The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-23 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.7-(THIS DAY.)

A poorly-clad woman, with a child in her arms, was
charged with begging in the streets.
Police-constable 88 F stated that he was on duty in
Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, last night,
between six and seven o'clock, when he saw the prisoner
accost several gentlemen, two of whom gave her money.
A third party, to whom she spoke, turned her away
roughly, and complained to witness.of her conduct. He
accordingly took her into custody, as an impostor, and
when he reached the station he found that she had been
there some three or four minutes before, on a charge of
stealing a pocket handkerchief from a lady, near Charing-
cross. The theft, however, could not be clearly proved,
and she was then fore liberated. The prisoner told the
inspector on duty that she was innocent of the theft, but
admitted the charge of begging, as the wants of her
children forced her to do that or starve.

Mr. JARDINE asked her what she had to say in answer
to the charge.

The prisoner replied, that having been unsuccessful
in procuring employment during the last week, she
bad no alternative but to seek a living for her children,
of whom she had two besides the one in her arms, in the
streets.

Mr. JARDINE said that could not ba allowed; there
were workhouses open for the reception of the suffering
poor, and begging in the streets, which had latterly be-
come quite a nuisance, must be put a stop to. He had
reason to believe that the prisoner was a professed men-
dicant, and he should commit her to the House of Cor-
rection for 21 days.
The prisoner, who had entreated the magistrate to let
her go for this once, seemed perfectly astounded at the
sentence, and became very violent in her manner, de-
manding in a passionate manner to know what would
become of her children while she was in prison.
Mr. JARDINE said they would be taken care of.
The prisoner declared that she would not leave the
dock until she was satisfied that her children would not
be allowed to die of starvation, when

Mr. JARDINE again told her that they would be pro-
vided for in the workhouse.

The prisoner still protested that her children must
starve in her absence, and clinging to the side of the
dock, she vowed she would not have it until her chil-
dren had been sent for. The officers of the court were
therefore compelled to remove her by force.

HOTEL AND TAVERNKEEPERS'PROVIDENT INSTI-
TUTION.--The anniversary of this excellent institution
was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, last
evening, when upwards of seventy gentlemen sat down
is to
o
an excellent banquet. The object, of the society
afford permanent assistance to hotel and taverns_
topers,
proprietors of club-houses, confectionary ebtltb,li
cooks, and waiters, being members, and
.ther.r widows,
and temporary assistance of members,
itihotesir. waidlotewßsragrhidt
children, when in necessitous cireumsta
Hen. the Earl of Yarborough pre:ided ontbesrl. occasion,
and E. Brewster, Esq., officiated as vice-tcirro The
subscriptions of the evening amounted o vice-chairman.
2601.
ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM•
Tin
he quarterly
SMtoromnty-
General Court of this asylum was held the Scottish
rHoasell,pFrelseiedle-dst.
meeting confirmed the pro-
positionsr e eit‘,h oe n
proceedings Thursday.
were The o
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very
royf
theby the directors. There was
character, but ultimately
made to them
no statement of the accounts of the charity laid before
the meeting.
BURKI'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGF. FOR 1850.
We are requested to state that, Mr. Colburn has this day
published the new edition of "Burhe's Peerage and
for 1850, corrected throughout to the
time,pre-
sßeanrtone tae
" from the personal communications of the
ty,
ill one volume, royal Bvo., with 1,500
g gs of
arms,&c., price 385., bound, which can
engravings
now be had of all booksellers. Also, just published
"Burke's History of the Landed Gentry" for 1850, cor-
rected to the present time, and comprising particulars of
100,000 persons, forming a companion to the Peerage,
complete in two volumes, price 21. 25., b.nrid.
WRECK OF A MAIL-BOAT AND LOSS OF LIFE.—
The cutter Experiment, trading and carrying the mail
between Guernsey and Alderney, was wrecked on some
rocks about two miles from the eastern coast of Guernsey
last Saturday night. The cutter left Guernsey at three
P.m. on that day for Alderney. She bad a full cargo,
consisting of flour, drapery, salt, and clothing for the de-
tachment of the 16th regimect, quartered at Alderney.
Besides the crew, there were twenty-seven passengers.
The ves'el neared Alderney at, eight o'clock. hut tl-c
;t1
winie returning, the cutter struck on a rock at eleven
o'clock on Saturday night. The darkness of the night,
the violence of the wind, ;bud the cries of distress (from

