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ELEPHANT AND CASTLE CHARITY.

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Ills I,olu:omit', desired to know if Mr. Ileald's clients still cor-
tinued determined to persevere in their point of objection with re.
spect to the jurisdiction.
Mr. HEALD was still instructed to submit that to the Court.
Ilis LORDSHIP then said, he trusted that lie should be able to
get over the objection ; in the next plate he desired to have it un-
derstood, that if he did no; get over it, inasmuch as there had been
an offer made by the Court, to take schemes from each aide, and
to save the expense of going into the Master's office, by deciding,
from those schemes, upon a plan for the charity ; and, as this ii..d
not been conceded by the parties, he would take care, as regarded
the charity, if the parties got the better of him on the point of jib
risdiction, that not one farthing more of the charity funds should
ever go to paying the expense of further proceedings. Upon this
the opposing partios might rest satisfied.
Isle. II PAL D said, it was the duty of Counsel to state what they
were instructed to state by their clients; for his own part he
thought the parties were nearly agreed.
111 r. BART said, his clients were most anxious that his Lordship
should settle the whole, without further proceedings being taken;
but an far from the parties being nearly agreed, Mr. Heald's clients
would hold no communication with, nor had they ever made an
offer to, his client.
Ilia LORDSHIP said, surely Mr. Heald ought to have bad some
authority for stating that the parties were nearly agreed.
11r. HEALD said his client (Mr. Wood) had instructed hint to
state what he had just stated, and he would again repeat, that the
solicitor he understood out of Court were nearly agreed--and yet
Mr. Hart seemed to wish the Court to believe that thst under-
standing was all moonshine.
Mr. lIART most distinctly declared, from the instructions of his
clients, Messrs. Clutton and Carter, that no communication or
offer bad been made to them by Mr. Heald's clients—no
mation whatever, but a determined resin,ance to all that to the
Court and to all his clients had been proposed.
Mr. HEALD then said, he supposed he must have misunder-
stood his instructions—but he should take care to have them in

writing for the future.
Mr. Clutton said, his had been furnished to Mr. Ifart in writirg,
•wlui had stated them.

MS LORDSHIP added that if the parties chose to meet out of
Court, and to try to agree, if they could agree on some point,
and have the points they could not agree upon to the Court
to settle, the Court would do no. If they could not agree upon any
points, but were determined to leave the case to the Court as it
now stood, then, of course, the Court would decide it as well as it
could. ' But he wished the public to understand, as well as parties
who had made complaints respecting delay in this matter that if
two or three years more were to be consumed by the obstinacy of
the parties, that that was "not to be considered the fault of the
Court, which was ready at this moment finally to dispose of it.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL SXINNERS' COMPANY.

His LORDSHIP expressed himself prepared to give Judgment
n this matter, which he would do to-morrow nr Wednesday.
Mr. HEALD made a few ohservations in exculpation of the de.
fendanut, stating that no blame could be attached to them for delay,
they had always been anxious to have the matter disposed of as
speedily as possible ; their great wish was to see their way clearly
with respect to applying the funds.
Dr. Knox, of Tunbridge School, rose and said, he thus publicly
challenged, and even defied all the Lawyers and Counsel in the
kingdom, satisfactorily to show why the matter should not have
been disposed of in seven months, instead of having been spun out
for seven piers, and why it should not have been disposed of at the
expense of 500/. instead of 5,000/. which had been expended in
Costs.

Mr. HEALn begged to inform his frierd, Dr. Knox, and he
was very glad in calling him his friend), that there's not tit:4e
such quick whipping up here as at school. Ile had no doubt the
Doctor would have liked to have had a decree long ago, provided
the decree had put him into posse/I,ton of the rents and profits of
the charity. He had had much pleasure in having seen the Doctor
attending here from day to day for • long time past.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY, Jou 11.

No business of my public importance came before the Court
to-day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MONDAY. JULY 11.

Two causes of not the least public interest were tried, after which
the Court broke up at twelve o'clock.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT, JULY n.

THE CITY OF LONDON V. POTTER
In this ease a Special Jury sat to estimate the damage.' that
might be sustained by Mr. Henry Potter, an herbalist, residing at
No. 4, Stonecutter-street, by the removal of his trade from those
premises, which are required for the building of the new Fleet_
market.

Mr. Sergeant Wilde had been retained to conduct the case in be-
half of the plaintiff, but had not made his appearance when the
cause was called on. The junior Counsel retained were Messrs.
haw and filirtenousE, who requested that the Court would wait
until :llr. Wilde could attend.

The RECORDER said, that neither the Court, nor the Gentle.
men of the Jury. nor the witnesses and parties on the other side,
could be thus detained for the accommodation of any Gentleman ut
the Bar; and _

flis CouIDSHIP directed that the cause should proceed.
Upon this Mr. Law rose, and took an objection to the form of
the proceeding as it was opened by the City. This objection had
been overruled a short time ago, but Mr. Law (whose object ma-
nifestly was to detain the Court until Mr. Sergeant Wide should
arrive) proceeded to re-argue the matter. He repeated the former
argument in so slow and measured a manner as to make every one
in Court yawn.
Mr. Mt utuoust followed, and endeavoured to males the delay
less intolerable by starting a wild hypothesis, and arguing upon it.
He at length was stopped by
The RZCOILDEII, who said that if such a practice was repeated,
or if the Court were in future delayed by the nonattendance of
Counsel who belonged to other Courts, reluctant as lie was to de-
prive suitor* of the talents of those Gentlemen in whom they were
most confident. he must certainly confine the practice to the Bar-
/MUM of the Mayor's Court.
The Commie hEROTANT, as Counsel for the City of London,
stated, that fir. Potter, besides his shop in Fltet.mrerket, had a