The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

34 A N3lO N-HOtT6t.

An instatwo of the welcome with which the
oftimrs of ravishes in the city of London hail any
oppertunity of getting ri,l of paupers, in any pos.
sili!e way, occurred at the Justice-room yesterday,
iwf.ite Alderman ANSLEY, who sat for the Lord
Ma or.

poor Irishwoman, with her female cl;9d% WTui
is about seven or c4,41)t yeatt tAd, appeared at the
Mansion-horse) to lequet.t that the magistrate would
eu.lrr.vtur to prevail upon the officers of a parish in
which she had e.tablished a set lenient, to allow
her some assistance for her child and herself. She
had, she said, been in the habit of earts.'.nt a liveli-
hood by stllin!? oranges, !nit tar, ls broken in business.
Fier busbottd itt.d abandoned her, and she had been
cid to go almost naked to supply her daughter
with food.

The paric.h officer said, that as the woman had
made a sotlement by servitude, the authorities hisd
no objectum to take her into the workhottst but
as for Ito daughter, they emdd uo nothing for her t
she had u« c;,,,0m nron them:

Aldcrniakt Assttv—Why, surely yoti wobld Wet
thini: of separating such a child frtm het• Mother ?
The palish officer s•ild that the child Was
mate, and they 'eotild tto nothing for her.
ttolder (to the woman.)—Aro you not a
ttuttrird woman ?—The pauper replied that she

certainly was. -
The. Parish Officer—But it was ,in Moorfields
chapcl that she was married, and that marriage is
not worth a farthing. It is illegal by the laws of
England,

Mr. Ilobler—lllegal ! She is bound to her hus-
band by as ties, tinti as religious ties too
as your wift is to rot].
the Parish Officer—But it is not legal. NCR

have nothing to do with the child. The father is
an Irishman, and Ireland is her parish. We cannot
take her in. She must be sent to Ireland.
Alderman ANSLEY said that it would be dreadful
to think of parting mother and child, particularly of
parting thorn at so frightful a distance from each
ether.

Mr. Hobler—How do we know that there is any
one to receive the child in Ireland. Where was she
born ? The parish officer said, that she was born
at sea.

Mr. Hobler—Then how can you think of sending
her to Ireland ? But, so that she is got rid of, I dare
any it does not signify where she is sent. Well,
you can give the poor woman and her child as much
as it would cost the pariah to keep the former in the
workhouse, 4s. 6d. per week.
The parish officer said, the authorities could not
afford to do so. They would take the woman alone
into the workhouse and pass the child to Ireland, or
they would allow 3s. a week to the former.
Mr. Hobler did not know how to account for. so
extraordinary a refusal. He thought it excessively
uncharitable.

Alderman ANSLEY endeavoured to persuade the
officer to give the woman 6s. at once to set her up
in business, and to prevail upon the authorities to
allow her something more than 3s. a week for the
support of herself and her child, until she should be
able to obtain something by her industry.
The pauper begged that, of all things, they would
not separate her from her child, who had no other
friend in the world. She would, she said, work
from morning till night to give her bread, but she
was now totally destitute of bread or of work.
The parish officer, after having stood a hard bat-
tery from the worthy Alderman and -Mr. Hobler,
with real official coolness and determination, at last
poked out the Gs., and promised to represent the
case and the recommendation to the above-men-
tioned authorities.