The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 18.
MORTIMER V. FRASER..
This was a demurrer to a bill filed by Mrs. Mortimer
in respect to a transaction in the administration of the es-
tate of the late Mr. Farquharson, of Fonthill Abbey, which
has already been repeatedly before the public in the suit of
Trezevant v. Fraser. The Vice-Chancellor overruled the
demurrer for want of equity, but allowed a demurrer or te-
nus for want of parties.

ROLL'S COURT.—Nov. IS.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE FISHMONGER'S COMPANY.
This was an information filed by the Attorney-General
against the wardens and members of the Fishmonger's Com- I
pany, for a scheme for the administration of certain property
left to the Ccmpany under the following circumstances '
On the Bth of January, 1686, the testator in the cause
Jeremiah Coping, by his will made the following be-
quest :—" Item. I give, devise, and bequeath unto the
wardens of the Worshipful the Fishmonger's Company
the sum of 1,8001., now in the hands of Lionel
Copley, the same to be laid out by the said wardens of
the Company in buying or purchasing land for the mainte-
nance of nine or ten poor alms-men of the Company ; and,
further, to increase their maintenance, I give all that
rent-charge of 501., and the arrears thereof, payable to
me or my heirs during the life-time of Sir Anthony Brown."
In 1688 the Company received the clear sum of 1,8001.,'
and also the sum of 5761. due on the annuity, and on
the 14th of May, in the same year, an order was made by
the Company, on the opinion of Sergeant Pemberton, then
an eminent lawyer, that as the Company could not lay out
the bequest in land a yearly payment of 61. to certain poor
people, free of the Company, in the Company's hospitals at
Bray and Harwich, should be substituted. The information
charged that the Company had never laid out the bequest
in land, and that it had been blended Is ith, mixed up, and
merged in the general funds of the Company. It charged
that the funds were adequate to the maintenance of nine or
ten poor almsmen, and that consequently the Company
were not justified in applying the funds towards an increjise
of the almsmen of another foundation. It then prayed that
the Company might be decreed to charge some competent
land with the bequest, or to set aside a sufficient portion of
stock to carry into execution the trusts of the will. The
Company, in their answer, admitted the receipt of the Le•
quest, and stated that from entries in their books it appeared
that certain expenses had been incurred in the receipt of the
bequest, but what those expenses were they could not now
set forth. They submitted that the number of almsmen to
be maintained was left to the discretion of the Company,
and not confined to the number mentioned in the will.
Under these circumstances the Company submitted to the
Court whether they ought to be decreed to account in the
terms prayed by the information.
Mr. TEMPLE on behalf the relators, submitted that the
fund must not be left undistinguished and mixed up With
the general stock of the Company. It must be put beyond
the controul not only of the present but of the future ad-
ministrators of the corporation.
The MASTER of the ROLLS deferred the further hearing
of the argument till to-morrow.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 18.
THE KING V. CHAPMAN.

Sir W. FOLLETT had been instructed to apply to the
Court for a rule to show cause why a criminal information
should not .be filed against Chapman, Esq., an alder-
man
of the borough of Bridgwater. The affidavits on
which he founded his motion stated that the defendant bad
been appointed, under the Municipal Corporation Act,
one of the assessors of Bridgwater, and that while filling
the office he ought to have withdrawn himself from all par-
ticipation in the election of town councillors ; but that in-
stead of doing so he interfered in the electionetti, by takingto
a
polling paper to a voter named Gage, and gng him
put his name to it in favour of one of the candidates. This
interference with the election was directly contrary to the
Act ; and he trusted that the Court would grant the rule
he now prayed for.—Rule granted.
IN RE GOMPERTZ.
Mr. W. IL WATSON applied for a rule, calling on the
Marshal of the King's Bench Prison to show cause why
Mr. Gompertz should not be confined within the walls of
the prison. The affidavits on which he founded his motion
stated that the defendant had been committed to prison for
contempt of the Court of Exchequer in not putting in an
answer to a bill. The defendant was living in magnifi-
cent style; and was driving about in a splendid equipage,
suffering no inconvenience whatever from his supposed im-
prisonment, nor ever likely to obey the order of the Court
.
if he could thus evade the punishment it had directed
Rule granted.

ppEROGATIVE COURT, Nov. 18
MORGAN V. BOYS.

This is a suit respecting the validity of the will of tho
late Mr. John Boys, of the city of London, who died on
the 1 Ith of August, 1835, in the 82d year of his age.
The will was opposed by Mr. Edward Boys, a brother of
the deceased; one of the next of kin, on the grounds of
insanity. A responsive allegation, on behalf of Eliza
Morgan, the propounder of the will, was offered on the
last sitting.

