The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-24 00:00:00

EVENING, AP RI TA 24,- - '1658.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
HEATHER V. O'NEILL-JUDGMENT.

This was an appeal from a decision of the Master of
the Rolls, finding that the deed roll of 1818 was a con-
tinuation of the trust deed of 1817, entered into between
the husband and wife, Ann Armstrong and W. E.
Heather, with power of appointment by the husband,
and an obligation to pay 3401. On 25th May, 1818,
the husband, under his power of appointment, executed
a deed in favour of himself and his heirs.
The Lord C'nancellor, in delivering judgment, said
that the only quteti that now remained to be consi-
dered was whether the heirs of the husband or the heirs
of the wife were entitled to take the property in question
solely or equally. His lordship was of opinion that the
deed of 1818 gave the property solely and absolutely to
the husband, and that the heirs of the husband alone
were entitled to take the whole of the property, subject
to the obligation mentioned in that deed.
Lord Justice Turner concurred.
Lord Jastice Knight Bruce was of a different opinion.
His lordship said that it was a settled and fixed rule that
in interpreting the language of the subsequent deed, it
was usual to construe it in conformity with the rights of
parties in the previous deed, atid his lordship considered
that it was not int,nded that the deed of 1818 was to
operate as a complete and total destruction of the wife's li
interest in the property in dispute.
Their lor.isdips so far altered the decision of the
Master of the Rolls as to find that the heirs of the hus-
band were alone entitled to succeed to the property in
question—ordered certain incpiries to be made, and die- ;
missed the appeal without costs.
It is understood there is a probability that this case
will be compromised by the parties.

COURT FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF
CROWN CASES RESERVED.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Wightman,
Mr. Justice Willes, Mr. Baron Bramwell, and Mr.
Justice Byles.)
THE QUEER V. ALFRED FEIST.
The defendant was master of the workhouse at New.
ington, and was indicted for disposing of the dead bodies
of some of the paupers who had died in the workhouse,
for the purpose of dissection, and for gain and profit to
himself. The d, fendant was tried at the March Session
of the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice
Wightmen. It appeared by the evidence that the de-
fendant was the master of the above workhouse, and
that he had, in collusion with a person named Hogg,
the parish undertaker, upon the death of several of the
paupers, caused their bodies to be shown to their rela-
tives in coffins, and the appearance of funerals to be
gone through, when in reality, just before the fune-
rals left the workhouse, other coffins were
substituted for those which the relatives had seen, and
the bodies were in the evening taken to Guy's Hospital
for dissection. All the necessary formalities required
by the 2 and 3 Vic., c. 75, for regulating schools of
anatomy, bad oeen complied with. In no case had the
relatives of the deceased persons required that their
bodies should be interred without anatomical examina-
tion, and they appeared to have believed that the bodies
were buried without any such Examination. It did not
appear that the defendant made any regular charge to
the hospital iu respect of the bodies supplied to them
from this workhouse ; but in the year 1856 the defendant
received 10/. 10e, and in 1857 261. from Guy's Hospital,
as gratuities for his trouble in going through the forma-
lities, arid giving the notices and obtaining the certifi-
cates in respect of each of the bodies required by the
anatomical act, and the amount paid to him was in
proportion to the number of the bodies supplied.
These payments were in contravention of the
7 and 8 Vic., cap. 101, sec. 31. Upon this state
of facts the jury found Veit the defendant caused the
dead bodies of four paupers to be delivered to Hogg,
and delayed their burial for an unreasonable length of
time in order that they might be dissected in the mean
ttheneev,laenwdothf
rheevednitdinss: f.,r gain and profit to himself.
They also find that he caused the appearance of the
funeral of such deceased paupers to be gone through with
their relatives requiring their
bodies to be interred without being subject to anatomi-
cal examination, and that but for such supposed funeral
the relatives of the deceased would have required their
bodies to be interred without anatomical examination.
It was objected by counsel on the trial that the defend-
ant having lawful possession of too bodies as master of
the workhouse, might lawfully do that which he had
done, as no relatives of the deceased persons
had required the bodies to be interred without
undergoing anatomical examination. Upon that finding
of the jury, Mr. Justice Wightman directed a verdict of
guilty to be entered upon the 5.h, 6th, 7th, and Bth
counts of the indictment, subject to the opinion of the
Court, whether the verdict so entered upon all or any
of the ceunte was warranted by the evidence and the
finding of the jury.
Mr. H. Matthias appeared for the defendant, and
Mr. Robinson in support of the prosecution.
The Court were unanimously of opinion that, under
the circumstance., the conviction must be quashed.
Convicion quashed accordingly,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
STEALING A CHEQUE FROM LORD DlLLON.—William
Yielding, 14. was charged before Mr. Bingham with
stealing a cheque for 361., the property of Lord Dillon,
at Limner's Hotel, Now Bond-street.

