The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1837.

THE AMERICAN MARKETS.

No sooner had the last packet sailed than the premium
on specie in New York fell 3i to 4 per cent. It also ex-
perienced a corresponding reduction in Philadelphia and
Baltimore ; but our latest advices from New Orleans and
Mobile quote the difference between bullion and paper at
18, 19, and even 20 per cent. There are various reasons
for the fall in specie in the northern cities—the principal of
which are, the purchase of produce instead of gold and sil-
ver, for remittance to Europe, thereby lessening the de-
mand ; large arrivals of specie from Mexico and South
America ; arid the quantity brought in for sale by country
people who.had hoarded it up being more than was required.
Large sums have also been introduced from Canada, and
sold in New York by speculators. So that the market is
somewhat " glutted," it', indeed, such a term will apply to
gold and silver. There are rumours, but, as yet, only ru
mours, that the banks will pay specie again sooner than was
anticipated, and that the United States Bank intends to do
so shortly. My own impressions are the very contrary of
these rumours. 1 hope, however, that I may be in error.
One thing is clear—the United States Bank cannot, con-
sistently with sound financial policy, resume specie pay-
ments until the measure becomes general, as by such a line
of conduct every dollar would soon be abstracted from its
vaults by the other banks, or by speculators, for the pur-
pose of selling at a premium. The dividend declared by
the United States Bank a few days since was 4 per cent for
the last six months. At that time the surplus fund of the
Bank was upwards of 6,000,000 dollars, and the profits
of the six months I have referred to (losses allowed for)
67.5,000 dollars.

The sugar market is somewhat brisker, but has expe-
rienced no advance on my last :quotations, except that the
best sorts from Cuba and Porto Rico arc looking rather up-
wards. Coffee, cotton, rice, and tobacco are also pretty
stationary, though, on the whole, the market looks firm and
well. Trade is naturally dull this week, owing to the festi-
vities of the " Fourth of July," which may be said to in-
fluence business transactions for a day or two both before
and after that anniversary.
Grain and flour are decidedly rising, and the accounts
which arrive daily from all parts of the interior show that
this remark will apply to the whole country. The demand
for flour is brisk, both for home consumption and exporta-
tion.

Specie yesterday exhibited an inclination to get back to
its old price, and premiums varying from loi to 1 1 were
given. Sovereigns brought .5 dells. 40 cents to 5 dolls. 45
cents ; Spanish doubloons 18 dolls. ; Patriot ditto, 17 dolls.
10 cents to 17 dolls. 50 cents ; United States Bank Stock
109 cash-110 to 111 for next week. Good stocks of all
kinds are improving.
Louis BONAPARTX.—The following letter was addressed
to the President of the United States by Prince Napoleon
Louis Bonaparte, previous to his embarkation for Europe :--,

" New York, June 6, 1837.—Mr. President,—l am un-
willing to leave the United States without expressing to
your Excellency the regret I feel in departing without
having gone to Washington to make your acquaint-
ance. Though an ill-fated destiny brought me to Ame-
rica, I had counted upon reaping great benefit in my
new place of exile from the society of her distinguished
men. I wished to study the manners and institutions
of a people who have achieved more lasting triumphs
by their commerce and their enterprise than we in Eu-
rope have gained by our arras. I had hoped, under the
guardianship of your free laws, to have travelled over a coun-
try which excites all my sympathy, from the fact that its
history and prosperity are intimately blended with the re-
membrance of that which is a glory to Frenchmen. But
imperative duty recalls me to the Old World ; my mother
being dangerously ill, and no political consideration de-
taining me here, I go to England, and shall from thence
endeavour to return to Switzerland.

" It is with pleasure, Sir, that I enter upon these de-
tails with your Excellency, since you may have given cre-
dence to the calumnious surmises respecting me which have
appeared in some of the public journals. Holding you,
Sir, as I do, in high estimation, us the ruler of a free peo-
ple, I am happy that you should know that, with the name
I bear, it is not possible for me to depart for an instant
from the path pointed out to me by my conscience, my ho-
nour, and my duty.

" I pray your Excellency to receive this letter as a proof
of my respect for him who occupies the chair of Washing-
ton, and accept the expression of my regard and distin-
guished consideration.
" NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE."

