The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-03 00:00:00

,ALND POLICE.

LAW

At the Middlesex Sessions, Peter Kiley, aged 22, was in-
dicted, charged with having assaulted Richard Bartlett and
other police constables whilst in the execution of their duty.
The case was fully reported when-the prisoner was examined
at Marylebone, Mr. F. O'Connor being the principal witness.
The jury, after an absence of twenty minutes, returned, find-
ing the defendant guilty of a common assault, but recom-
mended him to mercy on account of the injuries he had re-
ceived, and the violence with which he had been treated
during his confinement to the station-house. The Chairman
sentenced him to six months' imprisonment.
George King, the driver of a slop cart belonging to Gore,
the city scavenger, was brought before Sir J. Key, at Guild-
hall, charged with ill-treating a horse, by compelling it to
work when in an unfit state, from a wound near the shoul-
der. Sir J. Key inflicted the extreme penalty of 40s, and in
default of payment committed him to Bridewell for 14 days.
At Worship-street, William Harris, a linen-draper,
in Church-street, Bethnal-green-road, and a woman
named Mary Garmon, were charged with receiving a
quantity of valuable French silk lace, the property
of Messrs. Marshall and Co., silk-mercers and licemen,
of Vere-street, Oxford-street. It was proved that the
woman had been a lace-agent for several years, and that she
had no knowledge of the made in which the lace in question
had been obtained. She was then admitted a witness against
Harris ; and, after hearing her evidence, Mr. Bingham com-
mitted the male prisoner for trial.
At Lambeth-street, John Felix, John Wood, and John
Wood, jun., who have been in custody for some days past on
a charge of plundering the Export Excise-office on Tower-
hill, of several reams of printed paper, were fully committed
for trial.
Thomas Edwards, the American seaman, charged at the
Thames police-court, with the wilful murder of William
Kammish, on board the barque Amelia, of Jersey, whilst
voyaging on the high seas, from Para to London, was fully
committed to take his trial on the charge of wilful murder,
at the next session of the Central Criminal Court, which
commences on Monday.
COURT:--PASECIONABLE.

Preparations are made for the reception of her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at Windsor Castle, 'this
day. They are expected to arrive between four and five
o'clock in the afternoon. leaving Buckingham Palace imme-
diately after luncheon, for the Paddington terminus of the
Great Western Railway.
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh have arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, from Fleurs Castle.
The Duke of Beaufort returned to town on 'Wednesday,
and the Duchess on Thursday, from Hampton Court. On
Thursday evening their Graces received at dinner the Mar-
quis of Worcester (who has just returned from Rome), the
Lord George and Lord Alfred Paget, and Dr. Quin.
Viscountess Palmerston is expected to give her first assem-
bly on Saturday next.
Lady Emily Hardinge and Miss Hardinge have arrived in
Whitehall-gardens from Sir Henry's seat, near Penshurst, for
the season.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel will give a splendid banquet on
Saturday next to a circle of about forty, to which the Duke
of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, his Excel-

lenty the French Ambassador, and Countess de St. Aulaire,

and-most of the corps diplomatique are invited.
The Marchioness of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget
arrived early in the last week at Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdon,
on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, from Beau-
desert, Staffordshire. The Gallant Marquis and Lord Alfred
Paget have returned to Uxbridge House.