The Sun. — 1844-10-16 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICE.  At the Surrey Quarter Sessions, held at Kingston, Mr. Meymott, the surgeon of the county gaol,Horsemonger-lane, expressed an opinion that the practice of confining prisoners closely to their room, except during the hours of divine service and meals, on Sundays, was calculated to be injurious to their health; and the surgeon of the Brixton House of Correction, in his report, stated that there had been a great many cases of itch in the gaol, and the great majority of them were persons who had come from union workhouses.  A young woman named Sarah Baker was placed at the bar at Bow-street before Mr. Jardine, charged on suspicion with stealing five china cups, a dessert dish, a qu :laity of glasses, and other articles from Saint James's Palace the property of his Majesty the King of Hanover. In her defence, she stated that the articles had been given her sister, who was a servant at the Palace. The sister stated that she had certainly given her jellies and pastry in the cups and plates, to take home, but that she had always intended the prisoner should return them. It appeared that the sisters both bore excellent characters, and had been filling situations of great trust, and the housekeeper of the Palace having stated that she did not believe the articles had been taken with any felonious intent, as when the King was last in town the hospitality observed was such as to cause the superfluities to be given to the servants, which might account for the dessert plate, it being of no value, as there were only three remaining of the set. The magistrate ordered the prisoner to be discharged. At Clerkenwell, John Gill, a stylishly-dressed middle-aged man charged by Mr. Haynes, Mortimer, arms, Tottenham-court-road, with having violently assaulted him, was fined 31., or one month's imprisonment.  Thomas White, a journeyman in the service of Mr. Robert Galloway, of 30, ➢Milbank-street, Westminster, baker, was charged at Queen-square, with grossly misconducting himself while engaged in his employment. The prisoner had gone out with a truck to deliver bread, had got drunk, strewed the loaves about the street, and wheeled the truck over them. He was sent to the House of Correction for fourteen days' hard labour.  At Marlborough-street, Benjamin Cox, a private in the second battalion of Coldstream Guards, was brought before Mr. Maltby, charged with having wil • fully broken a square of glass at the White Horse Tavern, Regent-street ; with having assaulted the waiter and the cook ; and also with having resisted and assaulted the police in the execution of their duty. The prisoner had entered the house drunk, and in attempting to eject him the assaults had been committed. He was fined 51. for the assaults on the servants, and Si. for assaults on the police, or two months' hard labour.  Michael Lee, alias Molloy, a labourer, between forty-five and fifty years of age, charged with having murdered his wife, Ann Lee, by drowning her in the Paddington Canal, was remanded from Marlboroughstreet, in order to give time to procure further evidence. A man named 'William Woolston, a mat-maker, was charged, before the Hon. G. C. Norton, with causing so serious an injury to the person of Elizabeth Dowell, that her life is at present in serious jeopardy. The prisoner was drinking beer out of a bottle in the gallery of the Garrick Theatre; the bottle slipped, and fell on the head of the girl, who was in the pit. The prisoner, who had been given into custody by Mr. Gomersal, the manager of the theatre, was admitted to bail.