The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-12 00:00:00

IIZELAND.

The Mercantile Advertiser, after stating thr fact that there
will be several contests here, says the Reformers " speak
with confidence of the results. They calculate upon adding
eight certainly, probably ten—perhaps twelve to the present
majority. They count upon Dublin, 2 ; Drogheda, I ; Kin-
sale, ; ; Bandon, 1 ; Carlow town,. 1 ; County Carlow., 1 ;
Longford county, 2 ; Cork.county, 1 ; Sligo town, 1 ; Ath-
lone, 1 ; Belfast, 1; Coleraine, I ; Carrickfergus, 1. These
places will certainly be contested. The Conservatives will
gain one in Antrim, and perhaps in some other places.

Lady Frances Ley had an assembly and supper
party after the Vauxhall last night.
Nothing of any public importance took place at
the Anti- Slavery Meeting yesterday after our reporter left.
Yesterday evening a very lengthened investigation
took place at St. Thomas's Hospital, touching the death of
Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, aged 40, who was killed by being run
over by a cab, furiously driven by William S;rjeaut. The
evidence was conclusive as to the fact, and the Jury returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter" against the driver, who was cotn-
witted to Newgate to take his trial.
Yesterday morning, between the hours of eight and
nine, a man dressed in the garb of a mechanic entered the
Temperance Coffee-house, Alclersgate-street, and called for a
cup of coffee, which being brought to him he put down the
money, exclaiming, " That's right ; ' but be had no sooner
put it to his lips than, falling back upon the•hench, be sighed
heavily and expired. Medical advice was immediately yro-
icured, but prcduced no beneficial results. The bodyiaow
awaits the Coroner's Inquest.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

PREROGATIVE COURT, JrLY 11.
CONDUIT V. SOANE AND OTHERS.
This is a question respecting the validity of the will and
of three codicils of the late Sir John Soane, the eminent
architect. They are propounded by Mrs. Conduit and the
other executors, and are opposed by the son of the deceased
and some others, on the ground of insanity.
Dr. LUSHINGTON stated that the main point for the
consideration of the Court was, whether the facts pleaded
in the allegation were of such a nature as to compel its
admission. The allegation was 'of a most extraordinary
nature. It pleaded that Mr. George Soane was the
only natural son of the deceased ; that he (the son) was
lon on the 27th of September, 1790. That in conse-
quence of the illness of his mother, he was put out to
nurse with a woman named Read, who had a child about
his own age, which died, and that the deceased (Sir
John Soane) had entertained the insane notion that the
child of the nurse had been substituted for his own off-
spring, and that he had, in consequence, a great aversion to
Mr. George Soane. It was also pleaded that on thein-
tercession of a Mr. Bryant on behalf of the son the de-
ceased had, in an exasperated manner referred him to the
4th chapter of the Eth book of " Gil Blas" as a justifica-
tion of his conduct ; and that on Mr. Bryant not under-
standing the application of the story the deceased wrote
out the chapter alluded to, and desired it to be delivered
into the hands of his son. The allegation continued to
plead that the deceased had written a book, the con-
tents of which fully established the insanity of the
deceased at the time the will was written, vi 7., on the
11th of May, 1833. Such, the Learned Advo-
cate stated, were the facts set forth to prove that the
deceased was not of sound mind, memory, oe understand-
ing. Not one act of the deceased had been pleaded
during the years of 1790 to 1830, when he referred to the
chapter in " Gil Blas," showing why he had so treated his
son. An allegation, deficient in so material a point, could
not be admissible. The will was that of a man who had
been at the very top of his profession. It was regularly
executed ; and having given various sums, directed his exe-
cutors to pay a legacy of 52/. (per annum we think) to his
son George. Here was a full acknowledgment of his son.
The will also stated that Mr. George Soule should re-
ceive no further benefit, in consequence of his uniform dis-
obedience to the wishes and orders of the deceased, and
that if any attempt was made by his son to disturb the dis-
tribution of the property the annuity bequeathed to him
should be annulled. The Learned Advocate then referred
to the other bequests mentioned in the will and codicils.
They were nearly all benefiting his relations, and were per-
fectly rational. The allegation was, therefore inadmissible.
Her Majesty's ADVOCATE, for IMr. George Scene,
contended that the facts set up were sufficient to prove the
insanity of the deceased. The question at present for the
consideration of the Court was, whether, if they were
proved, the will and codicils must be rejected on the
ground of insanity ? After having gone at very great
Lngth through the several articles of the allegation he sub-
mitted that it was admissable.
Dr. ADDAMS was beard on the same side.
The Learned Judge stated his intention of looking most
carefully to the contents of the will and codicil, as well
as to all the other papers in the case to ascertain whe-
ther the allegation brought all the facts fairly before the
Court. If it did so, the Court at present thought that it
was entitled to admission. The decision was accordingly
defy rre.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Three journeymen horse-boilers, named SinWl, Blossom,
and Johnson, were brought before the LOUD MAYOR
charged with having caused a very great row in Fencliurch-
street over the body of a dead horse, which each of them
claimed as his property.

