The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-21 00:00:00

TIIIS EVENING,

Will be proluced Lord Byrotia gorgeous Spectacle of MAZEPPA
avi the WILD HOUSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Hicks.
To be sucze,ted by an inimitable Display of Betty's Feats of
;•• nuitation in the Ctrque Olympigne, by the male and female Eques-
trians of the F.stablisnment, and grand Pageant of The Festival of
Flowers. _ -

'To con luile with the laughable Farce of NEW LIGHTS ; cr,
The I:lib. Pedagogue. _ _

TIIIA

14,x-office op,n from Eleven till Font.
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Clu.fi WATER AL L(!NnoN BRII)GE.
,Tornityg 53 min. after I I Evening I() min. after 2
26 min. atter I Evening 43 eiln. atter 2

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FATHER.— SUN OFFICE, Ocrozza. 20.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

57—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day, at noon.

BAF.O3IETEII, 29.94.
WIND N.N.W.—light breeze, with slight showers and cloudy.
MuNDAY, OCT. 21.
THER3IO2/11STNE, IN TIM SHADE.

52—highert since noon yes✓erday.
Xi—lowest this morning and during the night.
47 thi4 day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 2:1.96.
Winn N E. fine su.::ahiny weather.

On Friday, -the IPh instant, a poor squalid woman,
named ROSISA !haulm., the wife of a dock labourer,
WES' brought bi fore the presiding magistrate of the
Thames Police-court, charged with illegally pawning
seven blue cotton shirts. It appeared that the wretched
creature, whose abject and miserable appearance suf-
ficiently denoted the state of destitution to which she
nad been reduced, had for some time supported her
nushend, who was out of employmant, " only obtain-
ing a day's work now and then," and two sickly chil-
dren by needlework, and that by almost incessant
labour, " plying her needle and thread" for fourteen
or fifteen hours per diem. She was enabled to earn
about three shillings a week, not a very magnifi-
cent provision for four parsons, two of them in deli-
cate health. She did not receive the materials
directly from the liberal slopsellers, who it appeared
allowed twopence halfpenny each for shirtmaking,
but obtained them at third hand, two distinct inter-
mediate profits, being derived from the labours of the
miserable sempstress. The woman who was paid lid.
each for the completed shirts :employed another, to
whom she allowed 2d., thus gaining lid. on each piece,
_ or twenty per cent. on the entire sum ; the first re-
ceiver again employed a deputy, but was contented
with a more moderate profit, one farthing each, or
twelve and a halt per cent., being all that she re-
tained for her commission; while poor ROSINA
fiertneer, who actually performed the entire work,
was hArlsemdy remunerated with seven fiirthings
each. The unfortunate woman, wanting bread fur
her starving children, pawned seven of these 'shirts,
which she bad just made, for Bs. 6d., and was thus
guilty of an offence against that law which permits a
man of spirit, with abundant means for his legitimate
expenditure, to incur with impunity debts of which
be never contemplates the liquidation, but which
visits with inexorable severity the back-slidings of the
poor and needy, whom the most urgent and pressing
necee-ity may tom:" into error. That she might have
exceeltd her resources without any great degree of
wanton extraveglece may be gathered from the facts
stated by the complainant, via., that "she might make
four Of these shirts in the day by sitting, nt it at an
early hour in the morning, and keeping at it till late at
night." The pri:foner herself, however, declared with
much apparent truth, that " what with intrruptions,
looking after her children, and other things, she could
only make three a day." In the latter case her earn-
ings would be 4.1., in the former, 7d., or, supposing
her to work 14 or 15 hours a day for six days,
frnm 2i. 9.1. to 3s. 6d. per week, with which she had
to pay fir lodging, clothing, and food for her hus-
band, children, and herself. Was it then so very
Arretenishing that she should have yielded to tempta-
--wed Bs. 6d. from an accommodating
`property to which she had no legal

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