The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-24 00:00:00

BIRKIIEAD V. BURDOIN.

This was a question as to the will Mr. James
Burdoin, who died on the 31st October, 1842,
leaving property of the value
perty he disposed of by a 10,0001. This pro-
,vill drawn up by Sir Wil-
liam Clay, his brother :in-law and. executor, and duly
executed, whereby .ne revoked a former will, save and
except certain Legacies to individuals named in such
former will. After the execution of the later will, the
testator tore off the seal of the former will. The ques-
tion was, whether the former will was thereby revoked.
Sir H. JENNER FUST was clearly of opinion that
the cancellation of the former will was not animo re-
vocandi with respect to that part referred to in the
later will ; and, on the authority of the case of
"Brook v. Kent," decided by the Judicial Committee
(Notes
01; Cases in Eccl. and Mar. Courts, vol. 1, p.
93), neld that the list of legacies contained in the
otherwise cancelled will was entitled to probate as part
of the later will.

Dr. Haggard and Dr. Pratt were for the executors ;
Dr. Robinson for the son and residuary legatee.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
BO W-STREET.

A boy, named Wm. Jones, was charged with steal-
ing a quantity of watches, pins, brooches, and a
variety of other articles of jewellery, the property of
Mr. Henry Barrier, watchmaker, Wych-street.
The prosecutor stated that he knew the prisoner,
and he left him to mind his shop for an hour a few
evenings ago, and on his return he round the shop
stripped completely—two silver watches, two metal
watches, nine breast-pins, and several brooches
were gone.
The officer who took the prisoner into custody said
he had traced the property, and, if time were allowed,
he thought he could bring three other charges of
felony home to the prisoner.
Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoner for a week.
CLERKENWELL.

•
George Wilson, a decently-dressed man, was charged
with being found destitute on the previous night.
Police-constable 35 E said, between one and two
o'clock this morning he found the prisoner on a door-
step in Bedford-square, Bloomsbury. He asked him
what he was doing he said he had neither food nor
any place to shelter himself in. Witness took him to
the station-house. Had no further charge against him.
In answer to questions from the Magistrate, the
prisoner said he was a native of London ; that he had
been a clerk to the Great Western Railway Company
at Reading, but was discharged about three months
ago. All his earnings were now spent, and he had
not a farthing to procure a mouthful of food, the want
of which made him quite infirm.
Mr. COMBE ordered the prisoner to be taken to the
workhouse, and obtain immediate relief.
WORSHIP-STREET.
George Jenns, a middle-aged person of respectable
appearance was re-examined before Mr. Bingham
upon a charge of having embezzled various sums of
monoy amounting to upwards of 500/. the property of
Mr. Wm. Weedon, the proprietor of a patent leather
japanning manufactory, in Hoxton Old Town.
Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, with Mr. Hobler, con-
ducted the prosecution, and Mr. Bodkin defended the
prisoner. _

Mr. Clarkson in stating the case said, that the pri-
soner formerly carried on the business of a leather
japanner in Hoxton, on his own account, that his
affairs became Embarrassed and he was ultimately
made a bankrupt. Mr. Weedon, the prosecutor, was
his creditor to the amount of about 4901., and before
he obtained his certificate, the prisoner urged the
latter to take the business and allow the prisoner to
manage it for
him, prosecutor acceded to the
proposal and engaged the 1-1
prosecutor at length discovered
prisoner as his servant at
nthage
el'eeenktly
bwages h
eof 4t.
e business was carried
on for a considerable time under the prisoner's ma-
receive money
that the amounts of several bills had b discovered
that paid to him,
although he was not authorised to
from customers, and that he had appropriated them
to his own use, on which he gave him into custody.
Several witnesses were examined who deposed to
their having paid the prisoner various sums on ac-
count of the prosecutor, which the latter denied
having ever received.
In answer to an application to admit the prisoner
to bail, the Magistrate said that he should require
two sureties for his appearance in 5001. each.

The mildness of the prevailing weather is the sub-
ject of general remark. During the day, the atmo-
sphere is as soft as that of an ordinary April, and even
at night the temperature is far from cold. In conse •
quence of this, some of the spring flowers have made
their appearance in the fields and hedges.
mentioned last week that a butterfly '
. •
in the neighbourhood of our city
been observed in varioug peen seen
quantities of mushre-
Bees have also
near Bath. 1 places, and yesterda,
to our

_.ins were gathered in the fields

gentleman was kind enough to bring
_ office yesterday a bean stalk, of the
..,coad Windsor kind, having on it NI bloom
of the finest description, and which, when
first gathered, was as fragrant as if it had been-the
produce of the usual season, It was taken from a
farm garden at Bathforcl. We can hardly expect this
state of things to last much longer ; but however this
may be, there is deep reason for thankfulness to the
Giver of all good that, in addition to the bountiful
harvest, so much of the winter has passed away with-
out any suffering, through inclemency of weather, to
the indigent poor,—Both Chronicle.
THE CRODS,—Owing to the long-continued dry
weather in the autumn, the breadth of land sown
with wheat is unusually large, and as the weather
since the grain has sprouted has been damp and warm,.
the young wheats are very forward, and in most in-
stances looking remarkably fine.— Worcester Chrntr