Lord allot) said—On Thursday evening, about six,
he laid some letters on the table at Utnner's Hotel, with
instructions that they should bs posted. In one of them
was a cheque for 361. I heard nothinc, more about it
till I received a letter from Mr. Wood saying he had
got it.

Mr. Robt. Wood, 132, New Bind-street, oilman,
said the prisoner came into his shop in a hur-
ried mitener and asked for change, saying he
was sent from Limner's Hotel. I told him to take
it back and get the proprietor's name and fol-
lowed him with the money to give him, as Limners were
his customers. On inquiry at Liinners' they said they
had not sent the boy. Later in the day the boy came
again, and I told him the proprietor had not put his
name on it, The boy then said it was not for him, but
for a person of the name of "Johnson " or "Thomson "
at the hotel, and on looking at the cheque I find there
has been an attempt to write that name on it. I then
told him to follow me, but he made his escape. I then
wrote to his lordship about it.
Wee. Diinitan, a waiter at the hotel, said the prisoner
was the son of one of the porters, and was occasionally
at the hotel. Ills lordship gave him some letters to
post, and as the porter who should have posted them
was out be gave them to the prisoner to post and he went
out with that intention.
Chas. Cole, 317 A, proved taking this prisoner into
custody. On his charging him with it he at first deined
it, but afterwards said he had opened the letter and he
had written the name on it at a grocer's shop.
The prisoner said he was sorry for it, but he admitted
he bad done it and written the name.
Mr. Bingham said he should consider what could be
done, and the prisoner was remanded.

From the London Gazette of Last A ight.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 20.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Antonio
Mahe as Consul at Belize for the Republic of Salvador.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 21.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Nathaniel
Solomon as Consul at St. Helena for his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 22.
Her Majesty has been pleased, on the nomination of
Earl Talbot, to appoint Arthur Palliser, Esquire,to be one
of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Capt.
Thomas Robert M'Coy. resigned.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 2L
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a
copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at
Tripoli, stating that the restrictions upon the exportation
of corn from all parts of the Regency have been removed.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRrr, 23.
4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Troop Sergeant-Major
Robert Davies from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be
Cornet, without purchase.
10th Light Dragoons— Lieut. Arthur Herbert Cass to be
Captain, without purchase, viceJ. W. Thompson, whose
Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank
under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854.
13th Light Dragoons- Tim second Christian name of
Cornet Liebert, appointed on the 13th April, 1858, is
Bernhard.
Military Train—Lieutenant C. W. M`Niell to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice M'Court, promoted ; Ensign G.
J. C. Whittington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
M`Niell ; Frank F. Perceval, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Whittington.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet-
Major Sir Charles Russell, Bart., to be Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel,
R. C. S Clifford, who retires ; Ensign and Lieutenant
Alfred Walter Thynue to be Lieutenant and Captain,
by purchase, vice Sir C. Russell, Bart. ; the Hon. Fre-
derick Arthur Stanley to be Ensign and Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Thynne.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Edward Andrew Stuart
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major
Whitmore, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into
Substantive Rank under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6.
3d Foot—Horace William Scriven, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice G. E. Martin, whose appoint-
ment on March 2t5 has been cancelled.
sth Foot—Ensign William Enderby, from 17th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barker, promoted ;
Herbert Silverthorne Williams, Gent., to be Eu-
sign, without purchase, vice Charles Williams, ap-
pointed to 2d Dragoons. In lieu of the promotion of
the following officers, as stated iu the Gazette of the 15th
January, read—to be Lieutenants, without purchase—
Ensign E. S. Lewis, vice Haig, killed in action ;
Ensign J. B. Barker, vice Adair, promoted ; Ensign E.
J. Oldfield, vice Leach, promoted; Ensign E. M. Mason,
vice Carter, died of his wounds ; Ensign G. A. Shegog
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Simmons,
promoted in succession to Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
Kirkland, promoted ; Easign H. Bathe to be Lieutenant
without purchase, vice Shegog, whose promotion on the
3d January, 1858, vice Browne, deceased, has been
cancelled.
6th Foot—Lieutenant William Henry Hamilton, from
half-pay 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Goo3ison,
pi emoted in 24th Foot ; Ensign P. B. Simpson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton who retires.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—James FitzGaral I,
Gent., vice Allfrey, promoted; Gustavus Wheatley
Berry Collis, Gent., vice Nugent, promoted ; Charles
Henry Marchant, Gent., vice MacCarthy, whoseappoint-
ment on 30th Dec., 1857, has been cancelled.
10th Foot—George Henry Wynn Tremenheere, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase.
11th Foot—George Augustus Eliot, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
12th Foot—Ensign David Seymour, from 17th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Miller, promoted.
13th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase—Arthur
Brooks, Gent. ; Henry King Fenwick, Gent.
14th Foot—Wm. Jarvis Willis, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase; Lieut. John Glancy, to be Adjutant.
15th Foot—Ensign M. J. C. Browne, to be Lieutenant,
without purchase. To be Ensigns, without purchase—
G eorgo Onslow Churchill, Gout, vice Browne ; Francis
Henry Garnett, Gent. ; John Joseph Forsyth Grant,
Gent.
16th Foot - Ensign A. Neame to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Rendall, promoted ; W. F. Longbourne,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Neatae. To be
Ensigns, without purchase— C. F. Busfield, Gent. ; 0,
H. Woodmas, Gent. ; Clifton de Neufville Orr Stock•
well, Gent. To be Paymaster—AL Tevershatn, Gent.

