The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-24 00:00:00

ROLL'S COURT, Jan. 23.

The Mater part of the day was occupied in the hearing of motions
which were quite devoid of public interest.
WIIICICER V. Hume.
This was a motion for a further order in this case against the de-
fendants, who refused to comply with a former order.
Mr. l'Eavis stated the case, from which it appeared that Mr.
%% Thicker was the heir-at-law to Dr. Gilchrist, the testator, who died
on the Bth of.fannary, MI, possessed of an estate of HO acres, near
the town of Sydney, IteNew South Wales, an estate in Scotland, be-
tween 17,000/. and 18,0301. stock in the Commercial Bank of Scot•
land, end 10,0001. stock In the Bank of England. The testator, after
devising several legacies, bequeathed the residue of his property for
the purposes of education, as far as it was possible. The plaintiff, as
hflied ,tr-at.l.uv and next of kin to the testator, under these circumstances,
his hill, and the will having been proved In this country, a ques-
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who was his heir-at-law, and who were next of kin. Under
circumstances the probate of the will had seen obtained ex parts..
Mr. IVhicker, finding that the question about domicile had
been raised, and that the law of Scotland was quite inadequate to
pass the estate, °therm 3essary proceedings were had recourse to, and
subsequently an order against the trustees was obtained, to which
the defendants refused to accede, and the present motion waa made
for the payment of the costs and the hinds in the hands of the
trustees int* Court.

An order for the payment of the money out of the Consols into
Court, by consent of the parties. without prejudice to any other
proceedings In the case, was granted.

AMSTERDAM, JAN. 20. —The statement giv an by
many Belgian journals that the negotiations between the. Nether-
lands and Belgium are resumed, we aro able to contradict op geed
authority.

POLICE INTELLIGEN CE.
CLEPICEN WELL.
BURGLARY AT ISLINGTON.—.Iames Waylett, . alias
James Stephens, and Humphrey Hemp, alias Pratt, wiTe
placed at the bar before Mr. Combe for final examiint-
Lion, charged with having been concerned in breaking
into the dwelling-house of Mr. Thomas Beakensall,: of
No. 5, Park-street, Islington, and stealing therefrom a
Taglioni coat.
Information having been received at the. station-house
that three men were going about committing robberies
of a dating description, the officers were on the alert,
and on Friday morning, the 16th inst., whilst Benjamin
Judd, a constable, was in Gerrard-street, Islingtn, he
ole.erved the prisoners under suspicious circumstances.
They were taken to the station-house, when the Tag-
lioni coat which Waylett had on answering the descrip-
tion of that stolen from Mr. Beakensall's house, that
gentleman was sent for, and he identified the article.
Mr. Beakensall deposed that on Friday morning, the
16th inst., at six o'clock, he was in his bedroom asleep,
when his wife awoke him, being alarmed by a noise- in
the back parlour. He requested her not to make a noise,
but the thieves being alarmed made their escape.
Waylett. in his defence, said he bought the coat.
Hemp denied all knowledge of the robbery, and said
he could prove an alibi.
There being no satisfactory evidence against him he
was discharged, but Wit) lett was committed for trial.
Hemp was again placed at the bar, charged with steal-
ing a coat, value four guineas, the property of Mr.
Francis Foxwell, tailor, of Liverpool-road, Islington.
It appeared from the evidence of a boy named
Churchill, in the employ of the prosecutor, that on
Thursday evening, last, between six and seven o'clock, a
man entered his master's shop, and inquired whether
they. had. any "coat studi." He engaged witness's at-
tention, when the prisoner entered the shop, and seized
a coat from a block in the shop, and ran off. The other
prisoner left the place immediately, and both escaped.
Information was given of the robbery at the station-
house. The boy positively identified Hemp as the per
son who stole the coat. The garment not being traced,
the prisoner was remanded until yesterday, but the
officer bad not succeeded in tracing the property.
The prisoner declared most positively that he was not
the thief. and the boy was mistaken on his identity. Ile
wore a different dress to that described by the boy; and
he could produce a constable of police, and several other
witnesses, to prove that he was at the Bricklayers' Arms,
Borough, at the time the robbery was said to have been
committed.
The boy again being closely questioned, said he was
quite positive the prisoner was the thief.
Mr. COWIE ordered that Fe should be again remanded
until Tuesday next, to give him an opportunity. to pro-
duce witnesses as to an alibi.
WORSHIP-STREET.

