The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-10 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL

An elderly woman applied to the Magistrate, stating that her
daughter was destitute and raving mad.
Mr. COMBE—Where is she? The mother said she was out-
side the Court.
Mr. Comes—What is she here for ? Inspector Thatcher—
For creating a disturbance at Islington workhouse.
Mr. COMBE—What parish dors she belong to? The Mother
—To Islington parish.
Mr. CO3IBE —Why do they not take her into the work-
house ? The Mother—l do not know, sir, they have refused.
Mr. COMBE— Let the girl be brought into Court.
The unfortunate girl was no sooner brought into Court than-
she darted at her poor mother. The policeman who brought
her in was fortunately close enough to her to prevent her doing
anv mischief. A fearful scene then occurred. She screamed,
and exclaimed, in a frantic voice, " What am I brought here
for? What charge have you—you (to her mother) to prefer
against me ? Let me speak. I will and must speak."
The MAGISTRATE ordered her removal, but she clung to
the dock with so much tenacity, that it required the united
exertions of several policemen to remove her.
She was sent to the workhouse, with directions for her in-
stant admission.

SIDCUP POLICE.
A woman of decent appearance, named Mary Ann Gent
who was described in the warrant upon which she had been
apprehended, by one of the Sussex constables, as a widow, was
on Monday taken before J. Chapman, Esq., at the Sidcup
Police Station to answer a charge preferred against her at the
instance of the 13 iard of Guardians of the Brom'ey Union, of
having deserted her children, and left them chargeable to the
parish of Cadhaen.
Mr. Poole, the relieving officer, proved the case. He said
the present warrant had been granted since lta39, but they had
not been able to apprehend the defendant until the present
time. There were originally five children chargeable to the
parish, but three of them had been taken away by the de-
fendant's mother, and there were at present only two children
in the house.
Mr. CHAPMAN' asked the defendant what she had to say in
answer to the charge of having deserted her family, which she
was, in law, bound to support and provide for?
The defendant, with considerable earnestness, said that she had
no desire to desert her children, but what could she do? She
had been left with flee children, and it was impossible for her
to support them. She had asked the parish to give her a
little help, but they would not do so.
Mr. CHAPMAN said that if she was unable to support her
family they would have been taken into the union workhouse
The defendant said they would not take the children unless
she herself went with them.
Mr. CHAPMAN said that was the law, and she was bound
to obey it,
Defendant—Yes, but they would not have let me be with
the children. One of us would have been sent to the Bromley
house, and the others to the one at the Cray.
Mr. CHAPMAN said he would not enter into any discussion
upon this matter. She was bound to obey the law.
The relieving officer said the defendant was a very bad cha-
racter, and the fact was she would not maintain her children.
She had been committed once before for three months for ne-
glecting to do so. She was advised on that occasion to take
care of her children when she came out of prison, hut, instead of
doing so, she ran away, and they had not been able to lied her
until the present occasion.
The defendant admitted that she had been sent to gaol be-
fore, but she 3 rid how was it possible for her to take her chil-
dren away when she came cut of prison ?
Mr. CuArsitAN said the offence had been proved, and he had
no alternative but to commit the defendant again to the Hou:e
of Correction for the full term.
The defendant said that if a gentleman could feel himself
justified in committing a poor creature to prison under such
circumstances, she must of course submit to it.
Mr. CHAPMAN said that after the former conviction she
was liable to be sent for trial, and she would then be subject to
a much severer punishment. If she did not take away her
children and provide for them, at the expiration of her impri-
sonment, it was very probable this course would be resorted to
on a future occasion.
The defendant was then ordered to be committed to the
House of Correction at Maidstone, and kept to hard labour, for
three calendar months.
The constable who had apprehended the prisoner then
applied for the amount of his expenses incurred in so doing,
which was 41. ss. 93., and after some inquiries had been made,
the relieving officer was directed to pay the amount.