Mrs. Gore is about to present us with a new novel,
entitled " Stokeshill-place ; or, the Man of Business." This
lady writes with sour.d judgment and good taste ; the perso-
nages she introduces are natural, consequently such as we can
understand, and the follies and vices of our nature are good-
humouredly told—not exaggerated into the actions of evil
spirits. There is not only amusement, but instruction to be
gleaned from her writings. We look for her new work with
some expectation. It is said to embody many admirable
sketches of society and electioneering interests in Kent,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Ara. 2.
IN RE THE TENBY CHARITIES.

Mr. WIGRAM appeared in support of a petition in this
matter, praying that the report of the Master might be
sent back to be revised, on the ground that a number of
the old corporators, and persons charged with a malad-
ministration of the corporation funds, had been appointed
trustees. Seven of the trustees were thus impeached, but
Use petitioners, a Mr. Tudor and others, complained par-
ticularly of the nomination of a Mr. Richards, who is the
present mayor, and who is charged in an information now
before the Court, with the possession of certain Church
lands which are charity lands, and which he holds through
exchange for other lands, which are alleged to be, compa-
ratively, of very inferior value.
Sir W. H. HORNE opposed the petition, and asserted
that no part of the charity lands were in the possession of
any of the trustees. .

The LORD CHANCELLOR was at all times unwilling to
meddle with the finding of the Master on these inquiries ;
but the allegations with respect to Mr. Richards required
some explanation. The report might be confirmed as to
the others, but Mr. Richards must make an affidavit to
explain more fully the allegation of the exchange of land
alleged to belong to the charity.

IN RE THR SCARBOROUGH CHARITIES.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied for the costs in this
matter to be paid out of the funds.
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL opposed this. The clients
of the Solicitor-General were a number of Quakers, and
Ranters, and Independents, who had thought proper to
claim an interference with a Church of England fund ; and
the Court had rejected their claim. If Mr. Bottomly, the
Independent, and Mr. Goodall, the Ranter ; and Mr.
Something else, the Quaker, had not meddled with that
which did not concern them, no expense would have been
incurred, and he therefore hoped his Lordship would
leave the parties to pay their own costs.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was one of the great
misfortune of the appointment of these men as trustees,
that it threw heavy costs on the funds of the charity. The
Master in the present instance had mixed up two other
charities with one exclusively Church of England, and ap-
pointed one set of trustees to all. The Court had disal-
lowed this, and declared that two sets of trustees must be
appointed ; but the persons whose conduct was now im-
peached were the first petitioners, and perfectly regular in
their proceedings, although, by the oversight of the
Master, new costs had been incurred. They must, how-
ever, be paid out of the funds.

PREROGATIVE COURT, Arassr 1.
BIRCH V. COLEMAN-JUDGMENT.

The Learned JUDGE gave his decision in this case. It is
a suit respecting the validity of a paper propounded as the
last will and testament of Mr. Knightly Adams, which was
executed by the deceased a few hours previous to his death,
but which does not bear his signature, in consequence, as it
is alleged, of the deceased having been seized suddenly with
a stupor, which prevented him from either writing his name
or affixing his mark, and from which he did not recover un-
til the moment of his death. An affidavit was drawn up,
and signed, by Mr. Birch, one of the parties in this suit,
and who is solely benefited by the paper, and two other per-
sons, asserting the truth of the above facts, and declaring
their decided conviction that the deceased intended to place
his signature to the paper, and that it was his desire that
the instrument should operate. These were the broad facts
of the case. The Learned Judge referred to several legal
inaccuracies and formal errors which the witnesses had
committed. These proved that great dependence could
not be placed on the witnesses. The Court must con-
sider that the facts were of rather a suspicious na-
ture. The will, which bad been made in exti•einis, solely
benefitted Mr. Birch, to the entire exclusion of the rela-
tives of the deceased. The deceased, it had been set up,
was seized on an instant with a stupor, which prevented
him from almost holding a pen, though it was proved that
shortly before he had shaken hands with Mr. Birch, and
had had a conversation with that gentleman for upwards of
two hours. The persons signing the affidavit were Mr.
Birch, who was exclusively interested in the validity of the
will, and two others, one of whom was an illiterate, igno-
rant man, and who, in consequence of not being able to
write, 1111:; compelled to put his mark. The Court had
already said that it could not place dependence on such wit-
nesses ;it would go further—it would say that it would not
give credit to their depositions. The Court accordingly
pronounced against the validity of the paper, and con-
demned the party propounding in the whole costs of the suit.

