The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-04 00:00:00

Till MAINTRYANOR 01 TER MARQUIS

CAMDSN.

A out In which the youthful Margate of Camden,
who, It will be remembered, WEI the friend and com-
panion of little Prism Alfred during the s'ay of the
Coannel Fleet at Portland, was ooncerned, came bet as
Mr. Jti.tioe Pearson, to the Chancery Cour:, on Mon-
day.—The present Marquees of Camden is an infant,
born in 1872. 11. father died a few months after hi.
hrith, afterwards the late Vice Chart:ell r
Malice made an order for the allowance of £BOOO
year for the autintensom and *ducal= of the infant,
and the keeping up of the family menet,* at Beybam
Abbey. county Host in a meaner b-fitting the position
and the estates belooginc to his lordship. A eummone
was now taken out by Lady Camden, the mother and
guardian of the Infant, asking for an increase of the
allowance to £llOOO • year for the maintenance and
education of the young lord. and the preservation oi
the family mansion. In 1893, when hie lordship would
roach his majority, it imputed thtt he would oome
Into absolute pommel= of the Guru of £lBl,OOO In Con-
• and socomulati m of income am motion to
£115,000. total E 298.000. returning an inc me of about
£40.000 a year. It wag, asserted that the sum of
03000 • year was insuicient to moot the annual
expenses. Lady Camden stated that for the last few
years the sum allowel by the C tort bed to be supple-
mented by about £1758 a year, which her ladyship
«Inane= in order to meet the nerneseur expenditure.—
The appiioation was opposed by Hr. Hu toy and Lord
George Pratt, two of the trustees, on the ground that
the interest of the tenant for We In remainder would
be affected by the proposed increase. —The Attor-
ney Omni& and Mr. Alexander supported the
application- IG. Everitt, Q 0., Mr. Coast= Hardy.
u•• Led Mo. Cost appeared for the trustees. It
was °attended, on behalf of the trustees, that c m-
attering the =teal Inc tom at present derived from thn
estates (which wee morth lees than that stated by the
lawn= counsel who support., the applica'ion), the
£B,OOO • year allowed was fully =ecru= to meet the
=posses Incidental to the rank and poeitioo of the
young noblemen, and Hut the surplus expenditure
made by Lady Camden was subetantially for her own
and her husband's benefit and convention'', her lady-
ship (who wee the daughter of the late Duke of Marl-
borough) having married • second time. Her '
jointure amounted to /22,000 • year—File L orlablo,
La proeonseing judgment, said that according to the
Wu& foots &Wooed la the cam it appeared that the
inoom• with which be had to deal was only £lO,OOO al
year, and not £14,008 a year ached been alleged. If,
however. it were shown to him that the expenditure
required to maintain the young lord and to keep aphis
reension In • befitting mum= would aohepos to
£10,030 a year, he would have no hesitation hi =tim-
ing the whole of the income from the mtatm to be
=plied to that purpme. But, considering the wbole
matter solely upon It, merits, he had Dome to.tbe
=natant= that no Oble bad been made out for
increasing the amount of the allowance of 12,000 a
year, and he held the opinion that each stun was
amply sufficient for the maintenance of the infant and
the keeping of his mansion, Beybun Abbey.