The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-19 00:00:00

His Lordship wrote a letter immediately after the
examination to Sir James Graham, of which the follow-
ing is a copy :

Mansion-house, London, Dec. 5, 1845.
Sir,—l have the honour to inclose a copy of a letter I have
received from Mr. Hamilton, her Majesty's Consul at Bou-
logne, to which I wish respectfully to draw your attention.
The pauper lunatic arrived here last evening with his at-
tendant, and the asylum of the City of London Union being
at Peckham, I had no alternative but to send them to the
Giltspur-street Compter for the night, with directions that
they should be properly treated. This morning they will be
brought before me in the justice-room, and fill require the
asylum keeper to take charge of them fur the present.
The case in question is one of peculiar hardship on the
citizens of London, and if some measures be not adopted, I
fear numerous instances will occur of a similar kind.

You will perceive that th• Consul has sent to my keeping
a maniac without the possibility of my getting at any
evidence to establish his place of settlement, leaving me
no alternative but to fix the maintenance of the pauper on
the citizens of London.

I have, therefore, respectfully to submit to your judgment
that the Consul should nut have sent the pauper to me es
Lord Mayor, or if he were right in so doing, that you will
think it proper to give some direction on the subject to re-
lieve the citizens of this and similar burthens.

I have the honour to be, your humble, obedient, and faith-
ful servant, JOHN JOHNSON, Mayor.
To the Lord Mayor Sir James returned the fulluwiiig
answer :

Whitehall, Dec. 8, 1845.
My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your Lordship's letter of the sth instant and its inclosure,
respecting the case of a pauper lunatic named Kerr, who
has been sant over from Boulogne to the port of London by
the British Consul, and commended by him to your Lord-
ship's care, the unfortunate person above eiatnect being en-
tirely destitute, and the Consul having no means of support.
ing him at Boulogne.
I think it not improbable that the Consul committed the
unfortunate person to the care of your Lordship as being
most able and willing to afford relief in this case, there
being reason to believe, from the statement in the Consul's
letter, that the settlement of his father was in the parish of
St. James.
Your Lordship may, perhaps, on inquiry, by able to as-
certain that point; and if the settlement of the lunatic's
father can be discovered, there will be no difficul.• in de-
ciding the proper course to be taken for obtaining relief.
If your Lordship thinks I can be of any service in making
inquiry as to the lunatic's settlement through the Commis-
sioners of Metropolitan Police, I shall be most ready to do
all in my power in assisting your Lordship.—l have the
honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient servant,
JAMES GRAHAM.
The LORD MAYOR, after having made further inquiries
into the case, directed that the pauper lunatic should be
taken care of at Dr. Warburton's Lunatic Asylum, at the
expense of the City of London, until he should consult
his brother magistrates upon a question so deeply effect
ing the interests of the City, into which paupers from
parishes all over the country are daily crowding, aid
occasioning enormous expense. His Lordship observed,
with reference to the peculiar case of the poor lunatic,
if such a course as the British Consul had taken were
to be looked over by the authorities of the City, multi-
tudes of destitute objects, whose claims upon this country
were at any rate questionable, might be sent over upon
the authority of an officer, who ought to very cautious
of interfering in a matter so likely to prove expensive and
harassing. In Kerr's case there was not a human being
in England, of whom the parochial authorities had cog-
nizance, capable:of giving evidence respecting the claims
his parents might have had upon any parish, so that it only
appeared to be necessary for the friends of a pauper to
induce a Consul to believe that the ollject they wished to
serve was the child of English parents, and the burthen
was politely and quietly transmitted to England. Seine
short time ago, some girls who had been taken from
Nottingham to a lace-mill near Paris by the proprietor,
were sent: back to England in consequence of a fire
which destroyed the manufactory. They were imme-
diately thrown upon the Lord Mayor. but as they could
tell upon what parish they had claims, the difficulty of
disposing of them was soon surmounted, and they were
received in Nottingham at once ; but in the present in-
stance the difficulty of dealing with the subject was ex-
treme, and there required the deepest consideratio❑ the
magistracy could give to it.
The disputes between the Navigation Company aid
the Waterman's Steam-packet Company, is kept up with
undiminished activity, and the pier at Biacki'riars-
bridge is the scene of the rows, to the great annoyance
of the respectable inhabitants of the immediate neigh-
bourhood.
Yesterday two persons of respectable appearance were
charged before Alderman Musgrove, who sat for the
Lord Mayor, the one with having assaulted a constable
appointed to do duty at the pier, and the other with
having attempted to rescue the alleged assailant from
the custody of the police. The former had, in attempt-
ing to land at the pier, been opposed by the eomplainant
and several policemen, but he persevered, and out of the
scuffle which took place the charge against them arose.
Mr. Newbon, the Secretary to the Waterman's Com-
pany, attended for the defence, and endeavoured to in-
duce the Alderman either to commit the individual
against whom the more serious charge was made, in
order to afford an opportunity of taking the case before
a court of law, to try the question of right upon its
merits, or to dismiss him.
The ALDERMAN, however, declined to decide upon
the matter as connected with the existing disputes, but
viewing it in the light of an assault on an ordinary
person, held the accused to bail in his own recognisances
to the amount of 201., to answer the complaint at the
sessions, if the complainant should think proper to take
notice of the violence. It is proper to state that the
pierman and a policeman swore to the assault, but de-
scribed it as of a very gentle character; and a gentleman
of the name of Forster, who was on the pier at the time
of the hubbub, distinctly said that he considered, from
what he was able to see, that the accused was ill-treated
and blameless.
The person charged with having attempted to perpe-
trate the offence of the rescue, was discharged in tl;e
early part of the examination, the Alderman having
been of opinion that there was no evidence to sustain
that charge.
The question of the right is, we understand, to come
on this day before the Lord Mayor, and will be con-
ducted by Mr. Ryland, the City Pleader, on the one
side, and Mr. Clarkson on the other.
GUILDHALL.
_

