The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-09 00:00:00

ITAL Y.

CE-CH CER Y.-(T HIS DAY
(Before Vice Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
BELRE'S CHARITY

Mr MURRAY said this was a petition on behalf of the
Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. It appeared
that by indentures ot lease and release, executed in 1774,
a piece of land situated at Romney Marsh, in Kent, was
conveyed to certain trustees, upon trust to sell the pro-
perty, acid out ot the produce Of the sale, alter the pay-
ment of the rents and profits, to apply the remainder o'
the money to certain charitable purposes, namely, the
distribution and publication of religious tracts and books,
under the auspices of the Society for promoting Christian
Knowledge. The piece of land in question was after-
wards conveyed to other trustees by an indenture
executed in 1780, those trustees being the secretary
and treasurer of the Society in question. By au
indenture dated in 1806 this property again
bhcame vested in certain other trustees—namely, the
Rev. Archdeacon Putt, the Rev. W. H. Parr, and the
Rev. F. Gosling, as the representatives of the society.
These gentlemen are all dead ; and Archdeacon Putt,
the lust survivor of thew, died at a very advanced age,
and his heirs are now the trustees of the property, which
is of the tenure of gavelkind. Those heirs are very
numerous, some ot them being married womrn. The
present petition sought the Court to decree an order fur
vesting this piece of land in the now secretary and
treasurer of the Society for Promoting Chri:titin
Knowledge.

Hix
Ilo—Noun—Then you now wish an order for an
advertisement?

Mr. MURRAY—We wish an ortirr f,,r an advertiz,e-
m.nt, ui:d also for the appointment of new truste« s, it
your Honour will be good enough su to direct ii, and
thus renthr it unLeetssary tor us to come before the
Cuurt again.

Ilis lioNoun doubted whether the forms of the Court
would enable Wm to dispense with that useless outlay of
money; he would, if possible, but he was afraid there
would be objt ctions to it. The only question was whether
it could be dune in that way prospectivdy ?
Mr. MURRAY did not know whether his Honour
would think it necessary to have a reference to the
Master to determine and report who were the surviving
trustees.

His HONOUR—Not if you have an affidavit.
Mr. SluunAY—The facts are verified by affidavit.
His Horionu—Then I will nut put you to that outlay
of the ney. I think there is precedent for embodying
in one order the direction for an advertisement and the
appointment of new trustees, and I do it most readily.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
HIND V. HART.
This was the only case in the list, and was for the
balance of a bill of exchange.
The jury were summoned for eleven o'clock, but the
parties n,,t bring ready ihe jury were directed to re-
assemble at twelve o'clock. At, that hour one of the
absentee jurymen was put on the list for the Central
Criminal Court. The case was then tred and lasted
less than three minutes' no defence being offered.
The jury complained of this useless loss of time.

MARLBRO'-STREET.— ThIS DAY.
John Eaton, a notorious thief, was placed before Mr.
Hardwick, charged, with two other men not in custody,
with having burglariously entered No. 28, Denmark..
street, Soho, and stealing 56 pairs of bouts, the property
of Mr. James Towers, boot and shoemaker.
Goding, k' 128, deposed, that between the hours of
twelve and one this morning, he was on duty in 11en-
mark-street, and on trying the door of No. 28 in that
street, he found it open. He went into the passage, and
called up the landlord, and just as he had come down
stairs, the prisoner and two other men rushed out from
the shop into the side passage. Witness caught hold
of the prisoner, when he and the other two
men commenced striking him over the bead
with their fists. They then dragged him
out of the passage into the street, and the
other two men then ran away. The prisoner in at-
tempting to follow them fell down, and, after a short
struggle with witness he manaeed to get up and rue
away. Winess pursued him calling out stop thiet,
After running about a hundred yards, the prisoner was
stopped by another constable and taken to the station-
house. On their way there the prisoner said, " You
have got hold of the wrong man this time." On search-
ing him at the station a "call whistle" and 2s. were
found in his pocket.
Frost, 23 F, stated that a little before one this morn-
ing he was standing at the bottom of Stacey street,
when ho heard to cry of " Stop thief." On looking
round he saw the prisoner running as hard as he could
towards him. Witness stopped him, when last witness
came up, and the prisoner was taken to the station.
house. When witness stopped the prisoner he said,
"This was what he got by doing police duty."
Joseph Bay field stated that he lodged at No. 28, Den-
mark-street, Soho. This morning, about one o'clock,
he was awoke from his sleep by the barking of his dog,
He got up and went down stairs to put the animal oat of
the house. On reaching the bottom of the stairs he saw
a police-constable standing by the street door. Witness
asked what he wanted there, and before the constable
could answer, the prisoner and two others rushed out of
the shop. The constable seised hold of the prisoner,
who made great resistance and tried to get away. Wit-
ness saw the prisoner and the other men strike the con-
stable several times. The constable was then dragged
into the street, and the other men effected their escape.
Witness subsequently picked up a hat in the street,
which the prisoner claimed as his. Witness also fbund
the padlock and the two picklock keys produced in the
shop.

