The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-22 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

James Elmore, a policeman, recently in the employ of the
Croydon and Brighton Railway Company, was convicted at
the Surrey Sessions tof feloniously stealing, on the 13th of
February last, at St. Olave's, Southwark, a gold seal and
ring, the property of W. Fisher, and sentenced to hard labour
for twelve months.

At Bow-street, Frederick Shaw, a gold-beater, and Frede-
rick Radfort, a butcher, were committed for trial, the one for
four acts of theft and burglary, and the other for six similar
offences. In one case, the property stolen in jewellery,
amounted to 2001.

At Guildhall, William Brown, Isaac Chaplin, and Joseph
Harvey, three seamen, belonging to the schooner Maas,
Captain Cooper, trading between London and Hamburgh,
were charged by the Solicitor of Customs with smuggling
1201bs. of foreign tobacco, valued with the duty at 651. Mr.
Alderman Gibbs, with the concurrence of Alderman Sir. C
Hunter, fined each of the prisoners 1001., and ordered them
to be imprisoned till the same be paid.
Mr. Maltby, the sitting magistrate at Marlborough,street,
acknowledged the receipt of a 51. Bank of England note,
No. 00,700, flom a benevolent person, who states in his note
that it was saved from " self-denial practised during Lent,"
for the poor-box.
At Worship-street, Wm. Stripling alias Wilson, was re-ex-
amined before Mr. Broughton, charged with having bur -
glariously entered the dwelling-house of John Finlaveon,
Esq., a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, residing in Pales-
tine-place, Cambridge-heath, and stolen therefrom a quan-
tity of plate and other property. He was fully committed.

COURT—PASNIONABLM.
The Duchess of Cambridge, attended by the Baroness
Ablefeldt and Major Stephens, honoured the French Plays
with her presence on Wednesday.
The Earl of Rosebery received at dinner on Wednesday
the Earl Stanhope, Lord John Fitzroy, the Earl of Altamont,
Sir John Harrington, Bart., Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Stan-
hope and Miss Stanhope. Mr. Hope Vere, and Mr. Robert
Drummond.

The Earl of Haddington entertained the Duke of Welling-
ton, Sir R. Peel, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Lord W harn-
chafe, Sir James Graham, Sir H. Hardinge, Sir E. Knatchbull,
Duke of Buccleuch, and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
at dinner on Wednesday, at the Admiralty. It was the Noble
Earl's first Cabinet dinner this season
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are still on a visit
at Badminton, and will not leave until Saturday next for
town. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort return to Arling-
ton-street, for the season, on the Wednesday following.
The Countess of Uxbridge is recovering from her very
serious attack of illness, and we are happy to hear no danger
is now apprehended.
Tueiday next is the birthday of his Royal Highness Prince
George of Cambridge, who will complete his 25th year.
The Marquis of Abercurn is expected at Dudley House,
Park-lane, early in the ensuing week.
The Countess of Haddington has issued invitations for a
grand assembly at the Admiralty on Monday next, in honour
of her Majesty's drawing-room,
The opening ball at Alinack's on Monday next, the day of
her Majesty's drawing-room, is expected to be a brilliant
assembly. The Countess of Jersey and Viscountess Palmer-
ston purpose being in attendance, and the applications to
those ladies patronesses for vouchers, considering it is the
commencing ball of the season, have been exceedingly nu-
merous.

Lord and Lady Stanley have a grand dinner on Saturday
next. It will be the Noble Lord and Lady's last party be-
fore Easter.

WCZSCELL.&NZOUS.

