The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-01 00:00:00

PREROGATIVE COURT.

PZUZIPII 11. immure (11T rZm eIUIDIA3O.—•
11/111111/0011.

This was • suit to net the validity of the will of Mn.
Julia Ana Phillips. who bad resided it Hartwell, at Ars
buy, in fieysterdnet. at Hastings, sad lily st Buster,
la the spent of 1843. At the doe w I bar death she ergs a
widow, sad she left behind her bur children, this of
whom were deurners, mad the ressiang as • sea. Bhe
left knees and pensa•l mute to the •mount of 10,0001.,
mad by t►e will la queftem, Intel was dated the MS of
October, 1818, she bequeathed 1,0001. to sett of kit eldest
daughters, Julia sad Maria, sad the resides to be Melded
bens. the eau two children, Zdel sad Charles. Ti, will
was opposed by Me Julia Phillips ea the road of
the fassity of her main It was plumbed that
shortly slier the birth of Se sesta dishier, la
1830, the lateen: began to exhibit as tames am-
mo& to her htsband, aid attained& to bar two Wed
daughters, that she besets dirty is her habit!, deist
I. her coudsd, sad ensatrie la her general dimes-
our. On the other hand it was !goaded that her hubead,
who died madded, la 1862, had ass income of his own, that
he bad spat her mosey, mad had treated her with skin-
sea That tb. conduct of bet elder daughters was also dia.
°What and lisressethil, and that ha behaviour to them
was sot the nnit of Jaunty.
Mr J. Dodson said the Gasman of the will enald set
elan the @probation of the stet, fen the Goan wild
sour regard with favour me unequal • divides of property.
mai the testatrix had • perfect right to dispose of her estate
as she pleased, sad it was the duty of the sari to give
elan to her wins, podded that she was usable of mak-
ing • valid will. After a mature assiduities of the evi-
llest, however, he (flir I. Dodos) was satisfied that while li
lbs. Phillip was at Hastier, she was 1. • state of
meal donagemeat. Os one semis she bad
pursued Sr Silting, the eldest of when was sot
Sea arews ay, with a snits knit ; sad bat fee the ia-
totheesee 0 the person with whom they more iodine, she
would robs* Sae saardend that. Foe • lady who had
preview)" been of • mild sad hams dhpeollits to
threats the lives of her little eldldsea, was esiblent proof
that die was of assetad Riad. Ns doubt eke bid had a
groat did to pranks her la cosequesee of bee mousy
beteg tabs he pay hr Isebend's debts. That was not •
state of tangs at all likely to soothe her, but it was nther
slothits* to isms, hr malady. After she left ibetnip
her ended oastissato be of a very satraordlairy .ha-
Mtn. In 1862 she charged one of her births, tamed
'Campbell. with having robbed her of somejewsli. Her be-
, having at the pollee tout had exalted some tarn, but the
megietras thought proper to cods Mile Campbell
for the aspposed rabbis. At the trial, however, testatrix
was is sash a data that the attotsey for the proses.
tioa did net Sisk proses to sedum her, sad Mies Cusp
bell was of sane swathed. Tines were winless. oa the
other side who erne to the propriety sad rationality of
Mn. Phillips'a sedan bat their testimety was sot very
toseladve. With resist to the two Wen daughters, he
thought that, ea the whole, they bad behaved eseedlary
well lads very trying draumetasse, mad Its did authlak
that if this poor lady had been la the full parsons of her
fieStion she would has made snob a disposition of hoe
property. He should therefore presumes againd tke will,
but he skald allow son out et the Man

The praetor 0 the 'sardine protested of a Finesse,
sad appealed agent the esatene of the smut

■ooaa IP. CLLLI•

This was a slat to gewgaw the validity of tits will of
Ws. Puny Moore, widow, sweated Is the punk. The
property was sot pradeely stated, bat It appeared to be very
isowidenble I. snout
The apart prowaseed log the will, ordering the ems of
the meals, pasties to be paid oat date estate.

THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAT.