the passengers, were dreadful. The first boat that wai
launched was swamped, and the captain and five men were
i!rowneo. The tide ebbing, all on board got on a rock,
which is covered at hi;4ll water. They there burnt their
clothes to make si;.znals, but Lo assistance could get near
them. As the tide rose, they were obliged to leave the
reek aid get on to the rigging of the wreck. Four of
Orin, while clinging to the rigging, were paralysed by
ate cold, and, rei%xing their hold, perished. The sur-
vivors were rescued at six o'clock on Sunday morning,
nt arly dead from hunger and exhaustion. Those who
perished were Peter Le Cock, commander of the cutter
El,zaleth Baker, of Sark; Avard, a French catch-
dealer; John Sark, Peter Buckley, and John Scarier.
of K-rry, Ircl3cd; Mrs. Harris, and her daughter, aged
six years, and a man, name unknown; total, nine. The
mall bsg was washe,i ashore.

OLDSWINFORD LAND SOCIETY.—This society has
now purchased lsnd sufficient to allot shares to all the
members. The last piece of land was purchased by M.
S. Hipkins, who has kindly consented to receive the pur-
cnisse money by instalments convenient to the scelety,
and was taken possession of on the 11th inst., when the
remaining shares were allotted.— Worcestershire
Chronicle.

TUE SNUFF-TAXIING STATUE.—An English officer
in Venice, walking one day from the Doge's Palace,
thought he observed one of the figures on the clock
to► er of St. Mark's stoop down and take up something!
He looked again, and he positively saw the figure take a
pinch of snuff ! The officer confessed he wai apprehen-
sive be was losing his senses, or that his vision was de-
r,nged ; when an old woman, observing his consterna-
tion, soon explained the seeming miracle, by telling him
that one of the figures that struck the hour being out of
repair, her nephew, Jacopo, was engaged as a substitute
till the machinery wis pnt in order.
TRAVELLnG IN 1671.—1 n a debate in the House
of Commons in the reign of Charles 11., relative to Put-
ney-kidge, Sir Henry Herbert spoke against such inno-
vating projects, and said, 'lf a man were to come to the
bar. end tell us that he proposed to convey us regui ,rly
to Edinburgh in coaches in seven days, and to bring us
back in seven days more, should we not vote him to Bed-
lam Or if another told us that he would sail to the
East Indies in tix month.;, should we not punish him for
playing on our credulity?" Poor Sir Henry !--what
would his vexed shade feel were it in a coupd, expressing
in ten hours to Edinburgh, or careering by the Indian
mail from the Ganges to the Thames within a mouth!—
Inverness Courier.

