The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

AMSTERDAM BOURSE, MARCU 20.—The Inland funds
were again at a minimum rate to day. Spanish and
Portuguese were very firm. Russian were more offered.
Austrian were flat, in consequence of the low exchange
at Vienna. There was a good deal of business in Peru-
vian stock.

DUTCH FUNDS.-AMSTEIDAM, Mum 20.

Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent........... 47 7-16 47 11-16
Ditto, 3 per Cent • • .............. 56% 565
Ditto, 4 per 7554 751
Amort Syndic, 314 per Cent.......... 75 76
Commercial Company, 434 per Cent • •
Spanish New 5 per Cents. • ... .....
Ditto, 3 per Cents.
East India Loan, 4 per Cent..........
Exchangeon London, at sight ...... 11 9734
Two m0nth5............... 11 9214
On Hamburgh, at sight •• • •
Two m0nth5............... 34%
On Paris, at 5ight..........
Twomonths..... •.........
PRUSSIAN FUNDS,—BxaLfrf, Meacu 19.
Bills. Money.
St.Schuld Sch., 334 per Cent ........ 79 78%
Prussian b per Cent • • •
Foreign Exchanges—
On London, three months 6 28%
On Hambargh, two months 1504
On Paris, two m0nth5................ 81 1-3 80 1-6
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussxts, Miacu 21.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent ............
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ••
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ••••
Ditto Threeper Cent..................
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • ••
Ditt0,d1tt0,1848...................... .„
Ditt0,d1tt0,1842...................... !87%
LP,.
Ditto, 1844...
79
Ditto, 1836... •• ......................
Ditto, 1838 57
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843
Bank of Belgium....
Issue of 1841 .......
.....
.......... fig
Exchange on London, 25.42%.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS,—VIENNA, Mexcu 15.
5 per Cents. ... 84%
4 per Cent... •••• . •• ••• . • 67)4
234 per Cent.
Loan, 1834.
Ditto, 1839.•
Bank Shares •• • ....................1,125
Esterhazy's Loan
EIAMBURGH FUNDS, MAncu 17.
Angle-Swedish
nmeioetlgrwgtswioiosasei.snagsptn:wteaesronc
aicpiiinsateeinhnr2:CL:L.
Cent.,
......•• • •• •• ••
Bills. Money.
Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent. •• .. 103 102%
Ditto, 3% per Cent. ..........
Bank Shares.... .........• ••••• • • • • •
100
Russian Certificate • . .• •• •• •• 95%
Anglo-Russi
Ditto, Certificate •• "
Russian 4 per Cent... •• •• •• " ••
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8034
•
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••▪• • • • 66
Ditto in 100/. shares .... ••.•• • • • • • 90% 99%
Ditto, Transport Loan ••• • • • • • •• ▪ "
• • —q71,4
Spanish New 5 per Cent ••••• • • • " ••
Ditto 3 per Cent .••••••• • • • • • • •• • 2134 20%
Ditto, 1846.........• •• ••
- •
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent ••• • • •
Ditto 3 per Cent. •••• •• • • • • • •
National Bank Shares ••••••• • • • • • •• --
American, 6 per Cent. •••• • • • • •• • • 105
RAILWAYS.

Berlin Dittoa, Priorityndll bsuhrg . .
. .. .
..... .. 100
Shares 67% 67
•
•• 51W 50%
Ditto, Priority Shares .. ••••• • • •• 91:% 90
Cologne and Minden •••• •• • • •••• • '• 74% TiU
.
Ditto, Priority Shares .• ••••• • • • • • '2
Mecklenburg— .... —..••••• • • • • • •• 34% 34%
.
Altona and Kiel ..... ... ...... .•• .. 86 85%
Gluckstadt .......... ••••••• • •• • • ••
Rendsburg.. ........ •••••••• •" • • • • • • 93
Hanseatic Steam Company ••"• • " ••

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 22.
The House sat this morning, as usual, at ten o'clock
to proceed with the appe*l cases. The Lords present
were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Camp.
bell, and Lord Morley. _ _

