The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-29 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

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COURT OF PROBATE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde, and a Special Jury.)
JONES T. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS.

This was a suit for proving in solemn form the will and
five codicils of Francis Williams. The defendants opposed
on the ground that the testator at the time of the execu-
tion of the will and codicils was not of sound disposing
mind.

The trial commenced yesterday, and from the statement
of Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., it appeared that the property of the
testator consisted of half a million of money. He•had
executed during his life no less than 37 wills, and the last
was now opposed by some of his relatives, on the ground
of undue influence by the others. ,
The case will occupy two or three days.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT IN THE POLICE COURT.—James
Noakes, a lithographic printer, living in Searle's-place,
Temple-bar, was charged before Mr. Knox with being
drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner in the police
court, Marlborough-street, and also with assaulting police-
constable Soper 150 C.
Soper said that yesterday afternoon ho saw the prisoner
outside the police-court fighting with a woman. The pri-
soner refused to go away, and struck him in the mouth
and kicked him on tho leg. With the assistance of other
constables he got the prisoner to the station.
Mr. Stephon Collins, one of the ushers of the court, said
that on the previous afternoon, while the summonses were
being heard, some women in the court made such a noise
that he was compelled to turn them out. One of the
women, it appeared, was the prisoner's wife, and after she
was put out, the prisoner, who was drunk, became so noisy
that he was obliged to be put out also. The prisoner then
got up a scene of riot in the passage of the court, such as
he had never witnessed before—the prisoner yelling and
several women screaming.

Sergeant Hurn, 22 0, said the prisoner thiew himself
down and kicked so violently that he was obliged to be
strapped to the stretcher before he could be got to the sta-
tion.

The prisoner said he had been suffering from a broken
arm ever since the Derby-day, and he could not, therefore,
have acted as alleged. He had been very poorly through
being locked up.

Mr. Knox said that might be so, but it was no excuse
for the prisoner striking the constable in the mouth. The
prisoner had no business to make a disturbance in a public
court, and he would have to pay 20s. or 14 days.

The Earl and Countess of Derby entertained his
Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and Countess
Apponyi, the Duko and Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady
Margaret Scott, the Duke and Duchess of Athole, the
Earl of Dunmore, the Earl and Countess Vane, the Earl
and Countess of Wilton, Viscount Massereene, Lord and
Lady Bkelmersdale, and a distinguished party at dinner
yesterday evening at their residence in St. James's-
square. The Countess of Derby, later in the evening, had
an assembly, which was numerously attended
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident of a
most distressing character occurred on Tuesday last
on the Great Eastern Railway, between the stations of
Whittlesea and March, by which two persons were killed.
It seems that Miss Vawser, the daughter of a farmer in
the neighbourhood, had occasion to cross the railway in a
covered car, accompanied by a servant, and driven by a
lad. The lad led the horse and cart on to the line, where
ho left it to open the other gate ; and at this juncture the
train from Peterborough to March, and which was due at
5.13, was in sight. The driver saw the cart on the line,
but not early enough to stop the train, and the engine ran
into the cart, smashing it to atoms, and killed the servant
on the spot. Miss Vawser was dreadfully mutilated, one
of her legs severed from the body, her face partially
severed from her cheekbones, drc., and after lingering
several hours she died in great agony. The horse was also
very ranch mutilated. No blame is attached to the driver
and the only wonder is that the lives of the passengers in
the train wore not lost.

MR. WEBSTER'S BENEFIT.—The annual benefit
of Mr. Webster is fixed for Saturday evening, when
a variety of very attractive entertainments, combined with
the general sense of Mr. Webster's eminent merits, both as
an actor and a manager, will doubtless insure a numerous
audience. Miss Bateman will appear as Pauline in the
"Lady of Lyons ;" and Mr. Webster will deliver an ad-
dress in the course of the evening.

TREASURE TROVE.—A return to Parliament has
been issued of all objects- coming under the deno-
mination of treasure trove which have been claimed by the
Solicitor of the Treasury on behalf of the Crown between
March 1, 1864, and May 10, 1865, setting forth the date of
such claim, description of treasure, estimated value, and
how disposed of. The findings were five in number. The
first, on May 25, 1864, was a gold coin at Long Crendon,
Bucks, valued at £3. This was retained by the British
Museum, on payment of £3, £2 paid to a farmer on whose
ground the coin was found. On July 5, 62 gold coins were
found in an earthen jar in a field at Stockerston, Leicester-
shire ; the value was £5B 4s. Id. Five of these coins were
granted to the lord of the manor, on payment of their value
(£4 14s. 5d.); ten coins presented to the Leicester Town.
Museum. The value of the coins was paid to the finders.
On Aug. 17, 6,000 silver pennies, temp. Henry 111., were
found at Eccles, near Manchester. Tho coins were de-
livered to the Duchy of Lancaster, the duchy being en-
titled thereto under grants in royal charters. On Sept. 1,
760 silver coins were found at Holwell, near Newark,
Notts. These, which are valued at £l5 3s. id., are still
undisposed of.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S PROC AMATI ON.—Some
correspondence between Earl Russell and Sir F.
Bruce relating to the proclamation opening the ports of the
United States has been laid before Parliament. It will
suffice to give Earl Russell's despatch of the 16th inst. :
The clause in the President's proclamation of the 22d of
May which threatens certain offenders as pirates, and
which you justly describe in your despatch of the 22d ult.
as unintelligible, seems to have arisen from a confusion of
two very separate offences. The one would bo the offence
of attempting to trade, to carry manufactures or provisions,
for instance, into such ports as Charleston, Mobile, or
Wilmington, ports in the possession of the United States.
This would be an offence of violating laws and regulations
of the nature of Custom-house regulations, and punish-
able as such. The other would be the offence of at-
tempting by armed vessels, such as the Stonewall, to
break into the ports of Galveston and Brownsville,
then in the possession of the Confederates, with a view of
aiding them in their insurrection. This would be an offence
against the sovereignty of the United States, and the state
of war having ceased would amount to the crime of high
treason. Neither offence could constitute piracy, which is
a crime against all mankind. But as, since the date of the
proclamation, Galveston and the other ports excepted have
been reduced within the obedience of the United States, it
will probably not be necessary that you should point out
this error in the proclamation of the 22d of May. You will
take care, however, to attend to any case in which a British
subject may be wrongfully detained in prison, after the more
recent proclamations of the President, of which I have not,
however, received from you official copies."