The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-24 00:00:00

R THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1862.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCF.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
HILL V. EVANS.

TATTERSALLS'—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUE.
33 to 1 agst Agag (taken)
40 to 1 agst Umpire (taken)
40 to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken)
40 to 1 agst Brown Duchess (taken)
40 to 1 agst Schism (taken)

This appeal came on to be mentioned at the sitting of the
Court this morning.
Sir Hugh Cairns, Q.C., said that after the opinion ex-
pressed by his lordship that the patent was a good patent
in law, it would be improper in him to say anything on the
subject with a view to obtain an alteration of his lordship's
opinion. He would only mention the question of costs.
The learned counsel submitted on three grounds that his
client should not be made liable to pay costs.
Mr. Rolt, Q.C., contended that the costs should follow
the result of the suit.

THE DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Typee colt (taken)
40 to 1 agst Hubert (taken)

The Lord Chancellor said that he would dispose of the
question of costs when he decided the cause.

AFFRAY WITH TOAC.HEIM

APPEAL-JUDGMENT-DAVIS V. BENNET.

This was an appeal from a decision of the Master of the
Rolls, declaring that the residue of the testatrix's estate
was desirable per• capita, and not per stripes, among her
two sisters, Jane and Anne, now living, and her deceased
sister's children, Elizabeth and Ann, amounting altogether,
in children and grandchildren, to 24.
The Lord Chancellor was of opinion that the words by
which the testatrix dire ;ted the residue of her personal
estate to be divided between "her two sisters Jane and
Mary, and their children (lawful issue) equally "—meant
that it was to be divided into one-third equal shares, and
that her two sister and their children were to take equal
shares collectively. And also directed the other point to be
argued, whether, under the word " respectively," there
was a substitution of the children of Elizabeth and Anne,
and subdivision of the residue into four parts, as has been
suggested by counsel.

POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

BONY-STREET.

CHARGE OF EXTENSIVE SIVINDLING.—The two men,
who gave the names of Sheen and Keeling, wore again
placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, on remand, charged
with obtaining goods under false pretences.
A great number of witnesses wore examined, all of whom
stated that the prisoners had carried on business in all parts
of the city in all kinds of assumed names.

Samuel Dickens said he was a lodging-house keeper in
Norfolk. street, F trend. On the Ist of December of last
year the prisoners lodged at his house. They represented
themselves as " Martin and Henry." Sheen said he was
Martin, jun., and that he was carrying on the business of
his father, who was in Ireland. He told me their offices
were in St. Mary-axe. They lived with me six weeks, but
they never paid any rent. They left on the 7th
of January, and in payment Sheen gave me a bill of
exchahge for £l2. He (witness) drew the bill, and
Sheen accept it in the name of "A. Martin." Before it
became due they left the apartments. On opening the two
travelling bags they had left behind, brickbats and stones
were found in one, and some old and dirty linen in the
other.

Mr. Fred. Pontifex, of Shoe-lane, coppersmith, said—On
the 3d of July last, Sheen called at our place of business in
company with another man. An order was given for
goods to be supplied to "Hughes and Co," to the amount
of £2 10s. The articles ordered were sent and payment
applied for, at 13, Broad-street Buildings, where he saw
Keeling, who said he knew nothing about it as Mr. Hughes
was not at home. Shortly after another order was received
for goods amounting to about £3O, and a reference was given
to Messrs. Haines, St. Mary-at-Hill. The inquiry was
made, but the goods were not supplied. The first lot of
goods had not been paid for.
Charles Bent, porter in the employ of Messrs. Pontifex,
said he took the samplesof the goods to the office of Hughes
and Co. He saw both the prisoners. The shorter one
(Keeling) took the goods. The other one said the master
was not at home, and that he would have to call the next
day for the money.
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Mr. Jones, an auctioneer, said he carried on business at
410, Oxford-street. Some goods were brought there ;
amongst them was a Brussels carpet, chairs, and other
things. An advance was made on them to a lady. The
money was repaid and the goods were given up. A polled-
constable called at our office and told us not to part with
the goods. After that a solicitor came and threatened us
with proceedings if the goods were not given up after the
amount of the advance had been repaid.

