The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-04 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

SINGULAR APPLICATION.—VERY SPOONEY. —A.
very respectable, quiet-looking young man entered
the court this morning, and, addressing Mr. Arnold,
said, " I wish to inform your worship that I have
been married three mouths."
Mr. Arnold—lndeed.
Applicant—. Yes, air, that's the time.
Mr Arnold—Well, I hope your happy.
Applicant—No, sir, Put not, and that's the reason
I have come here.

Mr. Arnold—l am sorry for that.
Applicant—My wife has left me. She has de-
serted me and taken all my property—everything 1
possessed. Can't I manage that? Can't I take it
back ?

Mr. Arnold—lf you can find it.
Applicant—lf other people have got possession
of my property can't I recover it ?
Mr. Arnold—Certainly you can.
Applicant—Do you know I don't think she would
have deserted me if she had been left to herself.
Mr. Arnold—Don't you ?

Applicant—No ; I don't. I think it was entirely
from the influence her friends possessed over her.
We seemed to be very comfortable ourselves at
first. You see they keep my property.
Mr. Arnold— Yuu can recover that, as I have told
you.
Applicant—But they keep my wife, too. How
am I to recover her ?

Mr. Arnold—You must go to another court for
that, and sue her f9r a restitution of conjugalrights.
It is rather an expensive process.
Applicant—ls it? lam very sorry for that. I
want to ask your worship another question, if you
will be good enough to answer it. Can't I detain
what few things she has left at my house ?
Mr. Arnold—All your wife's property is yours.

Applicant—Then I can detain it?
Mr. Arnold—Certainly.
Applicant—l'm very much obliged to you.
Mr. Arnold—Your wife's property is yours unless
vested in trustees, and when it comes into her pos-
session it becomes yours.

Applicant—Thank you, sir ; I am sure she would
not have left me but for her friends.

THAMES.

A BRACE OF BLACKGUARDS.—George Finister
and John Skinner, two rough-looking fellows, were
brought before Mr. Benson, charged with upsetting
a perambulator in Strathmore-terrace, Shadwell,
and injuring a child.
Mark Dickson, of No. 5, Vine-street, Brook-
street, Ratcliff, saw a little girl with a diseased
spine in a perambulator, and another girl wheeling
the machine along the street. Tne prisoners came
along the street roiling drunk, noisy, and using
offensive language. They upset the perambulator,
and the little invalid fell out and was hurt. He
expostulated with the prisoners, and they laughed
at him, and capsized the perambulator twice after-
wards. He then called the police, and gave the
prisoners in custody.

Other witnesses gave similar evidence, and it was
clear the child in the perambulator was injured.
The father of the child said he wished the pri-
soners to go free.
Mr. Benson said the father of the little girl pre-
ferred the charge at the station-house, and might
have withdrawn it there. lie should act on the
charge. He was of opinion that the prisoners had
been guilty of very brutal and disgraceful conduct.
He fined the prisoners 21s. each, and in default
14 d.tys' imprisonment.

On the occasion of the Emperor's visit to Rouen,
his Majesty, as at Orleans, left in the hands of the
authorities 10,000 f. for the local charitable institu-
tions and for the old men wearing the St. Helena
medals. He also promoted ten persons to the rank
of Officer in the Legion of Honour, and named 39
to be Knights of the same order.
For the next ten years Austria proposes to have a
million of men always available for purposes of
war. That is t) say, 800,000 soldiers and 200,000
Landwehr or militia. These are the Government
proposals ; they have yet to be submitted to the
Diet and the iteichsrath.