The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-27 00:00:00

MAW AND POLICE.

In the Bankruptcy Court William Law, a linen-draper,
of Reading, came up for his last examination, but his
accounts not being satisfactory, his case was adjourned,
1„,
_ll order to enable hint to produce more detailed accounts.
-eklward Edwards, a linen-draper in the City-road, who
stated that during part of the time he was in business he
I°l4 no cash-book, likewise had his case adjourned for
Clore detailed accounts, and his allowance, it was arranged,
Bbould depend upon his assiduity in giving information
to his creditors.
The Insolvent Court resumed its sittings yesterday,
lifter the long vacation. Mr. Commissioner Pollock
presided.
Catherine Stewart, for ill-using Clara .Tyrrell, a child
thirteen years of age, was sentenced to three months' ion-
Prisonment at the Middlesex Sessions.
~ At Guildhall William Mills, the journeyman
hl der who discontinued an allowance of half-a-crown a
Week to his wife, who is 73 years of age, because he
InsPected she bad committed adultery with a young man
„c 23, again appeared before Sir Peter Laurie, to answer
41'
.4e complaint of Mr. Postan, the vestry-clerk of Al-
aersgate for refusing to maintain his wife. The
young man who is the object of Mills's suspicion
was present, and positively denied the charge. Mrs.
Mills,"t he said, was his aunt. Sir Peter Laurie consi-
dered the accusation so improbable that he ordered Mills
to allow his wife 2s. per week.
Richard Beachcrott, a young man holding a situation
lo the General Post-office, was bound over to the sessions
from Bow-street, charged with committing an unpro-
voked assault upon Mr. Randall Chatterton, a cutler,
residing at No. 2, Peter'S-court, Upper St. Martin's-
lane, The defendant had, in a drunken fit, knocked at
the complainant's door, and, on his appearing, had at-
tacked him ferociously.
George Arnold who was charged with having stolen a
s.uantity, of carpenters' tools, and also with attempting
.terminate his existence, upon the discovery of his
rt, by cutting his throat, was fully committed from
rYlebone.
At Union-hall, George Grant, a seaman recently dis-
chcarged from the Dreadnought hospital-ship, on board
,„ Which he had been a patient, was brought before Mr.
;,,ettingham charged with stealing a linen sheet from the
t4l4lb°i Borough. As it appeared that
e prisoner, an old man-of-war's man, had been driven
t°'
commit the crime by distress and starvation, the corn-
Platinum refused to prosecute, and he was discharged.
Henry Jones, William Benson, Thomas Hill, John
e 7, and Samuel Foreman, the five men who stand
elarged with having caused the death of a man named
George Benson, the brother of one of the prisoners, in a
"gilt which took place on Sunday last at Kensington,
Were fully committed from Hammersmith to take their
trial for murder.
William Waller, a carman, was charged at Clerken-
/i,ell with an assault upon James Latchford, aged 13
'ears. It appeared that on the previous evening the
prisoner, in sport, seixed the boy by the heels and swung
'al round repeatedly'. The boy cried out, but the pri-
!Poor did not leave off, and the boy became dangerously
"i, and has since been confined to bed in a dangerous
lainte, an effusion of blood on the brain having been pro-
mueed. He was remanded.
An old man named Ilugh Quin, who had been a
!eldier, and had been allowed a pension, but had lost it
14 Consequence of having been prevented by illness from
attending,,„ a call of pensioners in 1839, and who had
Znle to London from Scotland to endeavour to get his
r"flijon renewed, appeared at Marlborough-street, to be
passed home. On inquiry, however, it proved that he
t. ad been horn in Ireland, in which country he had no
tr,ierlds and that if passed anywhere at the expense of
le parish, he wrist be passed to Ireland. Under the
Peculiar circumstances of the case, Mr. Maltby gave the
man 1/. 10s. from the poor-box to pay his expenses to
`Scotland.
Mr. Henry Charles Maclean, of No. 11, Albion-
. street, Wandsworth-road, surrendered to his bail at
f\Yandswarth, to answer the charge, as it appeared on
had
police-sheet, of poaching in Wimbledon Park. lie
..ad been detected in the act of shooting a pheasant, and
haid been taken into custody by a policeman. Mr.
aynter, after perusing the game-laws for some minutes,
iind consulting with the chief clerk, turned to the con•
st4ble, and said—" You had no right to treat the defen-
da
nt in this way ; this is either a fiscal or a felonious
°lf"ee. I think it is clearly of the former nature, and
therefore the offence should have been taken cognisance
Of by information. The defendant was consequently dis-
charged, in order that he may meroceeded against in
!be regular manner; and Mr. Pay made tho follow-
ing remark upon the charge-sheet :—"I consider this
arrest has been made illegally, and I should not, there-
ri
're, feel justified in convicting, unless the party had been
Previously summoned."

C Ott -PASZUONALZIMIL
It is said the visit of her Majesty the Quecn Dowager
t° P-atirl and Countess Brownlow, at Belton House, near
`/santhani, has been pt- stEoned from the 2d until the 10th
October, in consequence, it is understood, of her Ma-
tsty being invited to meet his Majesty the King of the
ranch at Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Rutland, who has been among the guests
°I the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, took his de-
Nt-ture from that princely mansion on Wednesday
hkerning, and has returned to Longshawe, his Grace's
4100 ting lodge, in the same county. The Earl and
da°untess of Hardwick also left Chatsworth on the same
,Lay.

The Earl and Countess of Ashburnham, who have
been, passing the season at Ashburnham, in Sussex, will
shortly proceed to the north, on a visit to her Ladyship's
tister, the Marchioness of Breadalbaae. The Earl and
Coutttess will subsequently visit Lady Haddo, who is at
4t present staying at Haddo House, the seat of the Earl
of Aberdeen
The Earl of Denbigh, Lady Mary Fielding, Lady
C:ngusta Fielding, Lady Jane and Adelaide Fielding,
William C. Ross, Major Makepiece, and Count Vi-
harfsky, embarked on Thursday at Blackwell Pier, on
board the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
bhtp Soho, for Antwerp.
leord and Lady Jemiina Eliot have been staying at
nQI Castle, near Bath, since Tuesday last.
I,Count Alexander Tolstoy arrived at Brown's Hotel,
--Joyer-street, on Tuesday last, from St.. Petersburgh.
Count D. Nareschin is also among the distinguished
it„
tt'ssian Nubh men who have reached England during
last few days.
l The Russian Prince, Soltykoff, who, it will be recol-
reeted, fortuttl coo of the suite accompanying the Empe-
ttott of Russia on his recent visit to this country, arrived
f th
StC.Plare erndbon hotel late on Wednesday evening,
l'oul etsurgb.

trtZt.C."ELMANZOMII.
alt is said that clothing, arms, and accoutrements have
en prepared for the pensioners of the army fit for duty,
pi that they are to be called out for training seven
"va.Y.B in the year, and receive 2s. 6d. per day exclusive of
!`"! pensions. The dress consists of a frock coat,
Botlar to those worn by the police, dark-coloured trou-
4rst like the Oxford mixture, with red cord along the
c'itter 'watt's, and a blue cloth bonnet with peak. An
I°Vvance is to be made for two shirts, two pairs of
tj-)eking', and laced-up boots, and a haversack instead of
W,ilaPsaek. The arms and stores for the London and
oolwich districts are deposited in the Tower, ready to
be,suPplied when the men are ordered to assemble.
1,, LI, has been fur some time generally known that. con-
?Aterable improvements have been under the considera-
Lou
„ of Government to be effected in the neighbourhood
vl Westminster, especially in those parts whore scenes