The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

LAW AIM POLIO*.

In the Court of Exchequer several actions were tried
for the recovery of penalties from Charles Cundy and
William Dean for smuggling silks, in each of which a
verdict was taken by consent for the Crown for a single
value. The sum of these single values is 4,575/. Bs. for
each defendant. Hence, as the law makes the penalty
three times the single value, each defendant is, in fact,
liable to the extent of 13,7261. 45., or of 27,4521. Bs. be-
tween them. All these cases were connected with the
Custom-house frauds.

F John Wilson, alias Rowland Howell, aged 30, de-
scribed as a tailor, was indicted at Maidstone for feloni-
ously setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of John
Stephens, at Farnborough. He was acquitted.
At Gloucester, Mr. Justice Coltman sentenced Paul
Weare to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard la-
bour, for maliciously stabbing a than named Baxter.
The Judges are beginning to act on the decision of
the House of Lords in the O'Connell case. A man was
convicted at Warwick of having in his possession the
mould of a shilling, and in passing sentence Mr. Justice
Pattecon said the indictment consisted of two counts,
but since a recent decision in the House of Lords, he
could not pass one sentence on them both, and therefore
he ordered that on each count the prisoner be transported
for ten years, but the term to commence at one and the
same time.

At the same assizes a dancing-master of Birmingham,
named Matthew Bennett, was sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment for an indecent assault on one of
his female pupils.
John Mewsane, a soldier in the Coldstream Guards,
for a robbery under a threat of charging a person with
an indecent assault, was sentenced to fifteen years' trans-
portation at the Central Criminal Court.

In the New Court the Common Sergeant sentenced
Henry Miller and Charles James, alias Fitch, members of
a notorious gang of swindlers, to seven years' transporta-
tion each. They were convicted on separate indictments,
and James, who was twice convicted, had an additional
fourteen years added to his sentence
William Popjoy, charged with having stolen 150
yards of Orleans cloth from the 'premises of Messrs.
Garrard and Co., linendrapers, Leicester-square, was
fully committed from Marlborough-street. The pri-
soner, who was a sailor, stated that he had been
robbed by a woman of all his money, and that he had
committed the theft to get transported.
Captain Archer Whaley Owen, master of the ship
Fairy Queen, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, at the
Thames-office, to answer a charge of assaulting Edwin
Davis, an apprentice, on the high seas, in a very brutal
manner. It appeared that he had frequently flogged the
boy in a most unmerciful manner. lie was held to bail
to answer the charge at the Central Ci iminal Court.

COMILT-PASZION!ASIAIR.
Lord and Lady Colchester received a select party at
Kidbrook, Sussex, last week, to meet the Earl of Ellen-
borough, her Ladyship's brother. The Noble Earl came
expressly to town on Saturday to dine with Sir Robert
Peel, and to attend at the chapter of the order of the
Bath at Windsor Castle.

The alliance which has been spoken of for some time
between the Rev. Lord A. Fitzclarence and Miss Gordon,
daughter of Lord Henry Gordon, and niece to Lord
Aboyne, is understood to be fixed for the 2d of January
next.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, accompanied
by Lord Henry and Lady Anna Loftus, after a brief
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, left on Wed-
nesday afternoon, for their residence at Brighton.
Viscount Clive, who came from Petworth House on a
visit to the Duke and Duchess, has taken his departure.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond left Be 1 -
grave-square on Tuesday last for Brighton, where it is
their intention to reside during the winter.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby hare
left Clarendon Hotel on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, where a fashionable circle
have assembled to a visit to their Graces.
The Marquis of Worcester, son of the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, will attain his majority in February
next, when the event will be celebrated by great re-
joicings on his Grace's extensive estates in Gloucester-
shire and Monmouthshire.
The Earl and Countess of Harrington left Whitehall
Gardens on Tuesday last, for Brighton, where the Noble
Earl and Countess purpose to stay about thri.e weeks.
The Earl of Pembroke has arrived in Stratton street,
after having made a short tour on the Contitent.
Madlle. d'Este has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel
from a tour of visits.
Earl Fitzhardinge has arrived at his residence in
Spring Gardens from Cheltenham.

VELISCIIII.7.A7OIIIIIOI7III.
In the Gazette of Thursday, among other notices is
one for an Act for making, erecting, and maintaining a
bridge across the Thames, near Chelsea Hospital, and
another for a Bill to incorporate the governors and sub
scribers of the London Orphan Asylum. The others are
chiefly railway notices, of which there are not less than
forty-nine.
On Wednesday a gang of swindlers, who have been
taking a great deal of money by means of forged begging
letters, were rounced upon in the money-order office of
the General Post-office, Dublin, by two of the detective
police, and taken into legal custody. They had just re•
ceived the amount of orders from the country—sumo of
the fruits of their successful operations upon provincial
dupes. The detectives were waiting for them in the
office, and seized upon them the moment they bad con-
verted their money-letters into cash.
At Liverpool, on Wednesday evening, the fifth annual
charity ball of the Licensed Victuallers' Society took
place in the Town-hall, by permission of the Mayor and
Town Council, and under very distinguished patronage.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—In the
speech of the Chairman, Mr. Glyn, at the special
meeting of the Company, that gentleman, in referring
to the proposed branch from Worcester to Wolverhamp-
ton, was made to say that the Worcester Committee
proposed to the Grand Junction Company, that that
portion of the projected Mesworth, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton line should be made jointly. The Com-
pany referred to by Mr. Glyn was, as the context
showed, tho Birmingham and Gloucester, and not the
Grand Junction Company.—Herald.
The Directors of the Bank issued a notice late this
afternoon, that they will lend ni ney on the usual secu-
rities during the shutting of the banks, for the payment
of the dividends, at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum.
This notice has taken the banking interest all aback, ae
they seem to have expected an advance rather than a
reduction in the rate. The time limited is the 17th
January, and we believe that it is the lowest terms upon
which the Bank of England ever made loans.—fficrning
Htrald.