EMBARKATION or Tnoors.—There embarked yes-
terday on board of the ship China, bound for Madras,
203 urtillerymen, six sappers, and 13 women and chil-
dt belonging to the Honourable East India Com-
pany's service. The whole of the troops stationed at
the depot at Warley, Essex. amounting to about 800,
were inspected by the Court of Directors on Saturday
last, and were addressed by the chairman, Sir Archi-
bald Galloway, who congratulated the officers, non-com-
missioned officers, and privates on their efficient, cleanly,
and soldierlike appearance, and recommended hi the
strongest terms abstinence from intoxicating liquors,
which had, he said, killed more men than the war had.
After inspecting the whole establishment the directors
retired to the White Hart Inn, Brentwood, where a
splendid collation was prepared for them.
TERRIBLE ACCLDENT.-1 melancholy occurrence
took place on Friday morning in the Greyhound-yard,
Friar gate, Derby, which has caused a very painful
sensation, There is a row of cot:ages on either side of
the Greyhound yard, which is very narrow; in one of
these miserable abodes a family of the name of Dakin
have been residing. The husband, we understand, is
employed at Breath:all, and his wife works in the Bold-
lane mill. On Friday morning she went to her occupa-
tion, It aving a girl seven years of age in charge of two
other children, a girl about 12 month., and a boy about
three years old. In order, as she stated, to prevent the
neighbours' children beating her own, as they were ac-
customed to do, she locked them in the house. Between
ten and eleven o'clock a man, who was employed re-
pairing the roof of the Greyhound public-house, ob-
served smoke issuing- from underneath the door, which
he immediately burst open, and a most horrible sight
presented itself. The house was full of smoke, and
two children, the eldest and the youngest, were
found literally burnt to a cinder. The little boy was
found sitting upon a chair in a corner. where he
seemed to have gone for protection, with his hands be-
fore his face, in a state of suffocation. He was imme-
diately carried out and saved. From the position of the
elder girl's arms. it is conjectured that she was nursing
the youngest. From the statement made by the little
fellow, who has been literally snatched from the jaws of
death, it appears that the elder girl was near the fire,
and that her clothes ignited, and she was instantly in
blaze. She appears to have rushed to the window to
make her escape, but did not succeed; and she and the
infant seem ti have fallen into the cradle, which was un-
derneath the window, and which was much burnt. The
house was in a filthy, miserable state, and contained
very little furniture. On the mother arriving sLe laved
against the neighbour3, accusing them of being the cause
of her children's death, by rendering it necessary to
lock them up out of their reach. The remains of the
poor children presented a horrible appearance. Mr.
Greaves, surgeon, was called in, and paid every atten-
tion to the little boy, who would have been dead in ts
few minutes had not the discovery been made when it
was. What is singu'ar is, that the neighbours declare
they did not hear the children scream.—Derby Mercury.

ELECTION OF COMMON SEIMEANT..--On Thurn-
day a Court of Common Council was held for the Fur-
pose of electing a Common Sergeant for the City cf
London, in the room of the late Mr. Sergeant Mirehouse,
when Mr. Bullock, the present Judge of the Sheriffs'
and Small Debts Court, and Commissioner e f the
Central Criminal Court, was unanimously elected
to the vacant office. A resolution was then passed, that
Mr. Bullock be requested to continue the offices he now
holds until a successor or successors be appointed. It
was then resolved that it be referred to the Officers and
Clerks Committee to inquire int') the nature and duties
of the several offices of Judge of the Sheriffs' Court and
Commissioner of the Central Criminal Court, and Judge
ef the Small Debts Court. and to report thereon to this
Court. The• Court then adjourned.

LIE FIRE AT WACKERBRATR'S SUGAR FACTORY•
—Yesterday morning, about two (,'clock, another out-
break occurred on these premises, the smouldering fire
amongst the ruins having burned into one of the sugar-
huses which were preserved on the previous day. A
considerable time elapsed before the firemen succeeded
in suppressing the flames, and not until much damage
was done. The origin of the first outbreak continues in
a state of mystery. As yet the firm have been unable to
ascertain the exact amount of property destrojed ; it is,
however, upwards of 50,000/.
FIRE AT liomEßroN.—Yesterday morning a fire,
of a very destructive character, broke out i❑ the premises
belonging to Mr. J. J. It'lntosh, the patent ink manu-
facturer, situate in Church-road. Lower Homerton, near
four miles from town, and before the London engines
reached the scene the entire building was burned down.
The fire was occasioned by the boiling over of a pot
of oil.

