The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-01 00:00:00

MINISTERS OF DISTRICT CHURCHES,

In the list of St. Mary, Islington, several ministers
of the new district churches were objected to by the
Reformers. It appeared that they were merely the in.
cumbents of chapels of ease, having no freeholds, and
receiving nothing but the pew-rents from the church-
wardens. They had neither house nor land by virtue
of their office, and the freeholds of the church were con-
veyed to Commissioners.

Mr. CoppockthC4ore submitted that they ought to
be struck off the list
Mr. COVENTRY would consider the case.

Mr. Thomas Baker, residing at Rochester, claimed
as one of the trustees of certain freehold property in
Long-Line and Aldersgate-street, bequeathed for chari-
table purposes under the will of Isaac Watts, dated
1579.

Mr. Adey opposed the claim, on the ground that the
trustees were merely appointed by the Lord Chancel-
lor under the Municipal Act, and had no legal estate
vested in them.

Mr. Coppock believed that the 71st section of the I
Municipal Act directed that all property bequeathed
for elaaritsble purposes to Corporations should be vested
in trustees to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor.
He therefore contended that the moment they were
appointed by the Lord Chancellor, the Act of Parlia-
ment vested the legal estate in them.

Mr. Adey stated that in the Norwich Corporation
case, the House of Lords decided that the Lord Chan-
cellor could only appoint trustees as managers,
and therefore no legal estate was vested in them.
Mr. Coppock was astonished to hear such an objec-
tion. All that the House of Lords decided in that
case was, that the Lord Chancellor had the power to
appoint the trustees he did. In this case the trustees
had granted leases, sold part of the land, and in fact
dealt with it almost as if it were their own.
Mr. COVENTRY remarked that the trustees of the
British Museum had no legal estate : they had merely
the power of managing the property. . _

Mr. Coppock—These trustees have power to let for
99 years. They can let for 21 years without any
order of the Chancellor whatever, and have, in fact,
done so.

Mr. COVENTRY-It is clear that whatever power
was in the Corporation of Rochester, is now take❑ from
them entirely. The question is, whether these trustees
hare the freehold. I will consider it. _

No case of any importance came before Mr. Shadwell.
Tne following is the result of the objections disposed
of to-day :

Overseers. Reformers.
PARISHES. made !sust. made sust.
Stoke Newington
St. Luke, Old Street.. 0 0 ! 8 4
St. Mary, Islington 40 40 23 11
St. Botolph, Aldersgate; 0 0 1 1
St. James's Cler*:enwell' 11 11 3 2
St. John, Hackney... 26 12U 29 8
Sc. Leonard, Shoreditch 1 1 12 I 9

made sust.
11 2
12 6
25 8
17 2
8 5
17 7
33 19

78 74 \ 36

123 I 49

Total

Adjourned cases, 34.
The Revising Barristers will resume their sittings to-
morrow (this cl,y ), at the Vestry-room, Limehouse.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

Two men named Clark and Wedley, and a woman
named Charlotte Goody, were taken before Sir Henry
Fletcher, a Magistrate for the County of Surrey, at
Kingston-upon-'Thames, on Monday, charged with as-
s,mlting and robbing Mr. George Chaundy, a farmer
residing near Kingston, coder the follewing circum-
stances :—Mr. Chaundy stated that on Saturday even-
ing, about seven o'clock, he went into the Wellington
public-house at Norbiton. common, near Kingston, and
after taking some refreshment he shortly afterwards
proceeded towards his residence in Coombe-lane. When
he was in the public house he saw the prisoners drink-
ing in the tap-room, and when he had got a short dis-
tance on his way home the female prisoner passed by
him and stopped, and shortly afterwards passed him a
second time, and just as he got to the arch of the railroad
she seized him by the collar, and at the same moment the
two men also attacked him and knocked him down,
and beat him severely. He called out and gave
an alarm as well as he could, and hearing some
one approaching, his hat was snatched off his
head, and the prisoners ran away. He lay for some
time on the ground, and he then contrived to give the
alarm, and a police constable came up, and he gave
him information of what had occurred, and shortly after-
wards he saw the prisoners in custody. The prosecutor
also produced the waistcoat he wore at the time in
question, and his handkerchief, both of which were very
mnch stained with blood. John Russell, one of the
police constables of the D division, stated, that upon
hearing the alarm, he went towards the railway arch,
and there found Mr. Chaundy, who was bleeding
from the head. In consequence of what he told him
he went after the prisoners, and they were taken into
custody, and the female appeared at the time to be
slightly intoxicated. He added, that when he found
Mr. Chaundy he had no hat on.
The landlord of the public-house was then exa-
mined, and he proved that Mr. Chaundy was quite
sober when he left the house, and that the moment he
went out the prisoners, who had been drinking in the
tap-room, went out after him.
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soners to take their trial at the next quarter-sessions.

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