The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-19 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

C'harles Pidgeon, a young man of respectable family,
was charged with embezzling money to a large amount,
from Messrs. Graudin and Co., jewellers, of Frith-
street, Soho.
Mr. Verdin, a member of the firm, stated that the
prisoner had confessed to all the sums he had purloined,
and as they thought the prosecution of the case might
injure their business, they wished to withdraw the pro-
ceedings.

The MAGISTRATE refused to permit this course to
be adopted, and proofs were given that 141. had been
received from Mr. Parker, jeweller, of Edward-street,
Portman-square, and also 51. from Mr. Story, jeweller,
of Regent-street, neither of which sums had been ac-
counted for to his employers, and both were stated to
have been received and expended by him for his own
use.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

QUERN-SQUARE.
Occipicnti, a shabby.genteel elderly man, who
said he was an Irishman, and formerly in the artillery,
was charged with breaking the windows of the Duchess
of Kent's house, in Belgrave•square.
A policeman of the B division, on going his rounds
at ten o'clock that morning, said he saw the prisoner
throw three stones through the parlour windows, and
break three panes of glass.
Mr. Seabroke, her Royal Highness's steward, pro-
duced the stones, and said the damage amounted to
11. 4s.

In his defence the prisoner said he did not know
the house belonged to the Duchess of Kent, but to the
Duchess of Norfolk, who was always taking in peop:ie
(there is no Duchess of Norfolk).
The MAGISTRATE ordered the defendant to pay the
amount of damage done, which he was orr.-ble to do
and was sentenced to one month's hard labour. ,

HATTON-GARDEN.
A fine featured young woman, named Burn, was
brought up under the following romantic circumstances
—A few days back the defendant was brought before
Mr. Combe, by Inspector Jenkins of the E division,
charged with destitution. When before the Magistrate
she stated that she had left her home from a mere flight
of fancy, and that she was so ashamed of her conduct
that she did not like to return. The worthy Magis-
trate having elicited from her that her home was No.
12, North-side, Bethnal-green, dispatched a messenger
with her there, and he having seen her enter thought
all was right, and went about his business. This No.
12, North-side, however, turns mit to be the Guardian So.
ciety's Asylum for females that have deviated from the
paths of virtue, and the honorary secretary, Thomas
Natt, Esq., of? No. 5, Gloucester-place, New road,
Marylebone, this day attended with Burn to give Mr.
Combe the reason why he was compelled to refuse her
admission again into that Institution. He said that he
believed she had been led to her present destitution
through the persuasion of others, and this was his reason :
—Not many weeks ago a lady moving in the first society
lost from her protection an only daughter, a beautiful
and accomplished girl not quite sixteen years of age, aroma I
after numerous searches she was discovered in the
ing of a " gentleman" living in Fenchurch-stre
jet,
She
was a married man an 4 the father of a large ',may she
was taken fiorn him by force, every means tried
l'"" leer friends and broken-hearAed
forget her seducer and ret:.:ieve the false step. Unfortu-
nately, however, he mother to make her
they were eventually driven to the dreadful alternative
r. ear was deaf to their advice, and
of confining her in the before-mentioned excellent asr-
lurn, to prevent her again going astray. Directly after
her admission she began to devise means to escape, but
a closer nerd being kept over her than the other in-
mates', she induced the defendant, Burn, to scale the
wall and fetch her a disguise, which safely reached ; she
was clambering the outbuildings in it, and had wi nigh
effected her escape, when an alarm was
Sr;!:en and she
was recaptured. Burn, it further air,,eared, was in rea-