The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

TICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
(Before Sir J. Stuart.)
HARDING V. MARTIN.
The further hearing of the argument in this case—the
object of the suit being to set aside a deed on the ground
that it had been executed by a person who, since the execu-
tion of the deed, had been found lunatic, and ..eho,
it was
alleged, gave, without any consideration, all his household
furniture, plate, and other effects to the detfendant--occu-
pied the greater portion of the day. tis sill proceeding.

COURT OF PROBATE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.)
CRISPIN DOGLIONI.
The reception A evidence in this case was resumed
to-day. It is what is called an interest suit, that is, the '
plaintiff, as the natural son of the late Henry Crispin, one
of a firm of merchants formerly carrying on business at
Faro in Portugal, has an interest in disputing a will pro-
pounded by the defendant, Maria Doglioni, a sister of the
deceased, inasmuch as by the law of Portugal, where a man,
not noble, leaves one natural son, the son is entitled to the
whole of his father's property if he dies intestate; if not in-
testate, to two-thirds. The firm of Crispin and Co. have car-
ried on an extensive wholesale, as well as retail, business in a
variety of commodities, including fruits, cheese, linen, cork
&c., and, at the time of Henry Crispin's death in 1826, had
made accumulations in the English funds to the amount of
upwards of £84,000. In the year Iso9 Henry Crispin, the
father of the plaintiff, formed an acquaintance with a young
woman named Barbara Julia Cortez, the daughter of a hair-
dresser living in the same street, viz.. Rua San Pedro, Faro.
The result of this intimacy between Henry Crispin and Bar-
bara Julia Cortez was the birth of a son, the plaintiff, on
Oct. 2, 1816, Shorty before the birth of the child, Henry
Crispin called on Antonio Sabbe, who had the management
of the foundling institution at Faro, and told him that Bar-
bara Julia Cortez was about to become a mother, and asked
him to have a nurse ready to receive the child. In the Portu-
guese foundling institutions there is akind of drum,having an
opening on one side, fixed in the wall or door, and which
drum revolves vertically, so that when a child is born out
of wedlock, and the parents wish to avoid publicity, the
child is taken to the foundling, placed in the drum, which
revolves and delivers the infant to the person waiting to ro-
ceiveit, without the person who brings it boing seen. Henry
Crispin called at the foundling institution, and requested
the keeper of the wheel to have a nurse ready to receive the
child, of which he stated he was father. On Oct. 2, 1816,
the child was born and was handed through the drum, and
given into the charge of a person named Maria di Camo.
Shortly after Henry Crispin again saw Sabbe, and told him
that the child was his, and that it was to be baptised Jose
Cortez Francisco. The boy was afterwards removed from
the Foundling, and Henry Crispin constantly acknowledged
him as his son. In the year 1828 Henry Crispin died, and
the boy remained with his mother Barbara Julia, and was
brought up to the trade of a carpenter, In 1852 the plain-
tiff commenced a cause of filiation against the defendant,
Maria Doglioni and her husband Lazaro Doglioni (since de-
ceased) in the Court of First Instance, and after several
appeals in the Portuguese Courts, he was declared the natu-
ral son of Henry Crispin. In 1859 he applied for letters of
administration in this court of his father's effects, and the
Judge Ordinary granted limited administration, that the
plaintiff might be enabled to institute proceedings in Chan.
eery. The defendant Maria Doglioni propounded a will of
the deceased Henry Crispin, and denied that the plaintiff
was his natural son, and that issue now came on for trial.
The reading of documentary evidence, taken abroad,
occupied the Court the whole of the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WHOLESALE ROBBERY.—A NEW USE FOR CRINOLINE.
—Thomas Goodman and Alfred Sanders, two journeymen,
in the employ of Mr. Benjamin Cox, butcher, of Swallow-
passage, Regent,street, were charged befere Mr. Knox
with stealing a quantity of fat, the property of their em-
ployer, and Goodman was further charged with being in
possession of a quantity of meat at his lodgings, believed to
be stolen.