The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Archbishop of
Canterbury and Mrs. Howley with a visit on Saturday, at
Lambet's Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness left
Buckingham Palace, attended by the Countess of Charlemont,
Lady in Waiting ; Lady Caroline Cocks, Maid of Honour in
Waiting; the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse; the
Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stole to his Royal High-
ness; Viscountess Hawarden, Lord in Waiting; Sir Frederick
Stovin, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Buckley, Equerry in
Waiting ; and Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry to his Royal
Highness. The Royal party occupied three carriages.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert partook of a dejeune, to
which a se:ect party, including the Duke of Wellington, the
Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the Bishop of
London and Mrs. Blomfield, had been honoured with invita-
tions. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended by the Royal
suite, afterwards returned to Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Altert, attended Divine Service
yesterday ftcrnoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Rev. Mr. Haden read the service, Mr. J. B. Sale
presided at the organ. Lord Colville and Sir Edward Bowater
were in Waitiug on his Royal Highness. The Marquis of
Salisbury, the Earls Delawara and Sheffield, Lords Loraine,
Ashley, and De Tabley, were among the Nobility present.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma-
jes' y on Saturday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Allyn, attended by Sir Edward
Bowater, rode out on horsebock on Saturday.
The Royal Pinner party at Buckingham Palace on Satur.
pay evening, included the Duke and Duchess of Somerset,
the Duke of Buceleugh, the Baron de Newmann, the Mar-
uuis of Anglesey, Lady Fanny Howard, the Earl of Aberdeen,
the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl and Lady Katherine Jerrnyn,
and Viscount and Viscountess Villiers.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Augusta and Mary of
Cambridge, visted the Queen yesterday.
His Royal Highness Mince Albert, attended by Lord Col-
ville and sir Edward Bowater and their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge,
visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St
James's.
Her Royal Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty the Queen Do sager, yesterday, at Marlborough House.
His Royal 11 ghness Prince George of Cambridge pad a visit to
her Majesty on Saturday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and .the Princesses Augusta, and Mary of Cambridge,
attended divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
Christ's hospital with a visit yesterday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, visited the National
Gallery on Saturday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and the Princess Augusta cf Cambridge, ,honoured the
Countess of Jersey with their company on Friday evening at
her residence in Berkeley- square.
Mr. Bel, M.P., Mr. Baker Cresswell, M.P., Mr. Ord,
M.P., Mr. Lambton, M.P., Mr. Barclay, M.P.., Lord Harry
Vane, M.P., Air. Wawn, M.P., Mr. Mitcalfe, M.P , Mr.
Hutt, M.P., Mr. Bosses, 'M P., with Mr. Brandling, ancl•
Deputatien of Gentlemen interested in the Northern Coal
Trade had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday at
his official residence in Downing-street.
A Deputation on the subject of Railway Taxation, consisting
of Mr. Broadly, M.P. (East Yorkshire), Lord F. Gordon,
M:P., Mr. Duncan, M.P. (Dundee), Mr. Baird. M.P.
( Falk•rk), Mr. J. Holdsworth. M.P. ( Wakeheld), Mr. Bell,
M.P., Mr. Johr,sSon M.P. (Kilmarnock), Mr. Ricardo,
:M.P., Mr. Adam, M.P., Lord James Stuart, M.P., Mr. G.
Houldsworth, M.P., Mr. E. Buckley, M.P., Dr. Buwring,
M.P., Mr. Hind ey, M.P., Mr. Gill, and Captain Laws,
from the Manchester and Leeds Railway; Messrs. Saltmaube'
Leitch, and Turner, from the Glasgow and Greenock Rail-
way; Mr- Brooks, from the Glasgow and Ayr Rail-
way ; Mcisrs. Tit:ley, Laws, and Alhusen, from the Newcastle
and North Shields Railway; Mr. Locking, from the Hull and
Selby Railway ; Messrs. Powles and Wood, from the New •
castle and Carlisle Railway ; Mr. Wood, ft orn the Durham
Junction Railway ; Mr. Spottiswoode, from the Edinburgh
and Dalkeiih Railway; Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Baines, from
the Lon•ton and Croydon Railway ; Mr. Vickers, from the
Sheffield and Rotheram Railway; Messrs. Miller and Lead-
bitter, from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; Messrs.
