The Sun. — 1844-07-26 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICE.  At the Ipswich assizes two of the, persons tried for arson were tried on the 24th, and found guilty. The sentence on one was deferred, and the other was ordered to be transported for 15 years. The Exeter Assizes commenced on the 34th. There are twenty-two cases entered for trial, of which live are special juries. The calendar contains the names of fifty-eight prisoners; among• whom two are for cutting and wounding, one for murder, one for manslaughter, one for horse-stealing► one for bigamy, and eight for the crime of arson ; the rest are, for the most part, accused of larcenies and other isuch offences.  At Lambeth-street, Mr. Henry was engaged for some time in investigating a charge of a very serious and important nature, as respects the police force and the public, preferred against two constables belonging to the K. division of police, named George Hailes, 54 K, and Edward Hawley, 209 K, for a violation of their duty in lawfully withholding certain moneys allowed for expenses to three witnesses in a case of felony tried at the Middlesex Sessions on Monday weekAfter a lengthened inquiry, Hailes was committed to prison for one month, and the other was discharged. George Gator, a policeman of the F division, No. 23, appeared at Bow-street to receive judgment for the charge of assault preferred against him by the wife of Mr. Hogg, hosier, 73, Fleet-street, and which was fully detailed in The Sun of Wednesday last. Mr. Twyford considered the defendant had been guilty of a gross breach of duty, and had acted in a manner so as to render it impossible to pass a light sentence on him. He fined him 31., or in default to be committed to the House of Correction for twenty-one days. The defendant paid the fine, and was immediately discharged. At Marlborough-street, Otto Feder, a young and rather good-looking German, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick for having beaten Edward Wills, an Englishman, about his own age. The encounter occurred at Miss F. H. Belly's theatre, in Dean-street, on the 16th of this month. After hearing the complainant by counsel, the defendant, and Miss Kelly, who addressed the Court in a fluent speech, Mr. Hardwick said, with respect to the charge, &had been proved that the complainant had used insinuations in the first instances and had applied the term " liar "to the defendant. Being of opinion that a sufficient justification of the alleged assault had been shown, he should dismiss the summons.  C OVUM -WAS ELIO 72V AB Tin. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge give a gr'nd entertainment this evening, at Cambridge House, to upwards of four hundred of the nobility. All the principal performers at her Majesty's Theatre are engaged to give full effect to a concert, which will succeed the dinner-party already.announced.  The Duke of Richmond, after attending the agricultural meeting at Southampton, proceeds to Goodwood Park, where preparations for the reception of company will commence on Monday next. Covers will be laid daily in the grand diningroom for eighty persons. The Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Gordon Lennox have already left Portland -place for Goodwood.  The Marchioness Wellesley and Miss M'Tavish intend to leave Rutland-gate, Kensington-gore, early in the ensuing month for Cowes, Isle of Wight, for the season. The Countess of Wilton, accompanied by the young mow bers of her Ladyship's family, left Grosvenor-square on Thursday morning, for the Isle of Wight. Her Ladyship re: turns to town to-morrow, and will remain in London until after the grand banquet to be given by the Duke of Wel' lington, on Wednesday next. The family will then final'''. leave town for the Isle of Wight. Lord Heytesbury, accompanied by his Secretary, Mr. A'Court, left Queen Anne-street yesterday morning, at an early hour, and proceeded by railway to Liverpool, for Dublin Castle. His Lordship was to embark in a Government steamer this morning, proceed direct to Kingstown harbour, and thence to Dublin, to take upon himself the eV duous duties of his new office. Lady Heytesbury is gone to Brighton for a short period, and will join her noble husband in the course of the ensuing month. Lady Georgiana Bathurst, Sir Charles Wolseley, Colonel Benson, Captain Lochner, and Mr. J. P. Plumptre, were among the fashionables that embarked at Blackwall Pier on Thursday morning, on board the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Soho, for Antwerp.