The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-19 00:00:00

THE CHARGE AGAINST THE

MASTER OF THE ANDOVER UNION.
ANDOVER, SATURDAY NIGHT.—This morning, at an
early hour, much excitement was caused in the town of
Andover, by the re-arrival of Mr. Parker, assistant-
commissioner of poor-law inquiry, who had been sent
from London for the purpose of investigating certain
charges of a serious character alleged against the
master of the Andover Union, who, it was stated, had
been the chief instrument in causing the poor under
his charge to collect bones for crushing, upon which
they had subsequently most ravenously fed, and he was
also accused of peculation in the discharge of the duties
of the office to which he had been appointed. On the
4th of the present month a preliminary inquiry had taken
place, and since the result had been reported to the chief
commissioner it has been deemed necessary, in conse-
quence of what was then elicited, and from what has
subsequently transpired, to continue the investigation.
The previous examination of several persons, including a
labourer in the employ of a farmer (one of the guardians
of the Andover district), and of Dr. Westlake, the me-
dical officer of the union, to whom frequent complaints
are said to have been made by the paupers of their not
having received the necessary requisites ordered by him,
but which have been charged, it is stated, in the master's
report book, have been the real causes which have led to this
further inquiry. Pending this, however, the ratepayers
dissatisfied at being excluded from bearing the facts of
the case, have in considerable numbers addressed the
assistant poor-law commissioner and board of guardians
for leave to be present at the inquiry, so that they, in
common with the press, might have the opportunity of
bearing the facts of the case. Upwards if 250 signa-
tures were attached to this memorial, and, upon the
guardians having assembled, the Chairman, the Rev. C.
Dodson, of Penton, near Andover, and a large body of
guardians being present, the memorial was presented,
when in answer to its prayer, it was decided, after a
long deliberation, that the memorialists should have the
opportunity of being present in a large room sufficiently
capacious for the purpose of holding the whole body of
ratepayers, on some future day, to be decided before the
board broke up. The body of facts collected since the
last meeting of the board with the commissioners was
then gone into, and after a considerable conversation,
and the testing of a variety of testimony, it was decided
that the whole case should be gone into on Monday, the
24th of the present month. Mr. Etwall, M.P. for the
town, was present, and several of the most influential
men in the neighbourhood connected with the board of
guardians were waiting to hear the result.

ELOPEMENT.—On Saturday morning, about eight
o'clock, the family of Mr. S. Leavend, of the Brompton-
road, were thrown into considerable alarm by the discovery
that their eldest daughter, Miss Emma Leavend, had left her
father's house clandestinely, taking her trinkets and a portion
of wearing apparel with her. Immediate inquiry was insti•
tuted, when it was ascertained that the young lady had been
seen to enter a coach that morning, accompanied by a gentle•
man, which immediately set off at a rapid rate towards town.
In the course of the day Mr. Leavend received a communica-
tion from his daughter, entreating his forgiveness, and inform-
ing him that she had been united that morning. The young
lady is possessed of considerable property, and the fortunate
admirer is a member of the medical profession, in the neigh-
bourhood of Manchester-square.
The Board of Admiralty have ordered the Surveyor
of the Navy to construct two steam (paddle) vessels of 600 tons
each, to run as packets among the lon►an Islands. It is at pre-
sent supposed they will be built in one of the royal dockyards.
United Service Gazette.

POSITIVE "HOT," COMPARATIVE HOTTER."—The"
Cincinnati Gazette, with a laudable emulation in the matter
of hot weather, and desirous, doubtless, of standing upon
equal terms with its contemporaries, makes considerable
fuss about the heat experienced a few days since in that
city, but it is evident from all we see in its paragraph, that
the Gazette knows very little about the meaning of hot
weather. It is quite clear that with all his flourishing attempts
to put forth a hot article, the editor's knowledge of caloric is
deplorably deficient, and it is a suspicious circumstance that he
does not (we presume dare not) say a word about the thertno.
meter. If it was really warm in Cincinnati, why doesn't he
tell us bow high the thermometer rose?—New York Paper.
FEMALE PUGILISTS.—At Southwark Police-court,
yesterday, two women were committed for fourteen days each,
for fighting at Newington Causeway, and thereby disturbing
the public peace.