INCENDIARY FIRE IN KENT.—Yesterday (Friday)
nannirg, soon after eight o'clock, a fire took place in the
village of Seuthfieet, Kent, at Scodbury Farm, in the
occupation of Mr. F. Andrews, on the estate of Sir
.bert Price, Barr., M.P. for Hereord, which unfortu-
nately destroyed all the corn-stacks, barns, and other
buildings, the dwelling, stables, and oast-house being
with difficulty saved. Mr. Andrews is much respected
by the labourers in the parish, bat as the fire breko out
in a large wheat stack on a frame, there cannot be sof
doubt of its Icing the act of an incendiary.
REPORTED DEATH OF SIGNOR GARDONL—The
Moniteur du Soir states that a letter has been received
from St. Petersburgh announcing the death of Gordon',
the celebrated tenor.
SUICIDE AND CHARGE OF NEGLECT AGAINST TUB
AUTHORITIES OF KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yester-
day, the adjourned inquest on Ellen Ryan, who cow'
witted suicide by swallowing opium, and whose death it
as allcg, d had been accelerated by her removal from
King's College Hospital to the police•station, was held
before Mr. Bedford, at the Plough public-house, Carey"
street. The inquiry was adjourned for the purpose of
having the opinion of Mr. George A. Walker, and on
the jury re-assembling yesterday, Mr. Walker said the
treatment adopted by Mr. Steel was quite correct up to
a certain period. The deceased would have had a better
chance of recovery if she had not been removed from the
hospital. Mr. Stanbrook, deputy-chairman of the hos-
pital, said the house-surgeon had no other alternative
but to send the deceased from the hospital. There were
upwards of 120 patients in the house, and if the deceased
had been kept walking about the corridors of the dif-
ferent wards, the patients would have been disturbed and
their lives endangered. The jury. after consulting for
short time, returned a verdict " That the deceased died
from the effects of opium, administered by herself while
in a state of temporary insanity, and that her death was
accelerated by her removal."

BIRTH&
On the 15th inst., Mrs. William Pocock, of Cold Harbour"
road, Brixton, of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at Donnington Priory, near Newbury►
the wife of N. J. Senior, Esq., of a son.
On the 18th inst., the wise of W. W. Johnson, Esq., of
Limehouse, of a son.
On the 19th inst., at South Ferriby.hall, Lincolnshire, the
lady of Cap ain W. J. Symons, of twin daughters.
On the 20th inst., at Street-end-house, near Canterbury,
the wife of E. Foss, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 19th inst., at West Mailing, Thomas H. Lowry,
Esq., M.D., Royal .Navy, to Mary Ann, widow of the late
G. L. Perfect, Esq., M.D.
On the 20th inst., at Grafton Regis, Mr. Daniel Hopkins'of Bloomfield, Tipton, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the
late Mr. T. Gallard, of Grafton-lodge, Northamptonshl.re: _
On the 20th inst., at Belper Church, Derbyshire,
eldest son of W. Edgar, Esq., Clapham-common, to Eleanor'
eldest daughter of 'l'. Ingle, Esq., Belper.
WilltatT

DIED.
On the 18th inst., at Isleworth, William Hutchinson, Esq',
M.D., fourth son of the late Captain Emanuel Hutchin-
son, aged 58.
On the 19th inst, at Bath, Henry Armstrong, Esq., late of
the borough of Southwark, aged 42.
On the .113th inst., Henry Goldsmid, Esq., of Windsor-
terrace, City-road, aged 58.
On the 20th inst.. at College-house, Hammersmith, Ann,
relict of the late J. Goodwin, Fen., aged 85.
On the I,:etii inst.. ElL.abetl, i.,c 1, if. of :ill.. T. Ruscoe,
of Quality-court. Chanc;•rv•
Oil the 2,.-th inst the Westminster Hospital, Edward,
Neville, 11,1., youngest son cf W. H. Neville, ESCP,
Esher, aged 23.
On the 19th inst., at the Rectory, Ayot St. Peter,
Ilerts,
aged 18, Emily, youngest daughter of the Rev. E. Prodgers•
On the 19th inst., Mrs. Sarah Larkin, aged 59, the mother
of Mr. G. Larkin, of Pratt-street, Lambeth.
On the 14th inst., in Upton-road, Kingsland, aged 28,
Octavius, youngest son of the late Mr. J. IS ewman, of Laos'
dm, ne-terrnee, Hackney.

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Kitlaleset, Saturday, March 23,1850.