A great appeal case has been argued this week before
the House of Lords, sitting as a court of appeal. The late Mr. Brook, a York- shire cotton spinner, married Miss Armitage, the sister of his deceased wife. Both parties were domiciled in England, but the -marriage was celebrated in Denmark, where such marriages are not forbidden. The case came before the Court of Probate upon a question arising out of Mr. Brook's will, and the Court decided that the marriage was not valid, and that therefore the will of Mr. Brook could not take effect. Against this decision 'the children of the second marriage appealed to the House of Lords. The Emperor of Austria, through his ambassador, appeared in the Court of Chancery on Wednesday. Sir 'Hugh Cairns applied for an injunction to restrain Messrs. Day andSon, the lithographers, from printing, lithographing, or manufacturing documents purporting to be 'Hungarian state notes, bearing the arms of Hungary, and to re- strain the said firm front delivering them up to Ionia Kossuth, or any person. The affidavit set forth that Day and Son are manufac- turing spurious notes of various amounts under the direction of Louis Kossuth, for the purpose of circulating them in Hungary as money, and by the aid thereof to promote revolution and disorder. The Emperor has not authorized the manufacture of these notes, and as it was believed they were to be delivered during the present week, an immediate injunction was prayed for, and granted until further orders.
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