The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-21 00:00:00

MARYLEBOAE.

SHOPLIFTING BY A LADY..—Yesterday a fashionably-
dressed middle-aged woman, who gave her name Susan
Ash:veil, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hoskins,
charged with shoplifting.
John Hughes, shopman to Messrs. Dry and Co., silk-
mercers, Tottenham Court-road, stated the charge.
A policeman of the S division deposed to taking the pri-
soner into custody. She admitted her guilt, and said she
was sorry for it.

Mr. HOSKINS (to the prisoner)—What are you ? Pri-
soner—l am a lady in independent circumstances.
Mr. HOSKINS—Where do you reside. Prisoner—At
No. 4, Mornington-crescent, Hampstead-road.
Mr. HosuNs—What could induce a person in your sta-
tion of life to commit such a crime ? Prisoner—l don't
know what tempted me ; but I'm extremely sorry for what
I have done.

Mr. HosKlNs—And I'm sorry, too to see a woman like
you in such a situation. You are committed to Newgate,
and I cannot help it.
She was then removed in a state of great agitation.
Yesterday two young men, who gave their names Richard
IVaddelove and John Henderson, in the employ of Mr.
Taylor, livery-stable-keeper, of Whitechapel-road, were
charged with being drunk in the Hampstead-road on the
previaus night, and driving furiously over a youth named
Bolton, the son of a master-tailor, of Berwick-street, Soho,
who is so seriously injured that his life is despaired of.
Police constable 90 S stated that he saw the prisoners
driving most furiously by. He with difficulty secured them.
A surgeon's certificate, to the effect that the boy was
lying at his father's residence as above without hope of re-
covery, was put in and read.

The prisoners said the horse had run away.
They were remanded for the present.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yest,rday George Ritchie, a keeper of a beer-shop, re-
siding in Whitecross-street, m.s brought up for re-exami-
nation, charged with stealing 80 sovereigns, the property of
Charles Hiscock. The circumstances of this alleged rob-
bery have been published before.
Mr. CODD ultimately said that though there were strong
grounds of suspicion, there was not evidence sufficiently
strong to detain the prisoner. He was then discharged.

Committees have been appointed by the Statistical
Society, for the purpose of conducting inquiries into
the state of education among the labouring classes
in London, and into the circumstantial history of
criminal offenders and offences. The investigations on
education, comprising the parishes of St. Martin, St. Mar-
garet, and St. John, in Westminster, and the four pa-
rishes of the Strand Union, have already been completed.
The Committee for investigating crime has nearly com-
pleted its labours, through the assistance it has received
from the Commissioners of Police. The Council having,
communicated with the Government authorities, has ob-
tained permission to examine th,4 registers kept at the Ge-
neral Penitentiary, with the view of collecting as many
facts of interest as possible, and of ascertaining how far the
course adopted is capable of practical and accurate appli-
cation.

Late on Tuesday night a calamitous fire broke out
in a dwelling-house, situated in Brunswick-place East, City-
road, and unhappily two children perished in the flames.
The ravages of the fire were confined to one house, which
is considerably damaged. The bodies await the Coroner's
Inquest, which will be held to-day.