The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-09 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
HUNGRY, WET, AND COLD.—BEGGING CHILDREN.—
James Brown, about 10 years of age, was charged before
Mr. Knox with begging.
Samuel Connolly, 128 0, said that about two o'clock
that morning he saw the boy begging at the corner of
Tottenham-court-road, wet through, and shivering with
cold and almost exhausted. He took the boy to the sta-
tion-house, whore ho was wrapped in a coat, his clothes
dried, and somo food given to him, which he ate rave-
nously, and seemod very thankful for.
Mr. Knox —Has the boy got any parents ?
The boy—Only a mother.
Mr. Knox—Where does she live ?

The boy—Newton-street.

Mr. Kuoz—Does she send you out to beg ?

The boy (shrinking the question)-1 am a Roman
Catholic.
(Most of the boys charged with begging state that they
are Roman Catholics, with the view of escaping being sent
to school, it being known that the school at Walthamstow
being full there is is no place available for Roman
Catholics.)
Mr. Knox—l will send you to the workhouse for a week
and see if I cannot take you off the stree ts.
Alfred Wood, another little fellow, in a most deplorable
condition, having no shoes to his feet and his skin in a
filthy state, was charged with a similar offence.
Stephen Catt, 107 C, proved taking the boy into custody
in Oxford-market, his miserable clothing being wet through.
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The constable said he had seen the boy begging in the
same place for months.
Mr. Knox said he would have the boy taken togett ahe
workhouse fur a week.
In answer to the magistrate, the father said he was a
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TURNPIKES.—Roads without turnpikes are found
to answer so well in Ireland that the Iriasthteprloaunamhtutsot
before long be extended to the rest of the British isles. At
the recent Gloucester Quarter Sessions, both Lord Ellen-
ocfoAunty.
borough and Lord Ducie agreed that the m
stated
less
se d considerationtthba ant txb3e ooooof
waste
ia
Scottish
the Gloucestershire
wing to the turnpike system was full 0 year,
In-
steadbseirpGr e. sojsfee celckuoispotoei
non
se t
roads cost £50,000 a year. The Chamber n
2 Government,oth,
oaboae
re r. while
culture, too, is going to have a grand discussion on Agri-
culture,
peoixint ise th
Their
Commissioners strong
are
ereepnotrtret
entirely
toll free counties as
theoin point
in
l a
few
r Parliamentaryln days.
free from debt, while those
ashreowinthdaetbteeto
in which theyrearasrea
certain
Scottishvast amount ago,
lwhicyh
have now been entirely of £2,500,000. Toll gates
s
eight years. The abolished in Ireland for more than
ap-
pointed by the Lord Lieutenant,
roads there are paid for out of the county
mss,
engineering surveyor cess, every county having
assistant surveyor
appointed by the grand jury. All works
who pay the largest amount ofergarteasndi
And contracts aro determcned the associated rate-
payers, a selection made by the by
contract must
butb
jurybout of those
before any new works are executed then
laid before the grand jury, and if they reject there is no
__ '''ll. In this way jobbery is made almost impossible,
and as eve);
aPP-•
part of a county is represented in the grand
jury no district is L.
lcoly to be neglected. The consequence
id that the Irish roads aro
;)roverbially excellent, except,
indeed, within the boundaries of Dublin city, where the
corporation will neither act themselvesnor let any one else
act for them. But for railways the turnpike system must
land long ago. Posting, and
have been abolished in England
similar forms of travelling, have grown so unfrequent by
most of us that we fail to realise what a nuisance the pre-
sent plan is. Country gentlemen know more about it, and
farmers are vexed by it every day of their lives. In ad-
dition to the cases we have mentioned we see the Itex
Lon-
Farmers' Club have taken up
the question strongly.
doners, remembering the 'pikes which recently took black
mail almost within the shadow of St. Paul's, cannot but
Wi§4 01014 POOO6O,