The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-06 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

PI?E ROGA TI VE COURT, Sept. 5.
(Dr. HAGGARD sat as Surrogate.)
IN THE GOODS OF ANN LEGG.
The deceased in February last, leaving four sons and
two daughters. A few days before her decease s! e
executed a will, by which she disposed of a small lease-
hold house between her daughters. One of the brothers,
on hearing of the will, expressed his determination to
oppose it, and the sisters contented to divide the pro-
perty with him. He then suggested that there was no
necessity for preserving the will, and having procured it
from his sister, burned it. It has since been ascertained
that a probate is necessary in order to dispose of the
lease ; and
Dr. Twiss now moved the Court to decree probate of
the purport and substance of the will as set forth in af-
fidavits ; he grounded his application on " Foster v.
Foster," and a motion " In the goods of Carter."
The COURT considered that the contents of the will
were sufficiently set forth to justify it in acceding to the
application. The conduct of the brother, however, had
been extremely blameable, and had the property been of
greater amount he (Dr. Haggard) would have directed
the paper to be propounded, which would probably have
been followed by a condemnation in costs. The brother,
by his improper act, had subjected a small estate to a
large expense.
Probate accordingly.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 5.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD )
IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF CIIREES AND BOYD.
The bankrupts, Benjamin M'Cleish Chrees" and John
Boyd, were silk manufacturers in Bow-churchyard.
They came up on the question of passing their last
examination.

The bankrupt Boyd passed at once, but Chrees was
successfully opposed by Mr. Hudson. It appeared that
Chrees absconded to France some months ago, taking
with him cash to a considerable amount. Having been
examined touching this money, he admitted that he
spent it in a most reckless and dissolute way. He could
give nothing like a satisfactory account of its disburse-
ment. It further appeared that Chrees abstracted a
considerable amount of goods from his warehouse, and
took them in a cab to a public. house to a Jew. He was
outlawed during his stay in France, and a reward of 50/.
offered for his apprehension. He returned, however,
petitioned the Court of Review, and the outlawry was
reversed.

His HONOUR adjourned the examination sine die.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 5.'
The Chief Commissioner sat this morning to dispose
of a number of applications for bail, the only one of
which worthy of notice was

IN RE JOSEPH THOMAS TOWNSEND .
This insolvent had been a bankrupt, but had not passed
his last examination, that stage of the proceedings being
adjourned sine die. lie had since been arrested, and
having petitioned this Court sought to be discharged
upon bail until the period fixed for his hearing.
The CHIEF ComatissloNEß asked whether any renewed
application had been made to the Bankruptcy Court
to allow the insolvent to pass his last examination ?
The insolvent said there had not, as he would have to pay
the expenses, and he was advised that this Court would
discharge him.

The CnIEF COMMISSIONER said, 'this Court was not
intended as a Court of appeal from the Bankruptcy
Court, and he should not discharge the insolvent until
he had applied to the other tribunal to assist him. If
that were done, and the Bankruptcy Court refused to
interfere, then the insolvent could renew his application
here.—Bail refused.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Taylor was charged with having picked the
pocket of Sir W. Carmichael Anstruther of his purse.
The complainant said he was walking in Regent-street
on Monday, about five o'clock, with a friend and a little
girl, when he felt some one push against him, and, know-
ing that he had his purse in his coat-pocket, he felt
for it and found it was gone. The prisoner pushed past
him, and witness's friend called out " That is the man."
Witness went forward, when the prisoner took to his
heels and tried to make his escape, and, finding himself
pursued, threw the purse away; but he was stopped, and
the purse was picked up.
Evidence was brought forward to prove that the pri-
soner was a thief, and had been convicted before.
The prisoner denied the charge, but was fully com-
mitted.

