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in the Court of Bankruptcy, and it would warrant peeping in, complainan. A.l came up to her, and, with-
him in asking for the protection of the Act of out a wordy pushed he-, ! down with great violence.
Parliament. She added,
that the ge rifleman and lady gave their
.
Mr. Giffard was heard on behalf of Freeman. names as Charles Richtt rd Teage and Olivia Maddle
The prosecutors themselves examined the bank-
and said it was io be a =runaway match.
rupts at the Court of Bankruptcy, and enforced the The Lord May
or told the complainant, who gave
disclosures. no contradiction io this extraordinary statement,
The Chief Baron—And now do not appear ? that he had committe, i a grave offence in con-
Mr. Giffard—They have obtained their money. spiring to promote a fraut lulent marriage, and that
The Court—And having got that do not care his conduct to the pr.isonez:, after seducing her, was
how the criminal law may be defeated. quite unjustifiable.
The Court took time to consider. The Lord Mayor asl ted the prisoner whether she
would go home and nof annoy complainant any
more? And she pros nised to cease all annoyance,
and never go near Mr. Mansfield again.
The Lord Mayor tholi endeavoured to prevail on
Mansfield to allow her something towards her
maintenance; bit he s tedfastly refused to do so,
although he was willing• to keep her child:
The prisoner was then. discharged.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge-Ordinary and a Special Jury.)
TODD AND PRICE Y. SUMPSION AND OTHERS.
Mr. Sergeant Pigott, Mr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr.
Mills were counsel for the plaintiffs.; Mr. M.
Chambers, Q.C, Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr.
Thompson Chitty, for the defendents.
The questions raised in this case were whether
the will of the late Mr. Benjamin Tratt, of Hamil-
ton-place, St. John's-wood, dated the 27th of
January, 1858, was duly executed, whether at the
time of its execution the testator was of testamen
tary capacity, and whether it was executed by him
in consequence of the undue influence obtained
over him by Miss Sarah Todd. The will, was pro-
pounded by the executors and opposed by Mrs.
Sumpsion, the sister, Mr. Spriggs, the nephew,

WORSHIP-STREEI".—Wm. Richard Jackson,
a youth, was re-examinod on the charge of being
concerned in uttering forged cheques with intent
to cheat and defraud his a ther, Wm. Richard Jack-
son, a meat salesman, carrying on business in Three
Tuns-passage, Newgate-man
The prisoner did not utter a word, and Mr.
Hammill, remarking on the distressing nature of
the case, ordered him to be comi.nitted for trial.
Wm. Weston, a journeyman cabinetmaker, was
charged with the following outrage
An inoffensive-looking German, named Auguste
Hauser was a fellow-workman with the prisoner
in the service of a master manufacturer named.
Jones, in the Curtain-road, Shoreditch, and it
seemed that while Hauser is the quiet man he is:
represented to be, the prisoner was such a furious.
bully as to be a terror to all the workmen in the
shop. On the 7th inst. Hauser heard the prisoner
sawing in the yard of the house, and, suspect-
ing what he was about, looked into the yard, aut
found him engaged in sawing up some wood that
belonged to him (Hauser). He remonstrated with
him on his vexatious conduct, and his mistress
did so likewise, but the prisoner jeered and
bullied them, told them they were all frightened
at him, and after grossly insulting his em-
ployer's brother-in-law, who interposed to
put a stop to his insolence, he returned to
the workshop, and conducted himself with such
blackguardism to Hauser that he at last stood up to
give him a good thrashing. In this the prisoner
had the advantage at first, by driving the prose-
cutor against the wall and then throwing him upon
his back across a bench. While in this position the
prosecutor was heard to exclaim, " Oh, the scoun-
drel is biting me," but Hauser thrust him off him,
flung the prisoner in the same way across the
bench, and was about to strike him, when the pri-
soner seized him round the neck with one arm,
grasped a long iron bedscrew with his disengaged
hand, and, although the prosecutor called to one of
the shopmen to take it from him, the youth was too
terrified to do so, and the prisoner stabbed Hauser
in the left eye with the screw.
Mr. George Helme, house surgeon of the hospital,
deposed that when the prosecutor was brought up
to that institution he found the neighbourhood of
,the left eye greatly contused, a gakiN in the upper
eyelid, the vision not only greatly impaired but
partially gone, and the eye altogether in such a
bad state that it was doubtful if the prosecutor
would ever entirely recover the sight of it. The
screw produced was well calculated to inflict such
injuries.
The prisoner impudently declared that all the
witnesses, four in number, had invented an entire
pack of falsehoods against him; but
Mr. Hammill told him that the threats he had
uttered too clearly showed his intent to admit of
any doubt, and ordered him to be committed for
trial.

