The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

March 9.

This morning the further evidence in the cue for the de-
fendants was resumed.

Sarah Pattenson was called, who deposed that Mr.Wright-
son was almost always drunk, and that on the day the mil
was said to have been made she drove him out in a pony gig.
and that he said to her that he wished to get away from the
quill-driver (Mr. Mewburn) and Mrs. Wrightson, who were
always teasing him to make a will, but that he would not
sign his death-warrant.
Other witnesses were called, for the purpose of showing, by
inference, that the signature to the will was a fabrication, and
that the person who had written the testator's name had done
it hesitatingly, and with a slowness implying imitation. It
was shown on the other hand, that the real signature of the
deceased (attached to some notices to quit) partook of .the
same chUracter. _ _

At the close of the defendant's case,
Mr. IC.NowLEs replied in an able .speech. He admitted
that lie felt anxiety, but it was lest the jury should permit
prejudice to influence their minds to give a verdict which
would affect the honour of Mr. Mewburn, who had made the
will now disputed, for a man of fairer fame or higher prin-
ciple did not exist. if they should decide that his will we.,
invalid, it would be the first instance within his knowledge,
or, he believed within the knowledge of any one who heard
him, in which a will had been set aside on the testimony of
the witnesses attesting it. If it were believed thatjuries could
be persuaded to do so, how dangerous would be the conse-
quences. Unprincipled witnesses to a will might wait until
the witness of truth was dead, the
.witness who would, if
living, maintain as honest the honest act which he had done,
and the property which a testator had left to those he most
loved in life, and which had for years been enjoyed by them
as his gift and the testimony of his affection, might be
wrested from them on the testimony of those who came to
invalidate their own act, and to ask for credit from a jury
while they declared themselves parties to a fraud.
His LORDSHIP having summed up With great minuteness,
occupying nearly three hours, •
The jury; after retiring for a short time, returned a verdict
for the plaintiffs.
This verdict affirms the validity of the will.

A BLANK
DAY WITH SIR JOHN COPE'S FOXIIOUNDO.
—The meet on Saturday last was at Temple House, Birham,
near Great Marlow, the residence of T. P. Williams, Esq.,
M.P. for that borough, where a splendid luncheon had 'been
prepared for Sir John Cope and his friends. After drawing
the several great covers at Mr. Clayton's, around Clay Ha,l4
near Hurley, blank, the pack was then taken towards Twy-
ford, then to Mr. Bulkeley's, at Hare Hatch, and nearly 'to
Wargrave, and thence all around to Lawrence Waltham, gad
although between 40 and 50 covers were drawn, extending
over a large portion of the county of Berks, not so much ao
the ghost of a fox was found during the whole of the day tip
to four o'clock in the afternoon, when the pack returned to
kennel.
In a provincial town in Hampshire, not a dozen
miles from Southampton, a member of the musical profession
announced his intention of forming a singing class on the
plan adopted by Hullah. He commenced by giving an in•
troductory lecture, in which he descanted much on good
singing, and moralised on the relative merits of nature and
art, observing that the former could materially assist the
latter, but that art could not improve nature, when he was-
interrupted by a voice from among his auditors, with " How
would you look without your wig ?"—Dramatic and dipsical
Review.