MAIIYLEBONE.
Anne Jones and Anne Territt were placed at the bar
before Mr. Broughton for final examination on a charge
of having robbed Mr. Nunn, a lace-dealer in Regent-
street, of 261.
The evidence given upon the former and present oc-
casion went to show that on the evening of the 29th ult.,
as the prosecutor was passing along Cavendish-square,
he was addressed by Jones, who suddenly put her arm
round his waist, and at the same moment he felt one of
her hands in his trousers' pocket, which contained two 51.
bank-notes and 16 sovereigns. He directly seized her,
and on the other prisoner, who was standing at a short
distance off, coming up, he secured her also; they were
then both given into custody. He distinctly saw a move-
ment of hands, which led him to believe that Jones had
passed something to Territt. None of the property had
been met with.
Some few additional facts were now elicited, and the
several witnesses were cross examined by the legal gen-
tlemen engaged, by whom it was contended that the evi-
dence against their clients was not sufficiently strong to
justify a commitment.
Mr. BROUGHTON came to a different conclusion, and
felt it to be his duty to leave the decision to a jury.
The prisoners were therefore sent for trial.
LAMBETH.
'William bolt, a powerful young fellow, who has been
in custody at this court before, and who is well known
to the police, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on
a charge of stealing some articles of plate, the property
of Mr. Crocker, a gentleman residing in North-terrace,
Peckham.
Phyllis Hansen, a servant to Mr. Crocker, deposed
that on the preceding afternoon, about four o'clock, while
in the back kitchen, she heard the rattle of plate in the
pantry, and on going there saw the prisoner with his
hand through the window, and some articles of plate in
it. On observing her the prisoner instantly ran away,
but she (witness) informed James Hope, a tradesman
then at her master's door, of the circumstance, and he
followed and secured him, and took him to the station-
house. About twenty minutes after the prisoner took
the plate she went into the garden to ascertain if he
could have seen the plate from there, and found one of
the silver forks belonging to her master opposite to the
pantry window, and where the prisoner must have
dropped it. On going to the station house she found the
other forks and a spoon, which also belonged to her
master, and which had been taken from the pantry by
the prisoner. About ten minutes after the robbery sho
counted the plate, and found the articles produced,
namely, three forks and a spoon, missing, as well as two
teaspoons which had not been found.
James Hope, a greengrocer carrying on business in
Southampton-street, Camberwell, deposed, that from
what had been communicated to him by the last witness,
he followed the prisoner, and stopped him in George-
street, near the Albany Arms public-house. On securing
him the prisoner said, "It's the first time I've (Imo it,
and I hope you'll let me go;" but he touk him to the
station-house.
Police-constable Stephen Harris, 49 P, said the pri-
soner was given into his custody in Camberwell-station-
house by the last witness, who charged him with steal-
ing two forks and a spoon, which ho then delivered up to
him, and which he now produced. The prisoner upon this
said, " I have given him all I took hut one fork, and that
I can threw away in the garden, and if you go there you
find it."
The prisoner, when asked what he had to say to the
charge, replied " Nothing whatever," and was fully com-
mitted to take his trial.

James Drabb, a seaman,TiiA MwaEsSbrought up on remand
jbeofsoerpehAtlro.oYis,ardley, charged with feloniously wounding
a porter in the employ of Mr. Williams, a
sailor's lodginghouse-keeper.
It appeared that a !ew days since the prosecutor
called upon the prisoner at his dwelling, No. 5, St.
George's-place, St. George's-in the East, for payment of
an account owing to a Mr. Williams: The prisoner re-
fused to pay the debt, and a quarrel ensued between
them. The prisoner uttered the most dreadful impreca-
tions, applied the most opprobrious epithets to Bools,
and threatened to run him through with a knife. The
prisoner then put his fist in prosecutor's face, and they
fought and had a round together. After it was over the
prisoner sat down on a chest for a short time with his
face towards the ground, as if he was meditating, and
suddenly rose up with a knife in his hand, and made a
rush at the prosecutor, whom he attempted to stab in
the body. Bools parried the blow with his left hand,
and seized his right hand, in which he held the knife,
with the other, and took it from him. As he was doing
so the prisoner made a thrust with the knife at the pro-
secutor's left hand, and cut him severely between the
finger and thumb. Bools called for assistance, and the
prisoner was secured. The prosecutor immediately
waited upon Mr. Garrett, a surgeon in the New-road,
St. George's, who found the man's hand bleeding pro
finely from an incised wound, extending both across
and through the soft fleshy part of the hand connecting
the thumb and fore finger. Mr. Garrett was of opinion
that the use of the thumb would not be permanently
lost, but it would be at least three weeks before he
could use it.
The prisoner in defence said he was very severely
beaten by the prosecutor,
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THE OFFICE OF LORD CHANIBERLAIN.---The Mar-
quis of Breadalbane had an audience of the Queen yes-
terday, and received from her Majesty his gold key of
office as the Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's house-
hold. The Earl Spencer had also an audience of the
Queen, and resigned his gold key of office as the Lord
Chamberlain.

