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WHITE AND TILEE V. GREVILLE.-JUDGMENT.

This was also a question upon the validity of a will.
This cause was argued in. Easter Term, and the facts
have already appeared,
The Learned JUDGE said the testatrix in this case
was a Mrs. Emma Blaquier, a widow, who died at Bath
on the 4th February, 1847, having previously executed
a will dated 29th January of the same year, by which
she gave the chief portion of her personal property,
amounting to near 5,0001, to a Dr. Charles Greville, of
Bath. The question upon which the validity of this
will hinged was, whether the words ", now standing in
the Long Annuities and elsewhere," inserted in the hand-
writing of Dr. Greville, were there previously to the exe-
cution. The words following, inserted in a blank, "To
Charles Greville, of Bath, M.D." were in the handwriting
of the testatrix, and were, therefore, admitted, but
there was no proof that the previous words were in-
serted with the knowledge of the testatrix. It was not
noticed in the attestation clause. The Learned Judge,
in going over the evidence, commented upon the facts
as he proceeded. The deceased had stated she should
give her property to strangers, as her family was well
provided for, and that she was much attached to Dr.
Greville, with whom she had lived on the most friendly
terms, and had gone so far as to express a wish to
marry him. Mrs. Barnes, who was a principal witness
in the cause, and who was present when the will was
drawn up by Dr. Greville, did not see the alteration.
After the execution, Dr. Greville said, " Are
you aware lam residuary legatee ?" when Mrs. Barnes
said it mattered not, she may make another will ; to
which Dr. Greville replied, "I will take care of that—
this shall be her last.' The Learned Judge said the
onus probandi lay with Dr. Greville to prove those
words were inserted with the kaowledge of the testatrix,
but neither Mrs. Barnes nor Mrs. Clarke, who attested
the will, spoke to the fact of its being read over to the
deceased. They attested that it was not done in their
presence, and, therefore, Dr. Greville had failed in proof,
and the presumption in law was against it. The Learned
Judge felt that Dr. Greville had not established the fact
that this was the will of the deceased; that, as he had
thought proper to propound this Act, he must be at the
expense of the proceedings, having failed to establish
his claim. The residuary clause could not stand, but
probate- should pass to the remainder, the costs to be
paid out of the estate.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--Appleby, Aug. 7.

The commission was opened here late last night.
This morning, after attending divine service, their
Lordships proceeded to the assize court at twelve o'clock.

The Calendar contained a list of seven prisoners, four
of whom were charged together with having committed
a burglary, one with concealing the birth of a child, one
with larceny, and ono with arson.
The grand jury threw out the bill for arson, and the
burglary was the only case tried, the • other prisoners
having pleaded gnilty. The charge of burglary pos-
sessed no public interest. The Court then tried a mis-
demeanor charging two persons with.'having sold bid
meat at Kendal, .and this finished the criminal business
of the assize.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Devizes, Aug. 8.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSNIELL.)
James Peirce was indicted for burgiariously breaking
into the house of Joseph Peirce, at Leddington, in this
county, and stealing therefrom fifty sovereigns and
seventeen crown pieces, his property.
Mr. Swayne conducted the prosecution; Mr. Ball de-
fended the prisoner.

In this case the near relationship between the prose-
cutor and the prisoner, who are father and son, made it
one of a painful nature. It appeared by the evidence
that the prosecutor, who is an old man, had placed
ninety-five sovereigns and a considerable quantity of
silver money in a spare room in his house. 'I he money
was in a box, and was saved up by the prosecutor
to pay his rent, he being a farmer. The prisoner,
who is a young man of thirty years old, and had,
until lately, always lived with his father, and
had assisted him in his business, of late had absented
himself from his father's house. On the night of the
27th of April, the window or the room in which the box
of money was was forced open, the box broken, and fifty
sovereigns and seventeen crown-pieces abstracted. In-
quiry was made, and it was ascertained that the prisoner
had been seen at a public-house at Swindon, about two
miles from the prosecutor's house; suspicion fell on him,
and in consequence of some information which he received
a policeman went to Chippenham. On going to the rail-
way station he ascertained that a person answering the
description of the prisoner had just taken a second-class
ticket for Bristol, changing a sovereign to pay
for it. The traia was just about to start,
and on search being made, the prisoner was
found in one of the carriages, and on searching him
forty-nine sovereigns and fifteen crown pieces were found
in a bag in his pocket. On being taken into custody the
prisoner said to the policeman, "Don't let any one have
the odd money, for that's my own. The old man can't
swear to the other. If I had known you were coming
you should not have found me." lie also said that it was
an uneasy mind that led him to do it, and that the old
man had never behaved to him like a father, or it would
not have happened.
Mr. BALL addressed the julvying for
stbuompzeidsounper: the and
Mr. Mr. Justice CRESSIVELL h
pri.
.—Sen tone° deferred.
senor was found Guilty

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 7.
The business commenced hero this morning at ten
o'clock. There were thirteen causes entered, of which
three were for special juries. The calendar contained
the names of 58 prisoners, of whom ten were from
Bristol.

