The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1835.

the progress of pauperism in an extensive parish, in which
I have the honour to be one of the governers and directors
of the poor. The table embraces the periods from 1795
to Michaelmas-day 1835.
" The following table shows the progress and decline of
pauperism, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square,
London, from 1795 to Michaelmas-day, 1835 ; founded
upon the numbers actually in the workhouse each year, the
numbers admitted to the workhouse each year, and the
sums spent in each year in out-door money allowances, in
relation to the whole population of the parish, as it varied
during the forty years ;

LITERATURE.

THE LAY OF THE LADY ELLEN,
A METRICAL TALE OF 1834,
BY HARRY CHESTER, ESQ.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1835.
There is a race of poets whose claims to the respect-
ful homage of the present generation we never fail to
enforce. Their works, wherever we meet with them,
are the objects of our marked veneration ; and when-
ever we have occasion to speak of them—a rare occur-
rence we regret to say—our language might be sup-
posed to allude to some departed or departing relative,
whose presence is never again destined to fill us with
gladness ; so plaintively do we recal the memory of our
fist communion with them. The poets we speak of
are those who neither live, nor write for the annoyance
of posterity. They are a quiet, inoffensive tribe of
buttercup-and-daisy laureats, happy in the fame of
being lauded by printers' devils, and sighed over by
cheesemongers' daughters. The world has much to
answer for in neglecting, as it does, these votaries of
the Muses. The debt, we allow, is not enormous ;
but that is the very reason why it ought to be the
sooner paid. Poets such as Milton and Shakspeare
could afford to wait a generation or two for that tribute
which was denied them by their contemporaries.
There was no danger of their identity being lost ; no
fear of their labours being confounded with those of
every-day competitors for the fame of poetic inspira-
tion. But let our right well-beloved bard, Harry
Chester, Esq., be only neglected for a tenth of that
time, and it would be less difficult to trace the first
foundation of the city of Nineveh than to make a dis-
covery of this fashionable effusion of his genius. To
the public then we say " Now is your time I Lose but
a month and the minstrel of Almac's—of Berkeley
and Grosvenor-squares—the chronicler of an outward
and homeward bound voyage from Westminster-bridge
to Richmond—may be sought in vain. He is not an
every day person—that is a person who can be
found whenever it may please the dispensers of
immortality to enquire for him. There is something
original in producing two hundred and eighty stan-
zas—an entire poem—a volume—happily relieved from
the trammels of rhyme and reason ; but so much is
done in this way every day, that our friend, Harry
Chester, Esq., is liable to be mistaken for some other
person this hour, and utterly forgotten the next.
And yet this is very hard in this particular instance.
The unhappy loves of Lady Ellen and Lord Ernest—
for the author disdains to sing the loves of less exalted
personages than Lord 3 and Ladies who claim the
entree at Almac's—is altogether an extremely delicate
and affecting episode in the history of the tender pas-
sion.

multiplied by. the
the work
Admitted to
Workhouse " whole popula ion
house dur-
poor, in pro- - of the parish daring
in; each
Periods to which the follc.w. portion to The following sums
each year referred
ing columns relic. to in first column,
portion t
the popula- year, in PT;
ton of the gives the annual
parish.
the P opula-
amount of money
tionof the allowance out of
parish. the workhouse.
--...- -- ------- -
1725 to 1801 1 in every 4411 in every 20 25. Vi d.
1801 to 181 n 1 -- 5311 --- 29 2 10
1811 to 1821 1 - 541 -2; 4 IN
1821 to 1331 1 - 71;1 - 33 5
Year ending Lady-day, 18:32 1-66 1 - 214 5 434
Year ending Lady-day, 1'i3311 - 67.1 -2; 5 7
Half-year ending Mich. 183511 - 9511 -2r5 0 10

1821 to 133
Year ending Lady-day,lB3'
Year ending Lady-day, Viri3
lialf-year ending Mich. 1835

" Such was the progress of pauperism under the system
of 1795. A gradual return to the principles of Queen
Elizabeth's plan was commenced at Lady-day, 1833; in
every column an immense reduction took place ; and the
first half-year, from Lady-day to Michaelmas, 1835, of
the third year of the return to Queen Elizabeth's plan, shows
the almost incredible reduction of pauperism in two years."
So much for the clamours which have been raised
against the present system of administering the provi-
sions of the statute of ELIZABETH, with respect to
the relief of the indigent poor in England and Wales.
There is no refuting the logic of the ledger.

CRIMINAL COURT.--THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

William Allen and Richard Clark were indicted for the
manslaughter of Thomas Clarkson by feloniously propelling,
navigating, and forcing a steam-boat of which they had the
charge, called the Royal Adelaide, against an oyster boat
called the Fawn, in which the deceased was in the naviga-
ble part of the River Thames on the 29th of October last.
There was a second charge for the manslaughter of Henry
Baker. _

Mr. RYLAND, in opening the case, observed that the
present prosecution had been instituted by the authorities of
the City of London, under the direction of the Lord Alayor.
John Richard Jones examined—ls a waterman, and left
London on the 29th of October in the Royal Adelaide,
which was commanded by the prisoner Allen, and on board
which Clark acted as pilot. The vessel started between
three and four o'clock in the morning for Leith.
Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS.—CIarke is an old
and experienced waterman, perfectly acquainted with the
navagation of the Thames. When the accident occurred
one man was on the forecastle of the steamer to keep a
look out. The prisoners were on the bridge, level with the
paddle-boxes. Two men were at the wheel, and another at
the break of the quarter-deck, for the purposes of commu-
nication between the captain and the man at the helm.
They appeared to keep a good look out. It was a dark
morning, and rained very hard. There was a light at each
end of the topsail-yard. Witness saw the Fawn about
two lengths from the steam-boat, and at the momont heard
the captain call out, but could not tell what he said. After
the accident the boat was put out, and every means used
to assist the persons in the Fawn.
Re-examined.—The Fawn was a decked boat, and about
forty feet long. Heard no hailing from the Fawn. The
steamer was going about five miles an hour.
Other evidence was adduced, after which the Jury re-
turned a verdict of acquittal.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK:
We have very few arrivals this morning, only one French
and one Ostend mail ; there is, consequently, a great dearth
of intelligence in the City.
The only feature of importance this morning, is the arrival
of the Stag frigate from Lisbon at Plymouth, which she left
on the 20th inst., bringing an account of the change in the Mi-
nistry at Lisbon, which is said to have given great satisfaction
to the people of that capital.
In respect to the Express from Paris it does not convey
any information of consequence from the contending armies in
the north of Spain.