The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-25 00:00:00

HINDMARSH V. HINDMARSH.

This was an allegation propounding two testamentary
papers as together containing the will o Mr. Ralph Robin-
son Hindmarsh, of Basing-lane, plumber and builder, who
died on the 27th of June. The papers were imperfect,
and were prepounded for the opinion of the Court by Mr.
James Hindmarsh, the brother of the deceased, and one of
the executors, and opposed by Elizabeth Hindmarsh, spin-
ster, the deceased's sister. The personal property was
alleged by one side to amount to 12,000/. ; on the other
side the estate was alleged to be insolvent.
The Court admitted the allegation.
WALLIS V. WALLIS AND COURT.
This was a suite for bringing in the probate of the will
and a codicil of Mr. Thomas Wallis, coal-merchant and
ship-master of Melcombe Regis, Dorset, which had been
granted to Mr. Samuel Wallis, brother of the deceased, and
Mr. William Court, the surviving executors, calling upon
them to show cause why the probate should not be revoked,
and probate of the will alone granted. The suit was pro-
moted by Mr. Thomas Wallis, only son of the deceased,
and one of the legatees. The deceased died on the sth of
April, 1833, leaving a widow, two daughters, and a son, by
a former wife, and a daughter by his surviving wife. The
property was between 5,0001. and 6,0001. The will, which
bore date the 10th of May, 1820, was not disputed. The
codicil bore date on the day of the deceased's- death. The
general effect of the latter was to increase the legacies to
the second wife and her children, and to limit the benefit
given by the will to the son to a life-interest, the principal
to devolve to his children.- The codicil- was opposecF on
the ground of the absence of instructions and the incapa-
city of the testator.

The case was only opened, and the evidence partly read

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES,

A meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates was held yes-
terday, at which the Report of the Committee relative to
weights and measures was presented. The Report stated
that the Committee, in pursuance of a Resolution adopted
at the last meeting, had, on the 19th of November, inserted
an Advertisement in the newspapers for tenders for the
supply of six copies of the imperial standard weights, in ad-
dition to those previously ordered ; and that, after exa-
mining the several tenders, orders had been given to Mr.
Bates, Mr. Pontifex, Mr. Burchfield, and Mr. Williams, to
supply the copies required.

The Report recommended that the inspectors to be ap-
pointed under the Act do attend with the said weights and
measures at the following places, in rooms to be fitted up
for the purpose of stamping weights and measures brought
to them, viz.:—

Uxbridge, Hounslow, Kensington, Hendon, Edmonton
and in some convenient places near Goodman's-fields
Shoreditch Church, Goswell-street-road, Tottenham-court•
road, and the Yorkshire Stingo.

The Report also stated that the Committee having
heard that there had been some delay at the Exchequer
Office in stamping and verifying the copies of the imperial
standard weights and measures, suggested the propriety of
makinc, an immediate application to the Secretary of State
upon the subject, in order that the persons who hat l entered
into contracts to supply copies of the said weights zod mea-
sures might not be prevented by such delay frol It com-
pleting their contracts, as that would be a great, itic onveni-
ence to the public,.