The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-08 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
BARNARD V. HINTER.
The further arguments in this case were continued
this morning by Mr. Wigram. The bill is to set aside
certain deeds executed by a person of tire name of Lyde,
the testator in the cause, in favour ,of the defendant
Hunter, who was his solicitor, and to establish a claim
of the the plaintiffi, who were Lyde's executors, and
Eliza C3X, his adopted daughter and legatee under his
wiil, on a sum of 3,000/. now in Court, in the suit of
Vincent v. Hunterr

LORDS JUSTICES COURT.
EX PARTE WRYGHT-IN RE MARK BOYD-IN BANKRUPTCY.
Mr. Bacon, this morning, proceeded with his argu-
ment in favour of Mr. M. Boyd. This was a petition of
Mr. Wryght, the official manager of the Royal Bank of
Australia under the Winding-up Act, praying for a re-
versal of the deciiion of Mr. Commissioner Fane, who,
on the 2fith July last, allowed the bankrupt a certificate
of the first class.

The case had not concluded when our report left.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Kindereley.)
IN THE MATTER OP THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.
Mr. Roll made an ex parte application to his Honour
to restrain the official manager, Mr. Harding, from
proceeding in the winding up of the affairs of the Royal
British Bank until his Honour had delivered judgment
upon the case argued at the beginning of the week cn
behalf of the official assignee and Bankruptcy messen-
ger. The circumstances upon which the present appli-
cation was grounded were, that certain advertisements
_ had appeared in the public papers, announcing that the
premises lately occupied by the bank would be disposed
- of by tender, and also that the official manager had
issued various writs against the debtors of the bank.
All these proceedings had taken place without autho-
rity. If Mr. Harding were not restrained from selling
the property in question the creditors and debtors would
be involved in contests with the official and creditor
assignees, as since the arguments in the case had begun
there had been a meeting, and the creditors had chosen
a gentleman to act as assignee with the official as-
signee in Bankruptcy. Of course this was an ex parte
a application, but a letter had been transmitted to the
solicitors of Mr. Harding, giving him notice that the
present application would be made.
His Honour seeing Mr. Glasse and Mr. Lewis, who
were counsel for the official manager in the Chancery
proceedings in court, asked whether they had been in-
structed to oppose the present motion.
Mr. Glasse said he had not, but he hoped that the
present application would not be granted, or it would
occasion groat difficulty in winding up the affairs of
the bank in Chancery, inasmuch as it was made by
persons who were not contributors, and who bad no
tight to interfere with the proceedings in Chancery. The
present application was made by parties who were pro-
ceeding with great haste in the Court of Bankruptcy
against the bank. There was not a day on which
the public papers did not teem with advertisements and
reports of long speeches about what the decision of this
Court was to be, and yet, while those parties refused to
stop their own proceedings, they came to this court to
stop that which had been approved of by his Honour's
chief clerk. The stopping the proceedings of the offi-
cial manager would beef no real advantage to the parties
who made the present application, and he (Mr. Glasse)
hoped his Honour would not put a stop to them.
His Honour said he did not look at it in that light.
Mr. Glasse—No, you won't.
Mr. Giffard— No, nor anything else of common sense.
(Laughter.)
His Honour said, if there was no question to be deter-
mined between the official manager and the official as-
signee—if he was informed that in any case of winding-
up the official manager was proceeding to enter into
contract for the sale of property, the title to which
was disputed, he should, without injunction, restrain
him from doing so, until the question was definitely
settled. The winding-up was under his control i❑ cham•
hers, and it was therefore his duty, such being the case,
to restrain the sale of the property. In the first case
there was a question between the official manager and
the official assignee, as to the title to the property of
the bank, and the course he should suggest under the
circumstances was, that the present application
should therefore stand over until Tuesday,
or the following day, and that in the Interim the official
manager, Mr. Harding, should abstain from entering
into any contracts for the disposal of the property of
the bank. As far as the issuing of the writs was con-
cerned, it was exceedingly desirable that no unnecessary
expense should be incurred.
It was ultimately arranged between the counsel that
the matter should stand over until Wednesday next, and
that the official manager was to be restrained until after
that day of disposing of any'of the property in ques-
tion.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
:Sittings in Banco before Lord Campbell, Justices Cole-
ridge, Wiglitman, and Erle.)