exa-
ininer states that the parishioners are perfectly satisfied with
the arrangement.—Drogheda Journal.

The Imperial Academy of St. Petersburgh has just
published the poems of Elizabeth Kullman, a young poetess,
recently deceased, at the early age of 17. She was mistress
of Greek and Latin, and several modern languages. Among
her works is an excellent translation of the Odes of Anacreon.

Jean Baptiste Philippe Marcot, one of the Mem-
bers of the National Convention, died last week at Lyons. He
was a Doctor in Medicine, and by his will left his body to the
surgeons for the purpose of promoting science, and bequeathed
his property to the town of Chambery, to found a lectureship
ou mathematics.

A Commission de Lunatico Inquirendo, appointed
to inquire into the state of mind of Messrs. George and Henry
Hurst, two respectable individuals residing at Barton and
Marl Cleeve, in the parish of Bidford, Warwickshire, was
held at the White Lion, Bidford, on Friday, before H. B.
Peake, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Messrs. R. Gillam and
R. Gillam, jun., solicitors, of this city. Mr. Oldaker, soli-
citor, of Pershore, produced evidence to prove that George
Hurst was, and had been, in an insane state. That lunatic
was called in, but no questions were asked of him. His
appearance certainly indicated mental imbecility. The Jury
fclind that George Hurst was a lunatic, and had been so for
twenty years, had no lucid intervals, was incapable of ma-
naging his estate, and Henry Hurst was his heir. After some
delay in signing the usual instruments, the Jury were re-sworn,
to inquire into the sanity of Henry Hurst, the heir to George's
property. Conclusive evidence was adduced, and the Jury
found Henry Hurst to be insane.

A fine frigate, built at Marseilles for the Bey of
Tunis, was launched the 3d inst. She is named Houssiene,
after the daughter of the Bey, and hoisted the French and the
Tunisian colours. She is pierced for sixty guns, and will
carry forty-four. The guns, of cast iron, are expected from
England. She will be rigged in the port of Marseilles.
LOSS OF THE LEEDS STEAMER.—This splendid
steamer went down on Friday night last. She was on her
way from Liverpool to Dublin, having passengers on board.
Near Hollyhead she was completely damaged by the high sea
and hurricane which was raging. The Commerce steamer
happened fortunately to paddle up at the time ; she took the
Leeds in tow, and brought her very near the Head, where she
sunk. The passengers were previously taken on board the
Conimerce.—Freeman's Journal.
MINIATURE STEAM SHIP.—The Earl of Dur-
ham, the Hon. Lady F. LambtOn, and the Hon. Arthur Kin-
naird, just before leaving Glasgow by the kind interference of
John Douglas, Esq., of Barloch, inspected and greatly ad-
mired a beautiful miniature steam-ship, to which the ingenious
constructor, George Foster, tinsmith, 53, Bridgegate, ob-
tained permission to give the name of that most popular states-
man. The hull of this elegant scientific toy is of wood, 4 feet
long, outside breadth 14 inches, beam 7 inches, cylinder 2fr
inches wide, stroke 3 inches. This pretty Lilliputian ship
is impelled by an engine, and has sailed on the Clyde at the
rate of ordinary walking.—Glasgow Chronicle.
THE SISTER KINGDOM.—MrS. Hall's " Sketches
on Irish Highways, continued in the present Number of the
New Monthly Magazine, affords a lively instance of the power
with which true feeling is able to subdue all things to itself,
and to invest with a touching interest even those subjects from
which the inconsiderate are apt to turn away with marked dis-
taste. Her portraitures of that numerous and highly charac-
teristic class, the Beggars of Ireland, are so many speaking
proofs of the force of nature ; and we are sure there are very
few English hearts that could withhold a tribute of emotion at
the searching yet delicate skill with which she has laid open
the sorrows of Irish mendicity, or at the discerning truth with
which she has placed in contrast with these its smiles and its
humour, its quips and cranks,' and irrepressible bursts of
gaiety."— Globe.
ALGlERS.—Private accounts from Oran differ from
those hitherto published by Government, as to the sanitary
state of that province. The mortality continues to be consi-
derable ; and is no longer confined to the convicts and persons
of intemperate habits, but individuals of all classes are attacked
by the cholera. The garrison of the fort of Mers-el-Keber
has suffered dreadfully from this scourge. Madame Bertrand,
wife of the Chief of the Hospital, and Madame Mercier, have
fallen victims.—Journal du Commerce.

ERRATU:►I.—In yesterday's paper, in the adver-
tisement of the " Unfortunate Man," by Captain Chamier, for
just "published," read just "ready."
TILE LATE STORM.—The recent boisterous wea-
ther has been accompanied by much loss at sea. We have
just heard that a wherry, with three hands on beard, while
entering the port of Rothsay, was broke over by a heavy sea
and went down, when all perished. A small boat, with three
persons on board, swamped off Long Island on Saturday ; two
of them were drowned, the third fortunately got on shore in
safety.—Scots Times.