THIS DAY'S ,iIAREETS.

Mr. Henry—Then you parted with goods after you had
received notice not to do so by tho police.
Witness—l was threatened by a solicitor if I did not
do so.

Mr. Henry—You ought not to have parted with the
goods.
Witness—l consider we took every precaution.
Mr. Henry—No you did not ; don't say so, or I shall
make some very strong observations.
Mr. Bonham, the partner of the former witness, said ho
saw the goods sent for sale. Some of the things wore iden-
tified as having been obtained from Mr. Herring, He did
not know that the whole of the goods had been obtained
by swindling. In giving up the goods they had acted
under what they thought good advice.
Several other witnesses having been examined,

The prisoners were committed to take their trial for for-
gery, conspiracy to defraud, and obtaining goods under
false pretences.

MARLBORO 66-11-STREET.

BURGLARY AT A TAVBRIC.—A man who refused his
name and address, was charged before Mr. Yardley with
burglariously entering the Princess Charlotte Tavern
Princes-street, Hanover-square, and stealing a quantity of
silver, the money of Mr. John Richardson, licensed
victualler.

On being placed at the bar he gave the 'am° George
/vPLaren.

James Stevens, 112 C, said about half-past 6 this morn-
ing I was passing the Princess Charlotte Tavern and heard
the rattling of money in the house, and seeing no light I
tried the door and found it secure, and on coming to a
second door in Swallow-place, the prisoner rushed out and
I caught him by the collar of his coat. Prisoner said,
" What are you holding me for, let me go," and hearing
some other person in the house I tried to drag him up to
the docr, but c )uld not. I then heard a noise as if some
one had jumped off the counter. I took prisoner to the
station, and hastened back to the house and called up the
landlord, the door being still open, and the landlord made
a search, and on going into the house I found a box on the
floor with 6d. in it behind th 6 door from which the prisoner
came out, and whioh opened into the public bar. I then
went back to the station.
In answer to Mr. Yardley, the constable said he found
the fanlight over the door unfastened, and it was large
enough to admit a man, ;and there were the marks of a
man's hands on the ledge. "On searching the prisoner at
the station," continued the officer, 6' I found £2 11s. 10d.
in silver in his pocket, and in his waistcoat pocket £1 18s.
6d. in silver also, and in another some more money and
lucifer matches."

Mr. John Richardson, of the Princess Charlotte public-
house, said—l went to bed at one, and the fanlight I saw
closed. I was not disturbed till the constable rang the bell.
The bolts of the door had been drawn. The box produced
had contained £4 in silver, and was in the till when he
went to bed. The constable showed him the box and the
money was taken from it. A bag had also been taken.
Sergeant Bason, 112 C, said—l examined the fanlight,
and found marks of something having been forced in the
middle of the sash. •

Inspector Garforth said, he believed the prisoner had
been transported in the name of George Bull, but he had
lost sight of him for some time.

Mr. Barnes, the prosecutor's barman, proved fastening
he fanlight over night.

Mr. Yardley said, the charge fell Ehort of burglary, and
the prisoner, who is a determined looking fellow, was com-
mitted fur trial.

The commission on literary and artistic copy-
right, instituted by an Imperial decree of December last,
instituted by an imperial decree of December last, held its
first sitting at the Ministry of
.State the day before yester-
day. Count Walewski, the Minister of State, presided, and
inaugurated the labours of the commission by an able and
appropriate address on the nature and importance of the
duties which they were called on to perform, after which
the general discussion was adjourned to the next sitting.
A Vienna letter of the 20th says We had a
heavy fall of snow here yesterday, so heavy indeed that no
carriages could venture out. The few foot passengers in
the streets had great difficulty in getting through the snow,
which fell for hours undisturbed by a breath of wind. It
appears that the snow has been general, for all the mails
yesterday arrived late. On the Sosmering line, especially,
there had been a great deal of snow, and a much heavier
fall of snow was expected. which will probably render the
mails very irregular for some days."

