18 JULY 1840, Page 6

At the Westminster Sessions, yesterday, the Court quashed a convic-

tion under which Mr. Long, the Magistrate of Marlborough Street, had sent Patrick King, a boy ten or twelve years old, to the House of Cor- rection and hard labour for a months; the charge against him not being the commission of any crime, but that he was a " suspected thief." A. Policeman preferred this charge against the boy, whom he had seen, as he swore, in the company of notorious thieves in Regent Street, in February last. The conviction took place under the new Police Act; and the boy's friends, who are very respectable, appealed against it. The evidence was most inconclusive, and could not stand examination. King's counsel offered proof that he was never in London till last June, four days before he was arrested.

On Saturday, Mr. Dunn, in default of security for good behaviour, was committed to Clerkenwell Gaol. He was arrested at the Prince's Theatre, in a box opposite to one occupied by Miss Coutts and a party of friends.

A man was committed on Thursday to the House of Correction for two months, from the Marylebone Police Court, for having stabbed his wife with a table-fork, in consequence of his supper not having pleased him.

At Union Hall, a man was held to bail for attempting to stab a Po- liceman at Astley's Theatre.

A party of well-born disturbers of the public peace committed some disgraceful outrages at Hounslow on Sunday night. Whilst their horses were getting rest and food, these persons amused themselves by breaking with stones the windows of the neighbouring houses ; pulling down the poles in front of' the barbers' shops, and wrenching the knockers off the doors. The knocker belonging to the door of Mr. Priburg, a respectable baker in the town, they threw with violence through a window of the house ; and it fell upon the pillow of Mrs. Friburg, close to her head. Mr. Priburg jumped out of bed, and, raising the window, called for the Police ; when the whole party mounted their " drag," and drove off at full gallop towards town, before the Police could muster in sufficient numbers to prevent their departure. These are supposed to be the same cowardly scamps who maletreated the Policeman at Hampton not long since.