The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

POLICE IKTELLIGENCE—eTan. 23.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Awaterman named John
May Hook was yesterday brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with stealing four pigs of lead,
weighing one hundred weight each, the property
of Messrs. Arthur Wallack and son, lightermen.

It appeared from the evidence that on the morn-
ing of the 18th instant, a barge belonging to the
prosecutors, laden with lead, was lying off Fresh
Wharf, and at about half-past seven in the morning
a man named Wardle, a lighterman's apprentice,
who was down in the cabin, hearing a noise, came
up to see what it was. When he got up, he saw
the prisoner in a boat alongside the barge, with
three pigs of lead in it, and another on the gunwale
of the barge, which the prisoner was in the act of
removing. As soon as he saw the witness he rowed_
off. Witness got into a boat and followed him, and
saw him, just as he was turning round one of the
barges, throw one of the pigs over into the water.
The prisoner then rowed round some vessels, and
came towards the witness, who caught him and
held him until an officer of the Thames police
arrived on the spot. All the pigs had then dis•
appeared from the boat, and it was supposed the
others had been thrown over while he was behind
the vessel,

On the 22d inst. a young man named George
Harris was brought before the Lord Mayor, for
having two pigs of lead in his possession with the
same marks ai2d name as those lost, and said that
he found them near the Crocodile receiving ship,
Tower-stairs. He was discharged, being bound
over in the sum of X 5 to appear again yesterday as
a witness.
He then stated that while dragging fora tarpau-
lin which had been lost in the river he pulled up
two pigs of lead, which were each in a canvas bag,
and while taking them ashore the officer stopped
him with them.
The prosecutors said the lead bore the satne marks
as the cargo in the barge, and believed they formed
a portion of that cargo.
The prisoner said that he was quite innocen t of
the charge against him ; he was rowing quiet`ly
down towards the witness Wardle, when he accused
him of stealing the lead. He said he had not been
near the barge, and had not been that way at all it
that morning.
He was fully committed for trial.

GUlLDHALL.—lnspectors Cale, Everitt, Leo-
nard, Salter, Howard and Knight, of the Ist, 2d,
and 3d divisions of the City police force, attended,
at the request of Alderman Phillips, when the fol-
lowing statement was made with regard to the
question of relieving the distressed poor of the
district. '

Inspector Cale said—ln the division I belong to
620 cases have been inquired into and recommended
for relief, and there are about 200 more in hand for
investigation.
Inspector Leonard said—ln my division 750
eases have been inquired into and visited by the
police, of which number about 350 have been, up
to the present time, recommended for relief.
Inspector Knight said—The number in my divi-
sion recommended is 390, and there are about 150
left.

Alderman Phillips said—l have sent for you in
ord,nr to ascertain what you have been doing, and
for th' purpose of showing the public in what
manner tL'eir bounty has b: en dispensed. I find
from your stMements that about 1,360 cases have
been recommended by you, the whole of which,
with but very few exceptio is, have been relieved
at this office with sums of money varying in amount
according to the eircumsilances connected with each
case. The exceptions I have alluded to have been
persons who were in receipt, of money from their
ordinary weekly labour, and who therefore ought
never to have applied for assistance. In one case
which came under my observation yesterday the
applicant's husband was at work, and receiving
20s. a week, and in another case this morning
the woman's husband was in receipt of 18s. per
week, and such persons are not the proper class
to become recipients of charitable relief. I do
not pretend to be a political economist, and it is
not, therefore, for me to discuss the que3tion of
the poor-laws, although it does appear to me that
there must be something radically wrong
either in the laws themselves or in the
administration of them to lead to such a fear-
ful amount of pauperism as the late emergency,
arising principally from the inclemency of the
season, has disclosed. Although a large amount
of good has been done, I am afraid there has
been great deal of imposition. lam sorry to say
that amoL-2,' those relieved there are a great number
of persons wi';,l have been paupers all their lives,
and are likely to remain
ll: paupers to the end of the
chapter; and appre
end they are not the class of
persons for whom the money placed at the magis-
trate's disposal was intended-. When the emer-
gency first arose the public an d the magistrates
were taken by surprise, the wideq-al)read distress
and the mo-it utter destitution that cOuld he ima-
gined prevailed in every part of the City, the metro-
polis, and the country generally. No time tothink ;
and to have hesitated to act at such a crisis, or to
have stayed the hand held out to relieve while la-
quiries were being made, would have been attended
in a gre .t many cases with fatal results. That
alarming state of things has now subsided, the seve-
rity of the weather has altogether abated, and as
the obstacles to the carrying on of the lately frozen
out. trades are now removed, the unemployed ope
ratives will by this time have resumed work and
render totally unnecessary the continuance of a
system of relief which possesses the tendency to
pauperise a large cLiss of the industrious but
impro-
vident poor. Anotheii
object I had in viewn re-
questing the attendance of the inspectors was to
thank them and the police gel;eral!y acting under
them for the cheerful manner in
they under-
took a most laborious duty, and for the efficiency
with which they have performed . The
public are greatly indebted to the police 20* the
great assistance they have rendered, and it is oi;ly
right that the share they have taken in the work
imposed upon this office by the benevolent people
who have forwarded money for the reliefof the poor
should be publicly- acknowledged, for if it had Not
been for their vigilance three-fourths of the funds
might have been absorbed in relieving impostors.
I find that in many cases of families of seven or
eight persons, each member of the family has ob-
tained a letter of recommendation, and each ,one
endeavoured to get relief entirely upon the same
representation of facts, and but for the police might
possibly have succeeded.
Inspector Cale said—l am happy, sir, to be able
to bear testimony to one or two instances of the
reverse of what you have said. I have visited some
who have respectfully declined assistance, stating
that since their application they had obtained work,
and therefore needed no relief.
Alderman Phillips—Such instances are exceed-
ingly gratifying to meet with.

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