The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-20 00:00:00

IVESTMINSTER.

Shortly before the closing of the court on Satur-
day a decent-looking middle-aged woman hastily
entered and entreated the magistrate's immediate
attention to the following very distressing case :
Applicant stated, that a poor woman named Holds-
worth, living in Cooper-street, Westminster, had on
the previous day given birth to a child, and, owing to
the want of the common necessaries of life, was fast
sinking. Applicant had communicated the circum-
stances to the parish that morning, at half-past eleven
o clock, and one of the functionaries had promised to
visit the case immediately; but, finding that he did
not make his appearance, and apprehending that the
unfortunate woman in whose cause her sympathies
were enlisted might fall a victim for the want of
proper sustenance in her present precarious condition,
she again went to the parish official, just before her
application at this court, and was tnen informed that
the woman's husband must come and make the appli-
cation. The husband, who had been out of work for
a long period, had only just obtained a situation at
per week, and, if he left his employment, would of
course lose that scanty pittance.
Mr. BURRELL immediately directed an officer to
go forthwith to the poor woman's abode, and take
with him 10s., which, if he found the case as repre-
sented, he was to leave for present necessaries.

Mr. W. Taylor, an inspector of the B division, un-
dertook the office, and returned in a few minutes with
the assurance that it was really a very distressing
case. The poor woman had been confined, as stated,
on the previous day, and there was not a morsel of
food in the place. He learned from inquiries, that the
husband had been out of work for nine months, dur-
ing which time they had parted with all their little
things to support themselves, and the husband had
only got employment within the last few days at the
wages stated.

Kir. BURRELL presumed he had left the 10'., and
inquired whether the inspector thought it suffcient
for immediate necessities ?

Mr. Taylor replied he had left the money, and
;bought it sufficient for the present.

SIIICIDE.—On Friday morning, between seven and
eight o'clock, Mr. Hunter, a highly-respectable man, who
had for a great many yeara carried on business as a poUlterer
in Leadenhall-market, committed suicide by hanging him-
self. It appeared that he went to business as usual at seven
o'clock, his business being very extensive; he went up stairs
to change his dress as usual, but not coming down for some
time one of his men went up stairs, and discovered him
hanging from a beam. Surgical assistance was immediately
called in, but life was extinct. •The loss of a brother under
painful circumstances, through supposed violence by a cab.
man, appears to have been the probible cause of the fatal act
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