The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-18 00:00:00

VICE-CFLANCELLOR'S COURT.-YESTERDAY.

(Before the Worshipful W. M. .43185, Esq.,
Vice-Chancellor.) .

This Court sat again yesterday in the Chancery Court-
room, St. George's-hall.
MRS. GALLAGHER'S CASE.

This case was resumed by Mr. Tenison Edwards, reply-
ing on the two questions to which the Vice-Chancellor
had on Wednesday directed his attention ; which were,
Ist. Whether Mrs. Gallagher, or Mr. Chalkley, in her
right, was not entitled to rank as a separate creditor on
the separate estate, in respect of the £1,390, the amount
Mrs. Gallagher borrowed of the Tradesmen's Loan
Society during her coverture, and on the semi* of such
separate estate : 2ndly. As to whether the defendants
be mane personany to pay the costs of the suit.

Mr. Tenison Edwards spoke at some length on the
former point, contending that the original debt on the sepa-
rate estate had been eXting,uislied, and did not now exist.
On the second point, he read passages froin defendants'
answers and affidavits, showing, as he contended, that
the defendants had contradicted thenAelves, and had
untruly stated that the will of Mrs. Oakes (I%frs. faal-
lagher's mother) had given no interest in the house,

No. 6, Houghton-street, and the other houses, to Mrs.
Gallagher, bat had devised the property to Mrs. Gal-
lagher's children.

The Vice-Chancellor delivered his judgment, going
largely into the important and interesting question of
the rights of creditors of a married woman, who give
credit to her, on her sole responsibility, and do not look
to her husband for payment. After enlarging on the
various legal bearings of the matter, in a manner more
interesting to the professional than to the general reader,
and ,which a pressure of space prevents us front giy,ing
ad longuin, the Viee-Chancellor held and decreed that
creditors who have so given credit to a married womqn
on her sole responsibility, separately from her husband,
have a right after the death of her husband to come
upon her separate estate which she had apart from
her husband during his life, in so far as it remains
unspent after his death, and to have the same sold
and divided amongst them equally. The Vice-Chan-
cellor further held that the defendant Chalkley was
not entitled to any priority or preference as claimed
by him in respect of his debt, but would come
in and take a rateable share with the plaintiffs and all
the other separate creditors of Mrs_Gallagher. His
worship directed certain inquiries to be made by the
registrar, and decreed that Mrs. Gallagher's separate
estate is liable to pay the debts of her separate creditors,
and that Mr. Chalkley is bound to account for the value
of all the Separate estate comprised in his bill of sale,
taking such Ira* as at the time of such bill of sale ;
and he directed all the separate estate now existing
to be sold, giving defendants (in consequence, as
his worship remarked, amid suppressed laughter, of the
peculiar character of the property) the power of making
an offer for purchase of the same by private treaty.
His worship further directed an injtinction to issue to
restrain the defendants from any removal of, or improper
dealing with, the furnitnre.and effects p'qrt. of
such separate estate ; aiid he, directed the defendants
personally to pay all the costs of the the
present time,

The remains of Sir Charles Barry will be interred in
Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday.
Earl Grosvenor writes to the Times, to say that the
ladies have it in their power to contribute very mate-
rially to the efficiency of the Westminster Volunteers
by not shopping after 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
EXTRAORDINARY AND DETERMINED 'SUICIDE. A
most extraordipary and determined act of self-destruction
has been perpetrated by Mr. William Robinson, a tailor,
rbsiding'at 4, Brill Terrace, Somers Town. The house
in which the deceased resided was his own property.
He was believed to be in very good circumstances, but
had recently been very strange in his manners, and had
got rid of all his lodgers, his housekeep,ar being the only
person remaining in the house with him. Duritlg the
afternoon the housekeeper had to go out en some errand,
and on her return missed the deceased.. On going into
the yard she saw his legs projecting upward out of the
cistern. An alarm was given ; and on his body being
got out, it was found that before committing the act he
had taken off his shirt and tied his tailor's goose round
his neck, in order to effectually keep his head under
water. On searching deceased's person, nearly £lOO in
bank notes and gold was found secreted and carefully
sewn in his trowsers. No cause can be assigned for
the act.

THE LAWYERS BEATEN.—One Mr. Kitchen was
brought before the court in Philadelphia by Mrs. K.,
for assault and battery.' She could not swear that he
ever struck her, lout he indulged in whiskey and failed to
support his family. The husband said he believed
lawyers to be humbugs, and he would plead his own
case. Ile informed the jury that, having failed to prove
that he ever laid an angry hand upon his wife, he
couldn't possibly be convicted of an assault upon her.
As to the other charges, he pleaded justification. "Mrs.
Kitchen, gentlemen of the jury," said Mr. Kitchen, "is
a member of a church ; Mrs. Kitchen forsakes her
kitchen, and spends half her time in the church lecture
my breedhes are running to seed, and the
children going
Mrs.
aboKutitwchitehn i
ills-kept and dilapidated
ng in confab with a
lot of
olakinaleardsi.es about the shocking nudity of the South
Willingto provide for her, gentle-
men'Qf the jury;'l'ain't willing to feed AB sue
sorethren
of the enured, nor to give tohea parties to twenty
people twice a week neither. If I've got tight ep, the
strength of such provocation, gentlemen of the jary,"it
ain't a bit more thai4 the best of you would have done if
placed in my circumstances ; and if you was me, and I
was you—knowing the case as I do--I'd render a verdict
of acquittal, and serve the woman right." The jury
seemed to be impressed with the force of Mr. Kitchen's
argument, and rtgned a verdict of "Not guilty,"