The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

THAMES.

SLOPITORKERS AND PAWNBROKERS:—Sarah Jones, a
poor, half-starved-looking woman, 31 years of age, and
lately dwelling at No. 2, Upper Well-alley, Wapping, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with illegally p4wn-
ing 11 cotton shirts, the materials of which had been given
to her to make up by another woman, a seamstress, named
Maria Dowden, of No. 55, IC;
—llg-street, Stepney.
The case was clearly made out, the delivery r f the mate •
rials to the prisoner proved, and the 11 shirts, which were
in an unfinished state, were produced by a pawnbroker's
assistant, who had received them of the prisoner.
Tho prisoner, in her defence, said her husband had de-
serted her for four months, and, wanting food, she pawned
the shirts at four different times.

Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner had only increased her
miseries by her acts of dishonesty, and now she would find
it difficult to obtain any work again. He strongly con-
demned the pawnbroker who n ceived the shirts in ph dge,
and he muse have known they did not belong to the pri-
soner whoa he did so. He had frequently been called upon
to censure this system of taking. in slop-work and un-
finished work from poor needlewomen. It encouraged
felonies. The pawnbrokers who took in unfinished work
were no better than receivers of stolen property, and ought
to be treated as such. It was illegal to accept in pawn
unfinished materials in the course of manufacture. He
fined the prisoner ?7s. 9d., the value of; the shirts, and ss.
in addition, and in default one month's imprisonment. He
ordered the pawnbroker's assistant to restore the shirts to
Mrs. Dowden.

AN UNFEELING MOTHER AND UNFEELING POLICE.—
A dissipated woman named Mary Kelly, was brought before,
Mr. Woolrych, charged with being drunk, riotous, and dis-
orderly last night at a late hour in High-street, White-
chapel.
John Chattey, No. 284 H, said the prisoner acted in a
most violent and disorderly manner, swore and raved and
threw her infant on the ground, and said she would have no
more to do with it.
Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner was a vile unfeeling
woman, who had debased herself by the horrible vice of
drunkenness below the lust of a beast of the field. It was
a calamity for the poor child to have such a mother a., the
prisoner. He fined her Bs., and in default to be imprisoned
for five days.
Soon after wards Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the
prisoner was in great pain. Her breasts were full of milk,
and she had not suckled her child all night. She wanted
relief, and there was no doubt the child, which she had
abandoned when she was drunk, and not restored to her
when she became sober, required that sustenance which the
mother alone was able to afford.
Mr. Woolrych directed Roche to set the woman at liberty
instantly. He could not take upon himself the grave re-
sponsibility of holding her in custody another mome*.t, and
he hoped she would attend to her infant in a proper manner.
Roche opened the door of the cell in which the prisoner
was confined, and she hestened from the court with all
possible speed in search of her child.

The unpublished works of the Duke de la Roche-
foucault are about to be given to the world. They were dis-
covered amongst some records of the family by M. de Bar-
theisnly, well known as an amicins.ty.