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The Berlin Punch, or Kladderadatsch, brings
out his last number with a Christmas tree, richly illumi-
nated and hung with presents for the surrounding poten-
tates of Europe in children's frocks. Master France is
enjoying his little drum and a deficit of 829 millions, Mas-
ter Yankee 224 millions of deficit, Master Austria 146 mil-
lions, Master Victor 159 millions scudi, and so on; while
Master Prussia, with his two big boxes of cavalry and in-
fantry, and no deficit, is weeping bitterly, and wiping his
eyes with his knuckles, crying, " I want to have a deficit
too."
A letter from Hamburg states that considerable
quantities of vegetables and fruit are regularly imported
Bytes. the two last steamers,
had arrived from New York
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the Red Eagle of the First Class, given to the Aide-de-
Camp of the Emperor of Russia, and to M. Miliutine,
orders conferred on this occasion, we may
Russian Minister of War, remark that of

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.—Atropia was struck oul
immediately after the publication of the weights.

II URDER OF A GAMEKEEPER-DESPERATE

For some time past great depredations have been com-
mitted by gangs of poachers (believed to come from Tude-
ley, the Mailings, Yalding, 3ce.) in the woods surrounding
Roydon Hall, the seat of W. Cook, Esq., J.P., and that
gentleman has been compelled to employ extra watchers or
underkeepers to look after his extensive game preserves,
and this led on Wednesday morning to an encounter, in
which the head gamekeeper, in the employ of Major Cook,
the son of the proprietor, lost his life.
The keeper, whose name was Grey, had been over to
Mereworth, an adjoining village, to invite some of the
farmers to a day's shooting on the following day, and one of
the gentlemen thus invited sent him to the Torrington
Arms to get a little ale. Grey left that house about half-
past ten o'clock, and find ng everything apparently quiet
about the woods he retired to rest. About one o'clock he
was knocked up by some of the watchers, who informed
him that they had heard the firing of guns in a wood called
the Mill Roughs, near the Hatches-gate. Grey, with five
others, atonce proceeded to the wood, where they encoun-
tered a party of poachers, eight or nine in number, and
armed with guns and bludgeons.
Grey, who was a powerful and determined man, ex-
claimed, " I know you all—you are East Mailing men,"
and rushed in amongst them. The poachers, who appeared
to be under the command of one of their number, drew up
in line and present .2cl their guns, threatening to shoot any
one who dared to interfere with them. The keepers and
poachers had a desperate struggle, in the course of which
two of the latter were got down. They called for assist-
ance, one of them exclaiming, " Sheet the —," and a
gun'was discharged, the contents of which entered the right
thigh of Grey, who notwithstanding fought on, knocking
down two more men with his life preserver. At length he
failed through loss of blood. The ether keepers conveyed
him to his cottage, where he was promptly atttended by
Mr. Biggenden, of East Peckham. Be lingered in great
agony until nearly six o'clock, when he expired. In the
meantime the poachers retreated in something like military
order, presenting their guns to the keepers, and threatening
to "floor them as they had done the other man." It is
evident that some of the gang were severely injured, as
some marks of blood were traced. They {left behind
them two broken guns, two caps, and the lining of
a hat covered with blood. The ruffians were dressed as
pikeys or labouring men, and poor Grey described the man
who shot him as being a tall man.

Information was despatched to the police, and the chief
constable, Captain Ruxton, with Superintendent Heise,
Kent county constabulary, were unceasing in their efforts
to dicover the guilty parties, or some of them.
In the course of the day two men from Mereworth, named
Simpson and Honey, well known to the police as being
poachers, were apprehended, but they soon proved an alibi,
inasmuch as it was shown that they were drunk and incapa-
ble, and were assisted by a neighbour to their homes, some
four miles from the scene of the scuffle. Two other men
were also placed under the surveillance of the police, but
the underkeepers, on being called on, could not identify
them, and they were released.
The unfortunate man has left five children, and his
wife is approaching her sixth confinement.