William Gummer, shopman to Mr. James Towers (the
prosecutor), stated that his master rented the shop of
Mr. Eld, the owner of the house 28, Denmark-street.
Last night, about half-past ten, witness tucked up the
shop, and having seen that all was si cure. left the p:e-
-rnis,-s. He padlocked the shopdoor, and I..ft by the side
passage. The two keys produced did not belong to Mr.
Towers. One of them was found in the psdloek, and the
other in the lick of the passage &ion lie idercified the
whole of the property produced as belonging to his t ra-
w()) cr. He knew the prisoner, from the circumstance
of his coming into his master's shop with a w..man, on
Monday last, and purchasing a pair of worn. n's boots.
There was another man watching him from the outside
at the time. Previous to the prisoner leaving the .sh. p,
he requeqi d witness to allow him to go into the back
) ard. On going there he would have to pass the door
to which was attached the padlock produced.
Gibson 158 proved searching the premises, and find-
ing two black bags in the shop crammed full of boots
and shoes. There were no marks of violence on the
doors, and the premises had been t nit red by picklock

The prisoner, who denied all knowl. dge of the rob-
bery, was remaudect fora we* k.

Lady Brougham opens her saloons to night with a
soil*, to which about 200 fashionables are invited.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 3d, de
clares that these is no truth in the statement that the
Tuscan Government had applied for the intervention
of Piedmont against the aggression of Austrian and
Modenese troops, consequently there can be no truth
in the statement of the Paris Constitutionnel that the
Pied nontese and Tuscan troops had effected a junc-
tion. The Peneiero Italian° says that on the ap
pearance of a body of Modenee and Austrian troops
at Castel Nuovo (hi Monte, which is in the Alodenese
territory, the Provisional Government of Tuscany
issued a notification that the Austrians were ap-
proaching the frontier, and were about to invade
Fivvezano, and declaring that it was prepared to
resist thi m, at the same time intimating to the com-
mander of the Austrians that if he entered the Tuscan
territory they would call in the aid of the Piedmon-
tese army at Sarazano.

The Tuscan Monitore of the 28th ult. contains a
notification of the Provisional Government of Flo-
rence, informing the people that negotiations had
been entered into with Rome for the fusion of the
Two States on the following basis :-1. Junction of
the two territories by suppressing the Custom-house
line which separates them. 2. Equal tariffs for im-
portation, exportation, and transit of merchandise.
3. Uniformity of the postal iLystem, dimuiiition of
postage, telegraphic communications throughout the
territory. 4. Reciprocal equality of the currrency of
both States, and adoption of a common currency.
5. Reciprocal currency of the paper money and
treasury bonds cf either State. 6. A common diplo-
matic representation at foreign Governments. 7.
Establishment at Bologno of a common Central Mili-
tary Committee of defence. 8. Subsidies to be fur-
nished to Venice in common.
The Epoca of Rome of the 25th ult. states, from
Naples, that the British Minister, TEMPLE, had
protested against Neapolitan intervention in the
Roman States. The Roman Constituent Assembly
has decreed that all church bells, which might not
be strictly necessary, shall be melted down for
cannon. Those of the cathedrals, parish churches, and
such as are valuable in point of art, are excepted
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