The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-01 00:00:00

X.ILW AND POLICIES.

In the Secondaries' Court, Mr. Nicholls recovered from
a cabinet-maker named Johnson 201. as a compensation
for damages done by defendant to a pbny and chaise,
which he had hired of plaintiff.
Wednesday James Thos. Hanratty, a clerk at Messrs'
Morrison, Dillon', and Co.'s Fore-street, was committed
from Guildhall, charged with embezzling 130 L
At Bow-street, Mr. Twyford was occupied for some,
hours in hearing a complaint preferred by Viscount Ra-
nelagh against Inspector Barton of the G, or Clerken-
well division of police, charging him with having com-
mitted an assault upon his Lordship in the Strand, on
the dayof her Majesty's visit to the Royal Exchange. His
Lordship, however, took nothing by his complaint, for Mr.
Twyford, in dismissing the case, said he could not con-
viet an inspector who had been struck at by his Lordship
and treated with so much disrespect as it was evident
Was used towards him. His only wonder was that his
Lordship was not immediately taken into custody for
striking at a police-officer in the execution of his duty,
and he blamed the inspector for not ordering his arrest.
William Edwards, who described himself as a barrister
at-law, residing at 1, Middle Temple-lane, was charged
at Clerkenwell with having assaulted Mrs. Mary Anti
Sprigge wife of Mr. 'l'. Sprigge, a solicitor, residing in
North-place, Gray's Inn-road. The prisoner in a
drunken fit bad twice attempted to strike the prosecu-
trix, who was walking quietly along the street. lie was
fined 2/.

At Marylebone, Captain Charles Irvine, R.N., who is
upwards of seventy years of age, and resides at present
at No. 74, Great Portland-street, was brought before the
sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, by virtue of a warrant
which had been pla ed in the hands of Whipp, the officer,
to answer the charge of having written and sent a letter
to Edward Walter Forrester Walker, a captain in the
Scots Fusilier Guards, with intent to induce him to fight
a duel. Captain Irvine thought that as the challenge
.was to fight in Belgium, the magistrate could take no
cognizance of the matter. Mr. Long, however, con-
vinced him of his error by ordering him to find- sureties
to keep the peace for twelve months.
John Morris, an elderly man, was brought hefure Mr.
Trail!, at Union Hall, charged with obtaining various
sums of money, by practicing a very gross deception
on the public. The prisoner, who is one of the most in-
corrigible imposters about, has been recently laying
contributions in the character of a man reduced front
comfortable circumstances to destitution in consequence
of being incapacitated from holding any employment
owing to the recent rupture of a blood-vessel in the
lungs. He was committed for three months.
-A lad named Alfred Goldsmith, charged, with throw-
ing stones at the trains passing on the South-western
Railway, was fined 5/. at Wandsworth, and in default of
payment committed for six weeks.
Thomas Robinson was committed from the Thames-
office, on a charge of burgiariously entering the cabin of
the schooner Mary Ann, in Union.stairs Tier, Wapping,
and stealing a silver watch,gold chain and seals, the pro-
perty of William Gordon Brown, a Custom house officer.