The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-18 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TUE G BEAT SPIRITUAL CASE. -11 l Vice-Chancellor
Giffard's court, this case, which was referred to his
Honour by the chief clerk, came on for hearing. The
chief clerk had refused to allow a sum paid for preparing
the will of Mrs. Lyon, and also a sum paid for brokerage
when she made the gifts to the defendant, on the ground
that as the gifts were void the expenses attendant on them
were also annulled.—Mr. Wilkinson asked the Vice-
Chancellor to allow the matter to be argued in court.
The payment to a solicitor involved a principle which he
preferred counsel arguing.—Mr. Yetts suggested that as
the certificate of the chief clerk would be i ued iu a
few days, Mr. Wilkinson could apply to the court to vary
the same. lie deprecated delay.—Mr. Wilkinson said
there had been great speed in the case.—liis Honour
remarked that the Court of Chancery bad been charged
with delay, and not with haste.—After a discussion, the
suggestion of Mr. Yetts was acted upon.—The Vice-
Chancellor observed that there was no appeal from
chambers to the Lords Justices. He would hear the
matter in court as soon as pessible.

THE PERUVIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.— Before the Lords
Justices, Mr. Wallis appealed against an order of the
Vice-Chancellor, under the following circumstances. The
appellant, at the instance of Mr. Pickering, the manager
of the company, was told that the company was a " good
thing," and on this representation signed an application
for 200 shares. 1I was entered afterwards on the register
of members as the holder of GO shares, but no formal letter
of allotment was ever sent to him. The question in the
case was whether the evidence showed that Mr. Wallis
was aware that an allotment had been made to him. He
swore that he did not know that he had been enteed as a
shareholder till after the winding up of the company bad
commenced. The Vice-Chancellor, however, was of opinion
that he must be taken to have known that his name had
been placed on the company's register, and therefore held
him liable as a contributory in respect of the sixty shares.
Mr. Walls appealed. Their lordships were of a different
opinion to the Vice-ChancAlor, and allowed the appeal.

APPLICATION FOR AN INJUNCTION. —ln Vice-Chancellor
Malins's Court a motion was made on behalf of Mr.
Schmidtzler to restrain a Mr. Atkins from selling a prepa-
ration kn:,wu as " coceatina," in similar labels to
those used by the plaintiff. The defendant called
the article " cacaotine," which was of inferior quality,
and it was packed in packages containing a larger quantity
than that sold by the plaintiff. The defendant was a
connection of the plaintiff's, and had been in his service,
and it was alleged that lie was employing the plaintiff's
agents at a larger commission. On the other hand, the
defendant's case was that the article was superior in quality
to the plaintiff's, but at a cheaper rate and in larger
packages. There was no imitation ; the defendant sold
his in his own name, and wished the public to believe that
the article was his, and not the plaintiff's. The injunction
was granted.
FEARFUL CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.—At Lewes
Assizes William Henry Cooke pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with wounding Phoebe Cole with in-
tent to murder her. It appeared that the child was his
niece, but she had lost her parents, and her grandfather
had taken her home to provide for her, and the only
motive that seemed to have actuated the prisoner to
commit the crime was the mean and sordid one, that
he might in some way or other be a loser by the
grandfather providing for the child. In order to revenge
himself he seemed to have gone to the house of the grand-
father and made a deliberate attempt to cut the throat of
the child ; and he then made an attack upon the grand-
father, and would certainly have done some serious
mischief if he hall not been prevented and taken into
custody. The accused was ordered to be kept in penal
servitude for life.

CONVICTION OF A FRAUDULENT BANICRUPT.—At the
same assizes Berthold Miiller, a German, was indicted for
fraudulent bankruptcy. The prisoner at the beginning of
the present year owed £3,003, and agreed to pay
his creditors by instalments of 2s. 6d. in the
pound. Soon afterwards he petitioned the Bank-
ruptcy Court, and when his property was taken
possession of it was ascertained that he had sent £BOO
worth of jewellery to London, in which place it was found
concealed. The learned judge sentenced the accused to nine
months' imprisonment.
MURDER BY A FATHER.—An inquest has been held on
the body of a lad named Thomes Kemp, aged 16, who
was murdered under very melancholy circumstances
by his father, a labourer residing at Princethorp, near
Rugby. The prisoner, who it appeared was very much
attached to the lad, had been for some time in a state of
great depression caused by pecuniary losses and domestic
affliction. Ills statement was that he had killed the
boy in order to save him from such trials as he
himself had undergone. The case was sent for trial at the
assizes.

PERJURY IN THE DIVORCE COURT.-At the Westminster
Police-court, Ann Porter, late a domestic servant, in the
employment of Mr. William Bewick, of Threepwood Hall,
Northumberland, appeared for further examination,
charged with wilful and corrupt perjury in a suit insti-
tuted by Mrs. Bewick against her husband in the Divorce
Court, on the 12th ult. On hearing sufficient evidence,
the magistrate decided on sending the case for trial, and
the accused's recognisances were taken for her appearance
at the Central Criminal Court.

THE ARREST OF MURPHY AT BOLTON. —On Fri-
day William Murphy was brought before the borough
magistrates at Bolton, on thn charge of being likely to
cause a breach of the peace by his ptoposed lectures. The
court-rwm was crowded, great interest being manifested,
both in Bolton and other towns, as to whether the magis-
trates had power to stop his proceedings. The informa-
tion upon which "the warrant had been issued alleged
that Murphy, by his hcturea at other places, and by ut-
tering " provoking and scandalous words," had provoked
breaches of the peace, and caused injury to persons and
property, and that it was believed similar results would
follow his lectures at Bolton. Mr. Leresche, who
prosecuted, said the application he bad to make was,
etat Murphy be called upon to enter into sureties to keep
th:.t peace, and also for his general behaviour in the
borough. The information sworn to by various persons
baring been read, and several witnesses, examined, Mr.
Torr strongly condemned the proceedings, as being an
attack on the liberty of free speech. The magistrat.
ordered Mr. Murphy to find sureties to be of good
behaviour for twelve months, himself in £5OO and two
sureties in £950 each. Mr. Torr raid he should advise Mr.
Murphy that under that decision ho could leckm
towns providing he, did so as a r.ati.94. l*rg.