The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

IN RE COUNT DE CARGASCANO.

Mr. Baggallay, Q.C., appeared for the count.
lle said his client now petitioned the court for the
paymtnt of a certain amount under the provisions
of a marriage settlement. Ile married in November,
1866, Madame Paulini Daglioni, and previous to
the marriage, her mother, the Countess Dagliano,
agreed to release a sum of £lO,OOO left by her
husband of a charge of a life interest for herself on
£5,000 of the same. This £l,OOO was to be ap-
plied for the purchase of her daughter's trousseau,
&c., and surplus, if any remained, was for her (the
daughter's) sole use and benefit. A settlement was
made shortly after the marriage, and the preceding
disposition of the sum in question was executed, to
which all the parties concerned had consented. It
was arranged that tho money should be placed in
trust with a nobleman in this country and another
gentleman, and that it should be subject to English
law.

His Lordship, having pointed out some errors in
the petition, said that these must be amended before
he could make any order. He would probably
show that the balance of the money should be in-
vested for the benefit of the Count and his wife, an
equal amount of interest to be paid to each, and
the whole to go to the survivor.

ANECDOTE OF LOPEZ.—The Liberte narrates the
following incident in the life of the infamous Lopez :-
1 '‘ The colonel was one day surprised at the head of a squa-
dron by a considerable ambush of the enemy. As heroism
is not positively his forte, ho commanded a retreat, and.
turned his horse's head. In his flight the animal received
a ball and fell. A soldier, in his extreme peril, took the
colonel up behind him ; but the horse having double weight
slacked his pace, and the enemy approached rapidly. Lopez
understood that if nothing was done they were both lost ;
and so he drew a pistol from his belt, shot the soldier in
the back, threw down the corpse, and then escaped alone !
A sceptic of our acquaintance, to whom we narrated this
edifying history, said very calmly, ' The act is simply
:;untime and philosophical to the highest degree ; the
colonel has a vary lively conception of the necessities of
social life in the present day ; to blow out the brains of
those who take you behind them is the very A B C of the
ambitious ! ' "

FATAL ACCIDEi‘TT AT SEA.---The brig Frances-
Ann has just arrived at West Hartlepool from the Baltic.
Her captain reports that during the voyage a seaman
named Robert Emmorson foil from the foremast on to the
deck, and alighting on his head ho died on the spot. The
dem§ed)Mouged to Itobiatiood's

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—.This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET;•

SINGULAR CASE OF PAUPERS. —Henry Young, Benjamin
Murray, and Alfred Lovo, three able-bodied inmat.'s of St.
Martin's Workhouse, were charged before Mr. Tyr .whitf
with refusing to work when requested to do so.
William Dack, gate porter at St. Martin's Workhouse ,
said that the three prisoners were inmates, and had been
for years, of St. Martin's Workhouse, on and off. Last
Saturday a sick woman had to be sent for to be
brought into the workhouse, and he asked the prisoners to
assist in carrying the cot. He first asked Love, who was
smoking a pipe, if ho would assist in fetching a sick
woman from York-place, and he refused ; he then asked
Murray, who was lying dews, if he would assist, and
ho refused; and ho then asked Young if he would
go, and he replied, "I'm mubh obliged to you, but I am
not going to do any work out of the house:" The pri-
soners' conduct was represented to the beard of guardians
yesterday, and their decision was that the prisoners should
be brought. before his worship.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said ho could not make the prisoners go
out of the house to work. They were cunning birds, and
no doubt knew that it was a shabby thing on their part,
and showed what a set of ill-conditioned persons they
must be—three gawky fellows refusing to do what they
were asked, and living in idleness on the ratepayers of the
parish. He considered it a case never contemplated by
the Act, and that the workhouse was intended for work to
bo done in it. As to sending them out to do anything, he
did not think that was intended. He considered the pri-
soners idle fellows not to fetch a poor sick person in when
requested to do so, and they ought to be turned out of the
house and made to work, the more especially so as any one
of them appeared able to have done what was asked. The
prisoners would be discharged.

Young was formerly in the Metropolitan police, but dis-
missed for drunkenness. Subsequently he became an in-
mate of St. Martin's workhouse, and with a number of
others, under the direction of the guardians, emigrated ;
but when he got to Liverpool he was the cause of a mutiny
on board the ship, and soot ashore and locked up. Ulti-
mately ha returned to St. Martin's workhouse, where with
his wife he has spent the greater part of his life. Murray
has been a pauper nearly all his lifetime. Love's wife re-
fuses to live with him, and his three children have been
long supported by the parish.