The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCA—Marah 1.

MANSION-I3OUSE.—Rob3rt Bates, 60, and
Mary Ann Bates, 58, were brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with begging in the City.
A mere pi tifu ly grutes(pie
looking pair never
stood before the bar of justice, for the male prisoner
had two short stumps in the place of arms, one eye
was missing, and his face on one side was drawn
up from the effects of a
paralytic stroke ;
while the
female, who held in one hand a bit of dirty rag, as
an apology for a handkerchief, with which she ever
and anon affected carefully to wipe her husband's
nose or remaining eye, had a singu'ar comic expres-
sion
of countenance, the joint production,
the prisoners begging,
and upon taking them into
appa-
rently, of nature and drink.
The officer in charge briefly
deposed that he saw
custody found money upon them to the amount of
is. C*l. The female prisoner passed as the wife of
the male prisoner, and they
were incorrigible beg-
gars, although the latter had a
pension of 2s. a day
from the East India Company, having bad his arms
blown off and otherwise injured, by the bursting
of a gun, while in their service as an artilleryman.
Lord Mayor—He is a pitiable looking object, but
there can be no necessity for them to go about beg-
ging, when he ha.s a pension of
Female Prisoner (dropping a
2s. a-day. Why,
that's 14s. a week.
courtesy)—Yes,
that's it exactly.
Lord Mayor—Well, can't you live upon 2s. a.
day
Female Prisoner—Oh, yes, I could if we had it
every day ; but you soo we takes it in lumps and
then it goes. (Laughter.) And then, when we bor-
rows a sixpence to get a bit of grub, we have to pay
sixpence more as interest, and that makes a shit-
ling ; and we pays 6d. day for lo3gieg, and that
wakes Is. 6d. ; and a—,
poor fellow he must have his
bit of bacca—(laughter). Jiter)—and
80 t
r.,_
brings him home
an ounce a day, which leaves 4d. a day for grub • ,
and what's that, I should like to know, to live on ?
(Renewed laughter.)
Officer—My lord, they spend all their money in
rum.

) drinks a quart of rum a
ywliCiturdcs,:l)olsl'atyms intdhahtinille;
(pointing
ge
tPorisheornehru—sbOaid
Prisoner--Oh,
da why.
(Laughter.)he(pointing to the
like it.
Lord Mayor—Well, perhaps he does ; he looks

Mayor—Well, you have been here before,
drank a quart toe, that would
Female prisoner (deprecati
quarts.
(Roars of laughter.)
laughter.)
?t,dwodtheearu,rnifel,
new could he live if ho dranklittlaYmt)::?k,°A.o
send You to Holloway for 21
days, with hard labour.
auLdolrsdhMalla,
Female prisoner—Hard labour ! Well, he can't
do ygerefore,
(Loudhow be aint got no arms
Lord Mayor—Then you naust work for him.
Female—Oh, I'll do that, but
loabuoeuoro,mcfoorst.as
—that'sno
he won't get a
quart of rum a day there, will he ? (Laughter.)
Lord Mayor—No, indeed. Take care you are
not brought here again, or I'll scud you to prison
for two months.
The female prisoner thanked his lordship for
this expression of good intention, and catching
holding of the stump of her hust)and's right arm,
she led him down stairs, with a great show (and
perhaps reality) of tenderness.

ROYAL COLLEGE: OF SURGEONS.--The fallowing gen-
tlemen having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma were admitted members of the college,
at the meeting of the court of examiners, on the 26th
ult.:—Messrs. James William Arnott, Colchester;
John Murray Llewellyn, AR'emhlv -row, Mile-end ;
john 21i)t.rd ; Bath ;
Edward Hopkins, Caemawr, Carmarthenshire; James'
Edward Clark, Paignton, near Torquay' Devon ; James
Wookey, Weston-super-Mare ; Richard Gillard, Thorne,
sear Doncuter ; and William Orr, 113!Ifafft.