The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-28 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

IDLE PAUPERS.—George Saston, a young man, was
charged with refusing to perform the labour to which he,
as a pauper, maintained by the parishes of St. Margaret's
and St. John's, was set.
A relieving officer produced copies of the rules and regu-
lations duly made by the guardians for the control of the
poor. On the 20th inst. the defendant was in the wash-
house, and on the following morning applied to witness
for relief. Ile gave him S3lllO bread, and handed him a
ticket to go to work at the stone yard, but, as ho after-
wards learned, he never wont, but he again prosontod him-
self for relief and received it, and again refused to do the
work allotted to him.
Mr. Arnold—Did he complain of the work being unfit
or anything of that sort ?

Witness—No, ho did not.
Mr. Arnold—Nor of illness ?
Witness—No, or he would have boon sent to the doctor.
lie appeared in very good health.
The Superintendent of the stonoyard said that defend-
ant did not come to work, and when witness mot him and told
him ho would got into trouble, he said ho did not care—he
should not go to work.
Mr. Arnold—What could ho earn per day ?
Superintendent—When ho worked he could earn ls. 7d.
per day.
Mr. Arnold (to defendant) What have you to say ?
Defendant—Nothing. I could not earn sufficient.
Mr. Arnold—The superintendent says you could earn
ls. 7d.

Defendant—Not always.
Mr. Arnold—On this occasion it is quite clear you would
not help. You never went to the stoneyard at all, and
although you would not for your living, you again applied
for relief. You havo had a former caution and escaped for
this sort of thing, and I shall now commit you to hard
labour for 14 days.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mr. Fechter's benefit is
fixed for next Saturday, whou the public will have the last
opportunity that can occur this season of witnessing his
famous impersonation of Hamlet.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—A supplement to the
London Gazette of Tuesday contains Orders in
Council, dated June 27, 1866, revoking so much of an
Order prohibiting the importation of cattle from the domi-
nions of the King of the Netherlands as would apply to
cattle the produce of the provinces of Friesland and Gronin-
gen, parts of the said dominions, and authorising any such
cattle to bo imported into any port or place in Great Britain
from the ports in Harlingen, in the province of Friesland,
and Delfzyl, in the province of Groningen, only, subject
nevertheless to all the regulations heretofore or hereafter
to be made by the Lords of the said Council, or by any
local authority under the order of such Lords, applicable
to the importation of foreign cattle or sheep into any port
or place in Great Britain. Her Majesty, with the advice
of her Privy Council, has ordered that on and after July
1, 1866, no horn, hoof, raw or wet hide or skin of any such
cattle as aforesaid shall be imported or introduced into the
United Kingdom which shall come from, or shall have
been at, any place within the dominions, situate in Europe,
belonging to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
other than the provinces of Friesland and Groningen; and
also that on and after the said Ist of July, no horn, hoof,
raw or wet hide or skin of any such cattle shall be im-
ported into the United Kingdom which shall have been on
board any vessel at the same time with any cattle which
shall have come from or shall have been within the afore-
said territories and dominions other than the said provinces
of Frieslan and Groningen.