The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-11-27 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SAD CASE.  At the Southwark Police Court, London, Rose Wright, 12 years of age, a delicate looking child, has been brought up from St. George's Workhouse, on remand, charged with wandering in the streets in miserable weather, nearly half-starved, and with filthy clothing upon her.—lt appeared from the evidence of Detective-sergeant Jupe, E Division, that on the 13th November the prisoner's father and mother were convicted at this court for stealing several ulsters from their employer, Mr. Benjamin, High Street, Borough. At the time they were taken into custody they were in a deplorable state, having , spent every penny they could get in drink. OnWed• nesday afternoon, the 17th, he saw the prisoner wandering about the streets in the vicinity of the Waterloo Road. She was scantily attired in filthy rags, and appeared to be half -starve.i. He took her to the station, and give her food, which she greedily devoured, and then he found that she was in a wretched state. Witness 1.:11 stioned her, and she told him she had no bane ^ill, her parents had been convicted, as the landlord I,:d taken pos.ession of the room they formerly lived in. W: floss proceeded Ilion, and found Ow room in a most lilthy condition, , but not a vestig,-of furnitore in it. There was a ! pier, of sacking in a corner used ace bed, and a few broken pots and pits. When her parents were convieted they told witness that the aunt of the girl would take wire of he. but she could not be found, Ind he thought it best to take her to the workhouse, where she had been kindly treated and clothed.—Mr. I Robinson, the School Ward °nicer of the district, said be had made inquiries into the ease since the i child had been in tile workhouse, and could not find anyone to tale, charge of her. lie, however. had laid the facts b•f,.re the co:nmitte,, and a sthool had been I procured for her at Alit sfora, in Hampshire, when she would be kindly treated and brought up so as to gain her own liv,iihoni.—Mr. Bridge was glad of I that, and in sending her to that eci.ool he said, he hoped she woubl he a good girl.  An ittiltnntial df.patation front tr, Lancashire and Chcshire As,eiAti,,n for ontr,llin.4 the escape of noxious vapour,an Miids from manatactorles, hare had an int,rview sti,]l the IZr.,ht lion. (0. J. Dodson and Air. ilibh•rt. to. it he o::icc of too Local at Whi.thail, to urgo upon t;ov,,itmer.; ti“ ...xp,lieney of dealing with the subji.,t in the thsuing Sesston oi Parliament.  Cieneral z•ir Ir,lathk Robtxta has boon to Windsor on a visit to her Majesty.  It is reported from T,hcran that tho Sheiks OMdullah and Abdul liardir, with part of their men, have crossed into Turkey.  A Russian young lady, named Alexandrine Ley, living in the Rue Deaf ert-Rochereau, Paris, and sup. porting herself by lessons, leis committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart.  At the British Museum a begThrung has been made in moving into one of the gaMeries vacated by the l'almontological Collection the series of Etruscan saraphagi and urns hitherto el:dbl.: only to .pecial stuticnts.  A little girl named Mary )1•By 'l. about live years oi age, has died at Neweastie-en-Iyne from injuries indicted on the Lead by a poker aimed by the laminar at her aph, whom Ile intended to punish for disobedience.  A