The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-08 00:00:00

THE NEW VAGRANT ACT.

MANstom-liousE.—Two men, named Johirson
and- Edwards, were brought. before the Loan
MAYOR, on a charge of vagrancy, under the Act
of the Ist and 2d of his present Majesty, by
which the former Acts relative to vagrancy are
repealed ; and instead of being able to confine a
vagrant for seven days, as under the late Act, it
is enacted in the present Act, with a view • to
check a disposition which has of late been mani-
fested in some of the labouring classes to wander
from one part of the country to another with no
adequate object; that no vagrant shall be coin.
mitted for less than one month to hard labour,
nor more than three before he is passed ; but it
is in the discretion of the Magistrate to discharge
him, although an act of vagrancy be proved.
Two Magistrates are empowered, however, to
pass the vagrant without imprisonment, if it ap-
pear to them a proper case. The present charge
being the first brought forward in the City, un-
der the new Act, a consultation was held ,upon
it by the Chief Magistrate and Alderman Atkins,
as to the course to be adopted. The case is
that of nearly two-thirds of the vagrants who
swarm in the City from all quarters of the
country.—White, the officer, shortly stated
against the two priSoners, that, on clearing
out the Bartholomew Fair- on Monday night,
the prisoners were found sleeping. in the sheep-
pens, and upon their stating that they. had no
home, and no where to obtain shelter, they were
taken in custody as vagrants. Johnston stated,
that he had come to town on Saturday from Ala-
wick, in Northumberland, to seek employ at his
occupation (a furrier.) He had sought work all
along the road, but without success, and he had
come to town without any recommendation what
ever by any one, or to any one, nor had he ever
been in London before. Edwards had been
shopman to a grocer in Shropshire, but was long
out of- employ, and bad come to town with the
same prospects as the other prisoner, without
having recommendation to any one, or without
knowing any one. Both begged that they might
be discharged, and they would endeavour- t 0
make their way home as they could ; but this re-
quest the Magistrates could no~ accede to. The,
LORD MAYOR, after consulting- with Alderman.
Atkins, agreed that the prisoners should be passed'
home in this case without imprisonment, as they'
mnst doubtless have been ignorant of the Act,'
but in future the law would be enforced, and Do
plea of the kind would be listened-to.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Yesterday morning,
about eleven o'clock, at a priiate house, N 0.157
in the City-road, the female servant, being cm'
ployed in cleaning one of the windows on the
third story, was, while standing outside on the
narrow window-stone, seized with a swimming in
her head ; she fell off on her back. into the street'
from a considerable height, and, to the no small
astonishment of the beholders, after pausing a
little, she stood up and walked leisurely into
the house, apparently without experiencing atlY
material injury. A surgeon was instantly called
in, who blod her in both arms. There were none
of her limbs fractured, and it is hoped that she
has received no internal injury. -

COAL-MARKET, SEPT. 7-
Ships at Market. Ships sold Price.
14 Newcastle - - HA . 37s 7d to 42s 3d
14:. Sunderland -- - 14 -34 s Od to Vs "

SMITHFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 7.—There was a very full!.
market this morning of all descriptions of Cattle, which wit-
difficultyobtained last Monday's prices. There is no alteration'
in the prices of Hay, Straw, and Clover.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, September 7.
Amsto dam • l2 16 C. r•
Ditto, at Sight /2 13 ! .
Rotterdam
Antwerp .. 12 9
Hamburg!) • 38 2 qi Us
Altona
Paris, 3 Day's sight ss 70 0 Lds:
Ditto • 26 0 G..
Bourdeaux, ditto
Frankfort on the Pain
'itectre
Madrid
T
Cadiz
tlilboa 3si Effective
13arcelona
eville
Gibraltar
Leghorn '
Gel al ... 434-Venice, Ital. Liv 27 6G
Malta 45 —Naples 393
S.
Palermo
Lisbon ......
Oporto
Itio3aneiro
Dublin .... 9i ........ Cork 9 per Cent.

. BULLION
Portugal Gold, in Coin
Foreign Gold, in Bars

: 170 I 001 Pet
Clg.

New bouhlooils .

.000

New Dollars
Silver 'in B;trs. Standard

4 10
. 0 4 11

BIRTHS.
On the 4th inst., at King-street, Finsbury-square,
George Durant, of a daughter. f iVriu
Last week, at Broom Place, in Norfolk, the Lady °
Beauchamp Proctor, Esq. of a claughte
MARRIED. luau"
Miss Elizabeth Theodora Blake, daughter of Sir John it
Bart. gave her hand by special licens2, a few ilaYg lido '
Monlough Castle, in Ireland, to Capt. T. A. Mullins,
giro •
7th Fusileers, and grandwn to Lord Ventry. e, •
r-stru'r 11e6
Thursday, at St. George's Church, Hanove r to L
John Gramshaw, of Queen-street, Alontagu-squat
it s(t•
Narcissa Huntley, of the Edgware-road. rs,
On the 6th inst., at Worth, Sussex, Horatio lep:L. se
of Royal Terrace, Adelphi, I4sndon, to Anna Ai*l; p.,
daughter of the Rev, George Maximilian 13ethunel I.'
Worth Rectory. .
___.------"---d.
Airs-

DIEa . Tpl Caol Y
On 'Wednesday last, the R ev. George Cope, D' -/;.6ili a'r
Residentiary of the Cathedral of Hereford, in tile
of his age. elderAt Farmhill, county Mayo, John Arbuthnot, EA'
son of the Dean of Cloyne. c Fraor-3%
At the Yarn Hall, Dublin, Margaret, wife of
Warren, Esq. Chamberlain to that establishment. -ksori;
On the 2d inst., at his house at Lewes, Lieut. Coritti7
defendingßritish
himself camp at Zoor ,
against on
sevent he .
John Dicker; Royal Artillery aged 38 ~..' ori the
On the I,oth of February lalt, an .a
tack at nigh=
coast of . Arabia,
of the lit?Fo-7bol
after receiving 35 wounds, Capt. itiarles Parr,_Pft.ife late
European ' regiment of infantry, youngest son 0: "viife.
Parr, Esq., of Norfolk-street, Strand, and Pento,Ciaria Stewart,
A few days since at Southampton, Its ' 's Hotel,
~ James
slaughter in law to since;
1 In. Stewart, of the S'''
On Thursday, the Gth inst , to the unit
mmenin tfrou t wililshte bp
'1:4,11,...°
Jermyn-street. 1 grief; of her
tterab c g
; -; :1 birth to a.
afHicted husband and family, .a
few hours after g`liril",To Green"
still-born son, Bridget, the beloved wife of James l!nr' the 25til
well, Esq., of Bentinck-street, Manchester-square' 1-
_....0
year of her age. ---.----"."-----_,t
5tar............meamc. )
29, air—
LONDON : Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of --'; sir, A•
Ormond-street, Queen-square ; and published ju _ ,gtii.t
SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Moltenstreet, at 4:
_.. f„r g ,
OFFICE, No. 'll2, Strand ; wnere ADvVtier..
,Im.i.
ORDERS, LETTERS &e. (p6t-paid) must be • d 1 c'