The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Justieei Crompton, Wightman, and Mellor.)
SWEENY V. SPOOI,,ER.

Mr. Spooner said this was a case sent by the mazistrates
of Birmingham for the decision of their lordships. Ihe
defendant, i t appeared, 20 years ago separated from his
wife by mutual consent, she having at that time separate
means of her own. Many years afterwards the husband,
having heard nothing of his wife, married again; but even•
tually the first wife became chargeable to the parish, and
the defendant was applied to under the sth George
IV. to provide for her support. This he refused
to do, and the magistrates were anxious for the opinion of
their lordships, whether the husband could be treated as a
person unlawfully leaving his wife a burden to a particular
parish, and amenable to the penalties contained in the said
act.

The Court was of opinion that he was not amenable to
the act cited.

BAIL COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)

H7s lordship was occupied the whole of the moaning in
hearing a case of illegal distraint, which did not possess
the slightest public interest.

COURT OF PROBATE.
WILLCOCK V. WILLCOCK AND DUTILOIT.

The examination of witnesses in the case was resumed
this morning.

The widow, in this case, in the first instance, propounded
the will, but the brother of the deceased, a resident in
Canada, offered the granting of protate on the ground that
it was not made in accordance with the act, and that the
testator was not in a state of mind capable of executing a
will when he signed the document.

The property involved amounts to about £6OO per annnm,
derived from an estate situated at Canonbury, Islington.
The will directed the property to be sold, and several small
legacies to be given to the testator's brothers and their
children, and the bulk of the proceeds to be paid over to the
widow.

The Court pronounced in favour of the plaintiff.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A BURGLARY PREVENTED.—Two rough .looking fellows,
namod Joeeph N eal and Robert Wi1.0., .roan charged before
Mr. Knox, as follows :

Henry Bartlett, 142 F, said that about one o'clock that
morning he was in Dudley-street, and observed the two
prisoners standing in a doorway, and then leave it, and
poiat towards him. The prisoners then went into a public-
house at the corner of Tower-street, and walked through
different streets, and back to Dudley-street, when they
again placed themselves in the doorway in which he had
observed them before. He then went up to them and
asked why they were loitering about the street, and Wilson
said they wanted to go to Old Mace's, a publichouse, to have
something to drink. He told the prisoners the persons in
the house had all gone to bed, and that they could go to
at other house if they wanted anything to drink. Feeling
satisfied what their object wag, he took hold of Wilson, and
in an inside coat-pocket he found a long new rope
(used by burglars for letting themselves down cellar
flaps) and he then called for assistance and took the two
prisoners to the station, when on searching Wilson he
found some keys on him, and on Neal, who had thrown a
box of matches away on his road to the station, he found a
" jemmy" of first rate workmanship, some keys, and a
candle, the usual stock of burglars.
Mr. Knox, it having been intimated that a remand was
asked for, said that sufficient evidence had been given that
day, and remanded the prisoners, one of whom it was stated
had been convicted.

PICKING A CHIEF CONSTABLE'S POCKET.—Thomas
Macarthy, a shoeblack, was charged with picking the pocket
of Major Greig, chief constable of the Liverpool police,
staying at the Westminster Palace Hotel, of a pocket
handkerchief.

Evidence
force havingtv
been given, Mr. Knox committed the
prisoner
with hard labour, for the unlaw-
fulEv‘omonths,
possession of the property, the major not being able to
attend.