IRELAND.
IMPERIAL LEGISLATION IN DUBLIN.
DUBLIN, SEPT. s.—The Committee held a rdeetirl
yestrr.lay at the Rooms, 124, Abbcy.street, Lori,
William Fi!zgerald in the chair, when th,
members were admitted :—Lord Massarene, Lord
the Earl of C istle Stuart, L Rosinar)re, Fether.
stone IL, Esq.; the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart.; John
James Begot, Esq.; M. Burke, Es W. H. Burton,
q;
E:q ; William Johnson, Esq.; Sir lichard Morison,
Isaac Butt, Eeq., Q.C.; R. C. R. Chapman, Esq.; An.
brey Beauclerk, Esq.; W. A. Atkin, Esq.
The following resolutions were
adopted:—
" That in order to remove a misapprehension which
appears to exist as to the object contemplated by ibis
society, we feel it necessary to declare that is not de'
i
sire to procure a triennial meeting of the Imperial Par'
liarnent in Dublin for general purposes; but that the
object of this society is to procure an arrangement, t;',
which the Imperial Parliament shall hold its sittings In,
Dublin during such convenient portions of each year a_
tn;:y be sufficient for the transaction of business more
peculiarly relating to Irish affairs.
124,
" That the committee na.:et at their rooms,
Abbey-street, every Monday, at two o'clock, to receive
subscriptions and admit members, and to transact the
general business of the society." aims
Letters from correspondents were read, subscrip.•--
received, and the detail business of the society trans;
acted, and the committee adjourned to Monday nod gi
two o'clock.
MEETING or THE PRIVY COUNCIL.-,—A special Meet;
ing of the Privy Council has been summoned to meet
the Castle this day. Lord John Russell will be preset)"
The provincial papers received this morning are des'
titute of any intelligence of interest, always excepting
the references to the harvest, which may be regardvd,°.n.
the whole, as encouraging, if not satisfactory. It
true that nearly all concur in expressing the potato crop
as all but lost, but as the plantings this year have been
almost exclusively confined to the better and wealthier
classes of farmers, the failure eannot affect the labour'
ing and small holders to anything like the extent...o
former seasons, when the con-acre system was in or-
ration.

UnaniMOUill

LORD JOHN RUSSELL. •
The Noble Premier still remains at the Viceregal
Lodge in the Park. A large party have been invited to
meet the Noble Lord this evening. There is nothil
publicly announced up to the present of the Premier's
future movements in this country.
The Evening Mail of last night takes advantage °f
Lord John Russell's residence in Dublin to attack the
principle, and denounce the operation, of the Irith Poor'
law, of which the Mail, as the organ of the landlords
and parsons, has from the commencement been the coo'
sistent and strenuous opponent. The Mail takes it for
granted that the chief business or duty of Lord Joho
Russell while in Ireland will be to make himself oc'
quainted with the working of the law. 46 Re
will have," the Mail says, "to consider the
anomaly of allowing salaried officers, under 0,1
name of vice guardians, to levy a tax 00 114.4
Majesty's subjects, amounting to one-half, or, 1,11
some cases, the whole value of their possessions; actuell
confiscating their properties, desolating their homes,
paaralysing their exertions, and handing them over to
struggling and penury for the rest of their days. An
this impoverishing of all classes of the agricultural cool'
munity, and, through them, the nation generally, has n°
higher object :or design than relieving the sturdy io'"''
who prefers to doze away life on the benches of a pow(
house, freed from the necessity of labour and the pain °f
honest exertion."