None of the cases tried to-day call for a special
notice. Seven of the common jury causes have been
tried, four were virtually undefended, one was substan-
tially not presentable to a jury, and resulted in a non-
suit ; one was referred to arbitration, and one was
really fought.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Mr. Miller, the relieving officer at the West London
Union, was summoned defore Mr. Alderman Moon, to
show cause why he refused to give relief to an applicant,
under the following circumstances:—
Ellen Potts, a modest good looking girl, about 18
years of age, stated that on Tuesday night she applied
to Mr. Miller to be admitted to the house, as she had no-
where to go, wishing to have shelter and food until she
could get a situation, but he refused to grant her request,
and said she must go to her mother's, which she could
not do, as they had had a quarrel about a shawl, and she
would not be let in.

Alderman MOON—Did you give her an asylum, Mr.
Miller? Mr. Miller—l did not, because she has got a
mother who takes in lodgers in Cloth-fair, and can sup-
port the complainant; therefore I told her to go home.
Alderman MOON—But she had a quarrel with her pa-
rent, and you ought to have given her an asylum.
Mr. Miller—l was only acting under the instructions
of the board of guardians.
Alderman Moost—C ran you mother support you?
Potts She cannot: she is now receiving relief from the
parish.
discretionary
she
support
power,
Alderman BfooN—ls that the case, Mr. Miller? Mr.
Miller—She
does receive an allowance.
Alderman
of
a man to re-
Alderman MOON (indignantly)—Then how
t her daughter ?
You have
a
and I think it a most cruel
a
fuse shelter to a girl under such circumstances,
conduct is most disgraceful. and your
Mr. Miller—The mother—.
Alderman itT ~,XON--.D0117t, talk
good badger to toe about the mother.
You may be a
for the
time a disgrace to
same human guardians, but at
the
when females arc thus
cruelly refused an asylum, that
so many should become prostitutesme for the sake of ob-
taining that relief for which the ratepayers are rated so
heavily. There are constantcomplaints of your hard-
hearted conduct, which is a disgrace_ to human nature.
You have a trust-reposed in you, and you ought to use
that trust in a humane manner, and not as you have

Amongst the night charges was one preferred against
an elderly Inman named Judith Ralph, for attempted
arson, at the house, No. 7, Little Barlow-street.
Elizabeth Fowler, wife of Richard. Fowler, the land •
lord, who resides at N 0.13 in the street alluded to, de-
posed that on the previous night, between eleven and
twelve o'clock, she was aroused from her bed with an
alarm that the house No. 7 was, on Are. She rushed
forth, and on entering the back kitchen, which was the
prisoner's room, she found a quantity of straw_ upOn the
floor in a blaze. A great .many persons were: sat this
rime in the kitchen, having been attracted thither by the
loud cries of " fire,", and on witness asking the prisoner,
who was alleged to be the delinquent, why she did it,
she made-no reply; she was Muck the worse fin drink,
and from what she (witness) could collect, prisoner had
had a quarrel with her daughter, which led to the.com-
mission of the offence. •
Cecilia Ralph, the daughter, stated that she and her
mother were in very indifferent circumstances;' and for
some time past had - been necessitated to sleep upon
straw.- She (witness) Made up the bed as usual, -when
her mother (the prisoner), with whom she -had some
words, and who was intoxicated, took up, r 3 quantity of
the straw, some of which. she put. on t.he.hearth and the
rest in the gra'e; she set fire to is with a candle, and
witness, with some cliffscultymnd risk to herself, put it
out, and the candler also; prisoner re-lighted the candle
with a lucifer, and: again scV,,fire to the straw upon the
hearth, ,1313 d in.an instant the,flauiescommunicated with
the rest of the straw which_ was in the kitchen. She
(witness) used her best exertionsio extinguish the flames,
and her screams for assistance brought out of his bed
another lodger, through whose exertions she attributed
-the saving of the building and many lives.
Thomas Hammond, the lodger alluded to, said, that
but for his exertions in procuring water, and pouring it
upon the burning .straw, the house .would most likely
have been burnt' vlown, and
,vaany.:perieana,'inight have
i 3 D,o the_
deposed kitchetn that
the h
when
fleanin he as were
went
perished in the flames. There we're,-ta the whole, twenty-
eight inmates, many of them children. When he (wit-
ness)
way
3 into
bursting thrOugh the door,
Policeman forced
Cutting, his
into the kitchen he saw the straw in a'istate Of ignition,
and a quantity of clothes in a corner of the room partly
consumed. He took the prisoner into custody, and told
her she was charged with a crime of a very serious nature,
when she said, "Many better people than live in this
house have been burned to death."