VICE AND ROBBERY.—A dressmaker, who gave hyr
name Mary Wrather, was finally examined before Mr.
Broughton on a charge of stealing fifteen sovereigns from
Mrs. Ann Roworth, an ()Wady, who appeared to be
about 60 years of age, but confesses to only 43.
Mr. W. Heritage attended fur the prosecution, and
Mr. Vann for the prisoner. •
The prosecutrix:said that she is the wife of a captain on
the.half-pay of the East India service, but is living se-
parate from her husband, and carries on the business of
a dressmaker in Chiswell-street. She has a little in •
come besides, and on Thursday last went, in company
with the prisoner, who works fur her, and another fe-
male, to receive her dividend at the Bank of England,
where she received 37/., all in new sovereigns. In the
course of the day • he spent about 31., and, after her re-
turn home at night, she handed her purse of money to
the prisoner to put into a drawer for her, and about
twelve o'clock the prisoner wished her good night and
went away. In the morning she found only eighteen
sovereigns in her purse, the rest haring been stolen,
and she suspected the prisoner, who afterwards paid
away and lent money, although, at the time in question,
she was absolutely without money, and so much em-
barrassed for want of it that prosecatrix herself intended
to lend her 51.

The prisoner utterly denied the robbery, and said
that, when she went home on the eight in question, she
left a young man in company with Mrs. Roworth, as she
did every night.
The prowcutrix, on being questioned, admitted that
the young man alluded to lived with her,
Airs. Hayward, who searched the prisoner at the sta-
tion-house, found a new soS'ercign in her hand ; and
Brown, the police constable, ascertained that she had
paid 31. rent, and lent a sovereign. A male friend of the
prisoner's, named Hull, alleged at the first examination
that he had lent 4/. to her within a few days, but the
constable proved yesterday that, since the robbery, the
prisoner had paid and deposited at least 71., all .in new
gold.
She ITds committed.

LAMBETH.
LSCAPF:OF A POLICEMAN CHARGED WITII ADDUCTION.
—A number of persons attended the Court in the hope
of hearing the examination of James Grant, a police-
constable belonging to the P division, against whom a
warrant had ben granted by Hr. Henry, on the day
before, on a charge of abduction, but it appeared that
Grant had effected his escape, and was not forthcom--
ing. It seemed that Grant had been left in care of
the constable in reserve at Lock's-fields station.
with directions that he should take care of him, but
while the other parties were in attendance at this Court,
he managed to effect his escape. The conduct of the
constable who thus allowed the accused to escape, as
well as ether policemen belonging to the same division,
who were aware of the residence of the young woman
and Grant after the abduction, but had concealed it
from their superior officers, has been reported to the
Commissioners, and it is said, form the subject for
inquiry before a magistrate on a future day.
A RELAPSED TEETOTALLER. - Mr. Isaac We is
Wright, of No. 8, Harlyford-street, Kensington, who de,
scribed himself as a surreyor and timber agent, was
charged with being found in a helpless state of drunken-
ness, and lying down in the public street.
The policeman who found the prisoner deposed that
on taking him to the station-house, he was in such a
dangerous state that it was deemed necessary at once to
send for a surgeon to attend him.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, declared that he
had been a teetotaller for some years, but having met
with an accident on the day before, a quantity of brandy
had been administered to him while_ he was in a state
not able to resist it. The fact was, that he had been to
the docks to purchase some timber, and while passing
over a raft a"part of it gave way, and he became im-
mersed in the water. He was, however, soon taken out
and carried to a neighbouring public house, when a
quantity of brandy was medically administered to him.
The consequence was, that on his way home he became
so affected that he tumbled down and seriously injured
his leg.
Mr. HENRY remarked, that it appeared the prisoner
had been bailed out from the station-house on the night
before, and was so intoxicated on that morning as not to
be in a fit state to be brought before him.
The prisoner denied beingdrunk as stated, upon which
Cook, the gaoler, was s.vorn, and deposed that the
prisoner was so drunk when he made his appearance to
be taken before his Worship as to be scarcely able to
stand.

Mr. HENRY' ordered him to pay 55., the amount or the
surgeon's bill for his attendance on him at the station-
howe, and also hs. fur being drunk.
The prisoner reluctantly paid the money, and was
discharged.