18 FEBRUARY 1871, Page 3

Mr. S. Shaen recently endeavoured to expose and thereby punish

what he considered cruelties practised by a Workhouse master upon some pauper girls. Therefore, a jury of ratepayers, in the teeth of a charge from Sir A. Cockburn, fined him £600. Damages and costs together, he was left under liabilities of about £4,000, incurred in an honest, if imprudent, defence of the poor. So strong was the opinion of the Chief Justice that he refused to order execution. A Committee has been formed to assist Mr. Shaen to defray these costs, and subscriptions are received for that object at any branch of the Union Bank.