The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-04 00:00:00

HINTS TO EXECUTORS.

VERITAS VERITATIS.-Dr. Verity withheld a legacy
bequeathed by Dr. Robertson to the Phrenological
Society of Edinburgh, as alluded to in our first num-
ber, p. 41. We give the following summary from the
Gazette des Trilowaux, of the 4th and sth inst :
" About two years since, a Dr. Robertson, died at
Paris, where he had resided above twenty years,
bequeathing a considerable sum to the Geological
Society of France, and the remainder of his fortune,
which was estimated at 16,0001., to the Phrenological
Society of Edinburgh ; constituting Dr. Verity his
sole executor. Upon the ground, however, that the
Phrenological Society of Edinburgh had no legal
existence, Dr. Verity absolutely refused to pay the,
amount of the legacy to the claimants; and, having
realised the various securities, paid over two-thirds to
the heiress-at-law, and quietly put the remaining
third into his own pocket. It seems, however, that
no account of the actual amount of the proceeds
could be obtained from him. " But," said the seaior
Judge, Seguier, to Dr. Verity's counsel, " you have
your pockets full of the bequeathed money; why do
you not give an account of it ?" " Doubtless,"
replied the counsel, " we have our pockets full, but
we do not want to empty them into the pockets of
those who have no right to it, who are only a being
of the imagination, and do riot fulfil the first of all
conditions—that of existing," &e. The Society,
having instituted proceedings against Dr. Verity,
prayed that an inventory of the securities on the
moneys arising from the sale of them might be paid
into Court. Dr. Verity resisted this in every way,
raising all kinds of technical objections; and action
after action was brought by the Society in the dif..
ferent French Courts. " What," exclaimed the senior
Judge," again to Dr. Verity's counsel, "you make
an appeal upon such contemptible grounds as these ?
‘Vhy you want the whole of the legacy to be swal-
lowed up in law expenses !" These remarks of the
Judge clearly show his view of Dr. Verity's conduct,
upon which we need offer no remark. By the last
judgment of the Court of Appeal, it has been awarded,
that Dr. Verity shall pay into the Court, within three
days of the verdict, the value of' the securities, or the
proceeds arising from their sale ; in default of which,
he is condemned immediately to pay into Court the
sum of 1,2001., on account of the same, and 21. a day
until the above sum be paid.—The. Zoist.

A CLEVER Tatcx.—A short time ago a man ar-
rived at Strasburgh from Paris with a large stock of table, and
chimney-clocks, opened a shop, and made a grand dis,play of
his ware, but put such high prices on his articles 4.11:a no one
would buy them. Not many days had passed when another
person came, made a seizure of the person and property of the
clock-merchant, incarcerated the one, and put the wares up
for sale by auction. The notoriety of the circumstances at-
tracted a numerous audience, and all the clocks were disposed
of at extraordinary high prioes. The account being wound up,
the creditor released hit debtor, and they both went on their
way rejoicing at haying done the good citizens of Strasburgh by
selling them timekeepers which would not keep time, and were
ficit worth half the money they by their confederacy had ob-
tained for them.

PRIZE FIGHT.--Yesterday a prize-fight trot
place at Tw',ford, near: Whithor, between a man named Ox-
ford, usvally called the IWyehford Forester, and M'Grath,
which, after a contest of an hour and forty minutes, ended in
the defeat of the latter. Both men were much punished, par—
ticularly M‘Gotti, who, although the favourite at commencinar,
was not a match for hicylore powerful and scientific naini‘.
gonig.
Qu SUDE* last a hive of bees swarmed in the
Dirish of Easton, near Wickham Market. This cAtraordinary
tact is communicated to us by a gentleman residipg in the,
parish.—Norfolk Chroncle.