17th Foot—To be Ensigns, by purchase—R. F. Bros, Gent.,
vice Gegge Thompson, whose appointment, as stated in
the Gaztati of 26th March, 1858, bas been cancelled • G.
W. Y. Fitz Gerald, Gent., vice Seymour, promoted in
12th Foot. To be Ensigns, without purchase—A. M'Neil
Caird, Gent.; 0. C. Weir, Gent.; 11. C. Deane, Gent. ;
E. A. Elgin, Gent.
18th Foot.—To be Ensigns without purchase.—John
Francis O'Reilly, Gent.; E ward Ashurst Marsland,
Gent. ; George Augustus Nicolls, Gent. ; the surname
of Captain John Swinburn is spelt Swinburne.
19th Foot.--To be Ensigns without purchase.— Henry
Walter Hope, Gent. ; Horace Arthur Wells, Gent. ;
Marcus William O'ltorke, Gent. ; and Philip Downes
Williams, Gent.

20th Foot-Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Camp-
bell, from 30th Foot, to 'o Major, without purchase ;
Harry Russell Bowlby, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase.
21st Foot--Edward Frederick Pole, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
22d Foot—To he Ensigns, without purchase—Richard N.
Cartwright Fell, Gent.; William Cunliffe Powys, Gent. ;
Octavius Brown, Gent. _ _

23d Foot.—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
W. J. Twyford, and Ensign H. J. Richards. To be
Ensigns, by Purchase—Henry Edmund Stanley, Gent.,
and George William Lewis, Gent.

,
24th Foot—Thomas Pierco Butler, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase. To be Ensigns, without purchase :—Ri-
chard Archibald Farquharson, Geist. ; Francis Massey
Pearson, Gent. ; Char!es Henry Fellowes, Gent., vico
Tongue, promoted; William Bannatyne, Gent., vice
Thomas, promoted.

26th Foot:2Ensign William Henry Salwey to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Givins, who retires; Oswald
Cresewell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Salwey.
28th Foot—Ellis Houlton Ward, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Crawhill, promoted in the 12th Foot.
31st Foot—Captain Colin Campbell, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice Greenwood, who exchanges ;
Lieutenant Richard Weld Litton to be Captain, by pur-
'chase, vice Campbell, who retires.
39th Foot—The first Christian name of Ensign Taylor,
appointed without purchase, on 13th April, 1858. is
spelt Chauncy, not Chauncey, as previously stated.
41st Foot—Edward Francis Brown Broke, Gent., to be

Ensign, without purchase, vice Waring, promoted in
the 24th Foot
47th Foot—Ensign George Henry Powell, from 9Jth
Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice De Lancey,
promoted, by purchase, to an Unattached Company.
GOth Foot Lieutenant He nry Pardoe Eaton to be Captain
without purchase, vice Paterson, appointed Captain of
Companies of Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Mili-
tary College ; Ensign C. H. Boner to be Lieutenant
without purchase, vice Eaton ; John Gustavus Crosbie,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Borrer.
84th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Jenkins,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cruice,
deceased.
91st Foot—George Francis Robertson, Gent., to ba En-
sign, by purchase, vice D'Eyo, whose appointment has
been cancelled.
95th Foot—Ensign G. W. Smith to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Browne, promoted in 24th Foot.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieut G. A. Tranchell to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Clarke, appointed to the
24th Foot ; Ensign B. S. Du Javelin to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Tranchell ; Henry Dickson Den-
man, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Du
Jardin.

Town, May 4, at half-past twelve, and June 1, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Craig, wright, Kirkton Toll, Rtnffewshire.
James Maclean, hotel keeper, Glasgow.
George Macdonald and Co., hotel-keepers, Campbell
own Inverness-shire.
William Christie, cabinet maker, Elgin.
John Kay and Company, tea merchants, Glasgow.
John Matthew, flax-spinner, Kirktown Mills, Dundee.