The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-09 00:00:00

MILITIA.

Yesterday morning the two regiments of Royal Surrey
Militia were out for training. The volunteers to the Ist
regiment, Colonel Holmes Sumner, mustered on Rich-
mond-green, where the Adjutant, permanent staff, and
trained non-commissioned officers were in attendance to
receive them. Many were found absent on the roll-call,
some being ill, and others having entered into her Ma-
jesty's service since joining the militia ; the muster, how-
ever, was considered very fair. The volunteers to the
2d Regiment, Colonel Lord Lovelace, met at Guilford,
and commenced their training ; nearly all who bad joined
answered to their names. The 3d Regiment of the
Royal Surrey Militia have now been training, under the
command of Colonel Challoner, at Kingston-on-Thames,
since the 28th ult., and have made much progress.
The Superintendent-Registrar of Benefit Societies has
forwarded a notice to the head-quarters of the different
militia regiments that any man deprived of benefits from
a society in consequence of volunteering for the militia
may have the same enforced on application to a county
magistrate, who has the power to award a sum of money
as compensation, and in default of payment can issue a
distress warrant on the goods of the society's treasurer.
The Ist Regiment of the Derbyshire Militia will as-
semble for duty on Thursday next at Derby. The num-
ber required to form the two regiment is 1,500, but up
to the present time not one-half have been found. The
staff have, during the last weeks, been most active at
their exercise. It is believed the ballot will have to be
put put into operation, owing to the number required to
compete the two regiments.

The Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia
will assemble at Lewes, for 28 days' training and exer-
cise, on the 24th inst. The regimental depot is at South-
over, at the outskirts of the town, where spacious gun-
sheds, Sze., have been provided by the lieutenancy of the
county for carrying on drill. The men will be in billets.
The Limerick Enrolled Pensioners' Battalion, under
Major Calder, will be called out for six days' drill and
exercise on the 15th inst. It is supposed all those bat-
talions in Ireland will be required to do garrison duty in
the ensuing summer.

LAW INTELLIGENCES—May 8.

ROLLS' COURT.

The Master of the Rolls delivered his judgment upon
the case, Reynolds v. Kortright, which was fully re-
ported in a former number of this paper, which turned
upon the question whether by word of mouth, almost in
articulo 4nortis, a British subject resident temporarily in
Porto Rico, a Spanish colony in the West Indies, could
appoint a friend, before a notary, as his commissario,
with power to make a will as ha liked. The deceased,
Mr. Reynolds, had made such an appointment in this
instance.

The Master of the Rolls said it was clear that this was
a question which must be decided according to the
Spanish law. The Court was of opinion the defendant
was authorised in making the will in his own favour,
according to the instructions given. The case was, how-
ever, of reasonable doubt, and he should not award costs.
HOPE V. HOPE.

This interesting case, as respects the Hope family,
stood by adjournment and direction of the Court in the
paper of to-day. It is a suit instituted by Mr. Francis
Henry Dickinson, as the next friend of the plaintiff,
Louisa Albertine Hope Emilie Mathilde Hope, Jean
Henri Hope, and another infant male child of James
Beresford Hope and Amelie Melanie, his wife, against
the.. two latter, their parents, who are the defendants in
this case. The object of the bill was to assign to the
mother
de descendant
ofud tali
infant plaintiffs a proper custody, in consequence of the
dissension existing on that point between the father and
the
children. Mr. Hope, the defendant,
is the
whot
of
frettihred f
e greatrom the
millionaire
invasion
ho
ef
Amsterdam, '
sans-culottes French
armies, with all his vast property,
into England, where
been domiciled. Thehde and his family have ever since
French General's daughter,
htindant, Mr. Hope, married a
in the cause, by whom her,who is the other defendant
females and two males. There has had five children, three
that they lived happily togetherewas evidence to prove
up to the year 1852, whena dispute as man and wife
them on account of the custody, as
arose between
their children. Mrs. Hope aboutyastliiti was alleged, of
period became
unwell, and an arrangement was mad:
daughters should be taken under the protteheation and care
her three
of a relation, Lady Mildred Hope. The two
sons were
Their
allowed to remain with their mother. uncle, Mr.
A. Hope, in 1853, brought the two boys over to En' g-
join
their who subsequently, however, were allowed to
their mother in France, at her special instance and en-
treaty, and a representation by Mrs. Hope's physician
that their absence might be very injurious to Mrs.Hope'e
health and comfort. On this occasion, at Mr. Hope's in-
stance, his wife signed an agreement that the boys should
be allowed to return to their fatheF in Tont- months' time.
A suit, however, followed, which was soonafterinstituted