The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

A REAL I&isir Row.—Margaret Lakeman, an old Irish
woman, Mary Ann Lakeman, her daughter, and Julia
Claneey, were-brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with
being drunk, disorderly, and fighting in Glasshouse-street,
Rosemary-lane.

Francis Kelly, a police constable, No. 130 11, stated that
he had been continually called upon to suppress rows and
fights in Rosemary-lane, and it had become worse since it
was re-named Royal Mint-street, from its contiguity to the
Mint. Last night there was a regular Irish row in Glass-
house-street, leading out of the lane. Ho was sent for, and
informed that a child had been killed with a tin pot. He
went there and found the place in an uproar, and the old
woman Lakeman on the ground and a baby near her.
There was a regular fight and " hullobooloo" among the
Irish there. The old woman got up like a giant refreshed
and commenced fighting, and a general row ensued.

Mr. Yardley—Everybody fighting with everybody?
Kelly—No, sir; they were matched. Regular sides.
Mr. Yardley—And were the prisoners all on one side
Kelly—Mother and daughter were on one side and
fought desperately.

Mrs. Lakeman hero said—lt was the dhrop taken, yer
hanner's wortchip. I don't know how it began or how it
ended. Shure now, I had a crack on the head.

Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the Lakemans were
continually engaged in the faction fights of Rosemary-
lane, alias Royal Mint-street, and the girl once cut a man's
head frightfully with stones.

Mr. Yardley—She is an improvement upon her mother
—that is, she is much wors3.

Kelly said he took the wounded child to the hospital. It
was one month old, and tho doctor said it was vory much
injured.

Mr. Yardley—A chance blow, I suppose ?

Kelly—l believe it was. It was struck with this tin
pot. He produced one, which was battered, and there
were stains of blood upon it. It had done service in the

row.

Mr. Yardley asked if th© girl Lakeman bad been in prison
before, and Roche said that she had not. She charged a
man with beating her, and it turned out she beat his head
with stones.

Mr. Yardley sentenced the old woman, Lakeman, to 7
days' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly, and
discharged the Other prhionerst

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE QTTEEN'S
SPEECH,

With regard to the question of reform in general
Mr. Edwin• James has avowed his determination to
his friends in private, to move an amendment to the
Address on Tuesday next, should the Queen's Speech-
be silent on the subject •of representative reform.
But we do trust that Lord Palmerston will deprive
the member for Marylebone of the opportunity of
moving his contemplated amendment. We cannot
believe that his lordship will acquiesce in the views
of some of his colleagues, that her Majesty's Speech
should ignore the question of reform altogether.'
That would be a great, if not a fatal mistake on the
part of the Premier. If he should commit the error,
then public feeling will be with Mr. Edwin James in
moving an amendment to the Address ; and though
such an amendment might not be carried, the Mi-
nistry would receive an amount of moral damage
from the discussion and its attendant circumstances
as would most probably prove the prelude to its

ruin.

Should the necessity be imposed on Mr. Ed-
win James of moving an amendment to the
Address, we may be sure that Le will do it in
right earnest. It will with him be no sham affair.
If it should prove to be so, he would only damage
his own reputation by undertaking the task at all.
And let us warn the learned gentleman that he
must not, in the supposed contingency, content
himself with making what is called a slashing
speech,— laying the lash about him right and left
with that vigour with which, when it pleases-him,
he can use that instrument of flagellation, but he
must press his amendment to a division. That is,
after all, the great point. We care but'little com-
paratively for speeches, no matter how eloquent or
telling they may be. The votes the thing for us.
—and for the country too. There is something
unmistakably practical in the list of majorities and
minorities. That is the real test of legislative
character; and to that on the very first night of
the session, should a divisien become necessary, the
people will look with a special interest.—korning
Adverhaer.

INMATES OF T. PANVRAS TVOIIK-

HOUSE.

ALLEGED ROMAN CATHOLIC INTERFERENCE.
Yesterday, at a meeting of the directors and
guardians of the poor of St. Pancras, held at the
Vestry Hall, Camden Town, Mr. Churchwarden
Stockton in the chair, a report was presented from
a committee appointed to investigate charges which
had been preferred by the Rev. J. K. Jennings, the
chaplain of, the workhouse, against certain Roman
Catholic nurses and helpers, of preventing Protes-
tant inmates attending divine service, and in pre-
venting Protestant children singing Protestant
hymns in their ward.
The report stated that the committee had most
rigidly investigated the charges preferred by the
chaplain, and having heard his statements, and
read several entries he had made in his diary, they
examined the matron, the superintendent nurse,
and a number of nurses and helpers, the schoolmis-
tress, anal had also heard Mr. Litton, the missionary
appointed by the London City Mission, on 'the
subject, and found that the Protestant inmates of
the workhouse had not been prevented attending
the ministrations of the Rev. J. K. Jennings, the
chaplain, but that on one occasion, when the Pro-
testant helper in the Female Insane Ward was ill,
Hannah Daley and Catherine M'Carthy, Roman
Catholic helpers, refused to accompany them to the
morning service :in the Vestry Hall. M'Carthy
had since left the house ; and Hannah
Daley, having disobeyed orders, and answered
questions in a most unsatisfactory manner,
should be dismissed from her office of helper.
The committee found that there was an afternoon
service every Sunday in the Female Insane Ward,
conducted by Mr. Litton. The committee had far-
ther to report that the charge made _against a
Roman Catholic helper, that she had prevented the
children in Ward 29 singing Protestant hymns as
heretofore, entirely failed. The committee regretted
that the chaplain did not exercise more care and
discretion betore bringing such charges under the
notice of the board.
Mr. JAMES TAYLOR moved the adoption of the
various paragraphs of theveport seriatim.
After a lengthened conversation, the paragraph
about removing the helper was carried by a majority
of tbree, but the paragraph censurirlg the conduct
of the chaplain was carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. JENNINGS was called in, and, on
the, report being read over to him, he said he would
stand upon his statements, and was ready to make
affidavit of them ; on which he was` reminded that
he had the opportunity of hearing all the statements
and cross-examining the witnesses, during a sitting
of three hours and a half. He replied that the
Catholic witnesses received absolution for telling
lies against Protestants. He wished to show them
fhauhey had a sharp Protestant chaplain watch-
ing them.
The CHAIRMAN— Very well ; but do it morcifnlly
and truthfully.
The chaplain then retired, and the proceedings
terminated.