The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY; AUG. 1. -
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE CPARITY.-
The Loan CHANCELLOR adverted to all the eircumstatcon
of this question, which haVe.frequently been detailed; and said
he had to observe on some of the points. In the-first place,
the question was, whether Sir S. Romilly's Act enabled the
Court to declare that the present overseers were not contem
plated by the Founder of the Charity. If the Court had not
jurisdiction to do that, then the question would be, whether the
trust did not fail, as the Churchwardens had to act independent
of the Overseers. That being the case, it would be for the
Court to say, whether it must not other theparties to proceed
upon information. If, on the other hand, the Court had ju-
risdiction, it would consider whether the plans of the Master
ought to be adopted, or provide persons to dispoSe of the Cha-
rity Fund taking upon itself to say what should be the distribu-
tion. This was az, important case, x:(1 the Coui t felt a strcng de-
sire to terminate this dispute about the distribution of the Foods
of a Charity. It was, however, after what had passed in Court,
open to inquiry whether it would not be wise to carry the matter
into the House of Lords. On all the bearings of the case, the
Court would not withold its opinion, but give judgment on
Wednesday.
Mr. HART said, he felt some regret to hear his Lordship
suggest the removal of the matter to the House of Lords, be-
cause it might be the means of wasting the funds of the Charity
in litigation.
The LORD CHANCELLOR did net mean to suffer any un-
necessary expenditure of the fund. It was a cdse in which it
was necessary to prevent ixpence; and he should take care the
Charity was not subject to further losses.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, A VG. I.
IN THE MATTER OF THE BROMLEY CHARITY.
Mr. COL Lncsoar, on the part of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the Bishop of Rochester, trustees of the Bromley
Charity, in Kent, moved that the Court would direct the admi-
nistratrix of Mrs. Rowe to pay to the plaintiffs the sum of
8,000/. bequeathed to the charity. The charity was established
in the reign of Charles 11., for the maintenance and support
of twenty widows of orthodox clergymen. The testatrix had
heed one of the objects of the charity for 22 year the died
in 1821, and bequeathed the interest of 8,0001. to be perpetually
applied to the relief of the widows for the time being in the
hospital. The plaintiffs, as trustees of the charity, now de-
sired that the Court would order the 0,0004 to be paid to them.
Mr. BENSON, on the part of the administratrix, said, that
his client's only objection to pay over the money was, that the
number of trustees at present not being so large as was fixed
at the time of the foundation of the charity, she feared she
might be doing wrong in placing it in their hands. To relieve
herself, therefore, from all responsibility, she was anxious that
the Court should make an order on the subject.
After some conversation between the Counsel,
The COURT ordered that the 80001. should be paid into the
Accountant-General's Offiee, to be vested in the three per cent.
consols, the interest to be appropriated to the charity.