Mrs. Richardson, whose former name was Dickson, in
reply to the charge, entered into a lengthened history of
her grievances, and the cruel ill-treatment which she had
experienced at the hands of her husband, who, she said, was
but a short time married to her when he possessed himself
of her plate chest and other articles of property, and car-
ried them away with him. His ill-treatment was of the
Most violent description ; at one time he lashed her to the
bed perfectly naked, and beat her so severely with a rope's
end that she was black and blue all over her body. On
many occasions he gave her black eyes. On Tuesday
evening, the time spoken of, her husband beat her post un-
mercifully, and turned her into the street.
The husband said that, notwithstanding what had been
said by his wife against him, the very last time he absented
himself from her she used actually to remain for hours to-
gether opposite to his lodging to get a sight of him, and ac-
tually used every stratagem to get him back. On his re-
turning, however, he was pestered every hour of the day by
persons knockitr, at the door, demanding various debts
which Mrs. R. had contracted, and he wishd to know if he
was bound to pay them.
Mr. NORTON—You know you married her for better for
worse, and you are bound to pay her just debts.
Richardson—l married her, Sir, as a matter of business.
I considered it from her representation to be my decided
interest.—(Laughter.) •
Mr. NORTON—WeII, this is the first time in my life I
ever heard marriage represented as a mere matter of busi-
ness.—(Renewed laughter.)
MAGISTRATE—It is quite evident that there was not
much love in the case.
Two servants were then called, one of whom deposed,
that on one occasion, on Mrs. Richardson refusing to get
out of bed to take her stays off, her husband dragged her
out, and gave her a ropes-ending on her naked person, and
the.other said that on Tuesday evening, the complainant
struck Mrs. Richardson various times, and threatened to
knock her few old teeth down her throat. After doing
that he laid his breast bare, and, handing a knife to his
wife, told her that if he was intent on his life, to plunge it
to his heart, as he had no fears of death.
Mrs. Richardson again complained of the sufferings which
she had been obliged to endure, and said that she was com-
pletely deceived by the mother of her husband, who assured
her, before their marriage, " that her son could live like a
gentleman."—(Laughter.)
Richardson—And so I could, if your own representa-
tions, as to your property and family, were correct.—(Loud
laughter.)
Mr. NORTON—Then the plain fact is that you deceived
one another. Each of you thought the other was pos-
sessed of property.
Mrs. Richardson—That is the fact, Sir ; and, on my hus-
band finding that I had none, he treated me like a brute.
Magistrate—Yes, it was the '6 biter bit" with both.—
(A laugh.)
After much crimination and recrimination between both
parties, the case was postponed.

DIARY OF A DESENNUYEE.—A second edition of
this piquant work, with additions, has just appeared. The
Atlas very properly designates it as " A clever sparkling
record of the interval between the widowhcod of a woman
of fashion, at six-and-twenty years, and her second marriage
to a Peer. The manner in which the _Wsennuyee relates
the incidents and conversations of her life is satirical and
brilliant. The observations suggested by her intercourse,
the commentaries upon individuals and manners, and the
rapid pictures dashed off against society, and piquant rails
lery of modes.of English and Continental life, with which
the volumes abound, will commend them to every one who
can relish smart and vigorous satire."
THE VAUXHALL BALLOON.—A letter from Pa-
ris, dated Nov. 17, contains the following particulars ;
The rapidity of the voyage, even in England, where there
are 12-mile coaches, must appear striking ; whilst in France,
where five miles an hour is quick travelling, people raise
their hands with astonishment. They are in actual amaze-
ment when told that Mr. Green once performed in his bal-
loon a distance of upwards of 70 miles in 45 minutes. Mr.
Gye, the proprietor of the balloon, who is now in Paris, to. •
which place he has desired it may be forwarded, is very an-
xious that Green should make an excursion in it from the
capital ; but there is little chance of this being accomplished
at present, as none of the gas-works have sufficient fuel to
spare the gas he will require (viz, 75,000 cubic feet), be-
sides supplying their regular customers. They are, how-
ever, quite ready to assist Mr. Gye to the extent of thr.:ir
power ; and if he can wait a fortnight or three weeks. one
of the gas-works will be able to supply him, if he ca.', obtain
a large space near their pipes, so as to enable t:nern to fill
it without the expense of laying down a long run of main.
If Mr. Gye cannot succeed in getting the
balloon inflated
with gas, he will, if possible, exhibit it to
the Parisians, and
defer the excursion till the spring ; hut I , know of no vacant
building in Paris that would contain 'it in an expanded state
for public exhibition. Mr. Green has no expectation of
or any other balloon ; but
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int beingend
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tory') a:orimgaet einteresting
experiments by giving
to it the greatest degree of n'ttitude of which it is susceptible,
and which lae eight or ten miles ; the greatest
altitude is a
hitherto
alatttaeidn
by
him being three miles and three
quarters, whilst Gay Lusac lays claim to having reached a
height of four miles Etna a half, which is doubtful.
The rector of St. Genis Terre-Noire, on the Rhone,
went on the 3d inst. to administer the sacrament ti
woman who was sick, and had just concluded the service
when the floor gave way, and 12 women, who were in the
room, fell to the bottom amidst the ruins. Eight of the
women were taken out very much injured. The priest and
the sick woman escaped unhurt.
It is said, according to the census which has been
recently finished, the population of Paris is ascertainec' irt
amount to 899,000 souls, being an increase of 113,00tY
with the last five years. The number of indigent inhabi-
tants, instead of increasing, is said to have been decreased
by as many as 8,000.