The Proctor for Ali% Bird—With all due deference to
the Court I beg to give notice of an appeal.

CONDUITT V. SOANE AND OTHERS.

This is a question as to the admissibility of an allegation
in a suit. concerning the validity of the will of the late Sir
John Soane. The facts pleaded arc of a very curious
nature. It sets up that Mr. George Soane was the natu-
ral and lawful son and only surviving child of the Sir John
Soane ; that he was born on the 27th of September,
1790 ; and that, shortly after his birth, he was put out
to nurse with the wife of a journeyman bricklayer, whose
child died soon after, when he (Mr. George Soane) was
sent back. Sir John Scene considered that he was not
his child, but the child of the bricklayer, who had been
substituted for his own child, whom he believed dead,
and that he continued to entertain that notion till his death.
That, i:otwithstanding the assurance of his mother to the
contrary, he believed his son was a changeling, and in 1830,
when a friend of Mr. George Swine, named Bryant, waited
on Sir John on behalf of his son's children, the deceased
referred him to the sth chapter of the Ist volume of " Gil
Blas."# That in June, 1832, the deceased published and
circulated a pamphlet against his son ; and, in conclusion,
it pleaded that, at the time of making his will (which bore
date the 11th of May, 1833), the deceased was actuated
with the insane delusion above mentioned. The will is pro-
pounded.by Mr. Conduitt, one of the executors named
therein, and is opposed by Mr. George Soane and others,
on the grounds pleaded in the allegation. .

The Learned JUDGE gave his opinion respecting the ad-
missibility of the allegation. He stated its contents, which
were certainly very irregular. The question which the
Court had to decide was, whether the facts set up in the
allegation, if proved, would destroy the validity of the will.
He (Sir H. Jenner) was of decided opinion that they
would mot. The allegation contained nothing but general
averments. The statements made were of a most unsatis-
factory nature, and could not destroy the will. Under
these circumstances, the Court pronounced against the ad-
missibility of the allegation.

M'LACHLAN V. WLACHLAN.

This was a suit respecting the validity of the will of Mr.
John M'Lachlan, who died on the 18th of August, 1835,
possessed of personal property to the amount of 10,000/.,
and an estate in the West Indies. The deceased executed
a will in 1822, and revised it in 1829, in which be be-
queathed certain legacies, and left his second wife a portion
of the estate, which, after her death, was to go to her
children. His only son by the first marriage had succeeded
to the estate in Bermuda ; but under the will he would not
be benefitted, not having given, as alleged, satisfaction to
his father. On the day of his death the deceased desired
his medical attendant to write instructions to the effect that
he had executed a will in 1834, which he wished to operate.
This paper is not forthcoming, and its contents are unknown.
The question at issue was, whether the declaration by the
testator, reduced into writing, that he had made a will in
1834, could revoke the papers 0f1822 and 1829, or whether
he had died intestate ?

Sir H. JENNER was of opinion that the paper propounded,
which had been reduced into writing, from the declaration
of the testator that he had made a will in 1834, was not
revocatory of the will of 1822-29 ; that that will was not
revoked by any subsequent paper of which the Court had
any knowledge. The Learned Judge regretted that it was
his duty to come to this conclusion, for he believed that the
deceased intended to make some further provision for his
son by his first marriage, but he was bound to act in obe-
dience to the law. Probate will be accordingly granted to
the will of 1822-29.
#ln that chapter one of the robbers in the cave, in relating
his adventures, states that he was the son of a labourer, and
had been substituted by his mother for the son of Don Rodrigo.

ARCHES COURT, Aua. 1.
LADY MUNTINGTOWER V. LORD HUNTINGTOWER.

This is a suit by Lady Huntingtower against her hus-
band. An application was made to the Court this day for
a temporary allotment of alimony. The answer to the al-
legation of faulties, admitted his Lordship's net income to
amount to 1,8001. per annum.

-After hearing Counsel, the Learned JUDGE thought that
8001. was a fair and reasonable sum to be allowed for the
present.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEICRSTiI, Are. 1.
The Commissions for the borough and county of Leices-
ter were opened on Saturday last, and in the course of that
day Mr. Baron BOLLAND disposed of all the town cases
save one, a case of manslaughter, to be tried to•morrow
(Wednesday). In the county the calendar was rather
light. The cause paper contains eight cases, one a spe-
cial jury.