Glasgow Courier. — 1860-01-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

KINDERSLET. THE CLIPPENS CASE —LORD V. COLVIN. These causes, which are now reduced to the one question of homologation or adoption of the will of Dr Peter Cochrane, by his widow and sons, with the other questions thereto relating, occupied the Court yesterday and to-day, when Mr ANDERSON, after having concluded reading and commenting upon the voluminous evidence, contended that the widow and sons were still entitled, by their representatives, to claim their rights of ht. reliette et leggint, being entirely ignorant of what their rights were, and even of the question of the testator's domi• cue. Mr E. F. Sewn' (with Mr Anderson) submitted that, although the Court had the power, under the recent statutePto send a case for the opinion of a Scotch Court, the evidence was so immensely voluminous, that it was impossible to predicate the expense which would be incurred, and the time which would be occupied in Scotland in disposing of that case, unless this Court reduced It to simple questions, divesting it of all extraneous matter. It was, in fact, quite competent for this Court to dispose of the question, which WM very shortly stated  During these last 14 days information has been received in London from Paris that a Mr Georges Hirsch, who had lately come from South America, had mysteriously disappeared, and a reward of £lOO has been offered for intelligence as to his whereabouts. The opinion on the Continent was, that he had been murdered in England, or that another Waterloo Bridge tragedy had been enacted. The case was placed by the relatives in the hands of Mr Pollaky, the foreign superintendent of Field's Private Inquiry Office; who, from his inquiries, entirely set at rest the idea that Mr Hirsch has been foully used. It appears that on the 31st of July, 1859, Mr Hirsch wrote a letter to Messrs Rimmel, the eminent perfumers of 96, Strand, purporting to be signed by Marchand &Mathey, of Rio Janeiro, intimating that the house could dispose of a large quantity of Messrs Himmel's various goods; that on or about the 12th day of Dec. last Mr 'Hirsch called on Messrs Himmel, and selected perfumery to the amount of £240; and that after he had so selected the goods, he prevailed on the above gentlemen to. discount £7OO value in bills which Hirsch had brought with him; that on or about the 14th of Dec., Hirsch proceeded to different parts of the country, adopting the English name of Stevens, and taking with him various small Bank of England notes, having previously changed the large ones—amounting to £550, and endorsed them in his new name. Mr Pollaky traced Hirsch to several towns in England where he had been purchasing goods, and to the hotels where he had been living in London and Liverpool under his assumed name. What could have induced Mr Hirsch to have acted in the manner described will no doubt have hereafter to be explained. It is almost needless to say Mr Hirsch never paid Mr Himmel for the goods, nor did he return to this gentleman after he had obtained discount of the bills. The Home Office was set to work to cause inquiries to be made about the missing Mr Hirsch, but a telegraphic message from Mr Field to Paris soon put out of the question further trouble on the part of the government.  Mrs Goodhart, the wife of the Rev. C. .1. Goodhart, minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea, was killed by so accident at Brighton on Wednesday. Mr Thos. D. Ridley writes that the damage by fire to his steam flour-mill at Chelmsford is about £16,000 and his insurance £12,000 on that portion of the property which is consumed.