William Phillibrown, the servant of a market gardener
named Harris, stated that he had come into London with
a horse and cart and forty-five bushels of gooseberrie, and
in Fenehurch-street the poor horse dropped down dead.
Scarcely was the breath out of the animal's body when one
of the prisoners walked up to him and eff•rod him I/. for it.
That offer was follawed by the offer of =2/. from another of
the prisoners ; but the word was hardly out of the mouth of
the latter when the third ran up and said, " Don't sell the
hanimal to either of those conies, they want to rob you, for
it's worth a matter of 31., and ni tip up that amount.**
Witness was so sorry about the death of a horse he drove
so 'ong that he did not well know what he was about, till
the whole street was in a rumbustion :with the three keackers,
one of whom managed to get the body upon a cart and IV :15
doing to run away with it, while the other two were prei;ar-
of the paYie place is which they iatcoded to do their
The LuRD MAYort—Why, at this rate, the knackers
must,lika the ravens, keow by instinct where the holy

The 3 tre..-t-ke,,,per declared that they were all bi:lding
against each other before the horse was a cort-.se. He be-
lieved that reople of the trade fodc;w7d a dying animal
ejut
as sh irks followed a sick ship, and, like those vora-ions
le:id a hand if the life was still in the body.

The complainant said that he had only just. run a -little
way to ook for his master to tell hii.a what had ii,ippi•ned,
and wh n he returned the knockers denied that he had any
claim to the horse at all, and swear thi;t if he did cot cut
away fom the place they would make his own flesh fit for
the ba'row.—(Laughter.)
Smi 11—Please you, my Lord, I see the 03S fall, and as
I knrws when a 1o !y do.l't intend to vet up again, I
offers the young man a matter of :20 shil!inco. Done
rays 1 e, goes and gets a cart for to move him away,
when u? comes another boiler's man, and as there's a lea.
lousy ;Innis; the boilers, he offers 2/. for the hanimal.
young man does no more but he breaks with me, and was
jist g;ing for to take the other money, when up comes an-
oti er and says he'd stand a pound more ; but, please you,
my Lard, as my offer was the first taken, an't I got the
best right to the ess ?

„ .
The LORD MAo—Not by any means. It appears
that the horse was worth at any rate three times as much
as you offered, and I deny your right aitosethtT.
The complainant stated that he had not accepted any
of the offers, on account of the absence of his master.
Blossom said that 21., the money which he had offered,
was quite as much as the horse was worth, and that the
bargain was regularly made when the last knacker came
up, and from mere opposition (for the body was not worth
the money) offered the 31. Tae claim set up by this
claimant was, that his biddins mJre closely approached the
real value.

Johnson—Any one as says the oss ant worth 31., it's
clear he'd steal him if he could. Now, I say the OS3 IS a
big fat un, with a good smooth skin, and not one of these
here walking hairy old trunks you'll buv in Smithfield, and
I offered the walue for him.
The LORD MAYOR—Why I am told you were ready
with your knives before the poor animal was dead.
Johnson—No, please you, my Lord, we arn't such
butchers as that neither.
Blossom—l'm blest if we are, your Lordship ;we an't
the right sort to draw our knives through the witals of a
poor innocent beast, that little thinks your'e going to make
a jimmy of hit head ; that ere is a cruel trade. Now, we
never draws blood, except to put a poor creetur out of his
misery ; no, no, my Lord, we're knackers ; we a'nt butchers
yet, thanks be to God.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR--It is not quite clear to me that you
did not intend to get the horse amongst you without paying
for it at all. I should like to know how so many of those
kites happened to be on the spot where the prey was ?
The street-keeper said he believed that they were always
on the look out in the hot weather, and that they em-
ployed cads who, as it were, telegraphed the fall of every
horse, and thus competition took place in the public streets.
The LORD MAYOR—As the street is obstructed to a
certain degree by the poor animal's body, the complainant
had better decide at once upon taking the largest offer, and,
no doubt, his master would be satisfied.
To this proposition the complainant seemed disposed to
accede, and all the parties left the Justice-room for the
purpose of coming to an arrangement. Upon going to the
place, however, in which they had left the dead horse,
they could not see anything of the kind, and were, to the
surprise of all of them, informed that another owner had
arrived and sold the body to another set of knackers, who
seemed to be in a great hurry to remove the obstruction.

MARYLEB ONE— .
OVERSTRAINED POLITENESS.—Stephen Jackson, a ton-
sor, of the Regent's Park, who, for his extraordinary po-
liteness, is better known by the sobriquet of the " Chester-
field Chin-scraper," was on Monday charged with upset-
ting a gooseberry-pie from a baker's tray, whilst bowing
very gracefully to a customer.

George Foscutt, a youth in the employ of Mr. Hood,
baker, of 2.9, Park-terrace, stated that on Saturday evening
he was proceeding along Caroline-place, having a fine smok-
ing-hot gooseberry-pie in a tray on his head, when he met
the defendant, who, in bending his body to salute a friend
whom he met, came in contact with him (complainant) and
upset the tray from his head, and the gooseberry-pie fell on
the pavement, the dish breaking to atoms. He gathered
up the fragments, which he here produced. The dish, with
its contents, was worth four shillings and sixpence.
Mr. RAWLINSON— What have you to say ? Defendant
(with a low salam)_Quite an accident, I assure you.
'Pon my honomi had-not the least malice either to the
emplatittatt A-a- the The fact is, I was bowing, ac-
cording to m, usual practice, to one of my regular custoth-
ers, when, confound it, I just touched the boy, and down
came the tray about my cars. I have made some hundreds
of bows in my life-time, but never got into such a scrape
as this before. I don't wish for any altercation, and am

quite agreeable to pay for the damage I have unfortunately
occasioned.
The defendant having done so, was in the act of bowing
himself backwards out of the office, when he trod upon
the gouty foot of an old gentleman, who exclaimed, in a
voice of thunder, " Tread light, governor !"
Lord Chesterfield, having bowed, and made an ample
apology to the sufferer, immediately withdrew.