The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-17 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

The Worship-street Magistrates have received dona-
tions of 51. and 11., to be applied to the relief of a poor
woman, named Holcroft, living in one of the courts in
Quaker-street, Spitalfields. Two very young boys, her
sons, had been brought before the Magistrate on Satur-
day, by a police-constable, who found them in a more
than half-starved condition, hanging about the windows
of some provision shops. The place where they lived
being visited by Clements, one of the summoning con-
stables attached to the Court, the mother and several
children were found in a miserable state of destitution,
the bed, sheets, and other articles having been disposed
of to procure food.
At Guildhall, James Marden, a young man employed
as a clerk by Mr. Finiger, a furrier, in Noble-street, was
charged with absconding with 301., which his master
entrusted to him to pay into Messrs. Masterman's. The
prisoner said he was tipsy when his master gave him the
money, and being so at the time he missed a sovereign,
he spent more money in drink, and was then afraid to
return to his master.—He was committed for trial.

A labouring man applied to Mr. Broderip, at the
Thames Police Court, for advice under the following
circumstances :—He had picked up on the road a lady's
bag, and having put it into his hat, with a view to exa-
mine it at leisure, he returned to his work. The lady,
however, soon came to him, claimed it, and having exa-
mined it found that five 101. notes, which it contained,
were safe. On leaving, she gave him the sum of 2s. Re
claimed salvage, which he understood was a shilling in
the pound. Mr. Broderip told him he was not entitled
to a halfpenny, and that the 2s. he had received was a
gratuity not a right.
COMIT—ANSSITIONABLE.

The Duchess of Cambridge and suite landed at Dover
from Calais, at ten o'clock on Monday, having made the
passage in the Princess Alice within the two hours.
After a dejeune a la fourchette, at the Ship hotel, to
which Col. Rhys Jones, the commandant of the garrison,
Captains Hamilton and Smithett, &c., had the honour of
being invited, her Royal Highness came to town by the
South Eastern Railway.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and
family are expected to leave Portumna Castle early next
month, for Carlton-terrace, for the season.
The Marquis of Granby, the newly. appointed Lord
of tke Bedchamber to his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
is expected to return to town the week after next, to
enter on his new duties at Court. The Marquis left
Fenton's Hotel on Monday, for Burghley House.
Lord Suffield, who has recently returned from a
lengthened tour on the Continent, left Fenton's Hotel,
yesterday, on a visit to Mr. Sanderson, M.P., at Gunton
Hall, near Norwich.

The Dowager Countess of Leicester and the Right
Hon. E. Ellice, M.P., have arrived at Rome from Naples.
They are expected to leave that city on the Bth of next
month for Nice, en route to this country. The Earl of
Leicester is expected in town the first week in next
month to take the oaths and his seat in the House of
Lords on coming of age.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The weather has again suddenly changed, and the
frost, which had continued severe for two days has dis-
appeared, the thermometer, at mid-day, standing above
40 degrees.
The Horticultural Society of London, on Tuesday,
held their first meeting for the year, at their rooms, in
Regent-street, Mr. Burchard, V.P., F.R.S., presiding.
The exhibition-stands contained a large assortment of
the rarities obtainable at this season. Amongst the
specimens of flowers was a new and remarkable plant
of the evergreen tribe, indigenous to the mountains of
the Brazils, but naturalised and cultivated in this country
under the name of gautheria ferruginea, by Messrs,
Veitch and Son, of Exeter.
Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., has forwarded !SOL to the Lin-
coln and Lindsey Agricultural Protection Society, as his
contribution in aid of the objects it haOin view.
Sir Jamea.South states, in a letter to a Contemporary,