The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-23 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE,

• The recent case of adulteration of flour at Newcastle...
reported in The Sun of beptember 8, has been investi-
gated in that town. Mr. Bull has been fined in the full
penalty of 201. and costs, the case being fully made out,
and the eighteen sacks of the adulterated material were
ordered to be buried.

Another instance of falSe swearing by a policeman
occurred at Queen-square police-office on Tuesday. A
gentleman of the name of Winterbottom, on leaving his
father's house in Sloane-street the previous evening, was
taken into custody by police constable 132 B, for ringing
bells, and forced to the station-house, where he had to
find bail. When before the Magistrate; the constable
positively swore that he saw the defendant go up the
-steps of two houses, ring the bells, and then run .away
and join his companions. Evidence was given which
convinced the Magistrate that the policeman had not
stated the truth, and the case was dismissed. Mr. Bur-
rell could hold out no hopes of redress to the injured
party from the Commissioners, as the policeman had
only " erred in the identity.", And is it come to this
under the new system, that a man can have no redress
for such an outrageous insult ? This may be Magis-
trates' law, but it is not the, law of the country. Juries
often give heavy damages against a Sheriff's officer for
illegal arrest, and why, therefore, should a police officer
escape ?

Al Union-hall on Tuesday, a woman of the name of
Silcox, was committed to take her trial for throwing a
quantity of vitriol over the person of Charles Cooper,
with whom she had cohabited for some time past. It
appeared they had latterly lived on very bad terms, and
within a few days they had :.eparated.
At Hatton-garden another young woman was brought
before the Magistrate on a charge of attempting to drown
herself in thuistew River. The poor girl on being pressed
by Mr. Greenwood to reveal her situation, said her
name was Elizabeth May, her friends resided at Dray-
ton, Caml:ridgeOire, but she had disgraced and left
them. Iler seducer who had brought her up to town on
a promise e mo.rrizre had :deserted her. She had been
turned out of her lagings, and she was anxious to put an
end to her sufferings. The ;Magistrate directed that she
should be taken to the parish-officers of Islington till
her friends should learn her unfortunate condition.
At the Mansion House two of the pickpockets who in-
fest the Bank and the banking-houses in the neighbour-
hood to plunder the unwary, were committed to prison
fur .a month.
An inquest was held on Tueslay, at Deptford, on the body
of the old man named ila.zzard, when the Jury returned:a
verdict of "- Wilful murder" against Richard Eustace
and Mary Ann Hazzard, widow of the deceased. .

• •
Mr. Octavius Duncombe, brother to the Hon. W.
Duncombe, now called to the House of Peers under the
title of Baron Faversham, by the death of his father, was
elected on Tuesday for North Yorkshire, without oppo-
sition. •

SPORTING.
The Inierness bills abound with sportsmen, and the
grouse Shooting is excellent. In Ross-shire the birds are
'more abundant than for many years. At Flowerdale,
3.1 r St. Godrge bt,cn successild in de,:r-stalking.

-The.anArriag9 of Lord Henry Russell, seventh son of
the late Duke Of Bedford, and Miss Henrietta Maria