The Sun. — 1844-02-05 (London, England)

POLXOIII.  At the Middlesex Sessions, Peter Kiley 'aged 22, was indicted, 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, finding the defendant guilty of a common assault, but recommended him to mercy on account of the injuries he had received, 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 Sid' J. Key, at Guildhall, charged with ill-treating a horse, by compelling it to work when in an unfit state, from a wound near the shoulder. 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 lacemen, 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 mode in which the lace in question had been obtained. She was then admitted a witness against Harris • and, after hearing her evidence, Mr. Bingham committed 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 Towerhill, 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 Cotirt, which commences on Monday.  COURT wAsszomenx.E. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, from Fleurs Castlo. 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 Marquis 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 assembly on Saturday next. Lady Emily Hardinge and Miss Hardinge have arrived in Whitehall-gardenifrom 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 DulFe of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, his Excellency the French Ambassador, and Countess de St. Aulaire,, and most of the corps deplomatique ant 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.