RonutNo FURNISHED LODGINGS. —On Monday
Thomas Benjamin Matthews, a man of respectable family, who
was stated to have been a lawyer's clerk, but for a considerable
time without other employment than occasional writing, was
charged at the Worship-street Police-court, with his wife, with
robbing their furnished lodgings. The prisoners had both of them
an exceedingly meagre and pinched look, but their apparel, though
scanty and threadbare, seemed to be worn with a scrupulous re-
gard to cleanliness and neatness. The charges against them
having been proved, the male prisoner said he had been driven by
distress to the commission of these offences, although he belonged
to a family all of whom were highly respectable, and had himself
been well brought up. His father, who is dead, had, he said, been
a magistrate, and he has a brother a clergyman, rector of a parish
at Doncaster, and it was but on Sunday that he received tidings of
the death of his mother. He asserted that, having expectations
of property, he intended to make good everything b,longing to
others that he had made free with under the pressure of distress,
and he hoped the magistrate would deal leniently with him. lie
begged that, at all events, his unfortunate wife, who had acted
under his contra', should be set at liberty. Mr, Bingh%tn did dis-
charge the wife, but he remanded the male prisoner till Friday.
DEXTiI BY DRINKING.—On Saturday Mr. Baker
held an inquest at the Three Cranes, Fashion-street, Spital-
fi elds, relative to the death of John Connell, aged forty, a
t abour?r. The room in which the body was viewed by the
jury exhibited an appearance of the most abject destitution,
there being to bed, and sear
Waller said that he knew the ee I
deceased,y any
wfuhroniatubroeu.t t
wJeolhven
months ago enjoyed a good state of health. He had since
been left an annuity, by which he obtained about 16s a
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week. Upon the receipt of that money he and his le .led
a life of constant inebriat ion, the whole of the
money being
spent in drink. In witness's opinion his death was broughtcri
from not taking Ole necessaries of life. He was offered to be ad •
mitted into the workhouse, but he refused to go there. 'Witness
advised him to have medical assistance, but this he also ob-
jected to ; and he died on Friday evening. The Coroner
asked if the wife was present ?—Mr. Hart, the summoning
officer, said she was then in a state of intoxication, anti un-
able to attend. Verdict, " Natural death."

Queen 56 . Queen
Albion 46 Rodney 26
Rodney
Canopus
Trafalgar
St. Vincent 2O Superb
Superb
Vanguard

Quen ... 87
Albion 7O
Rodney
Canopus ..........
St. Vincent
Trafalgar 35
Saberb... ......... 25
Vant4uard

Even supposing the Qaeen, after the botching she has un-
dergone (the last to the tune of 4,0001.), does better than
before, is it not clear proof that the surveyor is obliged to
throw overboard some of his crude notions in order to arrive
at this modicum of success, thereby acknowledging the
former deficiency and failure of a ship which was pronounced
to be " a perfect man of war ?" And how can the Albion,
and much less the Vanguard and Superb, help the " intui-
tive" cause, by their performances, taking the accounts given
to be correct ?—the former having been so often beaten by
the Rodney and Canopus, and the latter ships invariably
last.

With regard to the Rodney and the Albion, there can be
no question which is the superior man-of-war. The Rodney
lost one trial by an accident, and in point of qualities,
weatherly or otherwise, she cannot be considered inferior to
the Albion ; consequently, her superior height of ports, with
as much stowage, gives her the superiority in a vital parti-
cular. But let these two ships get into a heavy swell, and
see which will be able to fight her guns best?
The Trafalgar, by comparison with the Queen, does not
turn out to be the crack ship she was reported to be, her in-
clination being only one half degree more. Give the con-
structor of this ship the same latitude as allowed to the sur-
veyor; let lint expend half th3sum of 4,0001. on her, and stow
her without the interference of the surveyor or his partisans,
and we doubt not the Queen will have little to boast of in any
wind. _ _ _

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That old ship, the Canopus, that held so good a position,
is 230 tons less than the " crack ship," the Vanguard, and
her sister ship the Superb. She stowed the same number of
days' provisi ns as the other ships, whilst the Vanguard and
Superb each took 28 days less. Even according to the name-
less return she has only 42 tuns of water less than the Van-
guard, and we happen to know for a fact that the Canopus
had 64 tuna of water more than the Vanguard, and a heavier
weight of single-shotted broadside.—llera.'d.