Thomas Taylor was charged with having broksa opla a
selasoa•bo; w►ich had bola deposited is a vaa beloogias
to the Great Weelora Railway Colapeay, mad 'balsa two
SlillOlL

♦ pollees= sew the primer, who wu the driver *Me
Tea, opts the be: will ea imetruneett sad Who owl the
Wawa. Whet the rimer saw that he wee diwovered,
be offend the pelieswas • sevendue, awl afterwards Ave
soveretes. to "le sliest es the *abject, whaittioer at the
roe Um, that the caw did so sore thaw • oometable's
duty it t•W. bin fate wistedy.

♦ bey whehai sttemilell thepefeasee for tie wpm of
wetehlog *3 oa woe seat eat of the Way, ups. pretext of
isqohlag *oat lee, ta order that ea oppertaalty sight be
Warded to the primate to email the r•obsry.
The rammer soil ke hut aotbiag to Noy ts-dey, sad woe
*ea isoanitted for triaL

Two smartly-dreesed youths, sewed Jetts Crampton alias
Niebett, mad Gums Data, ens ehargod. before Mr.
D'Ziarout with the &Howbeit artful robberies :
Mn. Ass Cloths, the wife of as engiseu melding is
York-otrem, Stepney, embed that la the Amon of Wed-
sudsy aressight, eke hurl a double-knock at dm Meat
door, es opesieg whisk the prima buil, who war
Wading thus with another lad, politely splogised ha
the intrielos, bet sequined that she would take the
trouble to head him est s toot-ball, which be had
ally therms over the wall! into bar beck garde.. She good-
assuredly emnaplied with the must, braving the door *pea,
bet ea returodeg la a few missies to apprise then that the
ball wee sot there, she fossil they wore both goes, sad Gs
eaterlag the treat parlour immediately afterwards, dis-
covered that her bumband'e weigh mad appeadager, whisk
she hod left ea the mantelpiese, bad she disappears&
• essemil 'barge wee preferred scabs. Me poienews by •
widow smell Mart* Luria( as ostessive dairy is area.
betus-plase, Bothaol-grus, este of when esreasts was en-
gaged is her yard • few days after the prosiest robbery,
whew he was roosted by Davie. who kept Um la coanne
dos reepestieg the 'weal= brood of hie employer', mews, by
way of sevorisi the festive emereliess of Ike ether Meson,
eke stealthily .stared the hese% mai purloined a ouster of
the value of 6L, with whisk he get clear el before the pro-
perty was mimed.
flargesat Smith, P t 6, preyed the apprebssolos of the
plumes on the pukes sight, and stated that they wore
seaucted to have be.. implicated is ether deprodatimes of
a similar deseriptios, whisk hid seemed is the &MM.

Blur °se N 403;depasod Is Ids ham boos mast at
t►e Itlddissea esseleat, la Apal, 1116 i, whsa tis primes
Crampton was aniseed fee him, of which b was sa•
vistad, sad seateweed to a yeas's kapaiseaasst, whisk bad
oats rtesatig aspired.
The prissoets, who deellsed **dug say debase, wen
folly essmitted.

RAILWAY ACCIDZIM—Ace secidsat, which teaches
the isseseity of num. notice with regard to harts; the
dens of railway carriers properly siosand, conorrse this
sosels; as the Load's awl Nona-Winne Railway, et
the Breadlines Statist. sear lavespeel. The wife of a
werkW ease was her way hem Lineyttol to Waning-
We. ne hoe beebeed wee verities. Oho had three
eltddrea wish her, as. aIS bey stoat three pare of sp.
As the trek was parks areedpess 44aties this little
das cad as bsi ace boss
he tea est the senisse,sed bateau
tY reed the pletteest. The train wee
se seea N the oddest wee Uses, bet both the
by wen is mask Wend that sapetedes will be
eoeseary. The little *Wien Ike le way meadows San
Win at the Wheseme-Mwrisiby Nassiass
Dodos.—is dgdSllfgOlMSh el the desire ex-
pend by the genewassa to take the edjosesed ashre
apes the eapteelebes enders es Toady lasejle Oliveira
lie antes he a rsdesties or the ose dean 10lthPICrd
epee dm Taney, t7th of May.