The daughter was recalled, and, in answer to Mr.
LONG, she said that prisoner lighted the straw because
she (witness) should not sleep upon it. She remarked to
her that she would set the house on fire, and she told her
she didn't care.

The prisoner, who made no defence, was committed for
trial.

LAMBETH.
John Petry Hening, the alleged secretary, and Henry
Roberts, the collector of a " sham " society, designated
the " Animals' Friend Society," and who have, with
their associates, been most successful for some consider-
able time past in fleecing the public, were again placed
at the bar, before Mr. Norton, for further examination.
Captain Wood, R.N., the assistant-manager; Mr. Fer-
gusson, the principal clerk; and Horsford, the chief offi-
cer of the Mendicity Society were present to assist in the
prosecution.
In addition to the evidence given on the former days,
W. Jefferson, Esq., a gentleman residing in South
Audley-street, deposed that he had a slight recollection
of the prisoner Hening, and recollected paying ten shil-
lings on the 18th of April last, as a subscription to the
" Animals' Friend Society," for which he received the
receipt then produced.
The next witness called was Charles Hodgson, a
stripling youth, who had been employed by the prisoner
Honing as a collector to the society. He had been en-
gaged as collector for about twelve months. He had
been engaged by Hening, and his terms were ten shillings
out of the first pound he received, and twenty per cent.
for the remainder. He handed all the money he re-
ceived to Bening, and his per tentage averaged twelve
shillings to fourteen' shillings a week. He gave up the
appointmentingsat thi this court,iin
ju
ntehlast
exposurein c on
eqi
n
- Hening here stated that the fact, was pot as the wit-
ness had represented-it. The truth. was that, in conse-
utehnece of
newspapers, the pesen dd
his fears that there was something wrong,-
quence• of the serious expose': at this court in June last,
and its publication in the newspapers, nothing was at
that time to be done, and the witness, in consequence,
threw up his situation, not from fear, as had been repre-
sented, but believing he could do nothing in the way of
collecting.
Mr. NORTON remarked that the exposd alluded to was
one of the blessings of the' press, and, after a lengthened
examination, during which the magistrate expressed his
determination to send the prisoners for trial, they were
again remanded.

