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

X.AVI AND POLICE.

In the Prerogative Court, a paper was propounded as the
will of a gentleman of the name of Hobart, who died in May,
1843, containing a direction that the sum of 4,4251. should be
devoted to an equestrian statue of himself. The paper was
in the testator's writing, and 'in the form of a letter to Mr.
Blake, of Norwich, and written shortly befOre his' death.
The probate of this paper was opposed, on the ground that so
absurd a legacy afforded' evidence of the incapacity of the
deceased. Sir IL J. -Fust said, that though the bequest
might be an evidence of the egregious vanity of the deceased,
it was not sufficient to justify the Court in holding that he
,was insane, and admitted the paper to probate.
At BoW-street, .tames Glanville was charged with steal-
ing a number, of books, the property of Mr. Bohn, York-
street, Covent-garden, his master. The prisoner admitted
having taken the books, but was remanded for further exa-
mination. -

ane Smith was charged with attempting, by means of
false • pretences, to obtain alms from the authorities of the
parish of St. Clement Danes. After hearing the evidence of
the Rev. Mr. Ellis, the rector of the parish, and of the Hon.
and Rev. Mr. Saville, Mrt Jardine committed the prisoner to
the House of C.,o7ection for two months.

Henry Hall and John 34ggeridge were brought up at
Marylebone, for further exitination, on the charge of having
broken and entered the premises of Measra. Woollens, paper-
stainers, High-street, and stolen cash -and • other property.
The case was fully Proyed; and the prisoners (both of whom
have been in the employ of the.piosecutors) were.-committed
for.trial. - , .

At Union-hall, John Elmer, a policeman is the service of,
'the Brighton 4ailway Company, was finally examined before.
Mr. Cottingham, on a charge of stettlikig a gold seal and ring,
the property of Mr. Fisher, a gentleman residing at Camden-
town. ..The case was fully established, and the prisoner was
committed for trial.

At .Marlborough-street Henry Ellison was fully committed
on a charge of having stolen a cash-boi, containing bills of
exchange and other securities for money; amounting to 7001.,
the pr?perty of his master, N. Sayin, prench flower and
trimming importer, in South Molton-street.
At the Thames Police Court, Elizabeth Reynolds, a yomig.
woman, nineteen years of age, was brought_ up by John
Charleg Kay; an officer of Excige,' charged with working an
illicit still, at No. 4, Alfred-place, Stepney. He found the
prisoner in the. back kitchen, standing beside a copper still,
and surrounded by all the implements and apparatus used in
diitillation. The prisoner, When questioned, said she had;
been employed for a fortnight, it 3s. per day, by a Mr. and.
Mrs'. Jack Son, whose persons she described, but denied any
knowledge of their abode. Mr. Broderip said that he must'
convict her in the penalty.of3o/., or sentence her in default to.
three—niiiiitheliiid labour in the House of Correction.

comr--r.asmaoicaszE. -
The Prince of Wales, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of
St. Germans, Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady Basset, and
Sir Richard Vyvyan,,Bart., M.P., have respectively contri-
buted 1001. to the additional building of the Cornwall County
Lunatic Asylum. Lord Eliot, , Lord Carteret, and Sir S. 1.
Sp 7, Bart., 31. P., are donors of 50/. each.
Ihe Duke of Wellington arrived at Strathfieldsaye en
Tuesday, and on Wednesday gave a splendid entertainment
to Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice Cresswell, the
Judges on the western circuit. The High Sheriff, Mr. John
Thomas Waddington, the Speaker, of the House of Commons,,
and a circle. of about thirty of the magistracy of the county,
were,invited to-meet the Judges-by the noble host. '
Lord Elphinstone arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, early in,
the week, from his seat, Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire, being
his first visit to his Scottish estates since his return from
the Government of Madras. •

Lord Eastnor, M.P., has been making a tour in the East,
and is not- expected home untiLthe. advance of the spring.
Lord Suffield left Fenton2s Hotel on Wednesday, for Icor-
folk-square, Brighton, where Lady Suffield is staying in deli-
cate health.