The Mail might have added that he will also bale
to consider the necessity which compelled the Come:
sioners to nominate "salaried officers to tax her Alto
jesty's subjects !"—a necessity which originated in Oa
refusal of the ex-officio guardians—the nominees aD
representatives of the landlords—to carry the provistees
of the law into effect. Cruel and selfish, and unjust,,1
has been the conduct of the Irish landowners, wil"
regard to their personal dependants and followers,
proceedings at the Poor-law Boards have been et,'
more indefensible—because of the mischievous and ?e;
moralising tendency
,of a course of proceedings which
directly inculcated an organised opposition to law.
THE ARMY.—TauRLEs, SEPT. 3.—" The flPl4'
column," under General M'Donald, has received orders
to disperse; and this week the camp will be broke°
up, and the troops march to their winter quarter!
The 74th Foot proceed to Dublin, to complete the'l
time at that station. The 75th Regiment, are ordered
to Kilkenny, from Callan and Ballingarry. The 85th,
or King's Light Infantry, have received the route r,'"
Waterford. Three companies of the 60th under MaJer
Blackburn, march to-morrow (4th instant), via' Cashel
and Clonmel. Three companies, on Tuesday, under the
Honourable Captairt Thurlow. Head-quarters- under
Lieutenant-Celonel Brook Taylor, with band and bugles,
will arrive on Saturday. This fine body of men was
stationed in the Royal Barracks of Dublin for ten moat'.
(until ordered down to the south on account of the disturb"
antes); nothing could exceed the good conduct of th.
e
men; and the officers, from their social and liberal quell
ties, won the good opinions of all classes of society. V'()
Ist division was played oat by the splended brag'
band of the regiment, under Bugle-Major Hull, and were
accompanied miles on the road by numbers of the pee'
sentry, who had benefited so largely by their temporgtemporary
stay. The three companies of the 60th Rifles which
accompanied the remaining portion of the Light Brigade
rejoin the head-quarters in Dublin on the sth instant'
It is a curious fact, that in the year '448 the rebels were
encamped in the same field as her Majesty's troops We
just vacated.

- REMOVAL OF MIL M'MANUS TO DUBLIN. gr.
M'Alanus, the gentleman arrested on board the emigrant
ship cm Wednesday last, was removed from the till
gaol this morning on board a war-steamer, from whence
he was conveyed to Dublin. The vessel had on boars
upwards of 200 convicts.

Mr. A. L. Guinnes has denied the authorship of the
letter bearing his signature, in opposition to the project
for holding meetings of the Imperial Parliament 111
Dublin.

The weather continues excessively warm, and our hope§
of the harvest brighten every day.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Sem 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, is. 3d. p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 535. 9d.
dis.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 14 p.—Leeds and Thirak,
London and North- Western, 1133/4—Ditto, New Quarter*
par—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), 21s. 3d. p.—Midland Stock,
871 A—Ditto, Halves, 8% dis.—North Staffordshire, 4t4
—North British, Thirds, 465. 3d. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 4*
—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 2,10 t/ dis.—Ditto, No. 4'
Thir&, 71A—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B. El.'
tension, No. 2), % p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), is. ad. P•
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 5.
Srocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Preston and Wire
(A), 314 p.—Sheffield, Preference, par—North Staffordshire,
4 5-16 dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 234 dia.—Edinburgh and Crlas°
gow, 5 dis. --Caledonian, Preference,
p.--Manchester and
Birmingham (A. and B.), 13-16—Sheffield and Linc°lll'
11% die.

