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

LAW AND POLICE. In the Insolvent Debtors Court James Gomm and Harris Gemm (father and son) appeared for judgment. They were opposed by Messrs. Cooke and Woodruffe for several creditors ; and supported by Mr. Nichols. The insolvents were builders, and had obtained materials of the opposing creditors, with which they built houses, mortgaged them, and had disposed of the equity .of redemption to a relation for an alleged debt of 4501., who . had assigned it to a third party. The Court remanded the insolvents for 16 calendar months, from the vesting order, for making away with property. In the Sheriffs' Court an action was brought by 'Mr. Barnes, an engineer, against Mr. Miles, a cabinet-maker, for the seduction of his daughter. There being ,no defence to tfie action, the jury assessed the damages at 100/. Samuel Withers, a young man, residing at 15, Stangatestreet, 'Westminster, was brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, at Guildhall, charged with knowingly uttering a forged 5L note of the Bank of England to G. Weston, a tobacconist, on Holborn-hill. The prisoner was remanded till Friday. At Lambeth-street, Daniel Di-iscol was charged with committing a murderous assault upon his wife, who is at present in the London Hospital in a dangerous state. Police-constable James Mahony stated that while on duty in Rosemarylane, on that morning, he heard loud cries of murder, and upon entering the room from which they were proceeding, he found the prisoner's wife in bed in a very frightful state. She was nearly exhausted at the time, but was enabled to tell him that her husband had inflicted the injuries upon her person with a poker. Mr. Norton told him, t hat the charge as it stood, was one of a serious nature, but if anything happened to his wife it would be still more so, and remanded the prisoner to a future day. The Marquis of Lorn, only son of the Duke of Argyll, attained his majority on Tuesday, when the event was celebrated by great rejoicings on the noble Duke's estates in Argyleshire. The Countess de Salis gave a. grand dinner, on Monday, to Prince Castelcicalat the Marquis of Headfort, the Ladies Olivia and Mary Taylor, H the Bishop of Carlisle and the on. Mrs. Percy, Lord and Lady Sondes and Miss Miller, Sir Philip and Lady Grey Egerton, Viscount Ossulston, Viscount Maidstone, Lord Beaumont, Sir John Harrington, &c. In the evening the whole'suite of rooms, brilliantly lighted and adorned with the choicest exotic flowers, were thrown open, and her Ladyship received upwards of 200 of the Elite of the fashionable world, to hear some excellent professional and  amateur music. . The following were among the company present at the Italian Opera on Tuesday :—The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge; Lord and Lady Barrington and party occupied the Queen Dowager's box ; the Dukes of Devonshire, Montrose, and Leeds; the Duchesses of Beaufort and Montrose; the Marquises of Ailesbury, Lansdowne, Normauby, Douro, Worcester, and Huntly ; the Marchionesses of Lansdowne and Wellesley ; Baron Nieman, Baron Brunnow, the Turkish Am • bassador, and suite ; Countess de Selig Count de Noailles ; the Earls of Pembroke, Jersey, Liverpool;Chesterfield, Wilton, Shelburne, Falmouth, and Belfast ; the Countesses of Jersey, Wilton, Palmerston, Shelburne ; Lords Templetown, Palmerston, Ernest Bruce, William Paulet, Trimlestown, Gardnor, Aylmer, Cantilupe, Duncannon, Alfred Paget, William Paget; Ladies Dufferin, Trinaleftown, Augusta Somerset, Ernest Bruce, William Paulet, Aylmer, Clementine N;illiers, Holland, Wombwell, Palmer, Joddrell, Duff, &c. Lieutenant-General le Baron Stierncrona, on a special mission from his Majesty the King of Sweden, left town on Tuesday evening, on his return to Sweden.