The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-02 00:00:00

ITALY.

Advices from Turin of the 25th ult., state that the
Chamber has reluctantly annulled the election of
MAMIA.NI for Genoa. The President of the Com-
mittee to which the consideration of the vAlidity of
the election was referred, having applied to the Go
vernment to know whether or not letters of naturali-
zation had been granted to MAMIANI received the
following reply from the Secretary to the Minister
of the Interior :

" Knowing that the Committee, of which your Lord-
ship is president, desires to know in a positive manner
if Count Terence Matniani! del Rovere, is or is not a
naturalized Sardinian subject, I hasten to inform you
that no decree has conferred that quality upon him."
In consequence of this communication, which lefr
no doubt that MIMIANI was not a Sardinian
subject, the Committee reported, but did so with
regret, that the election ought to be annulled. The
report concludes with these words :
" The country has done its duty in giving a solemn
testimony of homage and esteem to this illustrious
Italian. It becomes now the duty of the Government
to justify its conduct to that gentleman to the nation."
These words created a great sensation, and were
loudly cheered by the Opposition. The Chamber
then annulled the election of MAMIANE.
The Venice Gazette contains a notification of the
22d, informing the inhabitants that Field-Marshal
RADETZKY, being apprised of the excellent behaviour
of the people of Venice, has directed that they shall
be henceforward permitted to go out at any time
of the night.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.
Her Majesty's New Year's gifts, of meat, bread,
coals, potatoes, blankets, and clothing, were distri-
buted this morning to the aged, infirm, and distressed
poor of Windsor and its vicinity, in the presence of
the Queen and Prince Albert and the Royal Family,
his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge,
the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, and the Hon.
and Rev. G. Wellesley (Domestic Chaplain to her
Maipsty) Thn cti.trihnti,,n i.‘ kho riding.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge (attended by a Gentleman and Lady in
waiting), her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of
Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Hesse are expected to arrive at the
Castle this evening from Kew, ati a visit to her
Majesty and the Prince.
The Royal dinner party in the Castle this evening,
includes her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of
Hesse, the Ladies and Gentlemen in attendance on
their Royal Highnesses, the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, the Rev.
Lord Wriothesley Russell, Colonel the Hon. C.
Grey, and Mr. Glover.

The following had the honour of being invited
after dinner :—General and Lady Isabella Wenlyss,
Hon. Mrs. C. B. Phipps, Hon. Mrs. Charles Grey,
Sir George, Lady, and Miss Couper, Hon. Miss
Lyttelton, and Miss Pole Carew.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday,
the Bth of January, at Windsor Castle. Summonses
were issued yesterday to the Ministers and Officers of
State.

The Earl and Countess Granville left town on
Monday, for Paris.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of Bermuda, and
also for the Governors of the West India colonies.

RACES T

0 COME.

FEBRI
Lincoln Spring

'A RY.

MA
Doncaster Spring

Liverpool.
ICH.

AP
Catteriek Bridge
Northampton & Pytch-
ley Hunt 3
Croxton Park 9
M.
Chester Spring
Newm. Second Spring l4
Shrewsbury l5

Warwick l9
,IL.

lEpsom Spring
Newmarket Craven
I Bath 23
Newmkt. First Spring 29
AY.

Newton
Ascot
Hampton

Manchester 22
Epsom Summer 2B
Edinburgh

;U.
Newmarket
Liverpool.. lO
Nottingham l6
Stamford l7

' Newcastle
Bibury 26
Stock bridge 27
SLY.

AUI
Ripon
Brighton 7
Wolverhampton
Eglinton Park ... 13 or 14

SEPTE
Warwick ..
Lichfield
10 I

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Newmkt. First October.oo 1
Chester Autumn......... 8

Salisbury • ... 18
Winchester 23
Good wood

Reading
York 2l
Stirling _

SURREY SESSIOS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. PucKLE awl a Bench of Magistrates.)
Peter Brooker, aged 29, attired as an agricultural
77;1:1 d;.'scril)ed tha c!..lend2,r r 3 ildth-r
;:!+7 to r9:i fir Ti-rir,", p1e77,7N1 hav:n2:,
7.1-.17i.1;111a-1 two LinL.,
the property of John I..aluchere, Esq., with intent
feloniously to steal the carcasses of the said lambs.
The CIIAHtMAN asked the prisoner if he had any-
thing to sey to the G,urt before it passed sentence
upon him. The charge was a very serious one. The
offence of stealing sheep was on the increase, and it
was th© duty of the Court to put it down by the strong
arm of the law.

The prisoner, a stupid looking countryman, had
nothing to say. Ile appeared to treat the charge and
his fate with stolid indifference.

