The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-30 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

A couple of Irish women, who appeared to be mother
and daughter, were charged with begging in the public
streets.
A police-constable found them yesterday afternoon
begging in Trafalgar-square. He told them to go away,
but, instead of complying with his request, they began
abusing hits, and be took them to the station.
Mr. JARDINE asked the prisoners what they had to
say? The elder prisoner, a sullen, coarse•looking crea-
ture, asked " Arrsh noo, an' what should yer expect us
to say, sure? We must ether beg or stale, and we pre-
ferred the beggin.' "
Mr. JARDINE—Where do you come from? Prisoner
It's the cunthry we are from, sure, where it's work we
were looking for; but divil a bit of it could we get at all
at all.
Mr. JARDINE—But where did you sleep on Thursday
sight? Prisoner—Beneath a thray in Hammersmith.
Mr. JARDINE—And why did you come into town yes-
terday? Prisoner—To beg, sure; we are etarvin.'
Mr. JARDINE—Why did you not apply to the parish
if you are starving? Prisoner—Divil a bit o' use would
that a bin; sorra a thrifle o' relate would they give us,
yet. Harmer.
Mr. JARDINE—I suppose you aro afraid they would
send you back to Ireland again.
Prisoner—Not a bit, yer Hanner; it's mighty little
relate the likes ov us gets from the
The constable who had them in charge said the elder
prisoner, on the way to the station, made use of very
filthy language, and told him morelthan once to go to
Prisoner—Now, did yer leer? Hark at him now. Yer
Worship, as we went along, a spalpeen says to us " Why
don't yer sthop in yer own cunthry, ye ould hag," to
which, yer Mintier, I makes reply, "yer better mind
er own bisniss, young teller," and then says ho
kick yer for two pins, will I," and then I did say
"go to h— yer baste."
Mr. JARDINE—When did you come from Ireland?
Prisoner (nudging her daughter)-oh, about a wake,
yer Hamer.
Daughter—Me mither's bin here a long, long time
time yer Harmer.
Moth6r—Five and twenty year, but me darter come
over last wake.
Mr. JARDINE—WeII, you can't be allowed to beg in
the streets. If you are in 'distiess the parish will re-
lieve you.
Both.prisoners—But, yer Harmer, we must—we can't
@three,' and we're pawned our shawli, and iverything
we have.
Mr. JARDINE—Then you should apply to the parish.
Mother--Divil a bit o' use that'll be—we must beg or
stile.
Mr. JARDINE said, under these circumstances he should
commit them for fourteen days.
Mother-,-Yer Hanner's mithy perlite.
The lirisoners were then removed in custody.

•
WESTIVIINSTER--(THIg DAY.)
Catherine Banks, a young Irish woman; dirty and
clothed in rags, with an infant at her brea'st, was brought
up before Mr. Burrell on a charge" of assault and the
damage of property.
From the statement of George Matte, the pot•boy at
the Crown and Thistle public-house, Great Peter-street,
Westminster, it appeared that about 7 o'clock yesterday
evening the prisoner presented herself at the bar
of the Crown and Thistle, and called for something
to drink, which was headed to her. Shortly afterwards
a man came in sad demanded, with considerable violence,
the restoration of some money which she had taken from
him. A desperate altercation ensued between the man
and the prisoner, which resulted with the prisoner taking
sown money out of her pocket and throwing it into the
street, which the man picked up and went away. The
prisoner returned to the bar and continued to make a
disturbance, when the landlord, Mr. Edward Taylor, at-
tempted to turn her out ; whereupon the prisoner tlok a
large aloof-door key from her pocket, with which she
struck the landlord two violen__ blows on the head.
Not content with that, she, on being turned to the
door, threw a piece of copper at the window of the bar
and broke a large square of plate glass, value 305.,
and hurled a paving stone, which she picked up in the
street, at the head of the landlord; but, missing him, the
missile struck the pot-boy on the arm.
A policeman, Boddington, 184 B, was called to take
the prisoner into custody, and in doing so, the prisoner
managed to throw herself and him down upon the kerb-
stone, by which his back was hurt. When down on the
ground she also bit the policeman in the leg. A little
further on, on the way to the station, the prisoner at-
tempted a repetition •of the trick, but another police-
constable was called on to assist, and by this Means she
was conveyed to the station., in spite of her violence and
abusive language.
The prisonerf,in her defence, said, whilst drinking in
the bar of the Crown and Thistle, where she
had taken refuge from the violence of her husband,
whom she had just before left at home, her
husband followed her and attempted to tske
some money from her, and that whilst defending
herself against her husband, the landlord came to turn
her out, and in doing so, kicked her in the back. Being
foiled by her husband, and'so in-treated by the landlord,
she did in hekrage throw the piece of copperihrough
the window. She asserted, too, that the policeman used
considerable vielence in taking her into custody; that
she was very scantily clothed, notwithstanding which, he
tore her shawl off her, and exposed her nakedness, and
also attempted to•take her baby from her. In aidation
to this, he took bold of her by her hair and knocked her,
head several times against the wall of the cell. Whea
asked it she had any witnesses, she said two young men,
who were in the cell at the time, and who cried "Shame,"
had been discharged.
Mr. BURRELL ordered the prisoner to be imprisoned
three months.