BIRMINGHAM, SIFT. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— Ile sales are—London and Nu-
Western, 115 x 89 x d.—Ambergate, Notting'
ham, and Boston, 3% dis.—North Staffordshire, 4% dis.
LEEDS, SENT 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—As times are, a moderate amount Of
shares have changed hands to-day at the following prices.. .
Caledonian, Preference, 3s. p.—East Lancashire, Quarters, d
41s. 3d. dis.—Great Northern, 91. 18s. 9d. (EL—Leeds a1:1
Thirsk, 25—North British, Thirds, 525. 6d. dis..--Nur;,
Staffordshire, 414 dis.—North-Westem,
Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (New Berwicks), 10s. P.
YORK, SEPT. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day//IS
as follows : Great Northern, 71. 23.—North British, nalsr:
'
9—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, PA—York, New
and Berwick (late New Bemis*, 103/4.
NEiVCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, S. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGL—The sales are—Newcastle and Cat'
lisle,. Scrip ti(red), 4 p.—North British, 20—Ditte, Thin'
21. 9s. dis.

FREE SCHOOL FOR ADULT FEMATY.S.—In the Ps'
rish of St. Clement Danes a number of humane lading
have generously undertaken to impart instruction Ia
reading and writing, every Monday evening, from Wel,
to nine o'clock, to females upwards of twenty years oil
age. The court-room of the vestry-house has bee)
kindly placed at their disposal for this purpose. 4

On the Ist inst., at lienqwrt, North Wales, the wife of the
Right Hon. Lord Cochrane, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., the wife of H. F. Walter, Esq., of a
daughter.
On the 31st of July, at Huntingford, 'Upper Canada, the
wife of H. Huntingford, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 2d inst., the wife o C. Gordon, jun., Esq., of Goy'
well-street, of a daughter..

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Esq.,

onsor
the 2d inst., at Polesden, the wifu of Joseph B
of a son.
the 3d inst., Mrs. C. Tennant, of a. daughter.
the 2d inst., at Kentish-town, the *wife of A. Brown°,
of a son.

Af4I2I4IED. of
On the 31st ult., at Kingcausie, Archer Fortescue.
Swanbister, to Anne Irvine Syme, only daughter of the bite
Patrick Syme, Esq.
On the 2d inst., at the parish church of St. Martin-in-the'
Fields, James Sherrat, Esq., M.A , of Osnaburg-street,
gent's-park, to Jean, second daughter a Mr. IV. Grant/ °'
St. Martin's-lane.

Lately at Paris, deeply deplored by his widow and his son,
and much lamented by a numerous circle of relatives 1113'
friends, John Cohen, Esq., librarian to tl a Bibliotheque the
Genevieve. He was a man of profounit learning, and WI
author of a work entitled Reflexions Ilistoriques et Philo-
sophiques sur les Revolutions," &c., and of many other die
tinguished literary productions.
On the 4th inst. at Kensington-crescent, Rear-Admiral
De Starck, aged 84.,
On the 23d of June, at Bombay, agnl 19, Alexander Vir:
Dickinson, Esq., of the Civil Service, youngest son of Colonel
T. Dickinson, late Chief Engineer under that Presidency.
On the 20th ult., at Ryde, Isle of Wiglxt, R. Walton, 9114
Cam bridge.
On the 24th ult., at Jersey, William llonry, fourth eon of
the late J. Wood, Esq, of the Artillery X.rewery, Westmin-
ster, aged 26.
On the 30th ult., at Fjlkstone. aged 6.;!1, Charlotte Marie,
relict of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Pariin Bradshawe (IW'
East India Company's Service), Resident at Lucknow.
On the 31st ult., aged 86, W. Holneas, i:sq., of Sydenholu
•
On the 2d inst., at Upper Clapton, Rose Alice, the child °f
H. Y. Hulbert, Esq., aged five months.
On the 3d inst., Mary Margaret, -a doll,
of Mr. T. =An
East-road, City-road, aged 72.
On the 3d inst., at High Holborn, Julia Cole, Esq., late of
that place, and of Pulhatn, Norfolk.
On the 4th inst., eged 76, Mr. V 7. King, of Arlington-
street, Camden-town.
On the 3d inst., aged nine weeks, Mary Anne Irene, daugh-
ter of the Rev. Henry Browne, of Chicheat er.
On the 28th of July, in the islf.nd of St. Croix, 1.11
Beata, the wife of W. Heyliger, Esc-t.

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