The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-11 00:00:00

kstu Lute Macau.

EQUITY COURTS.--It•Nr. 10.
(Before the Muter of the lions.)
Tut orroIINEY-CFNERAL r. I,AN.WItO. —THE FRPICH
I.!,iettv't %INT if.

Ti .is ease, which was argued some days since, came
before th, court upon Pl.lll ... owes to vary the echeme of
the Attorney-Genend for she establishment of schools in
connection wits tlia emrell. The prinvipa! gar:thin in
dispute wits whethie schools sholld Is t stahliabeil in
the neighbourhood .4 Soho or in Spitaltiehls and Bethnal-
green, where is great many years since the vehools were
established, A good deal of evidence was ref. reed to with
• view of showing th it some 15,000 poor pervons were now
resident in Itethnal-greeu, or the neigh-
bourhood, who coolt! trace their origin to the French
refugee families, aid who were most proper obj..cts of the
Charity.
Mr. W. M..latne / and Mr. V. Hawkins (with them the
Attorney General), appeared fur the clown ; Mr. Jessel
and Mr. 'Wickens for Mr. Ihutjuro.
Mr. Itaggallay owl Mr. Ware were for the pastor and
eon.i story of the church. and Mr. Southgate and Mr. M.
Charles for committees of the congregation.
His Lordship toolAy said he approved of the concession
which had been Palliat on behalf of thu Attorney-General,
by virtue of whiei the children of the members or
the congregation be admitted to the benefit of the
eehooli ulthough they could not at the time of admission
k French. f• is lordship in other respects approved
et the scheme. and thought that a case had been male out
for eitiblishing schools in the neighbourhood of Soho.
Having regard to the disputes and quarrels which have
taken place in connection with the French church, and
which were out yet entirely at an end, his lordship
thought it wonld be ilesirable,as ptopoeed by the Attorne-
y to inter nee tan intermediate body of trustees for
the purpose of administering the charity funds. These
trustees, whether appointed by the Court of Chancery or
She Charity Comviissieuers, would no doubt be chosen
been amongst persous who took a deep interest in the
welfare of the French church and its charities. The costs
of the two bodies and persons representing the congrega-
tion would be allowed. hot they must not be allowed to
attend the further proceedings.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. nir Wood.)
TH?. UNITIOr ST.%TM4 OP AMEIHCA PENGesI,O%

This was a plea to a bill filed by the United States of
America against certain persons who had acted so agents
of the Confederate States or Confederate government,
during the late w ir, for the purpose of making good the
claim of the plaintiffs to certain goods and property
which lid been acquired by the Confederate government,
and coasimed by them to the defendants. an their agents.
The argues ,nts, which were of • very technical nature,
will gathered fro' his Honour's judgment.
Mr. (l home, Q.C., Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. Widdington
Byrne supparted the plea; Mr. G. M. Clifford, q.c., and
Wickens, for the hid, were not called upon.
The Vice-Ilhar,ellor thought that the plea must be
overruled. The bill did not recognise the authority of
anyone except the United State*. It alleged that divers
persons, miejects if and owing allegiance to the plaintiffs,
the United Matas, entered into an association for the
purpose of carrying on a rebellion against the government
of the United States; that such persons usurped the
plaintiffs' authority, and established in part of their dotal-
niMlS a pretended government, under the style of the go-
vernment of the f lot:kilo:de States of America. It does
not acknowledge the existence of any each things as States
at all. Taco it went on to allege that such pretended
government, during the period of their usurped authority,
possessed themselves of moneys, goods. and treasure,
which were part of the public property of the plaintiffs,
and of other motleys and geode from time to time con-
tributed by person. owing allegiance to the United States.
It then went on to allege that the rebellion was
entirely suppreaeol, and was now at an end, and
the association, or so-called Confederate government
bad ceased to exist ; that the said revers! persons hail sub-
mittal to the authority
. of the government of the United
States, and all the joint or public property of the persona
ao described, including the moneys and goods in
question, had vested in the plaintiffs. Then, how did
the plea meet this ease? It said that the Confederate
States, in the bill mentioned (there being, in fact, no
States mentioned in the bill) did not owe allegiance to the
United States of America ; and that they did not rise in
rebellion against the government of the United States, or
usurp their authority, but were independent and sovereign
States, having the right to secede from their eounexion with
the United States without being guilty of any act of
rebellion or usurpation. Ilia Honour thought that Wades.
did not sufficiently answer the bill. The two things wcre
mot ad idem. The bill spoke of a number of persons calling
themselves a goverement ; the plea spoke of Confederate
States. The bill oaid nothing shout a connexion with the
United States; the plea spoke of a connexion, but did
not state what sort of connection it was. This the plea
ought to have done. In reality it confirmed without avoid-
ing. If it averred a connexion with the United States rt
all, it ought to have supplied the court with materials for
judging of the nature of that connexion. Whether the
court could or couhl not deal with such a question as to
whether there hail been a violation of allegiance or not,
was one which, of course, lay behind all the rest ; and it
would be • disguise thing if parties came to • Court of
Chancery to decide whether or not they were law-
ful subjects of an established government. The plea,
moreover, admitted a whole set of new facts which we e
glanced at, but not carried out. The bill had clearly not
bean met ; and the plea must be mended with coats.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Bir B. Melina)
RN TAP RUINIRIUIN HOTIL COMPANY.

This case. which has been for some weeks before the
mut, and has Mood over train time to time, was brought
to a close to-day. The proceedings arose upon a petition
to wind up the company, which was formed a few years
ago to may on the business of an hotel in the N'sdo of
Health, at flampatead. The petitioner, an npkilsterer,
in Holborn, alleged that the hotel was being carried on
at I loss, and that the furniture and building were in •
hod condition, all of which statements were distinctly coo-
indicted on the part of the directors, who stated that
part of the hotel had been closed during the winter
months, because the hotel was a place of summer resort
anlythat the construction of a sewer in the neighbourhood
hadinterfered with thobusiness, hut that a railway station
was about to be opened near the hotel, which would mach
improve its value, and there was every ressou to anticipate
a fair profit. In accordance with a suggestion from the
court, a meeting of shareholders was held on the 27th of
Nay, to remainder the question of the winding up, and at
that meeting :!.260! shares were represented out of 3,633,
the petitioner being present. After an inspection of the
building and property of the company, a resolution was
curried by 2,930 shares against 330, declaring that the
lbuildiag was in good and substantial repair, and the fur-
niture in a condition highly creditable to the management,
an] that there was every prospect of a large profit being
realised on the opening of the railway station in the im-
mediate neighbourhood, which was to take place within •
The resolution further stated that the share-
holders were aware that, from exceptional circumstances,
the profits of two years had been almost entirely destroyed,
but thu trade of the peat year showed that the business
Was now good and profitable, and that they appioved of
the easenomical arrangement of closing the hotel during the
winter months.

Mr. Roxburgh and Mr. Lemon appeared in support of the
petition, sad Mr. Glasse and Mr. Buchanan opposed.
A number of witnesses on both sides were croso-exo-
mined in evert upon their affidavits.
The Vi co-Chancellor was of opinion that there was little
prospefet of carrying on the business satisfactorily while
such a determined opposition existed between the holders
of one-tenth of the shares and the other members of the
company. The wisest course would have been for some
arrangement to have been made to buy out the petitioners,
which would have involved a very small sac, ince. As that
Lad not been done he thought it his duty to rrint the
usual order for winding up, but would suspend the order
till Friday next, in the hope that the parties might oome
to dome agreement in tho meantime.