The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-22 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

In the Rolls' Court, Lord Langdale gave judgment in the case of
the Countess Berchtoldt v. the Marquis of Hertford, awarding
the plaintiff a life interest in the sum of 10,6101. Bank Threw per
Cent. Annuities, agreeably to a bequest of the late Marquis.
William Gilbert, driver of Mountain's omnibus 4,216, running
from Paddington to the Bank, was charged at Marylebone with
having caused the death of Mr. William Hatton, an old and re-
spectable inhabitant of Hendon ; and after undergoing an exami-
nation was admitted to bail.

At Worship-street William Helford, the authorised parish
broker of S )uth Hackney, was summoned before Mr. Bingham, at
the instance of Mr. Richard Peacock, an old inhabitant and rate.
payer, for making an exorbitant overcharge of expense in levying
eleven distresses for rates in the house of the complainant at one
and- the same time. Mr. Bingham said the case fell within the
language of the 7th and Sth George IV., and ordered the defendant
to refund 21. 13s. of the amount he had overcharged, and pay the
costs of the proceeding.
COUNT—FASHIONABLE.

According to present arrangements her Majesty (who will open
the ensuing session of Parliament in person on the Ist of February)
will take her departure from Windsor Castle, for Buckingham
Palace, on Tuesday or Wednesday, the 30th or 31st inst. It is
fully expected that the stay of the Sovereign in town will not ex-
tend beyond a week or ten days, when the Court will return to
Windsor, and rema►n at the Castle till a somewhat advanced
period of the spring, most probably until the middle of April.

The Marquis of Salisbury arrived on Thursday morning from
visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at Burghley, near
Stamford, and left by the mail train the same evening for Whit-
tingharn House, the seat of Mr. and Lady Eleanor Balfour, near
Dunbar. The Noble Marquis will be in town by the 31st inst., in
order to dine with the Duke of Wellington.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Downahire left Hillsborough
Castle, county Down, last week, for the Palace, Armagh, to stay a
few days on a visit to the Lord Primate.
A magnificent bal masque was given by Mr. C. G. Eversfleld, on
Wednesday, at his seat, Defoe Park, near Horsham, at which at
least 300 of the leading nobility and gentry connected with the
county of Sussex were present. A very splendid temporary erec-
tion, in the form a marquee, but having all the splendour of a gal.
lt.ry in its decorations and equipments, was provided so as to form
apparently a part of the house, being concected by a corridor taste-
fully embellished with flowers, and brilliantly illuminated. The
Duke of Richmond, accompanied by Lady Caroline Lennox, and
Lords Henry and Alexander Lennox, came from Goodwood Park ;
and the Duchess of Norfolk, with Lady Mary Howard and Lords
Edward and Bernard Howard, came ever from Arundel Castle.

The Earl of Falmouth arrived, at the close of last week, at Tre-
gothan, his seat in Cornwall, from Woolhampton Park, near
Newbury.
Sir Clifford and Lady Constable and Miss Chichester have re.
turned to Burton Constable, near Hull, from visiting Lord Beau-
mont, at Carlton Hall, near Selby.
Sir John Guise, Bart., on Monday last, gave a ball at Rend.
combe Park, Gloucestershire, to his tenantry, to which also the
yeomanry of the neighbourhood were invited. On Tuesday, on the
occasion of Earl Fitzhardinge's hounds meeting at the Park, the
worthy Baronet gave a sumptuous breakfast to a numerous party of
the noblemen and gentlemen belonging to that hunt.