The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

TREATMENT OF THE CASUAL rooß.

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Some few weeks since a woman named Ann
Moran complained that having 13-2 en by the officials
refused admittance into the workhouse, she had
for several consecutive nights to slop up. n the
ilag-way outside, exposed to all the inclemency of
the weather ; and that finally when she did get
admitted, she was, although a woman of good cha-
racter, placed in the ward set apart for refractory
girls there to pick oakum. Upon this complaint
being made, a committee of the Board of Guardians
was appointed to investigate the matter, and a copy
of their report was forwarded to the Poor-law
Board, upon which the following letter from that
body was adressed to the secretary of the Board of
Guardians :

"Poor-law Board, Whitehall, S. W., Oct.• 15, 1857.
" Sir,—l am directed by ttio Poor-law Board to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d.
inst., enclosing an ex•ract from the report of a
committee of guardians of the parish of St. Maryle-
bone, having reference to the case of Anne Moran,
on which the committee state that they are or
opinion that Anne Moran should not have been.
sent to a ward in which refractory girls were I laced,
and that the guardians were acting under mis-
apprehension when they ordered her to be a n.;
there. It appears to the boird. -that the master
of the workhouse, who is responsible for its good
order and discipline, should be the person primarily
empowered to enforce that dis.:ipline by the infin-
don, subject to proper control by the guardians,
of such punishment as may be requisite to maintain
order in the establishment. With this view the Poor-
law Board have always investel the rn :ster of a
workhouse with authority to make certain changes
in the diet of disorderly paupers, and, under circum-
stances of aggravation on the part of a refractory
pauper, to c infine such pauper on his own authority
withoutany order of the Board of Guardians, eithi r
gentralor specific. A reference to an order issued by
tie Poor-law Board to the directors and guardians
of the poor of the parish of St Marylebone, on the
16th October, 1856, will show the guardians the
regulation of the Poor-law Board respecting the
punishment of paupers for misb-haviour, both
adult and children, while inmates of the workhouse,
which are similar to those generally issued to the
boards of guardians of unions throughout England.
I am directed to suggest' to the guardians the im-
cotrrbeomeaadterie.:eKnntgtlsNeuGro:foannhe right; which the
im-
portance of strictly carrying out the provisions of
the above named order so as to prevent for tl-e
future the possibility of any such misapprehension
occurring as is stated to have been the cause of the
thought Anne
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would tlrereforemthoveemtheaettithe letter lie upon the
table, and that
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business.
The Rev. Mr. EYRE rector of the parish, thought
it better that a courteous reply should be sent to
the communication.
Mr. POTTER entirely concurred in the suggestion
of the rector.
Mr. SALMON said that, while he agreed in the
view taken by Mr. King, he had yet no objection
to a reply being sent to the Poor-law Board, pro-
vided it did not in any way admit the right of such
interference on the part of that body.
Mr. KING then withdrew h's motion, and the re-
ceipt
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ed, after which the meeting separated.

Wo are requested to state that the speeches recently
delivered in Chester by the Bishop of Oxford and Mr.
Gladstone, on thtflndian mutinies, were made at a meeting
held there on behalf not of the Fcreign Aid Society, l,nt
of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Fo.,
reign Parts.