The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-10 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

At Union Hall, Henry Stanhope, who rejoiced in three *this
;mums, namely, Wood, Williams, and Stanton, and who In 18,96 •
had sentence of death recorded against him for stealing In a dwell.

ing-house, was committed to take hie trial tbr purloining a gold

ring set with pearls, the property of a Airs. Gliding.

Mr. Robert Horton, of Itrecknock.terrace, Camden Town, a
half-pay officer, was held to bail at Marylebone, for a violent as.
sault upon Mr. Henry Tinsou, of Princes-street, Cavendish-
square. The particulars were only imperfectly given, as the solidi.
tors of both parties expressed a wish that the case should go to the
Swim. -

In the action Quin v. Adams, tried yesterday in the Court of
Exchequr, for the loss of a horse value 100 guineas, the Jury re-
tumid a verdict for the plaintiff, damages, 701. 10s.
At the Westminster Sessions, Augustus Such, formerly warder
in the Penitentiary, Milthank, was indicted for the assault com.
mitted on Dr. Nihil, the Governor and Chaplain, of which a full
account appeared in The Sun on Monday. The Jury found the pri.

soner guilty, and the Chairman sentenced him to three months' im.
prisonment in the House of Correction, and to find security to keep
the peace for six months.

A Frenchman of the name of Pages was committed at Marl.
borough-street yesterday, for inducing the wife of a countryman of
his own to forge a cheque for '241. during the absence of the hus-
band at Manchester. It appeared from the evidence that the pe-
cuniary loss was not the only injury he had sustaioed from the pri-
soner.

Henry Jones, eoachman to Mr. C. Drummond. of Stratton.street,
was fined Si. and costs, for horsewhipping two policemen in Mill.
bank street, on Thursday, when the Queen opened Parliament.
It appeared the defendant attempted to break through the regula.
tions, and on being resisted applied his whip indiscriminately to the
horses and the constables.

FINE ARTS.

The widow of Baron Gros, the celebrated painter, has bequeathed
to the city of Toulouse, the birth-place of her late husband, a
painting of Venus and Cupid, a Portrait of the Baron himself, and
another of the Baroness, all executed by the artist ; also the pa.
letter used in painting the picture of Napoleon Visiting the Sick
with the Plague at Jaffa, and the Cupola of the Pantheon, and the
palm and wreath placed ovet the picture of the Plague scene; Wien .
exhibited at the Louvre in 1804.

M. Cherubini, the celebrated composer, not in his. Ind year,
has resigned the Directorship of the Conservatory of Music at
Paris, after twenty years presidency. M. Auber is spoken of as
his successor.

THEATRICAL.
The Earl and Countess of Harrington went to Drury-lane 01l
Tuesday, to see the new dsinna of the Prisoner of War.
Mrs. W. goward, Of the Victoria theatre, expired suddefity oit
Tuesday evening,, while sitting at the supper-table, after her per.
formauce at the Vietoria. She had been indisposed, With a slight
cold ii,day or two before her death.
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COURT-„-.P SffZON*D7' a'

The Duke of Rutland leavtalstown to-day for BelviAr Castle. ,
Lord William Russell will shortly take his departure for Italy.
Lord Ashburton has fixed toy for his departure tbr Spitbead.
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Viscount Villiers, M.P., left town on To lojoin the Vis..
countess, who. is staying with Logi and Lady
Dowager of Essex leaves Paris it
The Earl otValdegrave has been for some time confined at his
residence at Strawberry Hill, wish an attack of measles.
The Earl billrownlow is expected in Beigrave square today,
from Lincolnshire.
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