The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICZI.

Gore, the contractor for the cleansing of the streets of the
City of London, appeared at the Mansion-house, upon a
summons issued by the Lord Mayor, upon his Lordship's
own evidence, to answer for having neglecting to remove an
immense mass of filth from Puddle-dock. It was stated

that it was a public laystall, and that its state was mos
horrible. The Lord Mayor said he should at once instruci
the City Solicitor to proceed against the contractor by in.
dictment.

A young woman, about twenty years of age, named Susan
Doherty, was charged at Marylebone with having stolen
Bank-notes and other property to a considerable amount, be-
longing to Miss Elizabeth Mary Hodgson, a dressmaker, re-
siding at 17, Old Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square. She
was remanded till Thursday.
A cage of a very novel and singular nature was brought be-
fore Mr. Burrell, at Queen-square, by Skinner, an inspector of
hawkers' and pedlars' licenses, who charged Samuel Slater, a
man in the employ of Mr. Collins, at Paddington, with hawk-
ing hay for sale without a license, by which he bad incurred
the penalty of 10/. The offence was proved, but it was alleged
on the part of the defendant, that hay came under the section
of the Act which allows victuals to be sold by hawking. The
Bench took time to consider the objection.
Thomas Cornell, a tall dark man, well dressed, was
charged at Union-hall, with being concerned with another
man not in custody, in robbing George Ford, a countryman,
of 1101. in Bank of England notes and sovereigns. The pri-
soner, who is well known as a frequenter of races and fairs,
and belongs to a gang of fellows named " magsmen," was
committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.

George Ward, in the employ of Messrs. Cottam and Hal-
len, the ironfounders, of the Cornwall-road, was charged at
the same office with stealing some brass work belonging to an
iron lighthouse intended for the Island of Bermuda. The pri-
soner was remanded.

An action brought against Sir W. Gossett, Sergeant-At-
Arms of the House of Commons, was postponed till next term
in consequence of the illness of the Attorney-General.

COITEM-PASITION4S-113
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians and
suite are not expected to leave Buckingham Palace for the
Continent until the close of next week. His Majesty's illus-
trious sister, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, after
a brief visit to the Court of the Tuileries, proceeds, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, to
Berne, where her elder sister, the Duchess Julienne of axe
Coburg, has been long resident.
On 'Thursday was the anniversary of the natal day of her
Royal Highness of the Duchess of Gloucester, aunt to the
Queen, who completed her 68th year.
The Earl and Countess of Erroll leaves Clarges-street, at
the close of next week, for Slain's. Castle,, Aberdeenshire,
where they intend to remain until the middle of September.
The Dowager. Lady Holland has recommenced her regular
dinner parties for the season, in Great Stanhope-street. •
Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothsay are expected to arrive at
their mansion in Whitehall in about three weeks, from St.
Petersburgh, where the Hon. John A. D. Bloomfield, only
son of Lord Blopmfield, is accredited as Minister Plenipoten-
tiary in his Lordship's place.
Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart., with his lady and family, Cap-
tain Elphinstone, and other fashionable% were amongst the
numerous passengers who arrived yesterday morning, by the
steamer Antwerpen, Captain Jackson. The passage was re-
markably favourable, and was made in the short period of
nineteen hours. '

Viscount and Viscountess Milton, and the Hon. G. Fitz-
william arrived in Grosvenor-square on Monday, and left
on Thursday. for Milton, near Peterborough.

MISCELLAINTEDITS.

The tradesmen of the Queen celebrated the birth-day of
her Majesty by dining together, at the Freemasons' Tavern,
Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Thursday. The
meeting was not comparatively numerous, and was presided
over b) Mr. Dim:4a, of Regent-street.
From a return, presented to the House of Commons, of the
number of criminal lunatics now under confinement, it
appears that there are 128 confined in Bethlem Hospital who
were charged with various offences, the charge of murder
greatly preponderating—there are 3 in the county of Bed-
ford, 10 in Chester' ' 8 in Cornwall, 6in Devon 2 in-Dorset, 6
in Durham, 10 in Gloucester, A in Hants, 7in Kent, 17 in
Lancaster, 4 in Leicester, 22 in the Metropolitan Licensed'
Asylums, 1 in Norfolk, 2in Norwich, 4in Nottingham, 2 in
Oxford, 3 in' Salop, 3 in Somerset, 2 in Stafford, 6' in Suffolk;
1 in Sussex, 2 in Warwick, 8 in. Wilts, 3 in Worcester, ands
in York—making in the aggregate 269 criminal lunatics.
On Tuesday a numerous meeting of Merchants and manu-
facturers interested in the cotton manufacture took place in
Manchester, when. a memorial to Sir R. Peel, praying for a
repeal of the tax on cotton, was adopted, and a deputation
appointed to wait on Sir R. Peel on the subject. 7
13y a return presented to the House of Commons, it appears
that there are ten officers in the army receiving half-pay and
holding besides Government appointments, for which they are
paid salaries. The receipt of the half-pay was sanctioned
.under a recent Act, 6 and 7 Vic., c. 99, sec. 24. One of the
officdrs is a judge in, the Western District Court of Canada, at
2001. a year, and his half-pay is four shillings a day.; and an-
other is a Sub-Inspector of Factories, at 270/. a year, and his
half-pay is 584103. '

The new.regulations respecting twelve post-office deliveries
per day, for what was formerly called the Twopenny Post
district, are to come into operation next month, in cense-
quence Of which "a great number of extra hands have been
taken on, and are now undergoing probation.
On Thursday the annual general meeting of the London
Institution was held in the theatre of the -Institution, in
Finsbury-circus, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., in the chair. Mr.
William Tite, F.R.S., read the report of the Committee of
management. The expenditure had been met by means de-.
rived from previous savings, and there had been no necessity
for encroachments on the funded property of the Institution.
The receipts had been 3,6571. 4s. sd. and the payments3,2B6/.,
leaving a balance in the treasurer's hands of 388/. 19s. 3d.
The funded property of the Institution amounted to 37,6301.