The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY ENENING, JULY 11, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Stuart.)
THE COUNTESS DE LA SETTA V. LORD VERNON.
This case has recently been heard in private, and in con-
sequence of the reference to the proceedings having been
made in the newspapers, called forth from the Vice-Chan-
cellor some very strong observations, the result of which
was that the case was ordered to be proceeded with in the
usual public manner, and this morning it stood on the
paper to be mentioned on motion or adjourned summons.
On the case being called on,
Mr. Malins said he had made certain suggestions to the
other side, and he would therefore ask that the motion
should stand over to a future day.
The Vice-Chancellor—Mr. Bacon is not present; some-
thing else has occurred.
Mr. Malins—l am not aware of anything.
The Vice-Chancellor—Oh, yes; something else has oc •
curred. Let the matter be mentioned when Mr. Bacon
comes into court.
Mr, Malins—l hope there is nothing that affects me,
The Vice-Chancellor—Oh, no; but wait till Mr. Bacon

public exposure, some money to which this lady, merely
upon her private right, could not be entitled.

Mr..Malins—l deny that this is such a case.
The Vice Chancellor—l do not say that it was with
that view, but the course that your client instructed you
to take when he desired you to oppose the case being heurd
in private has exactly that appearance. There is not
anything here to distinguish it from any case of infants•
In all branches of the court the same course is taken•
The Master of the Rolls took the same course the other
day. Whenever there is an attempt, by exposure and
publicity, to extort money to which there is not a very good
right in any other way, there is one course taken. In a case
before the Master of the Rolls there was an opposition to its
being heard in private. Why ? Either for a malevolent pur-
pose to give pain to somebody, or in the hope that that
person, to escape the pain to be expected from a public
hearing, would submit to what was asked. And after all,
what would the public hearing of this case have amounted
to ? I was appr,thensive that it might have ended in a
disclosure of something extraordinary. Any man who
looked on this case would see that it was a case eminently
fit to be dealt with in the ordinary way, and according to
the ordinary course; and what I regret is that there should
have been any such exhibition as has taken place, in conse-
quence of going out of the ordinary course on this occasion.
Mr. Malins—This bill is not one of the class described
by your Honour. It is not filed to extort money. It is a
very proper suit, and it was inevitable. As your Honour
seems rather, from the tone of your observations, to blame
the course I have taken—
The Vice-Chancellor—l do not blame you at all ; you
were instructed.

Mr. Malins—That being the case, your Honour will
allow me to say this. I was instructed by a firm who, I
believe, are as respectable as any gentlemen in the profes-
sion—Messrs. Pritchard and Collette— _ _

The Vice-Chancellor—l know them to be so. I have
known them for years. _

Mr. Malins—And as incapable of taking advantage of
any circumstance of that kind for extorting money from
a client as any professional men with whom I have ever
come in contact. 1 had no instructions to act, and I
have no desire to act, in such a spirit. I trust your honour
will distinctly understand from me, as a member of the pro-
fession, statiag, the instructions I received from Mr. Col-
lette, that neither do I know by what means those publica-
tions took place, nor does Dr. Collette, and that therefore
the publications are not connected with me or with.
The Vice-Chancellor—lt is quite plain what was the ob-
ject of the publication. The object either was a pecuniary
purpose or a malevolent purpose—either to extort money
from Lord Vernon or to give pain.
Mr. Malins—l believe I may state to your honour that
the publication has not been connected with the countess or
anybody connected with her. Nobody in London knows her
but Mr. Collette and her French agent, who is here. I
have never seen the lady myself, but my friend Mr
Stevens has. It is not from anybody connected with her
that the publication took place.
The Vice-Chancellor—l think that every consideration
is due to the mother's situation, and when, in consideration
of that, I suggested the other day that money should be
advanced to the mother, I found no unwillingness to do it.
I think, Mr. Matins, you cannot say there was any unwil-
lingness on the part of the other side to do :all that hu-
manity and justice required.
Mr. Malins—l am bound to say that they showed a great

unwillingness, and that if it had not been for your honour's
intimation, we should not have got a penny. I got it from
your honour, and not from them.
The Vice-Chancellor—I am sorry to hear that.
Mr. Collette—There is not the slightest doubt about it.
Mr. Malins —I gave them the opportunity when the
motion was first made. I told my friend, "I do not desire
to menticn this case, only let the poor lady have a
little money to go on with;" and the reply I received was,
"Not a farthing."

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.---This Day.

THE RIOT AT CREMORNE GARDENS.

The further hearing of witnesses in this case was resumed
this morning. The court was crowded to excess.
The several defendants, Reginald Herbert, John Bir-
kett, Joseph Edward Saville, Robert Shawcross, Charles
M'Dougall, and Charles Mott, were charged in a great
number of counts with riot, and creating a breach of the
peace at Cremorne-gardens.
The whole of the day, up to the hour of our going to
press, was occupied in the examination of witnesses for the
defenee. The evidence given was in effect that the whole
of defendants were well conducted persons, and not given
to intoxication, and whully incapable of acting as the
police had stated.
At half-past two o'clock the Assistant-Judge com-
menced summing up the voluminous evidence in this
affair, so the verdict will not be returned belore a late hour
this evening,

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