WESTMINSTER REGISTRATION.--Mr. meylnn, the
barrister, has been appointed to revise the list of voters for the
city of Westminster, but the precise days of holding his Courts
have not at present been determined upon. The following is a
general statement of the claims and objections:—Objections—By
Conservatives, 101. householders, 237 ; scot and lot, 8, By Re-
formers, 101. householders, 139; scot and lot, 36. Claims—By
Conservatives, 101. householders, 35 ; scot ani lot, 2. By Re-
formers, 104 householders, 165; scot and lot,

EAST SURREY It EGISTRATION. —Mr. S. C. C. Fish,
the barrister appointed to revise the list of voters for the eastern
division of the county of Surrey, has appointed ➢fonday next for
the commencement of the revision, at Reigate.

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FIRE AT ANDOVER.—vn Sunday night last a fire
broke out at Andover, in the new street leading to Newbury,
which in spite of all the exertions of the inhabitants continued to
burn all night, and totally destroyed six houses. So rapid was the
progress of the fire, that some of the families escaped in their
night clothes, and were glad to save their lives, having no oppor.
tunity to save anything else. The poor sufferers appeared in a
miserable plight, as many as twenty of them having neither cloth-
ing, homes, nor furniture, and no money wherewith to purchase
any. Nut one of them was insured.
Ikar.-11ORRINGER FAIR, SEPT. 4.—There has
not been so small a supply here for several past years, but from the
attendance of buyers being also rather scarce, coupled with the in-
ferior condition of the stock generally, business proceeded but
slowly, and at prices somewhat lower than those obtained at the
late Ipswich lamb fair; prices of lambs varying from ISs to
225. Gd. ; a few choice things, in extra condition, realising 2is. to
261. ; whilst shearling ewcs obtained from 28s. to 345. Bd., and
flack crones, of which there was rather an unusual quantity,
averaged about 19s. Gd. each.—lpswich Erpress.

TIIE IRST ESTABLISHMENT IN THE
PResrNT CENTURY.—Very soon after the last war of liberation,
and the establishing of the Holy Alliance, Jesuitism ..vaa intro-
duced into Austria ; but so great was the caution resorted to for
not offmding their public apprehensions, that this name was changed
into that of Reclemplionisls, meaning the order of the Redeemer.
They obtained from Government the oldest church in Vienna (that
of the Holy Steps) and have continued their sly, yet unrelaxed
labours up to the present tim,. It is from that spot that they have
crept, like venomous parasites, over Germany, France, and Switzer-
land, creating everywhere unspeakable confusion, and lately de-
luging the countries thus contaminated with the blood of innocent
citizens.— German paper.
CARRIAGES FOR LADIES.—The Grand Junction
have very judiciously determined that after the 15th of this month
a compartment of a first.class carriage will be reserved for lathes
travelling alone. We feel confident other Companies will not be
tardy in following 90 good an example.—Railway Chronicle.

THE NAVIES.—On Monday afternoon about 200
of the workmen on the railway marched in procession into the
town preceded by a practitioner on the bagpipe and a banner
equally unattractive. The" demonstration," seemed a failure, for,
after passing the townhall, the procession broke up and its mem-
bars burrowed into the public-Imuses. 'We were told that he exhibi-
tion proceeded from a strike for an increase of wages, and that it had
been originated by the peaceable community presently located near
Cockburnspath, who having taken into their heads to have the
wages raised from 14i. and 183. to 203. per week, separated into
two parties, one marching south, the other north, and forcing all
upon the line of works to jon them. They ceased from work
during Tuesday, on Wednesday morning, a large party
of them appeared at the port for the hiring of shearers
and behave,] in a very rude and disorderly manner ; insisting that
the wages should be 3s. per day. They so interfered between
master and servant as entirely to stop al business, some of the
former they used very rudely, while they compelled those engaged
to return into the town. The consequence was that a day was lost
for reaping. The farmers waited upon the magistrates in the
course of the day and preferred a complaint, and were promised
that means should be taken to check the annoyance if an attempt
was made to repeat it. The eext morning they did not make their
appearance at the port, and the hiring of shearers proceeded unin-
terruptedly. A number of navies returned to their work on NVeti.
nesday, and a greater number on Tourstity, the remainder during
these days were to he seen in a besotted state, loitering teiout the
haunts of their inebriety.—Berwick Advertiser.

PUBLIC llousEs.—lt is most material that magis-
trates should be particular in not granting or renewing alehowe
cences to druokon publicans.