The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-23 00:00:00

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ATE— very much suspect that that hair of yours and
the hat being off, was intended to excite charity. I should advise
you to get that hair cut off.
wear a wig, hat to convince people that I 'lndent
MAGISTRATE—Let this be a lesson to you. I don't knoiv how
it may be, but that head of hair and your partial blindness, probably
is intended to excite charity. I now warn you, if you arefoluld
begging you will be sent to gaol. You are discharged now.
Sarah Russell was charged by a well dressed
young female,named Lynch, on suspicion of stealing a ring.
The prosecutor stated, that she was standing it the door Of Mr.
Lacy's public-house, Bow-street, between nine and ten on Monday
night, with the ring in question in her hand ; the prisoner came up
and asked witness to let her see it. She gave her the ring in her
hand, when prisoner immediately sa'sl, " Dear me, I've dicipped
it." Search was instantly made for the ring in the area of
Mr. Lacy's house, and elsewhere, but it could 3 not
he found. The ring was a mourning ring, worth 305., belonged
to the prosecutrix's mistress.
Several othei witnesses were CA:led, who corroborated thelstate.
ment of the prosecutrix.
The prisoner, in defence, made a long statement, endeavoltring
to convince the Magistrate that she had never had the ring in her
hand at all, but that the prosecutrix dropped it herself, and, to
avoid being blamed by her mistress, had caused her to be taken
into custody.
The prisoner was ultimately remanded till F.iday next.
THE Lucsvaa.sox NVISANCE.—Thi ea little girls, of tender age,
were charged with annoying passengers in the street.

Police Constable F. 83, stated that ho apprehended the prisoners
in the Strand, yesterday, near Temple-bar; they were running
after every respectable person, and in piteous tones importuning
them to purchase lucifers. He had several times cautioned them
not to annoy people in that way, but they persisted, and as witness
was frequently applied to by passers by to prevent the children‘frota
following them, he had no alternative but to take them th the
station.house.

In reply to questions from the Magistrate, the elder girl, an ht.
telligent and very interesting-looking child, probabty about tea
years of age, stated that she was not begging, but endoaVouting to
sell the matches. She had purchased fourteen that morning for
3d., and she had sold half a dozen at a halfpenny each. '
The Worthy MacisreaTe ordered them to be detained till he
could see what should be done with them.
MARLBOROUGII-STREET.
A{/'red Morley, a very aged and venerable-looking man, with a
profusion of white long hair flowing over his shoulders, and whose
manners and siteech at once denoted his having seen better days,
was brought up by police-constable No. 147 of the F division, who
found him on Monday evening sitting on the step of a door in Old
Cempton.street, Soho, in the rain, and in a very exhausted state,
and shivering with cold. On questioning him he stated that be had
no home or place of habitation, and was in a state of -utter
destitution. In answer to questions put to him by Mr. Maltby, be
stated that he had been a tradesman in a respectable way of bush
ness in St. James's parish ; but misfortune and the infirmities Nei.
dental to his advanced age corning upon him, having outlived all
his friends, he by degrees sunk into his present impoverished state.
The poor old man added with tears that he could not bring himself
to beg, he had attempted to supplicate charity, but " the word&
stuck in his throat."

The Worthy Magistrate gave him some silver from the poor.
box, and directed the parochial officers of St. James's to be sent
for, in order that some proper and permanent relief might be af.
forded to the prisoner.

The prisoner very feelingly expressed bow deeply grateful he was
for the Magistrate's humane and charitable consideration of his case,
C♦USING ♦ DISTURBANCE ♦T Tit DUCE OR WELLINGTON*--..
Mary Connor, an Irishwoman, a widow, about sixty years of age,
was charged with being drunk, and behaving in a disorderly and
riotous manner, and causing a mob of persons to assemble in front
of Apsley Howe, Piccadilly, and violently forcing open the gates
of the coach-ya:d.

Police Constable No. 40, of the C division, stated that about
half-past four o'clock on Monday after noon he found the prisoner ha
the act of rushing with all her force against one of the entrance..
gates of the Court-yard of his Gr.ice's mansion, and which she
etuced open with such violence as to shatter two lamps placed one
on each side. On the porter ejecting her, and closing the gates she
forced them open again, and was then taken into custody.
The old woman, whose intellects seemed to be impaired, talked
in a very rambling and unconnected inann-r, and, after being ad..
monished not to repeat her visit to his Grace's residence, was
liberated.