Mr. Bury, a gentleman residing,- in the Hounslow
road, applied to Mr. Alderman Sidney,E or a summons
against the landlord of the Goose and Gridiron tavern,
St. Paul's Churchyard, for refusing to accommodate him
with refreshments last Sunday morning, he being a
traveller, the landlord being bound to receive travellers,
and the Police Act, which requires the alehouse to be
closed from midnight on Saturday night till one o'clock
on Sunday, making an exception in favour of travellers.
Mr.
Alderman SIDNEY asked him how far he had
travelled on this occasion ? The applicant said thirteen
miles. •

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY thought that riding so short a
distance did not entitle him to be deemed a traveller.
He might have got a good breakfast before he came out,
and then he might have fasted till one o'clock without
much suffering.
Mr. Bury replied, if the Alderman would travel thir-
teen miles on the top of an omnibus on a cold morning,
he would find out that he required a warming when he
got off. The fact was, he did not get his breakfast be-
fore he came out, and nearly lost the omnibus too.
Mr. Alderman tSIDNEY said that was his own fault ft r
not rising a little earlier.
Mr. Bury pressed for the granting of the summons
and he would have the matter discussed at the hearing.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said he was advised that the
Goose and Gridiron was not the sort of house which was
compelled to receive travellers. ft was not an inn, for
it had no stables, and the liability to entertain travellers
attached only to innkeepers.
Mr. Bury said he should like to try the question, and
hoped the Magistrate would not refuse granting the
summons.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY replied, that he should refuse
it ; for if the landlord appeared there was no law by
which he could deal with the offence. A traveller's
remedy for the refusal of accommodation was only by
action, if he could prove special damage by being forced
seek accommodation at a considerable distance.
The summons was therefore refused.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET

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Mary King, a respectably dressed woman, was charged
with attempting to drown herself. From the statement of
Thomas Devall, deputy superintendent of the Royal Humane
Society, it appeared that about half-past nine on Wednesday
evening, he observed the prisoner at the head of the Serpen-
tine River, in Hyde Park, walking to and fro. She appeared
to be in great anguish of mind, and was wringing her hands
and crying. Suspecting that her intention was to commit
suicide, the officer watched her for a considerable
time. At length she walked to the north bank of
the river, and taking off her bonnet and shawl,
threw them on the ground. The officer had then ap-
proached within a yard or two of her, but screened himself
behind a tree from her observance. After looking anxiously
around her to see that no one WAS watching her, she went
down on her knees, and commenced saying her prayers. She
concluded by imploring the forgiveness of God for what she
was about to do. She then rose up and instantly
rushed to the water's edge, and lifting up her
arms, was in the very act of throwing herself
face downwards into the river, when the officer, who had
followed closely behind her, seized bold of her clothes and
drew her on to the bank. On being questioned as to what
induced her to attempt her life, she at first refused to say,
but after she was given in charge to the police /she said it
was distress of mind that had driven her to do it. She also
stated that she was married, and that her husband resided at
No. 9, Barnes-terrace, Lambeth. She had no money in her

possession.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief clerk, asked the prisoner in what
manner she was distressed? The prisoner said her husband
ill-treated her. He was a sadler, and possessed property.
The husband here stepped forward, and said his wife was
of intemperate habits, and that caused them to disagree; but
he never ill-treated her. On Wednesday, while at sapper
with, two grown-up nta-bulpe,daanudgh,%teirssh,iisilig him good night, went
took off her wedding_
ring
out. Ile took no notice of her, as she was in the habit of

behaving very unaccountably.
The prisoner said she was now very song for what she had
done.
gave her into the
Mr. HAnnwrcx, after admonishing her,
charge of her husband.

, charged
the Awn placed at the bar
IV ORSHIP-STREET.
name of
woman, who gave
before Mr. Broughton fur final examination
with having stolen several articles of female wettripg
apparel of trifling value, the property of a woman named
Brown, the keeper of a house of bad repute in Marsotn.
street, Hoxton New Town.
The prosecutrix stated that about a fortnight since, at
a late hour in the evening, the prisoner, who was an
entire stranger to her previously, was brought to her
house in a state of intoxication in a cab by two gentle-

men, who stated that she had just sustained a serious
accident. and wished to remain in privacy for some time
till she recovered from the injury. As this statement
was corroborated by the appearance of the prisoner's
face, which was bleediug profusely, she consented to re-
ceive her as a lodger, and the prisoner
of
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