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

GUILDHALL.

Edward Parker Simpson was brought up before
Alderman Finnic, upon the charge of embezzling the
sum of 251., the money of Mr. Robert Woodward, so-
licitor, of 27, Bouverie-streut, his master.
lie was fully committed to Newgate to await his
trial at the ensuing sessions at the Central Criminal
Court.

Thomas Banks was placed at the bar for final
examination, charged with obtaining 101. under false
pretences, and with uttering a forged cheque for the
same with a guilty knowledge.
Anne Wallis, barmaid to Mr. J. R. Abbot, of 31,
Coleman-street, stated that on Saturday week last
prisoner came there and presented a cheque, saying
that he came from Mr. Cooper, of the Bankruptcy
Court, and wished to know if Mr. Abbot would have
the kindness to change the cheque for Mr. Cooper.
Witness took the cheque, which was drawn by a Mr.
John Weston on Messrs. Prescott's bank, to Mr. Ab-
bot, who, knowing that gentleman, gave the prisoner
the change directly. Witness knew the prisoner as
being connected in some way with the Bankruptcy
Court. He went away as soon as he hal obtained the
change.
Edward Champion, clerk to Messrs. Prescott and
Co., stated, that they bad no account at their bank
with any p9r,on of the name of Weston.
Henry Alfred, clerk to Mr. James Cooper, of the
Bankruptcy Court, said he was acquainted with pri-
soner's hand writing, and he believed the cheque pro-
duced to have been written by the prisoner. He also
thought the name of " John Weston," was in the
handwriting of the prisoner.
isoner here asked for a further remand for the
i.urpoie of procuring legal assistance.
Alderman FINNIs said the case was so clear that
there was not the slightest ground to remand it. Ile
would, therefore, commit him to the Old Bailey fur
trial on the above ch trge --Committed accordingly.
IVORSH/P-STREET.

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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,s i
Thomas
with the following scandalous
as Spenceley, gate-porter of the workhouse,
VonhiLachapel,
stated that the prisoner, who was accompanied by
two ragged and wretched-looking children, presented
herself at the outer gates on the preceding evening,
and applied for admission, stating that she was utterly
destitute, and had not a farthing of money to procure
that much worth of bread for her famishing family.
andSheplacedwith r was
appropriated accordingly
her
to casual paupers. at once taken into the house,
two children in the receiving
Eone of the workhouse nurses, stated
that on Tappan,directing the prisoner to go to bed shortly
after her admission, tie 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 took them forcibly off her, and while doing so a
large quantity of silver rolled out upon the floor,
which was picked up and fcund 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 fur her defence, the prisoner, in
a whining tone, said that the money had been given
to her by her brother, who was a miner in Wales,
and she considered it a hard case that she should be
deprived of her little store, which she intended to
apply for the support of her children.
Mr. Hammer, 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 'nor, 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.
CL ERKEN 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 fur trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Between thirty and forty streetwalkers and their
" drivers"—the women who follow what is called
" dress lodgers," to receive the money earned by their
infamous trade—were brought to this court, having
been apprehended by the police, in consequence, as
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, hut, if they could
have got more assistance, they would have had at
least as many more.
Mr. Hennerica 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 wire or
daughter through them, without having tlieir eyes
and ears shocked by scenes that could be witnessed
nowhere so conspicuously as in England. The
nuisance had grown so intolerable that it must be
abated by the exercise of the law.
Fines were inflicted varying from 7s. to 20e, or a
inflicted on the " drivers."
proportionate imprisonment. The heaviest fines were

EXTRAORDINARY SIGIIT.
Monday r-- -
••••••lfil the morning a
road between Greenwich and Woolwich were astonished by
sehhight, about five o'clock, the travellers on the
seeing the highway actually covered with millions and mil-
lions of young frogs or tadpoles, similar to the flight of
locusts which invade and devastate whole countries at a
sweep. Xiiidstone Journal.