THAMES.
John James Stockwell, a lad, aged 16, in ragged attire,
and Mary Anne Harrington, a middle-aged woman,
were brought before Mr. E. Yardley, charged with steal-
ing a coat.
The case was a most painful one :—The prisoner
Stockwell is the only son of a most industrious and re•
spectsble man, one of the officers of the Palace Court,
and who is now residing in Gower's-wa/k, Whitechapel.
The boy has given much trouble to his parents, and
repeatedly robbed them. On Wednesday morning' the
boy's mother died ; her illness was brought on partially
by. excessive grief and anxiety on, account of her son's
misconduct. On the previous evening, when the father
returned home from his daily employment, he was in-
formed of his melancholy bereavement, and also that
his son had stolen his mother's shoes while shc was
dying, and taken away all the money in the room,
amounting to 84d. only. His father sought after him
and soon found out his haunt. On searching him ho
found 12s. Gd. secreted in his shoes, of which he would
give no satisfactory account; and suspecting that he had
obtained the money dishonestly, he handed him over to
the custody of Wakeford, a police-sergeant, No. 5 H, to
whom the lad at once confessed that he had stolen a coat
in Farringdon Market, and gave it to a woman named
Harrington, who raised 11. upon it, and had given him
12s. Gd. of the money.
Mr. YARDLEY made some inquiries about the woman,
and was informed that she lived in Glasshouse.street,
Upper East Smithfield, and was a trainer of young
thieves, boarded and lodged many of them, and disposed
of any property they brought to her, always taking. care
to exact a large percentage from her pupils, of whom the
boy Stockwell was one. On the way to this court the
woman took a qaantity of duplicates from her bosom,
which she was about to hand to her son, when a police-
man named Watson, H 94, seized them, and found the
ticket relating to the coat among them.
Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoners for trial.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
DERBY, Ana. 7.—The supply of fat beasts to-day
was good ; high prices were asked in the Earlier part of
11 iht et
I e day,bts
business
at b
transacted
ncaoatta
tl
eddnot n bt
until
tt obtained,
price anala there wlowered,as
The
show
0r
_
4id to
yet there were some left on hand unsold. Tdh:manaudmwbaar
of sheep and lambs was not large, and thea
flat. Fat calves were 4
d to
;4 plenstdif;ul3tten
~a,
fat pigs was good.
Rough fat, 3s 6d per stone of 141bs.
5d ; Lambs, 17s to 215; Veal, 43-d to sd; Pigs, 83 to
8s 6d per score.
equally
Hides, lid per lb. Calf-skins, 2d to 31d per lb.
EDINBURGH, AUG. B.—The quantity of wheat brought
forward this day was 628 qrs, being 35 qrs more than
last week. Top price 3s, and the average 2s 9id down
—l9O qrs unsold. The quantity of barley brought for-
ward was 326 qrs, being 34 qrs more than last week.
Price on the top Is 3d, and the average Id down-105
qrs unsold. Of oats we had 890 qrs brought forward, or
252 qrs more than last week. Top price 4d down, and
the average the same-162 qrs unsold. The quantity of
beans was 73 qrs, or 13 qrs more than last week. Price
on the top is, and the average is up-9 qrs unsold.
Top of wheat ... ... 63ilbs 55s Od
... Barley ... ... 57 lbs 30s 3d
... Oats ••• ... 46ilbs 23s Od
... Beans ... . 67 lbs 36s Od
EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, AUG. B.—The supply
of cattle this morning was 419, bring 111 more than last
week. On account of the unfavourable state odf,thaet
weather for slaughtering, sales were slowly etfercte
Dutch
a reduction, compared with last week, of 6d p
to 7s; middling and inferior 5s tb 6os
of sheep
i
and lambs
stone. Top price of the best beef 7s 6dr; nnurtreen.nit
stone.s 6d
A great many uns,ld. The supplyl39roore than last wee-k.
this morning was 5,735,
out unsold. Good lambs
particularly sheep, were turned
Inferior kinds a dull
ted last week's prices..
fully supper
prices. Top price of the best mutton 5d
inferior, 3fd. Lambs (top),
Sales dull, and at the closbeeifnghe market a great number,
sale, at reducedt p
middling and interior, 5s to
Ils a head.
GLASGOW, Ave. 7.—The market still continues dull.
The only purchasers are those in immediate want, and
plLr;lba;arrrueraret,n
1,
34
adr 1 :00
15s;4d ;
they are able to supply themselves at lower prices
than the current rates of last week.
I)UNBAR, AUG. 7.—Wheat, weighing 64ilbs, brought
523, siel
27s prices to 003 Od; barley, weighing 54-411bs,
brought Oil, and prices to 003 Od; oats, weighing
421bs, brought 21s Od, and prices to Os 03; beans and
pease, weighing OOlbs, brought 00s Od, and prices to
oOd.
i)UNDEE, AUG. 3.—Wheat 463 Od to 49s Od; foreign
ditto, 47s 0,1 to 50s Od; barley, 22s Od to 233 Od; oars,
18s 6d to 19s Od ; pewit) and beans, 23s Od to 25s Od.
BOSTON, AuG. B.—Wheat, red 44s to 48s Od, white 51s;
oats 14s to 21s; beans, 32s to 35s per quarter.
SLEAFORD, AUG. 6.—Wheat, white 49s to 51s; red 48s
to 49s ; barley 00s to 00s; oats 18s Od to 21s; beans, 35s to
36s per qr.
LYNN, Audi. 7.—Wheat 40s to 445, fine 41s to
48s per qr.; barley nominally as before.
ALFORD.—Averages for the' week ending Aug. .6—Wheat
503 lid; barley 25s Od; oats Oos Od; beans,oo . per quarter.V
UPTINGUAH, Audi. _ Wheat 479 to o7s ,barley 27s to
FA..—
32s ; oats 19s to 23s ; beans 30s to 37s per quarter. Butter
goOatss,toalOds,neexttora2ool33:
intoaOltsin;
10d to lid per lb; eggs 18 for Is.
~,„nt white 50s to 525, extra Ws, red
NEWARK, Au Q. B. •,.,-- ,
Poland 201 ; beans, 32s to 365; peas 32s to
grinding
47s 48s to2ssolst,eeLt:a6do,3
new Dutch a ,
36s per qr. , v
ROTHERJIA) , a
939
i La. 6.—Beef 5s 6d to 68 6d per stone;
autoon, 54 to bid per lb. Cattle WO, skeep 9,300.
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
FAREWELL NIGHTS.
TUESDAY, August 14, THURSDAY, August 16, and SATURDAY,
August 18.
It is respectfully announced that the FAREWELL and LAST
NIGHTS will take place on TUESDAY, August 14, THURSDAY,
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Meedms. SONTAG, PARODI, and ALBONI.
It is respectfully announced that on TUESDAY, August 14, will
be revived Mozart's celebrated Opera,
LE NOZZE DE FIGARO.
To conculde with various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart-
ment.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Boa-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as
asual, price 10s. 6d. each.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,
Last Night of the Subscription.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
When will be presented Donizetti's Opera of
LIJCREZIA BORGIA.
After the Opera the National Anthem, by the Principal Artists,
To conclude with