and other relatives of the testator.
The trial was resumed at the sitting of the Court
by the examination of witnesses in opposition to
the will. The principal witness was the defendant,
Mr. Chas. Francis Spriggs, who stated that he was
always much loved by his uncle, Mr. Tratt, and on
very good terms with his aunt ; but that after Miss
Todd went to live with them she gradually obtained
a complete control over Mr. Tratt, and induced him
to forbid the house to him and other relations. His
account of the quarrel with Miss Todd was that he
had given her no provocation whatever when she
threw the candle at him, but was sitting quietly in
a chair, and had not spoken to her. He admitted
that his uncle was very angry with him for sum-
moning Miss Todd before a magistrate. Upon Mr.
Tratt's retirement in 1849 he gave Mr. Spriggs the
goodwill-of the business and the stock, and from
time to time assisted him with various sums of
money, amounting in the whole to about £5,000.
Mr. Spriggs added that he never had an unkind
word from his aunt, that he had never neglected
his business, and that he never went in a state of
intoxication to his uncle's house, as Miss Todd had
suggested. Mr. Spriggs complained with great
wai:mth of not having been allowed to see his
uncle before his death, and appeared to weep when
he mentioned that he had not been invited to the
funeral. One of the sons of Mr. Sprigs also de-
scribed the interest taken by Mr. Tratt in his wel-
fare, and said that previous to 1855 the old man had
frequently promised " to make a gentleman of him."
The examination of Mrs. Sumpsion, the sister of
the testator, who is too old and infirm to attend,
was read. She described her brother as having been
much affected by his wife's death, and having
shortly afterward.s become quite childish. He was
accustomed, she said, among other foolish habits, to
have his legs nursed and dandled by Miss Todd, to
the tune of " Here we go up, up, up, Here we go
down, down, down," much to his gratification. Mrs.
Sumpsion expressed her great disappointment at
finding that the will was not to be read at the
funeral, for " what else had she gone there for ?"
and her surprise at the small sum (£500) left to
her by her brother. Mrs. Sumpsion's evidence
was partly corroborated by her servant, Lydia
Linfield, who mentioned, in her cross-exa-
mination, that
.she remembered the time when
Miss Todd was a kitchenmaid in the household of
Lord Wensleydale. In addition to the evidence
adduced on their behalf reliance was placed by the
defendants upon the difference between the provi-
sions propounded, the declared intentions of
the testator, and the contents of previous wills ;
and upon the offer of marriage to Miss Todd, and
the transfer of £45,000 stock to her name.
Mr. Sergeant Pigott, in reply,submitted that the
evidence on both sides clearly proved that the old
gentleman was a perfectly free agent in every act
that he had done up to the day of his death.
Sir C. Cresswell summed up, and
The jury immediately returned a verdict upon all
the issues for the plaintiffs, establishing the validity
of the will.
A juryman asked whether a recommendation of
the jury with regard to the payment of costs would
have any weight with the Court in a case of this
kind ?
Sir C. Cresswell said it would not. That was a
matter entirely in the hands of the Court.
His lordship then decreed probate of the will, and
• reserved the question of costs for consideration.
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SOUTHWARK.—Henry Hinds, a Custom-house
officer, was charged with stealing 35 fancy meer-
schaum pipes from a case on board the John Bull,
Hamburg steamer, the property of Messrs. Woolf
and Co., merchants, Sambrook-court, i3asingha,ll-
-

At the request of the police the prisoner was
remanded for a week, but admitted to bail:

LAMBETH.—A middle-aged man,NEho gave the
fictitious name of Christopher Stoddart, and. who
refused to state his address, was examined on the
following charge :
It appeared from the evidence that between
10 and 11 o'clock in the forenoon the prisoner
called at the house of Mrs. Travers, on Cham-
pion-hill, Camberwell, and other respectable
ladies in the neighbourhood, and representing him-
self to be Mr. Stoddart, a respectable ironmonger
in the High-street, Camberwell, said he was
making a subscription to get a poor woman into
the Putney Hospital; that he had already col-
lected and paid in £2O, and that if he did not
succeed in getting L 3 by 12 o'clock the poor
woman's goods must be sold. Unfortunate ly for
him Mrs. Travers happened to know Mr. Stoddart,
the tradesman he personated, and this led to the
prisoner's apprehension,
Mrs. Deyks, a lady residing in Grove-hill, Cal n'
identified the prisoner, who had paid b.isr
two visits on the subject of charity, and produced a•
note -which he presented .to her on the last occa-
sion, and which purported to have been written by
the Rev. Mr. Moore, but which was a forgery.
The prisoner, who was respectably dressed, and
about 50 years of age, was remanded.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Jan. 22.

