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oJ in this instance.—(" Hear, hear," from all parts of
Court).
The Chief Clerk intimated to Alderman Moon that
Miller had rendered himself liabla to a penalty
5I

Alderman MOON—Then if that fine can legally be in-
Lqed, I will fine him that amount for disobeying the
general law, which requires that relief should be given
to all persons in urgent distress.
Mr. Miller--I am not to blame. I only acted under thoinstructions of the board of guardiaus, and you may
see the position I am placed in.
Alderman MOON—I have nothing more to say, Mr.
Miller.
Mr. Miller—ls it your wish she should be taken into
the house? if so, I will do it willingly.
Alderman MOON—It is so. There's an end of the case.
Mr. Miller and the applicant then left the court.
MAR YLEBONE.
Amongst the night charges was one preferred egainet
an elderly woman named Judith Ralph, for attempted
arson, at the how, No. 7, Little Barlow-street.
Elizabeth Fowler, wife of Richard Fowler, the land•
lord, who resides at No. 13 in the street alluded to, de-
posed that on the previous night, between eleven and
twelve o'clock, she was aroused from her bed with an
alarm that the house No. 7 was on fire. She rushed
forth, and on entering the back kitchen, which was the
prisoner's room, she found a quantity of straw upon the
floor in a blue. A great many persons were at this
time in the kitchen, having boen attractedthither by thO
loud cries of " fire," and on witness asking the prisoner,
who was alleged to be the delinquent, why she did it,
she made no reply; she was much the worse for drink,
and from what she (witness) could collect, prisoner had
had a quarrel with her daughter, which led to the com-
mission of the offence.

Cecilia Ralph, the daughter, stated that she and her
mother were in very indifferent circumstances, and for
some time past had been necessitated to sleep upon
straw. She (witness) made up the bed as usual, when
her mother (the prisoner), with whom she had some
words, and who was intoxicated, took up a quantity of
the straw, some of which she put on the hearth and the
rest in the grate; she set fire to it with a candle, and
witness, with some difficulty and risk to herself, put it
out, and the candle also; prisoner re-lighted the candle
with a lucifer, and again set fire to the straw upon the
hearth, and in an instant the flames communicated with
the rest of the straw which was in the kitchen. She
(witness) used, her best exertions to extinguish theflames,
and her screams for assistance brought out of his bed
another lodger, through whose exertions she attributed
the saving of the building and many lives.
Thomas Hammond, the lodger alluded to, said, that
but for his exertions in procuring water, and pouring it
upon the burning straw, the house would most likely
have been burnt down, and many persons might have
perished in the flames. There were, in the whole, twenty-
eight inmates, many of them children. When he (wit-
ness) forced his way into the kitchen the flames were
bursting through the door.
Policeman Cutting, 33 D, deposed that when he went
into the kitchen he saw the straw in a state of ignition,
and a quantity of clothes in a corner of the room partly
consumed. He took the prisoner into custody, and told
her she was charged with a crime of a very serious nature,
when she said, " Many better people than live in this
house have been burned t 3 death."

The daughter was recalled, and, in answer to Mr.
LONG, she said that prisoner lighted the straw because
she (witness) should not sleep upo❑ it. She remarked to
her that she would set the house on fire, and she told her
she didn't care.

The prisoner, who made no defence, was committed for
rial.

LAMBETH.

John Perry Hening, the alleged secretary, and Henry
Roberts, the collector of a " sham " society, designated
the " Animals' Friend Society," and who have, with
their associates, been most successful for some consider-
able time past in fleecing the public, were again placed
at the bar, before Mr. Norton, for further examination.
Captain Wood, R.N., the assistant•manag,r; Mr. Fer-
gusson, the principal clerk; and Horsford, the chief offi-
cer of the Mendicity Society were present to assist in the
prosecution.

In addition to the evidence given on the former days,
W. Jefferson, Esq., a gentleman residing in South
Audley•street, deposed that he had a slight recollection
of the prisoner Hening, and recollected paying ten shil-
lings on the 18th of April last, as a subscription to the
" Animals' Friend Society," for which he received the
receipt then produced.
The next witness called was Charles Hodgson, a
stripling youth, who had been employed by the prisoner
Honing as a collector to the society. he had been en-
gaged as collector for about twelve months. lie bad
been engaged by Hening, and his terms were ten shillings
out of the first pound he received, and twenty per cent.
for the remainder. He handed all the money he re-
ceived to Hening, and his per centage averaged twelve
shillings to fourteen shillings a week. He gave up the
appointment in June last in consequence of the proceed-
ings at this court, the exposure in the newspapers, and
his fears that there was something wrong.
Hening hero stated that the fact was not as the wit-
ness had represented it. The truth was, that,in conse-
quence of the serious eirpose at this court in June last,
and its publication in the newspapers, nothing was at
that time to be done, and the witness, in consequence,
threw up his situation, not from fear, as had been repre-
sented, but believing he could do nothing in the way of
collecting.

Mr. NORTON remarked that the expoq alluded to was
one of the blessings of the press, and, after a lengthened
examination, during which the magistrate expressed his
determination to send the prisoners fur trial, they were
spin remanded.

THAMES.
John .7anles St Jewell, a lad, aged 16, in ragged attire,
and Mary Anne Harrington, a middle-aged woman,
were bruught before Mr. li. Yardley, charged with steal-
inga coat.

The ease was a most painful one :—The prisoner
Stockwell is the only son of a most industrious and re-
spectable man, one of the officers of the I'alace Court,
and who is now residing in Gower's-walk, Whitechapel.
The boy has given much trouble to his parents, and
repeatedly robbed them. On Wednesday morning the
boy's mother die d ; her illness was brought on partially
by excessive grief and anxiety on account of her son's
mi*conduct. On the previous evening, when the father
returned home from his daily employment, he was in-
formed of his melancholy bereavement, and also that
his SOR had stolen his mother's shoes while she was
dying, and taken away all the money in the room,
amounting to Sid. only. ills father sought after him
and soon found out his haunt. On searching him he
found 12s. 6d. secreted in his shoes, of which he would
give no satisfactory account; and suspecting that he had
obtained the money dishonestly, he handed him over to
the custody of Wakeford, a police-sergeant, No. 5 H, to
whom the lad at once confessed that he had stolen a coat
in Farringdon Market, and gave it to a woman named
Harrington, who raised 11. upon it, and bad given him
12s. 6d. of the money.
Mr. YARDLEY made some inquiries about the woman,
and was informed that she lived in Glasshouse street,
Upper East Smithfield, and was a trainer of young
thieves, boarded and lodged many of them, and disposed
of any property they brought to her, always taking care
to exact a large percentage from her pupils, of whom the
boy Stockwell was one. On the way to this court the
woman took a qaantity of duplicates from her bosom,
which she was about to hand to her son, when a police-
man named Watson, II 94, seized them, and found the
ticket relating to the coat among them.
Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoners for trial.