The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-23 00:00:00

THAMES.

DESERTION OF CHILDREN.—Robert Hill, with a
great many aliases, a brickniaker and labourer, was
brought before Mr. Benson, charged with running
away and deserting his two children, aged 3 and 5
years respectively, and leaving them chargeable to
the Poplar Union.

Mr. James Speatley, relieving officer of Poplar
Union, said the prisoner's wife died in September,
1866, and he immediately afterwards sold off his
home for £3 and absconded, leaving the two children
chargeable to the Union. They had been supported
by the parish at au expense of £25, which he now
demanded of the prisoner, who was apprehended
last night in the country by Walton, an officer of
the court, who had been seeking after him at inter-
vals for 11 months.

The Prisoner--I have not had any work all the
winter.

Mr. Speatley said the prisoner had eluded the
constable Walton by many disguises and aliases,
and was employed at the new dead-meat market in
the City for some time, and afterwards upon other
jobs, and he was earning sometimes 45., and at
other times £2 per week.
Mr. Benson—And. he leaves his children to be
supported by the parish. Monstrous
The Prisoner—l have not earned what the officer
says.

Nr. Benson had no doubt of the veracity of the
relieving officer. It was a bad case of deserting
children, and he sentenced the prisoner to one
month's imprisonment and hard labour. The pri-
soner was a strong, able-bodied man, and if he did
not maintain his children when his sentence expired
he would be sent to gaol for three mouths.

Wreck on tho Cornish Coast.

MULLION, Tuesday, 3.30 a.m.

I have much gratification (says the Rev. E. G.
Harvey) in reporting the first and successful service
of the Daniel J. Draper lifeboat, of the National
Lifeboat Institution. At ten o'clock last night,
during foul weather, and in a thick fog, the alarm
was given that a vessel was in distress off Pollurrain
Cove, about a mile and a half from this place. The
lifeboat was thereupon launched, and was fortu-
nately the means of saving three of the men from
the strar.ded vessel. The coastguard men, who
were the first to observe her, had meanwhile been
able to save the remaining 15 men of the crew by
means of the rocket apparatus. The ship was the
Achilles, of Glasgow, Capt. David Kinnear, bound
from Miramichi to London, with a cargo of timber.
Other •vessele are also reported to be embayed, so it
is posible the services of the lifeboat may be again
called into requisition. This boat was only placed
on its station last month. The whole coat of the
lifeboat establishment was the gift to the Institution
of Wesleyans and other friends in the United King-
dom, through the medium of the Methodist Recorder,
in memory of the late Rev. D. J. Draper, who un-
happily perished in the steamship London, in the
Bay of Biscay, last year. Mr. Draper at the time
was on his way to Australia, in which colony he had
for many years been an active and zealous minister
of the Wesleyan Methodists.

NEW COMnON LAW RULES.—At Michaelmas
Term some new rules under a recent act for the desotch
of business at the Judges' Chambers will be promulgated.
The Masters of the common law courts may officiate in
matters specified in the now rules, but not in rolation to
t 1 liberty pj tll9 Subject.