The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-25 00:00:00

31..A.W. AND POLICE.

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The Duke of Devonshire left town yesterday for
Chatsworth.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely and the
Ladies Loftus are prolonging their stay at the Duke
of Marlborough's splendid seat, Blenheim House.
His Excellency Baron Brunnow left town on Wed-
nesday for Burgleigh House, Lincolnshire, on a
visit to the Marquis of Exeter, having been invited to
meet his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
who arrived at the mansion on Thursday. His Ex-
celleni•y will pay a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at
Belvoir Castle, before returning to town.
Viscount Cantalupe and Captain Clifford, of the
Guards, and several other officers of the Household
troops, have arrived at Earl Delawarr's seat, Buck-
hurst.

Lord Willoughby D'Eresby is expected in town on
Wednesday or Thursday next, from Grimthorpe
Castle, Leicestershire, to make preparations, in ,his
official capacity as Lord High Chamberlain, for the
Queen's opening Parliament on Tuesday week.
Lady Grenville has left Charles-street, Berkeley-
square, for Dropmore House, near Windsor.
The Hon. Mr. Greville entertained a select party at
dinner on Wednesday, at his residence in Hamilton-
place.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston intend to
leave Broadlands this week for Brighton. The Noble
Viscount will be in town by the 3d of February.
Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn continue on a visit
at Broadlands.

Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have arrived at
Compton Verney, on a visit to Lord and Lady Wil-
loughby de Broke, from participating in the series of
festive entertainments given at Stoneleigh Abbey by
Lord and Lady Leigh, in celebration of the coming
of age of the Hon. W. H. Leigh.
Viscount Lake has returned to Brighton from at-
tending the funeral of the Hon. Mrs. Wardlaw, his
Lordship's sister, at Bath.
Lord and Lady Ashley have arrived in town from
visiting the Earl of Shaftesbury, at St. Giles's, Dor-
set, and Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at
Broadlands, Hants.

MISOMMIANZOVIII.
A public soiree took place at the Winchester Me-
chanics Institution on Wednesday, and a lecture was
given by Mr. Sharp, on "the philosophy of the
kitchen,' to illustrate which a supper was cooked upon
the lecture table by means of gas. There was a
crowded attendance, including- Bickham Escott, Esq.,
M.P., and several other persons of distinction. Up-
wards of seventy sat down to the repast, which con-
sisted of roast beef, mutton, fowls, ham, griskins, fried
sausages, spare-ribs, puddings, &c., all admirably
cooked by the cooking apparatus, under the direction
of the lecturer.

On Friday evening a meeting was held of the pa-
rishioners of St. Clement Danes, respecting the suit
relative to the Holborn estates, and to consider and
decide what measures should be taken thereon. After
much discussion it was generally agreed, that all op-
position to the list of trustees and managers of the
Attorney-General should be withdrawn.
Badminton, the princely residence of the Duke of
Beaufort, in Gloucestershire, will be the scene of great
rejoicing during the ensuing week, consequent on the
Marquis of Worcester, eldest son of the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, attaining his majority on the
list proximo.

Considerable inconvenience having arisen from the
practice which is found to prevail very generally at
the outports, of permitting foreign vessels, after dis-
charginu their cargoes inwards, to depart in ballast
for any port of the United Kingdom, on their out-
ward voyage, without any victualling bill, the Com-
missioners of Customs have given directions, that no
foreign vessel be allowed to proceed in ballast from
one British port to another without a victualling bill,
noa unless due clearance of such vessel shall have

The case of the Attorney-General v. the Corpora.
tion of London came on for hearing in the Rolls
Court on demurrer. The application was to restrain
the corporation from granting licenses for the forma-
tion of embankments on the River Thames, the fee
simple of the bed of the river being in the Crown, and
the Corporation being the conservators only. The
Corporation demurred, claiming the ownership of the
bed of the river, and alleging that the question was
one which ought to be tried at common law. The
Master of the Rolls took time to consider his judg-
ment.

In the Secondaries Court a sheep salesman, named
Collins recovered 51. 2s. 6d. from a butcher named
Guerrier, for some lambs. The lambs had been pur-
chased by a jobber named Ellis, in Guerrier's name,
and the defence was that they had been purchased by
Ellis, without the authority of his principal. It ap-
peared, however, that at the time of the purchase
some of the lambs had been paid for, and had been
driven away by defendant's drover.
The examination of William Law, a bankrupt
draper, of Reading, was adjourned by Mr. Commis-
sioner Fonblanque sine die.
At Guildhall, a middle-aged woman, named Ann
Zuber, residing in Greystoke-place, Fetter-lane, was
brought before Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr. Alder-
man Musgrove, charged with carrying, without a
permit, upwards of two gallons of spirit. She was
committed for six months in default of paying a fine
of 1001. It appeared that the poor creature was in
very great distress at the time she committed the
offence.
Yesterday John Cox, a marine-store dealer, re-
siding in Rotherhithe, was charged at Greenwich
with having in his possession an immense quantity of
old and new metal, nails, rope, &c. Mr. Grove said
this was a case of wholesale plunder, and it was neces-
sary that ample time should be afforded. He should,
therefore, remand the case till Thursday next.
At the Thames-office an old sea Captain named
Betty, charged a couple of nymphs of the pave with
picking his pocket of his purse—they were re-
manded, and the Captain went to a tavern opposite,
and gave the pot-boy his boots to clean, when the
lost purse, with its contents, were found in one of
the boots. The prisoners were at once discharged.