The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-03-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VII. and Napoleon in 1802. At the time of Miss Topping's death the Abb6 Beaunier was ten leagues from Vendome, but at the request of the deceased's executors came to VendOrne, and immediately set out with her mortal remains to Vaugirard, where her family vault was. The Abbe was detained in Paris a week before the formalities required for warranting the interment could be got through. At length all was accomplished, and the funeral performed. For his professional services, loss of time, and expenses, the Abbe required a sum of 1,200 f. This the executors thought too much, and declined paying. The Abbe commenced a suit for the recovery of the amount, and his counsel, in pleading his cause, read the following clauses from Miss Topping's will :—" I desire that there shall be raised from the most easily convertible part of my property a capital sum sufficient to produce 800 f. a-year, which shall be paid quarterly to such person as I may name in a codicil—or, in default thereof, to a person to be named by my executors (the testatrix did afterwards name a person by a couicip—on condition of taking the care and nourishment of my three favourite cats, Nina, Fanfan, and Mini, or any others I may have at the time of my death. This income shall be paid as long as any one of these domestic animals shall remain alive. My executors may, in case of negligence or cruelty towards them, withdraw them and the said pension, and choose another person as guardian. The person appointed to feed and take care of my said cats shall live on a ground-floor, to which shall adjoin a terrace easy of access, and a garden enclosed within walls, of which they shall have full and free enjoyment. These animals are to be fed with lights, sheeps' hearts, or raw or dressed meat ; they must be given twice a day a sufficient quantity of milk, occasionally mixed with starch or rice flour; the meat is to be given them twice a day also, so that they may have four daily meals regularly. They are to sleep in the house, and therefore are to be shut up after their supper, at 9 or 10 o'clock, except the torn cat, which will not remain at home • but care must be taken that be comes in at a good time in home; morning. In case of their death, they are to be wrapped in a piece of new and clean linen, put into an oaken coffin, and buried deep in the earth in an enclosed ground. If I die before having buried a certain box covered with tarpaulin; containing the bodies of my two cats, Beauty' and 'TFinie, they are to be put into a very deep hole in an enclosed e, so that they may not be liable to be taken up again her cats,fb learned advocate argued, from these provisions for that Miss Topping fully intended that no ex spared upon her own funeral. He then pensteaisnheodutldhabte. under all the circumstances, executors, in the claim of trhtenhlAneTb6 Beaunier was perfectly reasonable. The counsel for long ,been answer, represented that the Abbe Beaunier h testatrix, and had the friend and spiritual director promised her to attend to her interment rmt ent and perform the to him a last offices; that she had by her will bequeathed f. 0 to his sister; copse_ of 1,0001., and another o quently that the services he had.f pse_rformeidheweirteemdsueoffrtohme him in duty, gratitude, and friendship. Abbes demand were then discussed, and it was stated that the executors had tendered 300 f. to him as an ample remuneration. After a reply from the Abbg's counsel, the tribunal gave judgment, awarding the Abb6 400 f., and ordering each party to boar their own costa  John Whit to tratisportition for :if(  nsfound guilty of a rape, and sentenced  James Ainsworth and William Thompson were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Thomas Lund, at \Vilpshire, near Blackburn, on the 31st August last. Mr. Cardwell conducted the prosecution; and the jury found both the prisoners guilty, and his Lordship sentenced them to transportation for life. Joseph Abbott was indicted for the wilful murder of Thos. Isherwood, in the parish of Blackburn. The jury found the  prisoner not guilty