The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

ler's Hotel. This witness and another constable, 70 L,
gave the prisoner an excellent character, and said his
house was very well conducted.
The prosecutes., in reply to the questions of the ac-
cused, denied that he had said that he did not want to
prosecute, provided the deficiency was made right to
him, or that he would say nothing about it if he gave
him a few pounds. The prisoner denied the charge in the
most solemn mariner, and declared that he had not been
to nor touched the prosecutor's pockets.
Mr. Elliott did not think there was any pretext for
charging the accused, and at once discharged him.
The magistrate requested our reporter to acknowledge
the receipt of 51. ss. from "73. G.," and Si. from "E.
C„" for the poor-box.

SOUTHWARK.—Joseph. Evans, a common lodging-
house keeper, in Kent-street, was summoned for ne-
glecting to furnish his lodgers with clean and wholesome
bedding, to avert disease.
Sergeant Wright, inspector of common lodging-houses
in this district, stated that he visited the defendant's
house between three and four o'clock in the morning,
when the lodgers were in bed. There were six sleeping
rooms, each of which contained a number of occupants,
and on examination he found that the bedding on each
bed was in the most ragged and filthy condition, quite
sufficient to engender disease. The stench arising from
such a multiplication of causes was of the most intolera-
ble description, and he was glad to make a precipitate
retreat from the place. He added that the defendant
had another house, which he let out as a common lodg-
ing-house, and which was generally occupied by a class
of persons denominated " trampers," who travelled about
from place to place, and had no settled home of their
own.

Mr. A'Beckett asked the defendant why he did not
have his bedclothes washed, as nothing could be more
unwholesome, or more calculated to engender fevers and
other infectious diseases, than allowing his lodgers to
sleep amongst such filth and dirt as represented by the
officer.
The defendant, in a strong Irish brogue, said that in-
deed his bedclothes were not so dirty ; that they were of
a very dark colour, and that made them look rather
dingy when the sergeant visited the rooms. The bed-
clothes were old, and bad had a good deal of wear and
tear, and he supposed he must be at the expense of get-
ting new ones. He, therefore, hoped the magistrate
would let him off easy.
Mr. A'Beckett said that he was glad to hear a favour-
able account of the manner in which the common lodg-
ing-houses in this district were conducted since these
excellent regulations had been can-led out by the persons
appointed for that purpose, and that a marked improve-
ment had taken place in those houses, which previously
were conducted in a disgraceful and filthy manner. The
magistrate then inflicted the mitigated penalty of ss. and
costs on the defendant, who was warned not to offend
again.

A donation of 201. was received from the Grocers'
Company for the poor-box of this Court.

THAMES.—The Grocers' Company have forwarded
a donation of 201. for the poor-box of this Court.

CLERKENWELL.—Five shllings were forwarded
to Mr. Tyrwhitt for the poor-box from the Bloomsbury
County Court ; a 51. note, No. R. T. 29,577, 2d Nov.,
from "E. C.," was also sent. The following letter was
also handed to our reporter, viz. :—" Grocers' Hall,
Dec. 23. Sir,—l am directed by the Court of Assistants
of the Grocers' Company to request that the accompany-
ing donation of 201. may be placed in the poor-box at
the Clerkenwell Police-office.—I have the honour to be,
sir, your very obedient servant, Henry Bicknell.—To the
presiding magistrate at the Clerkenwell Police-office."