JUDGMENT.-MARRIAGES IN THE ISLE OF MAN: PIERS

V. PIERS.

The full details of this case appeared in our columns
a few days since, and it will be in the recollection of our
readers that the main question in issue was, whether a
certain alleged marriage, which had taken place between
the late Sir John Bennett Piers, Bart., and a Miss
Denny, in May, 1815, in the Isle of Man, was a legal
and good marriage. In the
year 1821 the parties were
a second time married, in Dublin, and the two appel-
lants were born between the two marriages. By the
law of marriage in the Isle of Man, no marriage can
be celebrated in a " private residence (which was
the case in the present instance), without a special
ilitcewncaes fromeehtehdtheed Bbyishop of
the
much as there had been no such licence granted, nor
r eSs pc' do
t3n
rd
ena tnd tri aatn, ; eaansd.
any registry thereof, that the marriage was not legal, and
therefore that the appellants were not entitled to the
charge of 4,0001., which Sir John had created in their
favour upon the family estates. By virtue of a deed of
1794, it appeared that Sir John Piers was entitled to
create a jointure in favour of his wife of 6001. per ann.,
and to create a charge upon his estates of 4,0001. for his
younger children. Both of these powers he executed.
The respondent, on his accession as heir- at-law, made
no objection to the payment of the jointure to the widow,
but refused to raise the 4,0001. for the younger children,
the present appellants, who thereupon instituted a suit
to compel the performance of the terms of the deed. The
Lord Chaneeilor of Ireland dismissed the bill, but said
he would direct an issue as prayed, to try the validity
of the first marriage, provided the appellants could ob.
tain the attendance of the Bishop (now of Rochester),
to depose us to the granting the special licence. The
Bishop declined to visit Ireland for such a purpose, and
the present apped was against that decree.
A reference to our paper a few days since will put our
readers in possession of the whole of the facts.
The LORD CHANCELLOR this morning moved the
judgment of the house. He had been unable to find any
rule more satisfactory than that which had been laid
clown by Lord Lyndhurst with respect to marriages, in
the case of" Morris v. Davies," in Clark and Finnelley's
Reports, where his Lordship stated that presumption was
in favour of marriages, and that such principle ought not
to be set aside by th e doctrine of probabilities, except
upon the most positive, certain, satisfactory, and conclu-
sive proofs. Applying, therefore, that principle to the
case then before their Lordships, he was of opinion that
the first ralrriage ought to be held a good and valid mar-
riage. With regard to the difficulty which had been
raised by the respondent, that, by the fact of there having
been a second marriage, therefore that there bad not
been a previous legal marriage, that argument went
for nothing, because it was a well known practice where
parties had been married abroad, that they were after-
wards again married in their own country. He, there-
fore, moved that the decree of the Court below be re-
versed, and that the charge which Sir John Piers had
made upon the estates should be declared a good and
valid charge.

Lord BROUGHAM concurred in this opinion, and fur-
ther said, that in all cases where the marriage abroad
wascounty a
wase g rage n second marriage in this
Lord CAMPBELL was also of the same opinion, and as
to the second marriages, they were, when the marriage
abroad had been legally performed, altogether unneces-
sary. He might instance the marriage of the late Lord
Eldon. That Noble and Learned Lord had run away
lady, to whom he was legally married in
lunnecessary. mar
with
iftohreaign'oucng country, and on their return they had been
again married in England. Then the first marriage
having been legally performed, there was not the least
necessity for the second ceremony.
The decree of the Court below was reversed, and the
charge of 4,000/. upon the estates of the respondent in
favour of the appellants, was declared to be a good and
valid charge.

n was recently made to
beWNrelveEnußitA `n
a.—Application
ritiesPaPtioicnaeti°of the docks, to be allowed
o take off the marks or brands from some casks of wine
'or shipment to France, and the request was demurred
D, on the ground that by altering the marks the casks
could not be traced in case of necessity, and also that by
making a general use of such a permission some fraud
might be committed by making the wine to appear of
more value than with the original import marks. The
mark alluded to would not be recognised for any re-
venue purposes, and was stated by the parties to be solely
for trade purposes, in which no revenue considerations
would be involved. It was, however, considered that
the request to cut out the quality mark of the wine, and
also the mark by which it was imported and bonded,
and substitute another in its place, was objectionable,
the bange, or quality mark, being equally it not more
Important than the brand, as denoting the quality and
value of she wine. It would, however, bo permitted to
the parties to put the required mark on the casks as
the export mark, without erasing
rived at Grantou Pier
HIGHLAND DESTITTITIoN.--On Thursday after-
rang arrived
tohreigirinawlaoynetso.
fnrooomn
trey e la,
ilfe fishing g bvoial
itasg
ens r,
the
West Highlands, for the purpose of instructing
the natives in dee sea fishing. There were three
p-
large boats with their crews, amounting to twenty-four
men, from Cellardykes, and two large and two
a rto
hardy-looking l)roceed to
tSlecr
ws,
and their boats are in
small boats with sixteen men from St. Monance. They
were engaged by Capt. Ross for the Edinburgh commit-
tee,e n areand
fineeand Wester Ross. The
m
first-rate order, and well supplied with fishing mate-
rials of all kinds, In each boat there was a smart active-
looking woman for cooking and baiting the lines, who
are to initiate the Highland women in the art. Early
on Friday morning they all assembled at Granton Pier,
and after being
inspected by Mr. Skene, the secretary,
who addressed a few words of encouragement to the
men, they departed in high spirits for their new field of
enterprise.—
Edinburgh Adeertiser.
MANUFACTURE OF GOLD.—We have read that
Boyle once very nearly succeeded in making gold ;
that he showed the experiment to Sir Isaac New-
ton, when both became frightened and threw
away tho ingredients. A gentleman communicates
to the editor of the Minin Journal, that having experi-
mented some ten years ago on the stratification of the
earth, and the formation of mineral deposits, he believes
with truthful results, he turned up one of his old
experiments accidentally a few days ago, when he
found running in a kind of spiral string through one
part a small quantity of gold. No gold was used
in the experiment,
and the conclusion arrived at is,
that it has been formed from some of tho other
substances. This, however, is nothing to what is
asserted by an ironfounder of this town. This gen •
tleman must have discovered the true philosopher's
stone, which so many sages of the olden time spent
out their lives in trying to obtain. He declares
that he has found out a process by which he can change
any quantity of iron into gold. Before three months
are over he says we shall hear more of this marvel. He
promises to produce gold in tons ; in short in any
',quantity.--Liverpool Albion.