To accommodaTeTheaiTTneni; of Mr. Cobden tlse free
trade banquet at the Amphitheatre at Liverpool has been
postponed until Friday, the 12th of April.
On Wednesday the annual general meeting of the donors
and subscribers to the Artists' Benevolent Fund, which was
established by a Royal charter granted by Georip the Fourth
in the year 1810, was held at the Freemasons' tavern, Great
Queen-street ; Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., in the chair. The
account of income and expenditure for the past year being
read, the former was 1,5181. 3s. Id., in which was included
93/. ss. annual suJoscriptions, 621/. 14s. donations, and 561/.
13s 4d. dividends on 19,000/. Three per Cent. Reduced Stock.
The disbursements had been nearly 1,409/.. leaving a balance
in the hands of the treasurer of 109/. 17s. 9d. The gratui-
ties to widows in the latter accounts amounted to 6201. 7s.
Bd., and to orphans 128/. 6s. 'The capital of the fund con-
sisted of 19,300/. Three per Cents. Reduced.
In the course of last week three destructive incendiary fires
took place in Essex.
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A return of the weekly aggregate average price of wheat,
by which the duty is regulated, from the Ist of February, 1843,
to the present time, has been printed on the motion of Mr.
Charles Wood, M.P. Striking a general average of the
various prices during the above period (which includes 57
weeks), we find that the weekly average price, by which the
duty was regulated, amounted to 2/. 10s. 4d.
The metropolitan mortality by small-pox during the last
year, which has been remarkable for the severity of its epi-
demic maladies, has been estimated as low as 438,.whereas by
measles alone 1,400 lives have been lost. This latter disease
is prevailing to a very considerable extent at Eton College.
As many as between 100 and 200 of the boys are affected;
but only one case of a fatal nature has occurred.
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Wednesday, a public meeting, crowdedly attended, was held
in the large room at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street,
called by the Metropolitan Anti-State-Church Asssociation,
to express an opinion on the subject of the union of Church
and State, to adopt resolutions condemnatory of such union,
and to elect two delegates from the metropolis to serve in the
Anti-State-Church Conference, now forming. Itetolutions to
that effect were adopted.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—Wednesday the
Fellows of this College met at their house in Trafalgar-
square, for the purpose of choosing a President, in the room
of the late Sir Henry Halford, when John Ayrton Paris,
F.R.S., was elected, by ballot, to fill that important
office.

BRISTOL AER EXETER RAILWAY.—A large and
influential meeting of the city and county gentlemen was
held at the Guiidhall, Exeter, on Saturday, to consider the
propriety of adopting some course to celebrate the completion
and •pening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The High
Sheriff of Devon was in the chair, and it was unanimou►ly
resolved that a public banquet should be given to the Direc-
tors of the Bristol and Exeter and the Great Western Rail-
ways, the Members and Recorder of Exeter, the Lord Lieu-
tenant, the High Sheriff and Members of tke county of
Devon, &c., on that occasion. A considerable amount was
raised at the meeting for carrying the same into effect, and
subscription lists are opened at the different banks in Exeter.
—Western Luminary.
Cuess.—Mr. Staunton, the celebrated English
champion, dined with the Brighton Chess Club on Monday.
Three very interesting games were played by Mr. Staunton
and Mr. Kennedy, a member of the club, in which the cham-
pion gave his opponent the advantage of a pawn and two
moves. Mr. Kennedy won the first two games, but the third
was won by Mr. Staunton, who displayed great skill.
THE EARL OF HARROWEY.—This venerable noble-
man is labouring under severe indisposition, and we regret
to hear that from the aduanced age of his Lordship (upwards
of 80) but little hopes are entertained of his again recover-
ng his usual good state of health.
BRIGHTON, MARCH 20.—Lord Lorton, the Dean of
Chichester, and Captain Shifter have arrived at the Albion ;
Colonel Banbury, at the Bedford ; Lord Suffield, Captain
Johnstone, Captain Fane, Vice-Admiral Tomlinson, Sir W.
Wellesley, and Lady Knighton, at the Royal York; Uset
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lord Francis Egerton and
the Ladies Gower, are an a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Norfolk, at Arundel Castle; the Earl and Countess of Shef-
field have left Sheffield Park, near Uckfield, for London. The
departure of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset from Brighton
has broken up the fashionable season. Amongst the departures
are the Earl and Countess of Belfast, the Dowager Lady Lis
towell, Miss Brooke, Sir Alexander and Lady Duff, the
Dowager Duchess of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Prudhoe, Miss
Girdlestone, Sir George Wombwell, and the Hon. General and
Miss St. John.

MILITARY
DRESB.-•--It is expected that the sum-
mer dress of the privates and non-commissioned officers,
both of the cavalry and infantry, will undergo change before
the ensuing season. It appears that the white trousers are
intended to be abolished, and that some other light article
will be substituted fvr it.