MANSION-HOUSE.—William Henry Preston,
aged 34, clerk to Mr. Young, architect, 35, King-
street, Cheapside, was charged with embezzling the
money of his employer.
Mr. R. Ashby, builder, of 24, BishopsOte-street-
without, said—l have known the prisoner as a clerk
in the employment of the prosecutor. The paper
produced is a receipt for the payment of £3los. due
from me to the prosecutor, but I cannot recollect
whether I myself paid the prisoner the money.
The prosecutor said—The prisoner was a clerk
in my service. It was his duty to receive moneys
and to account for them weekly. I believe the re-
ceipt produced to be in the prisoner's handwriting,
and I find no entry in my book of the payment of
the sum referred to by the last witness. On refer-
ence to my book I find he has not accounted for
other sums paid him on my behalf. I saw him yes-
terday, and he shortly afterwards sent me a list of
his deficiencies, together with other papers which
I now produce.
Huggett, the detective officer, asked for a remand
for the production of further evidence, there being
26 cases against the prisoner.
The prisoner was remanded accordingly.
Wm. Brown, alias Diamond, alias Beck, John
Megan, and John King, were again brought up.
Brown and King had been committed for trial
upon several charges of obtaining goods from
wholesale warehouses by means of forged orders,
but were remanded with Megan for the purpose of
enabling Mr. Humphrey, the solicitor for the pro-
secution, to go through the evidence with a view of
ascertaining whether he could establish a charge
of conspiracy against them.
Megan was discharged, Brown and King stand-
ing committed as before.
Margaret Agnes Hackblock, aged 27, whose eyes
were blackened and her face covered with contu-
sions, was charged with assaulting Mr. J. Mans-
field, who keeps the China coffeeshop in Bishops-
gate-street-without.
The complainant said, the prisoner had lived
with him as servant and otherwise for the last nine
years, but she had recently become so violent in. her
conduct towards him that he had been compelled to
part with her, and on two other occasions he had
provided her with an outfit to get another situa-
tion, received her back again into his house, how-
ever, on each occasion, upon her promise to behave
better for the future.
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—But she lived with
you as your wife, did she not ?
Complainant replied in the affirmative, and went
on to say that he had always treated her well, not-
withstanding the frequent violence of her conduct.
On the previous evening, however, he found her
sitting in the public coffeeroom, tossing with some
men, and sending out for drink. He told her to go
to the bar, when she refused to do so, and when he
took hold of her arm to drag her away she struck
him on the face and got away from him. She then
got under the table, and he again took hold of her
arm, upon which she flew at him, stuck her teeth
into his face, and held him so until pulled off by
others. Finding it impossible to quiet her otherwise
he sent for a policeman and gave her into custody.
For some time past he had been endeavouringto get
rid of her, but she wouldnot go, although he offered
to give her a sum of money, and also to provide for
her child.

EXEMPTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY FROM LOCAL
TAXATION.—On Friday a great meeting of members of Par-
liament, and others interested in giving effect to the recoin"
mendations of the select committee of the House. of Com-
mons—" that all property occupied for public •-pUrposes
should cease to be exempt from local.taxation"—was held
at the King's Arms, Palace-yard, Westminster. A' depu-
tation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was' appointed,
and the meeting separated.

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BIRTHS.

AIRD.—On the 19th inst., at Copenhagen, the wife of Ale%•

Aird, Esq., of a son.
CARTMELL.—On the 18th inst., at Asfordby Rectory, the
wife Esq., of a daughter.
T oNv'sE of
—O then
R theel'
2. Johnls tinsCt.a,rtinell'
wifetheß of William eckwith
.
Towse, Esq., of Fishmongers'-hall, of a son.
WALKER.—On. the 21st inst., at 7, Parkfield Villas, St.
John's-wood-park, Mrs. James Walker, of a son.
MARRIAGES.

The prisoner, who spoke in a very excited man.
ner, said, the truth was, she went to live with the
complainant as servant about nine years ago, when
he seduced her, and she had been living with him
ever since, and had had a child by him, but that he
had been in the constant habit of ill-treating her ;
and in proof of his violence on the previous day she
referred to the state of her face, and, nulling up
her sleeves, showed her arms covered with bruises.
With respect to the charge, she said it originated
in a rather peculiar transaction. On Friday morn-
ing a ladylike young woman went to the house and
asked if she could be accommodated with a private
room for the purpose of dressing herself for her
marriage, which was to take place at a church in
the neighbourhood on Tuesday, morning next,
offering to pay for the accommodation. She (pri-
soner) asked complainant, who at once gave his
consent, and the young lady went away, but very
soon afterwards returned in a cab, accompanied by
a gentleman, who she said was the one to whom
she was about to be married. This gentleman re-
quested the complainant to allow him to represent
himself as having lodged at the house for some time
past, when; as he was then about to, do, he went to
procure a special license, a request with which com-
plainant at once complied, and furnished the gen-
tleman with one of his tax papers to enable him to
give an appearance of undoubted truth to the state-
ment, and the parties then took'their leave. After
their departure some words took place between her
and complainant, and subsequently, while she was
standing at the foot of the stairs watching the sky-
light,7here some people said they had seen a man

EWING--O'GRADY.—On the 20th inst., at Conlara Church,
Alex. Crum Ewing, Esq., eldest son of Humphrey E. C.
Ewing, Esq., of Strathleven, Dumbartonshire, M.P., to
Jane, only daughter of Vice •Admiral Hayes O'GradYy,
of Erinagh-house, co. Clare.
WREY.—PRILPOTTS.—On the 18th inst., at the parish
church of St. Feoch, Cornwall, the Rev. Arthur B.WreYt
M.A., to Helen, second daughter of the Rev. Thomas
Philpotts, of Porthgwidden, and vicar of the abovo
parish.