Brandling and Carr, from the Brandling Junction Railway ;
Mr. Stuart, from the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Railway ;
and Mr. Grahame, Secretary to the Deputations had an inter-
view
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Binney, Mayor of Halifax. Nova Scotia, had an inter-
view with Lord Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial. Office.
The Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes had• an interview
with the Chancellor cf the Exchequer in Downing-street, on
Saturday.
Sir T. Acland and Captain Trotter had an interview with
Lord Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colonial Office. Mr. Mer••
ritt,Canada, had also an interview with his Lordship On Saturday.
Despatches from the Cape of Geed Hope were received yes-
terday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were received on
Saturday from the Governors of the Mauritius, Sierra Leone,
and Western Australia.

ASSIZE INTE LLIGENCE.
HOME CIRC UI T.—Maidstone, March IS.
A LLHUSON V. STRANGE.
(Before raron ALDERSON, and a Special Jury.)
This action was brought to recover the amount of a Bill of
Exchange for 1,030 t., accepted by the defendant, and endoried
to one Walter George Turner. The defendant pleaded that
no consideration had been given for the Bi.l ; that it had beNi
obtained by fraud and covin, and other plear.
Mr. PLATT and another appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
TIIEISGER and Mr. CHAMBERS for the defendant.

Mr. THESIGER addressed the jury at some length, and then
called Turner, but the judge not considering his evidence tea.
terial, the jury, under the direction of the court, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff (including the bill and interest), for
1,120.

POLICE INT 11: L LIGENCE.
MAN SION- H 0 USE.
A cab driver, named Win. Taylor, was brought before Al-
derman Farebrother, charged with having whipped to death
one of the pigeons which have been accustomed to ay 'about
Guildhall-yard so tamely, and so much to the attwement of the
inhabitants.
The officer said that the cabmen, who had a'stand in King-
street, were in the habit of cutting down the pigeons with their
whips, and pocketing, them when they thought they were un-
observed by the police. So much disgraceful work of the kind
had been done of late by the rascally fellows who were allowed
t 4 have the stand close to the Guildhall-yard, that witness de-
termined to take the first offender in that way into custody ; and
having seen several cabmen run to take up a pigeon which had
just fallen beneath the fish, he apprehended the defendant, who
happened to be the lucky picker-up. The poor bird, which
was still warm, had the marks of the whip, and the cabmen in.•
sisted that, as the pigeon family had no exact owner, they, as
they contributed to the maintenance of the birds, were entitled
to any which might die either by accident or violence.
Alderman FA ItEl3 11 OTHER—The pigeons have been kept in
the Guildhall-yard for a great many years ; and if any other
case of the sort is brought before me, I shall direct a prosecu-
tion to be insti•uted by the City Sobcitor, for I consider them
to be the property of the hall-keeper.
he prisoner said that he by no means cut down the poor
bird, although he admitted it had been flogged to death by
some of the fraternity ; but he confessed that he picked it up,
and he thought he had a better right to it than anybody else,
as lie was in the habit of feeding the whole lot from his horse's
nosebag.
Alderman Fa REBROTHEit—SO you rob your master's horsa
to feed the pigeons, and you steal the pigeons to
t`jinag with hi f"" vorr elf.
—( A laugh.) Defendant—No, pleas-
horse is used to the poor birds' a your Il'orship. My
i,ompany, and he has no objec-
tion to their ettinF
'l.ll, Out as I'm the omnly oinenr.e;efirt•t'll:ssetliAlthaein'o'rhtlePi
with any
I thought I had a right to what the ~khittles reared
when and zin 'em dies isff but indeed a
of wittles.,
deceased pigten is *
m°6. as scam: a 2 a tletadiarkass.
Alderman PA itt nitoilthn—tiVe takA ts, that if i hear of the
repetition of tint iin*orthy onduct, I shall bring forward the
subject In the klotatt of Aldermen, and propose that the stand
be remoVed al ogether from the spot.