The officer was called. He said, in reply to
questions from the Chairman, that the prisoner was
not known as a felon. He had been charged with
poaching, and his house was the rendezvous of
poachers.
The CHAIRMAN asked if the man was in work at
the time he committed the offence to which he had
pleaded guilty.
The prisoner said he was not.

CIIAIRNIAN then sentenced the prisoner to be
transported for ten years, a sentence which caused
much surprise to the crowded court.
The rest of the morning was occupied in sentencing
prisoners who had pleaded guilty to several minor
charges They were sentenced to different short
terms of imprisonment in the House of Correction of
the county.
[The high courts of law do not consider it below
their dignity to set apart a small portion of the avail-
able space for the accommodation of the press. There
are few courts,' whether high or low—the High Court
of Chancery dow❑ to the Police office—that do not
afford the utmost facility to the representatives of the
public, in order that they may be enabled to dis-
charge their duties without hindrance or inconveni-
ence. Not so the august Surrey Sessions. The
reporters are tumbled about anywhere ; and if,
in their zeal, they manage with difficulty to raise
themselves to a position whence they can get a
glimpse of what is going on, the menials of the
court are directed to remind the ambitious individual
that no one. must in that court elevate himself to a
level with the covered heads of the magistrates. The
body of the court being crammed with solicitors, and
the seats reserved for the bar being fully occupied,
the reporters are entirely excluded, except they chance
to take up their position among the motley crowd that
fill sessions courts to overflowing. We hope the
Surrey magistrates will remedy the evil of which we
complain ]

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) ,
An elderly woman was charged with having created
a disturbance in St. Giles's Workhouse.
One of the workhouse constables stated that last
night he heard a disturbance in the female sleeping
ward, and on going to see what was the matter he
found the prisoner quarrelling with the other inmates
of the ward. She was in bed at the time, and he told
her to get up and dress herself, but she refused to do,.
so, and he had to remove her almost in a state of
nudity to the receiving-room, where he left her. 10
sooner, however, had he turned his back than she set
upon the old nurse who had charge of her, and after
getting possession of the keys she turned the nurse
out, locked herself in, and then broke all the windoill
in the room, amounting to 14, and valued at 21.
Mr. JARDINE asked if she WAS drunk ? The
officer said she had been drinking, but she was not
drunk

The prisoner, in her defence said, what occasioned
the disturbance in the first instance was the mie:
conduct of some of the inmates who came to Wu
quite drunk, and began ill-treating all who were
sober and peaceably disposed. She went once and
complained to the governor, but all the redress she
could get was a stern order to go back to her beat
and this so exasperated her that in a fit of passion sbe
did the damage complained of.
Mr. JARDINE said such acts as these could not be,
overlooked, and told the prisoner that, however muce
annoyed she might have been by the conduct of the
other inmates, or the refusal of the governor le
interfere, it was no justification for her breaking the
windows. She must, therefore, make good the damsg°
by paying 404., or be imprisoned for a month. /
The fine was not forthcoming, and she was "'
course locked up.

NIARLBRO -STREET—(THIS DAV
DESPERATE ASSAULT ON THE POLICE BY THOffil
PICKPOCEATS.—John Kelly, John Burke, and Rob t 1
Haines, three notorious pickpockets, were brougli
bef,re Mr. Hardwick, charged with attempting V)
pick the pockets of several ladies in Regent street'
and also with violently assaulting the police when 31/
the execution of their duty.
Police-sergeant Hardwick, 7 D, stated that on tit,
previous afternoon he was proceeding along Rege°
.treet, in company with two of the City offiCei, ;
Brett, in, 11M1 Spiller, 9, when his attention 11,,
called to the prisoners and two others, not in custe°P
who were surrounding three ladies near a silk-nle),,
cer's shop, close by Beak-street. Witness, knowil
them to be part of a gang of the most expert thiei
in London, kept a sharp eye upon their mol
ments, when he saw the prisoner Kelly
up a lady's dress and feel her pocket, wblei
the other prisoners screened him. The ladies walkg
on as far as Glasshouse-street, still followed by t`;',
prisoners, who kept close behind them, and, wily
near the end of the street, witness again saw
go up to one of the ladies and put his hand 111
her pocket. Witness immediately ran forty",
and collared Kelly, when the two other Pr;
soners came up and struck him a tremend°„
blow in the face, cutting his lip Ow
pletely in two. Witness, in spite of their WI,
contrived to keep a firm hold of the prisoner Kell)
until the two City officers came to his assistance
handcuffed him. The others ran away, but aftere
sharp run and a most determined and desperate
sistance on the part of Burke and Haines, they Vie
captured, and all three taken to the station. 1
Spiller and Brett having corroborated the wholes)
the above evidence, the prisoners were committed
the House of Correction for three months with V
labour.