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An Im.porsed Paaper-Paul Williams, a native of England, applies for support in the Boston Alnnshouse. He is tolerably intel- ligent old man, destitute, and incapable ofla- bor. He gives the following history of him. self. He had wife and 1S children, all of whom are now dead. Paul was soldier of Great Britain some % or 30 years, and retir- cd rom the army few years ago on pen. sion of9 9d. per day. Four years since he was induced to sell out his life pension to the gov- ernment lon condition of leaving the British island forever0 for 100 acres of land in New brunswlck and about GAO, part of which was paid him at home" and the residue on his arrival at St. John He came out to St. John with two surviving children. The land was worthless to him: the best offer he could get for 1t was a bottle of whiskey. From St. John he went with his children to New York, where his children left him. and soon after he heard of their death at the South. When his money was gone he applied to tho poor off, cers for support. and they paid his passage to Boston. Here he expected to find relatives to assist him, but being disappointed. he ap- piled, as he states, to the representatives oi the British government, who advised him to throw himself at the age of 76. on American charity Boston pd,