The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-17 00:00:00

LATEST PARTICULARS.

Upon inquiry at the King's College Hospital
this afternoon, we were informed that the unfor-
tunate men who had sustained such serious injuries
by the explosion were still alive.

LIABILITI OF A HUSBA D FoRT)E732'S
OF 1118 WIFE'S PREVIOUS 11118 BAND.

A case of some importance was beard on Friday-
last in the Wolverhampton County Court, before A.
M. Skinner, Esq., Q.C. The plaintiffs in the case
were Messrs. Parkes, wiredrawers, Willenhall, and
the defendant was a lockmaker, named Atkin, re-
siding at the same place.
Mr. Stirk appeared on behalf of the plaintiffs, and.
Mr. J. Walker for the defendant.
The proceedings were under a wire facias summons
to revive a judgment. An original summons was
taken out and judgment given upon it in 1858, the
defendant's wife being then sued for £l2, as the ewe,-
cutrix and de son tort of her late husband, a curry-
comb maker, named Kershaw. On the hearing of
:hat case bot h parties were represen b-dby their attor-
neys, and judgment for the plaintiffs was signed is
the court books in the ordinary manner. The,
object of the present proceedings was to make Atkin
liable on this judgment—recovered against the wife
in 1858,

Mr. Walker contended that the judgment being:
signed generally in the books of the court must be
taken as a judgment against Mrs. Kershaw in her
representative character as executrix, and conse-
quentlyaa lns
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condition when she married Atkin, that Atkin never
received a farthing benefit from Kershaw's estate,
and that shortly after the judgment had teen ob-
tained in 1858, the landlord entered Kershaw's
premises and swept everything away.
Mr. Stirk contended that the judgment entered
on the books was a judgment against Mrs. Kershaw.
as an individual; it was final and conclusive be-
' tween the parties, and could not be questioned
except in the ordinary way—by an application for
a new trial, which it was now too late to make.
In giving judgment his Honour said that it was
d
a well-known law—when a man married a woman
considering 4 coul
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distinction
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the first three months, and 10s. a month afterwards.
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In addition to the debts of Mrs. Kershaw, Atkin
also had the courage to take her family of seven
children.

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from water on the chest, which last disease proved fatal.
e was the son of a Manchester merchant ccsrrying on
business in Morley-street, Manchester, and was called to
the bar in 1821.
THE SHEFFIELD MURDER.—EXPULSION OF
THOMPSON FROM THE TRADES UNION.—It will be remem-
bered that at the last assizes at York a man, named
Thompson, was charged with throwing a can filled with
explosive substances into a:dwelling-house at Sheffield,
in consequence of which a woman was killed. He was
acquitted, but before the trial he had made a most extra-
ordinary statement to the chief constable of Sheffield, in
which he confessed that he had been aware of certain
violent outrages which have bean committed, and that he
had conversed with other members of his (the fender-
grinders) union with reference to the manner in which such
" jobs" could be done, and the price to be paid for them.
Since the trial there have been public discussions on the
subject of trades unions, at which the working men have
assembled in large numbers. A few days ago, a general
meeting of the members of Thompson's trade was held,
and his conduct was brought under discussion. He made a
lengthy explanation of his confession, several points in
which tended to fix the guilt upon some of his fellow-work-
men ; but, after hearing all he had to say, the Union
formally resolved to exclude him from its ranks.