Lord and. Lady Portman -and family left Bryanstone House,
Dorset, on Saturday last, for Brighton, where they have en-
gaged a ireiidenei for a'short time. • '
The Marquis of Wast Minster is quite recovered from his•
recent. slight.indiSposition.
.The Marquis does.not intend to
leave Eaton Hall for Grosvenor House before the Chester
.races Are Aver.v.bnt the Marchieness will be in town, most
likely, a week prior to that meeting. '
The Marquis of Clinricarde has left Carlton House-terrace
for Hooton Park, on a visit to -SirWm:MaSsey Stanley,
• The Duke of Leeds • returned to the Clarendon Hotel on
Wednesday, from Melton Mowbray, where his Grace half
been• enjoying the diversion of hunting with the. Melton
bounds. The Duchess and the Dowager Duchess are still at
.Hornby Castle.
IVICZSCELLANEOTIS.
Nearly` all the' mails' from the
.north are arriving at. the
Post-office-considerably Postroce-considesably byond time. In. Edinburgh
and the north of Scotland there have been heavy falls of
snow, and. many of, the roads 'are completely blocked- up.
The mails *Mb Glasgow, Perth, Inver-
ness, Aberdeen, Montrose,: Arbroath, Forfar, Dundee, and
other, places,- fire'Oeidne. The Wick_, and Thurso mails. are
niore.than 48..hOUrs overdue: ,
At a: meeting on Wednesday ,of. the ratepayer's of the pa,
rish-Of St: George-thOtartYr, a petition to the Commis7
sioner'S of :Woods and Forests wus
.'proposed. and" agreed to,
'praYing that a portion of. any, sum granted. for the improve-
ment of the metropolis might, be applied towards the forma,
film of a road through the district called the 'Mint to the
'Great pOieitroad. The' Mint.was stated, to be, one`Of the
most immoral and profligate places in the metropolis.
A numerous: and .influential meeting ,of Coal-faetorsi coal-
nierchantS; and others interested in the coal trade, was held
•on Wednesday,.at the Coal. Exchange, near Billingsgatejor
the purpose of petitioning 'Parliament on the proposed new
tax, of sd, per ten upon all . coals imported into London, in
order to defray the expenses of; the contemplated Thames
embankment. It was urged, amongst Other arguments, that
the ,poorer classes would be ;Treacly aggrieved by it ; that the
exttept_Of tfie tftt would be to the large amount of 55,0001. a
year upon the Inhabitaiiti of LOndon and its environs; that
the coal and shipping interests could bear no further bur-
denS, being already sufficiently taxed by the impost of ls. ld.
' per ton already in forcer ; and that the projected embankment
along-the Thames was an imaginary. scheme, for
.improving
the banks of the river, and wouldbe fraught with:consider-
able injury.andinconvenience' to the proprietors of. wharfs
and the •
:navigation of lighters. A petition in ' accordance
j with theobject of the meeting was unanimously adopted, and
will be presented to the House of Corimions by Sir. T. Duke.
Sir John Beckett presided at the annual dinner of. the Law
Life Assurance Society, on Tuesday evening, at the Clarendon
Hotel. Lord Abu-Ter, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. C. E.
Law, Sir Charles. F. Williams, Isc.i.were present:
- A retnin„Moved for by Sir j.Graham, Bart., shows that
total number of pampers ilieved in the, quarter ending
Lady-day, 1843, 10 584 unions in 'England and Wales,
amounted to 1,303,089, of whom .201,927 .werejn-debr, and
1,101,162 out-doorpaupers.
;Within the last 'few days nineteen petitions, 'signed b 1,128
hay 6 Veen preSeuted,aguinst the union of the dioceses
,of Bangor and 4Asaph.
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.B.*EIVAt OF THE MMLs.--SoUTH-
Aitirortr, FEB. 28.—The Oriental Company's' steatu-packet
Little Liverpool, arrived here last night at . eleven o'elock,
and Janded hisc,mails, which were .forwarded to London by
this morning's mail ..train.. She left Gihraltar the 18th inst.,
Cadiz the 19th, Lisbon the 21St, -Oporto and Vigo the 23d.
The Liverpoolhas only four passengers, and a full fruit cargo
and. Spanish hams. • .
SEAsiArei HtisPlTA±,Socrix.--;:-The dinner of this
charity, founded in the year 1821; for the comfort and pro-
tection of sick. and diseased ,seamen in the port of London,
and for Some time since the operations of which have been
carried on on board, the Dreadnought gun-ship, moored off
Greenwich, took place at the London Tavern; 'Henry Kem-
ble, Lsq., M.P.; in the chair, , supported by Sir H. Pelly,
Bait ; near Admiral Toting Captain Sparshot, Mr. Red-
house, Mr. Alfred Francis, Captain• Locke, Lieutenant Wag-
horn, R.N., Mr. Adam Young; Mr, Oliver Lang, and several
Other ofthe most influential members of the maritime and
shipping interests-Of tbe City. 'Mu:utile dinner, which was
one worthy of the house in which it took place, " Beuedictus"
was sung byVessrs...lolly, Young, Atkins; Masters Hender-
son and, Force,, and 'Jolly, jun. 'The responses to the loyal
toasts were, as usual, patriotic ; and all of those having re-
ference to the heads of 6hipping institutions were vociferously
responded to. During the evening, it was stated that the
munificent sum of 2,520/. had ,been subscribed'by the 'Trinity
House,. five of the brethren of which were. present, The East
India Company had likewise subscribed in
.all .2;1004
Amongst the siibscribers announced daring the evening were,
her Male,stY the Queen, 100 guineas annually; her Majesty
the Queen Dowager, 10/. annually; the. Trinity House, 300/. ;
11. Bond Cabbell, Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Barclay,.Peritins,
and'CO:, and the Honourable East India Company, 100 sul-
nee's.; Mr. George Souks,- Vice-Admiral Sir. William Hall
Gage, Lord John Russell,. Captain Phipps liernby, -General
Sir Williern,ll. Clinton, Sir J. H. Pelly, Bart. ; Mr. John'
Latouche, Admiral Sir .RObert Stopford, ,•Captain Nairne ;
and ,Various ;araounts frothforeign oompnnlea. Upwards of
1,3001: was collected during the evening. . •
LONDON PEACE SOCIETY.---k public meeting, ex-
planatory'ef tl.eprinciplea and in aid bf the calNcts a this
Society, was: held in the British Scliool:foorri;Harf-alley, Far-
ringdotizstret4l dfl'l'llkiday evening,. February 27, John Lee,
Esq:, LLD., 'B;c., in the chair. The 'meeting was addressed
by the-Chairman, the Rev. IV. Miall,,-E. Y8(1-,
. Rev, ;C. Duis-0,.. 111.4.,, Mr; JtffersOli,
Jtiseph ,About 40 Persons
were preient, 41,14 4f Sloe4-14e 44011`4.ti4.4'011A449140 t 9.
149 tiOCieWo pr4l4l* • "