The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-07 00:00:00

ORSE-1111-3 TRTET:

Honora Donovan, a robust middle-aged Irish wo-
man, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill,
charged at the instance of the parish authorities of St.
Mary, Whitechapel, with the following scandalous
imposition :
Thomas Spenceley, gate-porter of the workhouse,
stated that the prisoner, who was accompanied by
two ragged and wretched-looking children, presented
rad for ber famishing family'
stating that she was utterly
herself at the outer gates on the preceding evening,
destitute, and had not a farthingof money to procure
andapplied for
ot
h admission,of
bread
that much
She was accordingly at once taken into the house,
wr
and placed with her two children in the receiving
ward appropriated to casual paupers.
Eiizi Tappin, one of the workhouse nurses, stated
that on directing the prisoner to go to bed shortly
after her admission, the prisoner exhibited a great
reluctance to do so, and requested to be allowed to lie
down in her clothes. Witness, however, insisted
upon her taken them off, and having with some diffi-
culty stripped her of them, she said she was always
in the habit of sleeping in her shoes, and expressed
her determination to keep them on her feet ; but wit-
ness to:A them forcibly off her, and while doing so a
large quantity of silver rolled out upon the floor,
which was picked up and found to amount to two
guineas in value. The prisoner made a loud outcry
for the restoration of her, money, but it was retained
possession of, and it being considered a very bare-
faced imposition, the parish officers determined upon
giving her into custody that she might be adequately
punished.
When called upon for her defence, the prisoner, in
a whining tone, said that the money bad been given
to her by her brother, who was a miner in Wales,
and she considered it a hard ease that she should be
deprived of her little store, which she intended to
apply for the support of her children.
Mr. Ihatzumn said that the prisoner's conduct was
a gross imposition upon the hardworking ratepayers,
and having, under the provision of the amended Poor-
law, directed her secret hoard to be handed over to
the parish authorities to be applied to the general
purposes of the poor, ordered the prisoner to be com-
mitted for a month to the House of Correction as an
idle and disorderly person, and that her children
should in the meantime be properly provided for in
the workhouse. _ _

CLERKEN WELL.
William Leggett, Edward Rouhe, James Wren, and
John Manly, were placed at the bar before Mr. Tyr-
whitt for final examination, charged by Messrs.
Browning, oil merchants, of 113, St. John-street,
Clerkenwell, with having been concerned in extensive
robberies on that firm.
The whole of the prisoners were fully committed to
Newgate for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Between thirty and forty streetwalkers and their
" drivers"--the women who follow what is called
" dress lodgers," to receive the monineyceoanrsneeeiduebnyceth, their
ibnefeanmaopups r e trade—werehende d
b y tbrought
t!,o this court, having
understood, of orders issued by the .Police Commis
sioners, to clear the streets of the nuisance and ob-
struction occasioned by the increasing number of
streetwalkers.
The constables said they were not very long in ap-
prehending the number in custody, but, if they could
have got more assistance, they would have had at
least as many more.
Mr. liAanwicx said the streets at night had be-
come so infested by loose women, that no person in a
decent station of society could take his wife or
daughter through then, without having their eyes
an ears shocked by scenes that could b 3 witnessed
nowhere so conspicuously as in England. The
nuisance had grown so intolerable that it must be
abated by the exercise of the law.
Pines were inflicted varying from 7s. to 20i., or a
prOportionate imprisonment. The heaviest fines were
inflicted on the " drivers."

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EXTRAMIDINAiIY SlGnr.—On the morning of
Monday se'nnigh', about O!7 o'clock, the travellers on the
road between Greenwich and
',Void wich wore astonished by
Seeing
the hiirOlway actually covered with millions and init.
lions of young frogs or tadpoles, similar to the flight of
locusts which invade and devastate whole countries at a
sweep.—Maidstone Journal.