The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-11 00:00:00

3.4ILVY .&10'D PDX.XOa.

The Committee of the Privy Council was engaged in
hearing the arguments in the case of the Royal Court of
Guernsey, against General Napier, the Lieutenant-
Governor of the Island. The further consideration of
the case was adjourned to Monday.
The Commission at Derby was opened by Mr. Justice
Patteson on Monday afternoon. The calendar contains
the names of 27 prisoners, and one has been committed
since it was printed.
At Chester Edwin James Port, 49, was placed at the
bar on a charge of killing and slaying Mary 'Terris, at
Birkenhead, by the application of white arsenic to her
right breast, which produced a sore or ulcer, and a mortal
sickness, on the 11th of October last, of which she died
on the 24th of the same month. The defendant was a
quack doctor, who advertised to cure cancer. Ho was
acquitted, and, in discharging him, Mr. Baron Gurney
gave him the following caution :—" Take care of your-
self for the future—you may not be so fortunate another
time."

Je!,eph Steadman Morrison, a police superintendent,
was convicted before Mr. Justice Coleridge, at York, of
having embezzled 171. The money had been remitted to
him as a subscription to the Police Association.
At Guildhall, Sir Peter Laurie mentioned that some
persons residing at Paris, had hit upon a singular plan
to recruit their finances. They had taken up Dodd's
account of the nobility and: gentry, and had begun
sending circulars to the individuals enumerated
therein, soliciting a remittance towards translat-
ing into German, and publishing, a series of biogra-
phical sketches. The application enclosed a sketch of
the article intended to be published, in which the person
addressed was eulogised, and blanks were left for the
insertion of some particulars. Though the names were
varied, the style of description was adapted to all of that
grade. Sir Peter said the price of fame was to be one
guinea per page. He had written to Paris declining the
favour, as he comprehended the object.
Leah Mary Roper, the notorious shoplifter, was fully
committed from Bow-street.

A young woman was charged at Marylebone with
having stolen from the person of Mr. Arthur Rumsey,
a wine merchant, carrying on business in Bond-street,
two Bank of England Notes of 201. each, and one ditto
of 101., together with a sovereign, Gs., and a gold ring.
It appeared that the prisoner met the prosecutor in the
street and accosted him as if 'she knew him. Ho as•
sured her she was mistaken. Sim however followed him,
stating she was a lady's maid, and eventually sncceeded
in picking his pocket of the articles mentioned. She was
remanded until next Tuesday. The police of the various
divisions have, from time to time, received information
with regard to other robberies perpetrated under circum-
stances of the like artful character, and it is more than
probable that on the next examination, other "gentlemen"
who have been " victi:nised" by " ladies' maids" may at-
tend to prefer more charges.
John Stump, who pleaded drunkenness as an excuse
for his conduct, was sentenced at Worship-street to six
weeks' hard labour for having entered the house of an
old lady, seventy years of age, and forced himself into
her bed.

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covnT.,--PAJORIONIAIa)taI.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster are en-
tertaining a select circle at Eaton Ilan.
Baron Nieumann and his bride (eldest daughter of the
Duke of Beaufort) have left England, for Florence,
where the Baron has been appointed Minister Plenipo-
tentiary from the court of his Imperial Majesty the Em-
peror of Austria.

The Right Hon. the Paymaster-General and Lady
and Miss Knatchbull, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel on
Monday, from Mersham, near Ashford.
Sir James Graham has taken Orton House, at Brighton,
where Lady Graham and family arrived on Monday.
Miss Burdett Coutts arrived on Tuesday at the Norfolk
Hotel, Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Grosvenor will arrive at
Eaton llall in the course of the week, to remain during
the holidays with the Marquis and Marchioness of West-
minster at their splendid mansion.
Earl and Countess Dc Grey have arrived in St.
James's-square from Brighton, and on Saturday the
Noble Earl and Countess leave for their seat, Wrest
Park, near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, where his Lordship in-
tends to pass a short time.
The Marquis of Exeter has arrived in Grosvenor-
square from Burleigh House, to be present at the
Chapter of the Order of the Garter, to be held to-morrow,
at Windsor Castle.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire are not
expected to leave town for East Hampstead- park, Berk-
shire, until the end of the ensuing month. The Earl of
Hillsborough is still at his hunting seat, Baxterley Hall,
near Leamington Spa, where Mr. and Lady Charlotte
Chetwynd are staying.

MCIISOZZLAIRABOVEL,
The metropolis was visited this morning by a most
unwelcome acquaintance—a dense fug—which caused
almost complete darkness for several hours. Though
somewhat abated at two P.M., the gas lights are still re-
quired in shops, warehouses, &c., as at night.
In reference to a paragraph that appeared in The Sun,
giving the inquest on the sudden death of Mr. Soutter,
a stockbroker in the City, we are requested to state
that he was not a Jew. Mr. Sontter, it appears, was a
Christian, and attended the Swiss Protestant Church in
Dean-street, Suho, of which the Rev. Mr. Andemars is
minister.

The University of Edinburgh has conferred the de-
gree of Doctor in Divinity on the Rev. John Cumming,
M.A., minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown-
court, C*vent-garden, to mark their sense of his great
acquirz,ments and untiring services to the Church of
Scotland.

The cattle show of the Smithfield Club, which is now
open to the public, is reckoned the largest and best that
has been seen for a long time. The number of cattle
greater than it has ever been, and their quality, spe-'„ing
generally, is also very superior. Scarcely a ;,,aunty
in
England but has its representative—of or-
another. ..,nescript ion or

From returns of the Small P,
month of November, it am-
ears that the epidemic con-
thattinues to increase, for •'
one admission of patients during
period has 13, .: •
received this - - total of 573 patients
en 71, making a. .
,ic Hospital for the past
not only - •• year into this valuable Institution, which
eeneyes the metropolis from so dreadful a con-
tar::..,n,.but diminishes the spread of the malady by means
of vaccination.
The amount of the Repeal Rent for the last week was
333/.

MEETING TO PtTITION AGAINST THE WINDOW
TAX.—Last evening a meeting of the ratepayers of St.
James's, West, was held at the Crown Hotel,
Broad-street, Golden-square, to consider the propriety
of taking ni‘a,urbs to petition Parliament for the rept.al
of the window tax. Mr. Auaten, of Golden-square,
churchwarden of the parish, was in the chair, and ex-
plained the objects of the meeting. Resolutions in fur-
therance of the object were then carried unanimously,
and a committee appointed.