The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

The business before the court, which did not meet until
late, was of the usual formal character and devoid of gene-
ral interest.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

The Judge Ordinary disposed of several motions of a
technical character having reference to directions as to the
mode of trial, or making decrees nisi absolute. There is
plenty of business to occupy the court, and amongst the
cases which will necessarily attract much general interest
will be that of Ryves v. the Attorney-General, in which
the petitioner seeks to prove that she is the legitimate
descendant, through the Princess Olivia, of the Duke of
Cumberland, brother of George 111.

POLICE 3NTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

CHARGE AGAINST A FRENCH BANKRUPT UNDER THE
EXTRADITION TREATY.—Victor Wideman, a native of
France, was brought up in custody of Inspector
Williamson, of the detective force, and charged before
Sir Thomas Henry with being a fraudulent bankrupt,
absconding, and carrying away with him certain
monies the property of his creditors. The prisoner
was apprehended in Peckham, and the present proceedings
vc ore rendered necessary by the Act 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 120,
which was passed for facilitating the execution of the
extradition treaty signed between America, Franco, and
England.
The principal witness to-day was

Adolph Picard, who said he was manager to the Messrs.
Schumberger, general merchants and official assignees
under the prisoner's bankruptcy. The prisoner was the
manager of a bank at Guebwiller, Haute Rhine, in
France, and was responsible to the shareholders for
the whole of the moneys invested therein. On the 17th of
March he went to the Bank and found the prisoner had
fled. The bank was an association en commandite. It was
found that he had taken with him a large amount of money,
and also bills and commercial securities, amounting in the
whole to nearly 100,000 fr.
Inspector Williamson and Sergeant Dunscovitch here
produced a large number of commercial securities, which
they found when they arrested the prisoner.
The witness (looking at the documents), said he was sure
some of them were securities that he knew were in the
bank. The prisoner, after he had arrrived in London,
wrote the letter to witness (produced), asking him if pos-
sible to arrange matters for him with his creditors. He
admitted taking with him securities to the value
of about 90,000 francs, and not 150,000 francs,
as had been represented He further stated that he
had not intended to appropriate the money to his own use,
but that he intended it for the most necessitous amongst
his creditors. The prisoner was apprehended at Peckham,
where he was living under the assumed name of Beaujois.
Sir T. Henry—The whole of the property found, viz.,
the 30,000 f. in Bank notes and the 31,000 f. in bills, belong
to the creditors by the prisoner.

Witness—Yes.
Sir T. Henry—And there is still a large amount
missing ?

Witness—Yes ; 50,000. francs (upwards of £2,000
English).

Mr. M. Williams, who appeared for the prisoner, said he
had to ask that the prisoner might be remanded in order
that he might have an interview with his client with
respect to the state of his affairs. He had but recently
been called upon to defend the prisoner, and he had not
had time to make himself familiar with the intricate
matters connected with the case.

Sir T. Henry thought that such an application but fair
and reasonable, and therefore the prisoner was remanded
until to-morrow

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SAVAGE ASSAULTS ON CHILDREN.—Timothy Connell,
an inmate of St. James's Workhouse, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting two little boys named Melio
Bonelli, an Italian, and Wm. Henry Barley, also inmates
of the workhouse.
Wm. Henry Knight, porter at St. James's Workhouse,
said that on the previous afternoon about 2 o'clock he saw
Bonelli and Barley atd: two other little boys sitting on
upthea
flagsplaying with little bits of stone, throwing them
catching them, when the prisoner walked up to the
Italian boy and struck him across the loins with a stick as
hard as he could, lea• ing a severe mark behind ; and he
then walked up to the boy Barley and seized him by the
throat leaving marks behind, and but for his (Knight's)
rushing up and seizing the prisoner, he would have struck
the boys again.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the porter whether the prisoner said
why he had done it.
The porter said the prisoner statedthat the children had
thrown stones at him, but he (witness) did not see any
thrown. The prisoner said he was not well, and he went
out to tell the boys to be quiet, as he could get no sleep,
and as they would not, he struck one of them.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for 14 days.
UNPROVOKED ASSAULT ON A FEMALE. —J efferson Knight,
a tailor,- of 63, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, was
committed for two days with hard labour, for an assault of
an unprovoked nature on Anne Adams, an unfortunate.