The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-08 00:00:00

TREATMENT OF PAUPERS.

Yesterday morning a sickly-looking poor woman
came before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Combe, and
handed him a letter complaining of -ill treatment in the
Clerkenwell-workhouse, in which establishment she was
a pauper.
Mr. COMBE instantly sent for the master of the
workhouse, Mr. Harnet. And on his arrival the woman,
in a state of exitemont bordering on frenzy, stated that
a straight-waistcoat had been put upon her in the
Clerkenwell-workhouse—that the master had used her
cruelly, and that she had been refused permission to see
her child.

Mr. Harnet denied the charge of cruelty, and stated
that the applicant had permission to see her child as
often as she pleased, and that she was continually run-
ning in and out of the workhouse. •
The woman Did you not put, a strait-waistcoat
upon me ?
Mr. Harnet admitted that a strait-waistcoat had been
put upon her, but alleged that she wits so violent °Alba
time that he could not control her by any other means.
The woman—Did I not run away out of your work-
house because you imprisoned me there ?
Mr. Harnet said she certainly had run away, but she
would have been allowed to depart whenever she pleased
by merely asking leave.
Duke, the usher of the Court, said he thought from

the woman's manner and language in the waiting-room,
that she was not right in her mind:
Mr. CONDE said he was of a .similar opinion ; the
worthy Magistrate, however, recommended her to be
taken back to the workhouse, and to be allowed to see
her child.

CURIOUS MANORIAL RIGHTS.—At Ripley Castle,
in Yorkshire, the seat of Sir William Ingilby, there is in the
great staircase an elegant Venetian window, in the divisions
of which, on stained glass, are a series of escutcheons, dis-
playing the principal quarterings and intermarriages of
the Ingilby family since their settling at Ripley, during
a course of 430 years. In oneed (od'nttlrierflriaienzieboerfst;:ef
watheintsocno-ter:
is the following sentence,.citr
" In the veire ofowre Ld. BIDI.V. was this hose buvlded,
by Sir Wvilvam Ingilby, Knight, Philip and Marie reigning
that time:" John l'allisser, of Bristhwaite, formerly held
his lands of the manor of Ripley by the payment of a red
rose at Midsummer, and by carrying the boa's head to the
lord's table all the twelve days of Christmas.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.:—Last evening
Mr. Buckingham; as Director of the Institute, delivered„ttle
•.
first of a course of lectures on Palestine andlhe Holy -Laid —
to a numerous and select audience.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 7.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at:ten minutes before Four
o'Clock.

Several petitions for private Bills were presented.
The Earl of LINCOLN brought up the First Report of the
Commissioners for the Improvement of the Metropolis.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN presented a petition from Donnington I i
Northamptonshire, praying for protection to the agricultural
interest.

Mr. VERNON SMITH presented a petition from the
licensed victualler.; of Northampton and Stoney Stratford.
praying that the duties now paid by them for the shops and
warehouses in which their stock in trade was stored, might be
repealed.
NOTICES OF MOTION—SLAVE-TRADE.
Lord PALMERSTON said, that in consequence of the
unsatisfactory statement recently made in another place on
the part of the Government, with regard to the negotiations be-
tween this country and France on the subject of the Slsve-trade
Treaty, it was his intention to move on Monday, the 19th inst.,
that an humble address be presented to her Majesty representing
to her the deep abhorrence with which the people of this coun-
try regard slavery, and beseeching her Majesty not to cot.sent
to any alteration or modification of any of the treaties now in
force with foreign countries, which would tend to render more
easy the commission of so detestable a crime.
EDUCATION.
On the motion for the Order of the Day being read, for the
House going into a Committee of Supply,
Mr. WYSE said he wished to ask a question of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, the Secretary of State for the Home
Department. The Right Hon. Gentleman had already de-
elared that the great ignorance which privailed through-
out England could only be eradicated by education • and,
having yesterday declared that it was not his in-
tention to add any clauses to the Factories Bill
respecting education, or to propose any measure to Parlia-
ment on the subject, he begged leave to ask whether it was the
intention of her Majesty's Government to ask, during the pre-
sent session, for any enlarged grant of money, or whether they
would adopt any other means to extend the benefits of educa-
tion ?

Sir J. GRAHAM said that he was not prepared to answer
the question of the Right Honourable Gentleman. It
was not the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to ask for any increased grant of money. With
regard to the Orders in Council passed on the subject of educa-
tion, there were some orders on the subject which would be
produced if the Right Hon. Gentleman chose to move for
them.

SUPPLY.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up
and agreed to, and leave was given for the Committee to si'
again on Friday next.