The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-10 00:00:00

him, mo,t-
him, not with,tanding the unfeeling conduct he had al
along pursued towarils her ; and he could only attribute I
the prosecutor's inveterate animosity to a desire to es-
cape from the responsibility of supporting the child, it
which she would eo shortly be the mother. Her whole
conduct evinced an entire absence of malice, anti as the
injuries the coniplainant had sustained were of a very
slight nature, he considered she had alrealy undergone
sufficient punishment for hastily giving way to the ex-
treme provocation she had received, and he should,
therefore, order her to be discharged.
The prisoner, who was much affected, was then
liberated, to the evident satisfaction of every one in
Court.

The Magistrate announced his receipt of a letter,
enclosing the sum of 21. from H. and J. W., for the
poor box.

LAMBETH.

Susannah Taylor, Mary M'Cal Mu, Jane Smith, and
Ann White were charged before the lion. G. C. Norton
with wilfully breaking two panes of glass, of the value
of 65., at Lambeth Workhouse.

George Newland, the gate-porter at Lambeth Work-
house, deposed that, about half-past twelve o'clock on
that day, he found the prisoners, who were perfect
strangers to him, and who did not belong to the parish,
in the small office, and discovered at the same time that
two squares of glass, of the value of 3s. each, were
broken. Ile asked who had done it, and all the pri-
soners replied that they had.
William Peplows, an inmate of the workhouse, who
acts as occasional porter at the workhouse gate, stated
that about twelve o'clock the prisoners came to the gate,
and upon his asking what they wanted, they replied
they came for relief. He then told them civilly to go
to the assistant-overseer, in another part of the building.
They went out as he thought, for that purpose, but im-
mediately afterwards he heard the smashing of glass,
and on opening the door he saw the prisoner Taylor
throw a stone through a pane of glass. Ile asked her
why she did it, and all the prisoners replied, " We all
here did it."

The prisoners acknowledged they had broken the
windw%s, but said they had not done so until they had
been refused relief, or even admittance into the work-

house.

In reply to the questions of the Magistrate, they said
they were not inhabitants of the parish of Lambeth, nor
had they any legal claim for relict; but all they wanted
was temporary assistance, and had this been given to
them they should not have proceeded to the slightest
violence.

Mr. NORTON told them, that if they were really dis-
tressed and in a destitute state, as they represented, and
relief had been refused to them at the workhouse, their
proper course would have been to apply to this Court,
and not take the law into their own hands. He then con-
victed them in the penalty of Gs., the value of the glass,
or in default of payment, to three days' imprisonment
each.

Richard Holden, a shopman to an oil and eolourman
in Piccadilly, was brought before the magistrate by one
of the relieving-officers of the parish of Lambeth, for
neglecting to s.ipport his wife, in consequence of which
she became chargealq, to the parish.
The wife, a well-dressed woman, said that she and lit:r
husband hid lived on the most affectionate terms, until
they unfortunately took in a fealale lodger, and soon
after she discovered the most positive proof that her
husband had formed an improper in imaq with her.
Sne, of course, insisted that the female should at once
leave the house, aril her husband, instead of breaking
off the intimacy, took a lodging for her, and lived with
her as her husband.

The defendant said. that so violent was the temper of
his wife, that he could not continue to live with her, but
should allow 20s. a week to the support of herself and
three children.

Mr. NORTON endeavoured to get them to make up
matters, and live together again, but the husband re-
fused to do so, and the wife accepted his offer of 20s.
a week.