The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

1.41,-77 AND POLICE.

At tlie Sta.Mrd Assizes on the 30th ult., Samuel Fel-
lov s, a d 19, Robert Purslow, 21, John Perry, 18, and
Daniel Webb, who wire acquitted at a late hour on
Thur.-,,day night of the murder of Mary Jane Wild, were
indicted 'for a.saulting the unfortunate girl, with intent
to commit a rave upon her, and found guilty. The Judge
Mr. B;;;r,,n Rolle, sentenced them to 18 months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.
Joseph Parnell, a respectable-looking man, and by
trade a butcher, was indicted in the New Central
Criminal Count for marrying Mary Ann Maria Wood,
on alp 11311 of .Lu-ivary, 1839, his wife being then and
now 'Jr‘ jury returned a verdict of guilty, with
a r,coturrwndation to mercy. Mr. Commissioner Bullock
sail that he c otil.i not, for the sake of his children and
his wife, to lad made some reparation, inflict
a long ha priscruneri t. The sentence was imprisonment
u,ontbs.

t (.?,il,Aql-scitiare police-court, James Strachan, a
}-can man, W:,s committed on a charge of
cLiidrun of a tender age to issue counterfeit

coin,

At 7:7.- rvielr,ne, George Patmore and Robert Jerran,
two c..pai toatm:.ll. were charged with improper con-
duct tow z:(1,, a married woman between 50 and 60 years
of ago, and at ter ward:r. committing a brutal assault upon
her she rom,)i,trated. The former was ordered
to par r, tiiie of 5/. aril the latter 40s. Being unable to
p!:y 11:y were lock,d up.
At Woolwif!li, a middle-aged man, named Hammond,
who has .it!-:erto a most irreproachable character
in the town of jab, was charged with stealing pots
from licensed Victuallers and others. The case excited
the greatest interenr, from the respectability of the pri-
So7l?l''S fih.nds, and he being the last person to be sus-
pecto carrying on this systematic sori- of plunder.
He was at the same time charged with attempting to
utt..n. counterfeit coin. After several witnesses had
given evidence, the Magistrate said was it not from the
urgent solicitation of those present to deal leniently with
tire case. he shoqkl decidedly commit him for trial, as it
lo,,iced like a regular system carried on by him, and
little expected as the party. He now should fine him
The highest r,ra:lty to law allowed, that was 51., in
default to to Maidstone gaol for one month
and hard t„.

Mr. Ilroicr diTg-ssing of the night charges at
th,-? Tham!-, I'Ol, • remarked that the amendment
ihe habit, an I:,ihners of the people of the district
very stri:j!,.:;. A night of festivity—tite going out
of tie., 01.1 ye”i• coming in of the new one—bad
n e, Sunday had also intervened, but
sh.. re were only four ens9s of drunkenness ; none of
theta v. (To at:vmied violence and disorder, and they
of the 4,r,!ivary description. It was a great amend-
in a. t. indeed. di,i!riet to which the Magistrate re-
con,pri,ks r.,palation of 100,000 persons, in-
el:, hatter: I', I.,;.!ellouse, Poplar, and St. George's-
in-t ite-East, wi:, re most do congregate.

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~'iISYIONJZBLE.

'T h‘. I)tilte of i‘,..deluix arrived at Plymouth from
Ugtrook un Hl:,` 30„: ti!t., where he would remain till
the fo;!owing day orti, rto inspect the establishments
of that port.
The Dtlic r of (I:::i;laridge is at present at Dean-park,
on a visit to '..!:(2 of Cardigan.
Tit, Duke tvni Duchess of Sutherland and family are
detained in town 1); thce serious illness of their infant
son. In eons) ,:n,..nce of alarming symptoms having pre-
sented them ides Sdturday, several physicians were
ea!le,l in, but sut,s: iveatly, we hear, a change, ccnsider-
ably 1,-4. the bstter, lLs taken place. As soon as the
infant has resovt:rtni tLe Duke and Duchess go to Tren-
tham.

The Duke. and Doehess of Montrose are entertaining
a lnr:..;e rally :.t. >ulby Hall, Northamptonshite. The
Countess oi Jt !.,;ey and Lady Clementina Villiers join
the circle to-,!ar, and from thence will go to Belvoir
Castle.

The Earl r 1.7,1 Countess of Browrdow intend to have
much company t Belton House near Grantham, during
this month. Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina
Villiers, and a numerous circle, meet there early in the
next week.

Viscount ant Viscountess Dungannon and the Hon.
Miss Irvine left t=ratton. street on Monday for Southamp-
ton, intending to embark there for Havre. The Viscount
and Viscountess 1.11; ro, remaining abroad some months.
alit* Earl 01 11,1-01-:e intends to pass the winter in
Paris, and d..es e,ntemplate returning to this coun-
try until the ci 0F March.
'The Dowa.:Lcr C .ountoss Fortescue has been surrounded
by a nunierotis 1:i:oily circle at Wear Gifford, Devon,
.during the 1:,,t k. Earl and Countess Fortescue,
Viscount Ebr:,'2,t,.7,, Lord and Lady Courtenay, Hon.
Mr. and Lady Anna Maria Courtenay, &c., are staying
with the ye:ler:Wl e Countess.

Lord Beatnun,,z. ha. returned to Carlton Hall, near
Selby, from L'or'e•: Constable, the seat of Sir Clifford
Constable, r,r.r .
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'l' no Martin:, (;f Salisbury has, during the last week,
had a snce,-,sion l;u::sts at his fine old seat in Herts,
among whom NN,,i-e the Earl and Countess of Essex,
Countess of Jer.,,:y, I,nd Lady Clementina Villiers, Lady
A. Capel, Lord Lady De Ros and Honourab:e Miss
ll nos, Sir 11, liardinge, Lord Polworth, Earl of
Ripon, Lord Gucherich, Viscount Mahon, • Lord
Sanclys, &e.