The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

THE MORES% THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, IU3.

salvage merrier seedered to the barque Lily, from the 6th
to the 11th November last.
The bear met with some damage bum a collision,
sad was in the Downs, when a bowels was made to
bring her to doe for 451.; but the salvors demanded a
larger remuneration, on the grows(' of the damaged condi-
tion in which they found the vessel.
Dn. Addams and Beyford appeared for the salvorr, end
Des. Haggard end Tabu for the owners.
Dr. Lushmgton said that this ass not an ordinary ease of
selvage, but that nevertheless the salvors were bound by
contract. He therefore pronOgnced against the claim
for m:Fsge, with coets.

PREROGATIVE fVOURT-TUESDAL
barons du Josef DA."'

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Matz O. MACK (BY HZ& (lUAZIDIAN).—SENTENCII.
This was a business of proving la Solemn form of law
the will of the late Mr. Wm. Mack, of Burnham Norton,
in the county of Norfolk, deceased. The Wtator had
died on the 9th of May, 1851, at the age of 46, and be-
queathed personal property, amounting to about 13,00 L
He had left a widow, and an infant daughter, born en
the 12th of November, 18.50. The will was dated the 18th
of May in that year, and it appointed his wife universal
legatee and sole executrix. It had been propounded by
her, and it was opposed by Mr. Thurtell Mack, brother of
the deceased, as the guardian of his infant niece, on the
mound that the testator, at the time he executed the in-
strument, was not of sound mind. From the evidence of
Mr. Denis, his medical attendant, whom testimony had
been principally relied on by the opposer, it appeared
clear that • marked change had come over the deceased
in the autumn of 1848, previous to which time he had been
a remarkably quiet man, but at that period he
became noisy, talkative, and excitable ; and he exhibited
other symptoms of a cerebral affection. In the year follow-
ing he married a Miss Noton, • young lady of about 19 or
20 years of age ; and his marriage wee stated to have done
him good. In the month of January and February he bad
conversations with Mr. Blyth, an attorney, respecting his
will ; end he stated to him his wish to leave all his property
to his wife. In the following month he wrote to Mr. Blyth
exactly to the same effect. The will, however, was not
executed till the 18th of May, and on the 20th of the same
month he exhibited such unmistakeable proofs of violent
acute lunacy, that he was compelled to be put under re-
straint; and he had scarcely bad a lucid interval again until
the day of his death. Various eccentricities on the part of
the deceased were depoeed to by several witnesses ; and the
contest had been, whether these were premonitory symp-
toms of impending lunacy, or proofs of insanity already
existing. On this point Mr. Denis deposed that he con-
sidered him unlit for the transaction of any business after
the Bth of Hay ; and, on the other hand, Mr. Blyth stated
that the deceased appeared to him in January, February,
and March, and, at the time he signed the will, to be in
perfect possession of his faculties.
Sir John Dodson, in giving judgment, said that the
prima facie view of the case seemed to show that the
deceased had been up to a recent period a person of con-
siderable judgment; for op to the time of his seizure he
had cultivated a farm of 1,000 acres, and had held another
farm of 400 acres jointly with his brother-in-law, Mr.
Gowen; and he had realised the principal portion of his
fortune by his operations as an agriculturist. On the other
hand it must be admitted that the evidence against his
sanity on the 18th of May was strong ; but on a compari-
son of the testimony on both sides, he thought the balance
inclined to the hypothesis that the deceased was of sound
mind when he aide the will, He must therefore pronounce
in favour of that instrument; but he thought that it was a
case in which Mr. Thurtell Mack was justified in having
the testator's capacity investigated, and he should therefore
allow him his expenses out of the estate.
Decree accordingly.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YESTEILDAL
Blows Ilia. 11112J1.111T Amuse, ASIIIITM JOIXIL

.
Frederick Jobs Ilareiton surrendered to take his trial on
an indictment in which he wee charged with having ob-
tained from the treasurer of the Haymarket Theatre several
sumo of money, with intent to defraud Benjamin Webster
of the same.

The prosecutor was Mr. Webster, the lessee of the Hay-
market Theatre, and the defendant was engaged by that
gentleman as muter carpenter at that establishment, he
having previously been a working carpenter. The situation
of the defendant was a very conddential one, as he had the
general superintendence of all the carpenters' work at the
theatre, a great deal of money passed through his hands,
he had the • of the • subordinate carpenters and the
regulation of mom, and he had to make out his ac-
count te the temaraNt, mite paid it without inquiry, the
'manse sealidease in him, and the utmost
Mimes pima fa his . As was usual, defendant,
at the AIN dee last ssaann. bill the theatre, under the
imp ends. est, as foreasely, would return to his situa-
tion when the eles• TO•elpliaad ; but, from circumstances
width ems Ile the knowledge etldr.Webeter. in the interim,
that pmdemisa declined M re-engage him, and appointed
aniifihm plssY is his pies., but not from any circumstances
coaaselsi whit the subject of the present inquiry ; and it
was Murk hem information given by persona employed
about the theatre, that the defendant had been guilty of
that ends* which had led to the present charge being
preferred.
The panne was found Guilty.
In men" Man inquiry made by the Assistant-Judge,
The nemeser of the theatre stated that for two years the
defendant had been receiving Lawton's pay at the rate of
58., while he paid him but 4s. per day.
The Assistant-Judge said this was a very serious case,
and if the court did net pm upon the prisoner a severe sen-
tense, it could net he deism justice when it sentenced pri-
soners for trilling ellisseee to six, eight, se aim months.
His own opinion we that transportation was the proper
matimme it. an* a ease, and it wan, he thought, only a
weeks.. elheliag aa W pert of the ream that that sen-
tame was net Maid upon the defendant. He then ma-
Mused his be hard labour for 18 calendar months.

ThireTwas int indiaateat—si;iort ike prisoner for felony
--eloolinif a carpenter's work bench—bat it wu not pro-
ceeded each.