The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-05 00:00:00

WOOLF V. PATRICK GRANT.

This was an action brought by Mr. Benjamin Woolf, a
tailor in Oxford-street, as holder of a bill of exchange for
20/., drawn hy Mr. F. de Moseati on and accepted by
Mr. P. Grant, indorsed by Moscati to the plaintiff, and
made payable at the True Sun offieP, in the Strand.
The action was brought in this Ccurt for 19 guineas
only, in order to prevent the defendant from removing the
cause to a superior Court, without giving security for debt
and costs.

The bill having been put in and read, and judgment
having been allowed to go by default, the Jury found for
the plaintiff for 191. 19s.

HEWITT V. BIRMINGHAM.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a
butcher, to recover two sums of 141. 18s. 11d. and
111. ss. 91(1., the former on a bill of exchange,
accepted by the defendant, Mrs. Almira Birmingham, as
security for a person nanicid Falcus, and indorsed to the
plaintiff, and the latter for mat supplied by the plaintiff
to the lady herself. The defendant ha•l pleaded that she
was a married woman.

Mr. George King proved the amount of the debt claimed
and the defendant's hand-writing to the bill.
In cross-examination he said, the defendant bad lived
for ab ut 3 or 4 years in Frederick-street, Connaught-
sqnare ; she was always called Mrs. Birmingham ; wit-
ness had casually heard she had a husband, and upon one
occasion, while in her drawing.room, he saw a portrait
which her son said was a likeness of his father, but wit-
ness did not know but that Mr. Birmingham was dead.
Mr. CAPRON, for the defendan►, here submitted that
the plaintiff must be nonsuited, as the defendant, by the
plaintiffs witness, was known by repute to be a married
woman, and it was not apparent that she had held herself
out to the world as a single woman.
Mr. CHAMBERS, for the plaintiff, said the marriage
must be proved in the regular way, especially as the de-
fendant had pleaded coverture, which bound her to prove it,
The Learned JUAGE said it was a question for the Jury.
Mr. CAPRON then addressed the Jury, and said that he
should prove the defendant to have been a married woman
at the time the debt was contracted. She and her hus-
band were persons of highly respectable connections and
family, but his affairs becoming embarrassed, be left Eng-
land and went to Demerara, in order to provide for his
wife and his son. He continued to reside in Demerara until
very recently, when he died. The Learned Counel then
proposed to prove the marriage of the defendant, whose
maiden name was Graham, to Francis Birmingham, Esq.,
in Scotland, by producing an affidavit, with a Magistrate's
certificate ; but it was objected to as inadmissible in point
of law. The Learned Judge held that that mode of
proving a marriage was irregular.
Margaret Dolin was called, who said, that about l 5 or
16 years ago she was in Ireland, when Mr. Birmingham's
tenantry had a rejoicing for three days, and she under-
stood it was in consequence of his marriage, which had
taken place in Scotland. They had also a rejoicing upon
the birth of a son.

Air. Broughton, a solicitor in S:se-lane, stated that
he had done business for Mr. Birmingham, both before and
after that gentleman went to Demarara. Mr. Birming-
ham had introduced the defendant to witness as his wife,
and had written to witness, speaking of her as his wife.
Captain Richadson, of the ship Montrose, stated that he
knew Mr. Birmingham, in D..m3rara, until his death,
which took place in July last.
Mr. CHAMBERS, in reply, contended that all this evi-
dence went for nothing, as the identity of Mr. Birming-
ham being the husband of the defendant was not so dis-
tinctly proved as the rules of law required.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the Jury found
a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages 26/. 4s. Sid.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

A mail from Buenos Ayres sailed on the 17th of July;
also one from Rio Janeiro sailed on the 7th of August.
Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres of the 17th of
July, posted at the North and South American Coffee-
house :

" We continue tranquil in Buenos Ayres, and, in fact,
in all the provinces of the Argentine Republic. The great
attraction here is respecting the dispute with the
Americans relating to the Falkland Islands, the late
revolution at Monte Video, and the refusal of this
Government to receive Monsieur La Foret as Consul
of France to this republic. The Government of Buenos
Ayres insist upon their right to the Falkland Islands, and
that satisfaction should be given to them. In the hostile
proceedings of the United States sloop of war, at these
Islands, the American Charge d'Affaires here has taken
rather high ground upon the subject, not at all pleas-
ing to the authorities of Buenos Ayres, and some
say that even war would be preferred to yielding
the point. You will smile at the idea of a pigmy
state like this, and a giant like the United States; but
you have no idea of the teazing warfare Buenos Ayres
could carry en ; the desperate of all nations would flock
here to fit out privateers, and prey upon the American
commerce, whilst the Americans could do little or nothing
in the shape of retaliation, and they would find great dif-
ficulty in blockading this port, and Monte Video would be
shut against them."
The Buenos Ayres Papers, to the 16th of July, do not
contain any further intelligence than what is communi-
cated in the above letter.

Accounts from Rio Janeiro state that a change of the
Ministry has taken place there. All was tranquil when
the accounts left.