Mr. HOLLER said that all the ttvl hbotir§ stlpplied the
pigeons with food, and were Mitten inteitStc'd iii proteking
them.
theTht\.±t,fAchldtaiin•mjhrii,dhanVolitigibeize3insiy3iUsnr6le i
pp4i4 tI e
the
ppiogl an th
eon, at
the dt
no
' ?J°ooll.lla‘iita given that he was the actual slaughterer of
tit Iltbr bird, discharged hint, bat with the assuuranee that,
lightly as the fraternity might think of• the offence, the experi
ment of a prosecution should be tried in the event of a raped,
tion of ft.—Th. (12,d pigeon Was then ordered to be delivered
up to thehall_ -
EOW-*l7iEEfi
j6irph hirorrii, a yeullg man of very respectable
aPpearan'i.A. W/ts hfoutglit up for finalexaminat ion, charged with
robbing his employers to a very considerable extent, and his
mother, Mary Elizadeth Brown, was charged with receiving
a great portion of the stolen property, well• knowing the sane to
have been stolen.
Mr, Charles Christian, of the firm of Christian and Mat-
thews, East Bulia and array agents, carrying on business in St
Martin's-place, Charing-prosy, stated that the male prisoner
had been in his service as clerk about eighteen months. On
the d4th of February, witness, in consequence of some infor-
mation he received, examined his store-room, and missed
several pairs of Wellington boots. He questioned the
male prisoner on the subject, and he denied all know-
ledge of them. Witness then sent for the man by
whom the boots had been made, and he, after looking atten-
tively at the prisoner's feet for some time, expressed his con-
viction that the prisoner had then on a pair of the identical
stolen boots; on which witness desired prisoner to take off his
boots, and the maker having examined them, said he could swear
positively to them, as being one of the pairs of boots that be
hail made for witness. The prisoner then declared that the
boots he then more had been purchased by him at a shop in Ox-
ford-street; but witness being satisfied wi!li the statement of
the bcot-maker, sent for a policeman, and ga'ic the pr.soner into
custody. Witness afterwards accompanied the officers to the male
prisoner's lodgings in Lisson-grove, and there they found
the female prisoner, who stated that she was the mother
of the male prisoner, and that he lived there with her. The
officer then searched the room in the presence of witness, and
he found several invoices of articles of jewellery made out as if
they had been ordered by the witness and his nartner, but
which in fact had not been ordered by them, and of which they
knew nothing whatever. The officer also found sonic property
in the room, which had been stolen from his warehouse, which
the female prisoner admitted had been brought there by her
son. The officer also found three skeleton keys. which, it
was subsequently ascertained, would open nearly all the
desks, drawers, &c., in witnesse's warehouses, and on a subse-
quent visit found in a garden at the rear of the house, up.
wards of seventy duplicates, the greater number of which re-
lated to property which had been stolen from witness. 't he
female prisoner admitted, in the presence of witness, that she
had torn up the duplicates, and afterwards thrown them out of
window. Witness, on subsequently examining his stock, missed
several of the articles named in the duplicates ; and also five
Si. notes of the Bank of England, whieh had been stolen from
a book in his iron chest, and which he had deposited in the
chest a few days before.
Thomas Gundry, a shoemaker, in St. Martin's-lane, proved
that the boots worn by the prisoner at the period of his appre-
hension, were made by him, and part of an order which he had
executed for the prosecutor.
Charles Royal, a clerk to the prosecutors, stated that he had
on the day before the prisoner's apprehension, deposited the five
.5/. Bank of England notes produced, in the prosecutor's
iron chest.
Charlotte Emma Susannah Smith stated that the prisoner
had paid his addresses to her for some months past, and that the
day before be was taken into custody on the present charge he
called upon her and gave her five Si. Bank of England notes,
three of which she gave base to him that evening, and the other
two she subsequently gave up to a policeman. The prisoner
gave her the notes and desired she would take care of them for
He at the same time gave her a gold ring, which she
subsequently gave up to the officer.
Samuel Hastock stated that a short time sines prisoner came
to him and presented written or ders for various articles of jewel-
' lery, purporting to be
rings,esigne chains,dbyhi &c., t
employers,o the
aamrnoluwas Fll
' quently supplied with
101., which orders he had since ascertained were forgeries, but
he suppled the articles to the prisoner, knowing thrt he was in
' the service of the prosecutors.
Wm. Henry Powell, a pawnbroker, proved that all these
latter articles had been pledged at his shop at different times,